u United States Sanitary Commission— Memorial of the 
Great Central Fair.” — Philadelphia 1864. 
“ — Record of the Metropolitan Fair.” 
— Few York 1867. 
“ History of the Brooklyn and Long 
Island Fair.” — Brooklyn 1864. 
“ Smithsonian Report 1867.” — Washington 1868.— Pre- 
sented by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington , I). C. 
“ Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History”- — 
Yol I, Part IV. 
l( Entomological Correspondence of Thaddeus William 
Harris.” — Boston 1869. 
tl Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.” 
— June 1868 to March J869. — 'Presented by the Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History . 
“ Yargasia” — No. 7. — Presented by the Sociedad de Ciencias 
fisicas y naturales de Caracas , 
u Journal of the Society of Arts” — Nos. 902-10. — Pre- 
sented by the Colonial Government. 
“ Notes on some new Forms of Terrestrial and Fluviatilo 
Molluska found in Trinidad” — By B. J. Lechmere Guppy— 
Presented by the Author. 
An extract from a communication from Mr. Thomas 
Bland, of New York, corresponding member, respecting the 
cultivation of the Boehmeria nivea, or China Grass, was 
read : and Mr. Henry Prestoe promised a report on the 
subject. 
The question of the desirability of the establishment of a 
public museum in connexion with the public library was 
dis®ussed and strongly supported by the meeting. 
