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ELLIOTT SOCIETY. 



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JANUARY 18th, 1854, 

 Yice-President L. R. Gibbes in the chair. 



Contributions to Museum. 



Dr. Burden presented two specimens of young reptiles 

 supposed to be Ifenobranchus punctatus, L. R. Glebes, from 

 St. George's Parish. 



Robert Hume, Esq. — Nest of the Bottle-Wasp. 



Prof. L. R. Gibbes — Sorex, from Santee. 



Prof. Poey, of Cuba — Skin of Iguana tuberculata. 



Prof. P. S. Holmes — ■ Young of Shark, Scymnus, in spirits, 

 with umbilical chord and placenta? The mother from 

 which these specimens were taken was caught in Charles- 

 ton harbor in July. She had nine young ones. 



Dr. Edmund Ravenel — Egg-cases of a Gasteropod, from 

 Coast of Elorida. 



Dr. T. P. Cleveland— Mastodon's Tooth, Florida. 



Dr. John P. Barratt — Insects, in spirits, and two specimens 

 of Carolina Parrot, Psittacus Carolinensis. 



Professor Poey — Solmoclon paradoxum^ Brakt. Yulgo 

 Ahnigui, Cuba. 



Prof. L. R. Gibbes— Menohranchus punctatus, in spirits, 

 and skeleton of the same. 



Dr. Thomas Y. Simons— Bald or white headed Eagle, 

 changing plumage. 



Dr. Samuel Wilson — Two Marbled Godwits, and six Sand- 

 pipers. 



Rev. J. Stuart Hanckel — Barn Owl, Strix Flammea. 



Dr. O. L. White — Two specimens of the same ; young birds, 

 four months old. 



Henry W. Ravenel, Esq. — Yiviparous Eish, from Barn- 

 well District. 



Dr. F. Y. Glover — Skeleton of a Black Bear, killed on his 

 plantation, Pon Pon, S. C. 



Edmund Rufhn, Esq., of Yirginia — Box of Miocene Shells. 

 Robt. F. Gyles, Esq. — Nutmegs, with shell and mace. 



