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Meteoriten von Shalka, Futtehpore, Pegu, Assam, und Segowlee in dem 
K. K. Hof. Min.-Cab. von W. Haidinger, — Der Metcorit von Shalka in 
Bancoorah u. der Piddingtonit, von W. Haidinger, from the Author ; Jour. 
Frank. Inst., Dec. 1860, from the Institute ; Canadian Journal, Nov. 
1860, from the Canadian Inst ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Nov. 1860, 
from the Academy ; Jour, of Education, Nos. 10 & 11, Montreal, 1860, 
from Capt. Huguet-Latour. 
Dr. E. R. Morerod, of Silver Top, Term., was elected a Cor- 
responding Member. 
January 7, 1861. 
Vice-President Engelmann in the chair. 
Thirteen members present. 
Letters were read from I. A. Lapham, Milwaukie, Wis., 
Dec. 17, 1860, acknowledging receipt of Transactions; Smith- 
son. Inst. Washington, D. C., Dec. 8, 1860, transmitting pub- 
lications; E. R. Morerod, M.D., Silver Top, Tenn., acknowl- 
edging receipt of notice of his election as a Corresponding 
Member. 
The following letter was read from Lieut. G. K. Warren, 
dated West Point, Dec. 19, 1860 : 
Dear Sir: In looking carefully over the table given by Dr. Engelmann, 
p. 666, Vol. I., No. 4, calculated from Nicollet’s data, I see one rather 
important error, and that is in taking the low water elevation of the Mis- 
sissippi at New Orleans at 10 feet above the Gulf. This is the level of the 
pavement in front of the Cathedral. A note in Mr. Nicollet’s table, taken 
from Albert Stein, gives this low water elevation 5-10ths of a foot, and 
consequently a slope of only about 5-1000ths of a foot thence to the 
mouth ; and not 9-lOths, as in Dr. Engelmann’s table. This very slight 
fall in so long a distance could scarcely be credited were it not a well 
established fact. Respectfully, your ob’t serv’t, 
G. K. Warren, Lieut. Top. Eng’rs. 
The following publications were received : 
Beobacht. u. Betracht. iiber Scotophis Lindheimeri, S. Alleghaniensis und 
andere Schlangen von Dr. Benno Matthes, Dresden, from the Author ; 
Smithsonian Report for 1859, from the Smithson. Inst.; Catalogue of Le- 
- ^optera of North America, prepared for the Smithson. Instit. by John 
Morris, Washington, I860,— Catalogue of Diptera of North America, 
epared for Smithson. Inst, by R. Osten-Sacken, Washington, 1860, 
latalogue of Publications of Societies (Foreign Works) in the Library 
of the Smithson. Inst. Washington, 1859,— Instructions in reference to 
pidopte 
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of 
Nests and Eggs of North American Birds, — Directions for Collecting and 
Preserving Specimens in Natural History, from t he Smithson, Inst.; Acad. 
Roy. Sci. a Amsterdam, Verlsagen en Med. Afd. Naturk. Dl. X. Letter k*. 
Dl. V., I860,— Catalogus Dl. I. St. 2,— Jaarboek, 1859, from the Royal 
Academy ; Erster Bericht des Offenbacher Vereins fur Naturk. 1860, from 
the Society ; Ergebnisse Meteorol. Beob. — Siernschuppen und Feuerkugeln 
von Dr. Rudolph Wolf — Jahresbericht iiber die Konigliche Blinden-An- 
stalt zu Dresden, 1859, — Nachrichten von dem Taubstummen-Inst. zu 
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