142 TRANS. OF THE ACAD. OF SCIENCE. 
America in Ante-historic Times, by Adolph Zestermann of I^ipzic, with 
Critical Observations by E. G. Squier, 1851, — Volcanoes of Cent. Amer- 
ica, by E. G. Squier, 1850, from the Author; Canad. Journal of Industry, 
Science and Art, Sept. ISQO, from the Canadian Institute ; Notes d^un 
Voyage dans FAmerique Centrale, — Lettres a M. Alfred Maury, Bibliot. 
de Flnst. (Ext. des Nouvelles Annales des Voyages, Paris, Aoht, 1855,— - 
Lettre de M. E. G. Squier, k propos de la lettre de M. Brasseur de 
Bourbourg, b M. Alf. Maury, Paris, 1855, from E. G. Squier, Esq. 5 
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., Sept. 1860, /rom ike Academy; Observa- 
tions upon the Form of the Occiput in the Various Races of Men, by J. 
Aitken Meigs, Philad. 1860, from the Author ; Proc. Boston Society Nat. 
Hist. Sep. & Oct, lSQ0,fromthe Society; Original Communications from 
the N. Orleans Med. & Surg. Journal, Nov. 1860, from Bennett Dowler, 
M.D.; Bull, de la Soc. Imp. zool. d’Acclim. Paris, /row the Society, 
Mr. Holmes presented, in the name of A. F. Bandolier, a 
series of fossils from Illinois, and Mr. Reid specimens of as- 
phaltum, petroleum, and fossils, from Canada W est. 
The committee to whom was referred the paper of Prof. 
Swallow on New Fossils from the Carboniferous and Devo- 
nian Rocks of Missouri, reported the same for publication in 
the Transactions. 
JVbvember 19, 1860. 
The President, Dr. Prout, in the chair. 
Eleven members present. 
Letters were read from the Essex Institute. Salem, Mass., Nov. 6, 1860, 
acknowledging receipt of No. 4 of Transactions ; Sec. of the Smithson. 
Inst. Wash., D. C., Nov. 1860, enclosing list of shells presented to the 
Academy by the Smithsonian Institution ; Soc. Roy. des Sciences, Upsal ; 
Societe Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, transmitting 
publications; Naturk. Verein in Augsburg, Aug. 27, 1860,— Nat. Hist. 
Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oct. 6, 
I860, acknowledging receipt of Transactions; Lem. T. Wells, Cincin- 
nati, O., acknowledging notice of his election as a Corresponding Member 
of the Academy. 
The following donations to the library were received : 
The Rock and Coal Oils of Ohio, by J. S. Newberry, M.D., 1829, /rcw 
the Author ; Der Zool. Garten, Organ der Zool. Gesellsch. in Frankfurt 
a M Herausg. von Dr. D. F. Weinland, No. 7-12, 1860, /row the Editor; 
N Orl. Med. & Surg. Jour., No. 6, Nov. 1860, /row the Editors; Journal 
Frank. Inst., No. 5, Nov. 1860, from the Institute; Nova Acta, Roy. Soc. 
Sci Uspal Ser. III., Vol. I. & II.,— Arsskrift of same, 1, from the Royal 
SoHety; Dntter Jahres-bericht des naturf. Vereins in Passau, for 18o9, 
ISQO, from the Society; Mem. Soc. Imp. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg,/!. VI. & 
VII., 1858-9, from the Society; Tab. Method, et Descrip, des Mollusques 
terrestres et d’eau donee de PAgenais, par M. J. B. Gassies, Paris, 1849,— 
Catalog, raisonne des Mollusques terrestres et d’eau douce de la Gironde, 
par M. J. B. Gassies, Paris, 1859, /row the Author; XIII. Jahresb. des 
Naturhist. Vereins in Augsburg, 1860, from the Society; Actes de la So- 
cie^e Linn, de Bordeaux, Tome XXII., 3e. Ser., T. II., Paris, 1860, from 
the Society; List of Shells collected in the Grand River Valley, Michigan, 
by A O. Currier, 1860, /row the Author; Amerika, Geograph, und Natur- 
