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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



[Aug., 1858. 



Prof. Gibbes mentioned his recent verification of a suspi- 

 cion he had entertained respecting the existence of a new 

 species of Fir in the Saluda Mountains, resembling Pinus 

 Canadensis: but clearly distinct by well marked character- 

 istics. He also noticed the Azalea arborescens of Pursh, on 

 the confines of North Carolina. 



JULY 15th, 1858. 

 Vice President W. W. Smith in the chair. 



Dr. J. P. Chazal presented two specimens of a species of 

 Haliotis, from Lower California. 



Prof. Gibbes exhibited fossils among which were fragments 

 of Pleiocene Echinoderms, brought from H. M. Manigault's 

 place, within nine miles of Charleston. His attention had 

 been directed to them by Mr. Manigault. 



Prof. J. McCrady stated that he had made a partial exami- 

 nation of the Echinoderms among these fossils, and they 

 appeared to him to be fragments belonging to the same 

 genera, perhaps to the same species as those he had described 

 in Holmes and Tuomey's Fossils of South Carolina, several 

 of which were first described by Dr. Edmund Ravenel. 



AUGUST 2d, 1858. 



Vice President W. W. Smith in the chair. 

 Dr. J. P. Chazal presented jaws of a species of Carcharias 

 of our harbor. 



Contributions to Library. 



W. Stimpson, Esq., presented Prodromus Descriptionis 

 Animalium Evertebratnm, &c. Pars v. 



Boston Society Natural History : Proceedings, vol. vi. No. - 

 23, May 1858. 



