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JANUAKY 18th, 1856. 

 Vice President L. E. Gibbes in the chair. 



Correspondents Elected. 



Prof. John LeConte, Athens, Ga. 



Dr. W. E. Daniell, Savannah, Ga. 



Dr. A. J. Skilton, Troy, K Y. 



Dr. Francis Y. Glover, Walterborongh, S. C. 



Geo. Cuthbert, Esq., Beanfort, S. C. 



Capt. H. H. Sams, Beaufort, S. C. 



Robert Chisolm, Esq., Beaufort, S. C. 



Prof. St. John, Hudson, Ohio. 



Capt. A. H. Bowman, U. S. Engineer Department. 



Lieut. I. D. Kurtz, U. S. Engineer Department. 



M. Yattemare, Paris. 



Prof. A. D. Wells, Boston. 



Donations to Museum. 



Mr. James Shoolbred, San tee, S. 0., presented a specimen 

 of Night Heron, Ardea Nycticorax. 



Sefior Don F. A. Sauvalle, of Havana, Cuba, a living Boa. 

 A living Testudo tabulator— vulg. Morroeoyo — of which he 

 remarks : 



" Though found throughout the Island, it is supposed to have been intro- 

 duced. It is quite tame, and has been running about my house and in my 

 kitchen for several months, and does not bite. It is a male, and has the 

 anus at the very end of the tail, and not at the posterior end of the body, 

 as in other animals ; the tail is kept doubled under the shell." 



Also, the following Birds, Insects and Shells. 

 Sabanero, vulgo : Sturnella hippocrepis. — Wagl. Male. 

 Pedorrera, vulgo : Todus Portoricensis. — Lesson. Male. 

 /Sunsun, vulgo : Orthorhynchus Picordii. — Gerv. Male. 

 Carpintero verde, vulgo : Picus percussus. — Temm. Male. 

 Garpintero jabado, vulgo: Colaptes super ciliar is. — Temm. 

 Female. 



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