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The name of Dr. J. Taft was proposed for membership. 



Mr. T. H. Aldrich spoke of the fact of sharks being caught in the 

 fresh waters of Tombigbee river in Alabama, 125 miles from the mouth. 

 The fish were often five and six feet in length. 



Mr. Raphael Benjamin considered the fact a strange one, as he had 

 often seen sharks in great numbers in Port Jackson Bay, Australia, and 

 did not know of an instance in which they frequented fresh water. ♦ 



Mr. A. P. Morgan donated fifty oil paintings of Fungi, 7x10 inches, 

 with the remark that they had been painted by Mrs. Morgan, and exhib- 

 ited in Boston and New Orleans ; he now desired to present the same to 

 the Society. The gift was received with applause. 



Mr. Jos. F. James, the Custodian, spoke of the meeting of the Amer- 

 ican Association at Ann Arbor, and exhibited a few plants collected there. 

 He also called attention to a set of thirty-eight photographs of scenery 

 from the West, recently donated by the U. S. Geological survey. 



The following amendment to the constitution was proposed by Dr. 

 W. A. Dun : " That Article II of Section 6 of the By-Laws be amended 

 by the addition of the words ' Photography and Meterorology ' to the list 

 of sections in the Society." This amendment comes up for discussion at 

 the next meeting. 



The donations of the month were announced as follows : from Nel- 

 son W. Perry, web of Tenia zt\e, from Mexico, (found in a granary of 

 corn); from Director of U. S. Geological Survey, thirty-eight photographs 

 of canon scenery ; from Carlos Shepard, one Pyrulq from mound on the 

 Ohio river; from Chief Signal officer, "Monthly Weather Review,''' for 

 June, 1885 ; from U. S. Fish Commission, "Bulletin," Vol. V, Nos. 7 to 21; 

 from Smithsonian Institution, " Report," for 1883 ; from A. P. Morgan, 

 fifty paintings of Fungi; from T. H. Aldrich, twenty-four species of shells 

 from New Zealand. 



