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gesch. von B riickn er, /rom C. Witter] Med. Statistics of U. S. Army 
during the years 1855-59, from Dr. Leigh. Dr. Engel mann laid on the 
table a Latin translation of his monograph on Cuscuta (Trans. Acad. 
Sci. St. Louis, Vol. I., p. 453,) presented by the translator, Dr. A.cherson, 
of Berlin. 
Mr. Holmes presented, in the name of Mr. Bandelier, sev- 
eral slabs of coal shale with fossil plants from Illinois. 
Prof. Holtzman, of Heidelberg, (4erm., was elected a Corres- 
ponding Member. 
December 3, 1860. 
The President, Or. Pkout, in the chair. 
Nine members present. 
Letters were read from Wm.W. Jeffries, dated West Ches- 
ter, Penn., proposing exchange of minerals, and from Prof. E. 
W. Hilgard, State Geologist, Oxford, Miss., acknowledging 
his election as a Corresponding Member. 
Additions to the library were received as follows : 
Observations upon the Geology and Palseontology of Burlington, Iowa, 
and its vicinity, by Chas. A. White, 1860, from the Author ; Report on 
the Economical Geology of the Route of the Ashtabula and New Lisbon 
Railroad,— Catalogue of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Ohio, by J. S. 
Newberry, M.D., from the Author; Amer. Jour. Sci. & Arts, Nov. 1860, 
purchased. 
Dr. Prout presented, in the name of S. S. Lyon, Esq., a col- 
lection of Devonian and Upper Silurian fossikffrom the Falls 
of the Ohio and vicinity. 
December 18, 1860. 
The President, Dr. Prout, in the chair. 
Seven members present. 
Letters were read from L’Acad. Roy. des Sciences de Lisbonne, Mai 
^60, tra^smitUng^publications ; and from Prof. Wm. Haidinger, dated 
Donations to the library were received from the following 
Societies : 
Bull. Soc. Imp. zool. d’Acclim. Paris, Oct. I860,— Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phil., Oct. 1860, — Mem. Acad. Real Sci. Lisboa, Classe Math. Phvs* 
e Nat., 2d Ser., T. L, Pt. 1, 1843,— Nov. Ser., T. I. p. 1-2, T. II. p. 1* 
1854-7, /row t/ie Royal Academy; Neuere Nachrichten iiber Meteoriten’ 
namentlich die von Bokkeveld, New Concord, Trenzano; die Meteoreisen 
von Nebraska, Brazos, Oregon, von W. Haidinger, July, I860,— Neuere 
Untersuch ungen iiber die Bestandtheile des Meteorsteines von Copland 
schreiben von R. Wohler an W. Haidinger, July, I860,— Die Calcutta 
