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Eights, 117 species of insects collected in the vicinity of Al- 

 bany ; from Leverett Cruttenden, the head of the groper fish 

 from the West Indies ; from Dr. Peter Wendell, John C. 

 Backus, Warner Daniels, Charles R. Webster and William 

 Caldwell, copper coins; from Dr. Emmons, two Indian axes, 

 found in Connecticut ; from N. F. Beck, bituminous coal from 

 Tryon county, (Pennsylvania) ; from Professor Vanuxem, 

 Zircon in crystals, from Buncombe county, North Carolina ; 

 from Daniel Mitchell, a dress of an Indian chief, from the 

 coast of California, made of various parts of the seal ; from 

 George W. Clinton, the cranium of an alligator from the south, 

 orthoceratites in sand stone, from the Sault de St. Marie, cor- 

 nu-madreporites in limestone, from the Erie canal, near Buf- 

 falo, siren lacertina (menobranchus lateralis*) from Lake Erie, 

 six species of salamandra from the state of New- York ; from 

 Richard M'Miehael, a specimen of coral; from the Lyceum of 

 Natural History (New-York) the concluding numbers of the 

 1st vol. of its Annals, and Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of vol. 2 ; from the 

 Chevalier Kirckhoff, of Antwerp, a treatise by himself, enti- 

 tled " Yerhandeling over de Dampkringslucht, &c. Hoorn, 

 1826" ; from Chas. S. Parker, Esq. of Liverpool, (Eng.) 

 Chalmers' Algae Scoticae, 1st vol. in folio, fruit of the Bigno- 

 nia corymbifera, from Demarara, fruit of the Barringtonia 

 speciosa, from Prince Edward's Island, fruit of the Manacaria 

 saccifera and Dipterix odorata, from Guiana, asterias from the 

 British seas, Echinus esculentus, trochus zizyphinus, mytilus 

 edulis and anatinus, cardium edule, buccinum reticulatum, 

 solen ensis, Tellina radula, Venus decussata, mactra subtrun- 

 cata from Scotland, helix ovalis from Trinidad, and also a 

 collection of British plants ; from Stephen Sewell, Esq. of 

 Montreal, a map of the city of Montreal, by John Adams, 

 1825, in three large sheets ; from Richard Webster, a speci- 

 men (dried) of the bill fish of Lake Erie ; from R. V. De 

 Witt, a horn obtained in excavating the cellar of the building 

 corner of Eagle and State-streets, Albany— this horn is 

 about three feet long and appears to be of the antelope; also, a 

 fragment of the sheathing of a ship perforated by worms; from 

 Anson H. Center, two specimens of cancer from the sea shore ; 

 from T. Romeyn Beck, a bottle containing water from the 

 St. Lawrence river, cordage made from the wood of the palm 

 tree, (this was made in Canada in 1824,) breccia from the 

 Island of St. Helens, Montreal ; marble, black and dove colour- 

 ed from Missisqui bay, agate from the shores of Lake Huron, 

 agate and opal from Gaspe, (Lower Canada,) quartz crystals 

 from Cape Diamond, Quebec, carbonate of lime, containing 



