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Westchester county; from Stephen Van Rensselaer, jun., 

 crystallized chromate of iron, from Baltimore; from Dr. Ja- 

 cob Sherwood, of Newport, N. Y. orthoceratite in lime- 

 stone, from the same place ; front Warner Daniels, calcareous 

 concretion, from a cave in Clarendon, Vermont, and a speci- 

 men of coral ; from Dr. W. Willoughby, of Newport, N. Y. 

 TalpaEuropea preserved, recent shells from the Niagara riv- 

 er, and madrcporite from the same ; from Rev. John Ludlow, 

 peat from New-Jersey; from T. R. Beek, orthoceratite in 

 limestone, from Trenton Falls ; two quartz crystals, contain- 

 ing water from Newport, N. Y. ; quartz rock, containing 

 drusv cavities, with some of the crystals coloured by anthra- 

 cite ; trilobite and other petrifactions from do. ; also, Stew- 

 art's Elements of Natural IJistorv, 2 vols. Svo. From Wil- 

 liam E. Greene, graphite from Worcester, Mass. ; from Pro- 

 fessor Douglass, of West Point, a large collection of minerals 

 and fossils from the vicinity of Lake Huron and Lake Supe- 

 rior, also, several minerals from West Point ; from James 

 Gough, a Havtien silver coin (Petioa); from James Geddes 

 of Geddesburgh, iron ore from St. Lawrence county ; asbes- 

 tus with tremolite, from De Kalb, N. Y. ; from Philip S. 

 Parker, dogtooth spar with >irontian and echinite, from Lock- 

 port ; from James M'Glashan, and Dr. Ebenezer Emmons, 

 five silver coins; from Kdward Livingston, galena in quartz, 

 from Wolfhill Mass. ; from James M. Gould, cloth made 

 from the bark of a tree, worn by the Indians on the river Sinn, 

 (S. America,) also the saw of a saw fish, from Carthagena ; 

 from James Eights, 86 species of insects ; from Charles A. 

 Clinton, a case for the above insects, also, a mountain hawk 

 preserved, with a case ; from Charles D. Gillepsie, madre- 

 porite from Wiltshire, (Eng.) ; from Joseph W. Lee, of But- 

 ternutts, favosite from Fenner, (Madison county) ; from George 

 W. Clinton, 25 specimens of minerals from this state, prin- 

 cipally those found at Ticonderoga and Rogers' Rock ; from 

 Albert Sinclair, of Jamaica, (West Indies) dogtooth spar, 

 from Lockport; from Henry W. Snyder, trilobites, (asaphus 

 and calymene,) ammonites and productus, from Trenton 

 Falls, also, petrifactions from Paris, (Oneida county ;) from 

 Paul Hochstrasser, petrified wood, with tufa and shells, from 

 Chitteningo ; from the New-York Lyceum of Natural Histo- 

 ry, Annals of the Lyceum, vol. 1, No. 10; from Samuel L. 

 Mitchill, M. D. New-York, memorandum of articles contain- 

 ed in his Museum ; from Charles S. Parker of Liverpool, 

 (England) a collection of foreign plants from Europe and the 

 West Indies ; also, a proof engraving of the Parkeria pterioi- 

 desof Hooker, discovered by Mr. Parker, in British Guiana; 



