512 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
Erechinus chloroticus , New Zealand. Presented by C. F. 
Parker. 
Fossils .—A large collection of tertiary fossils, of St. Domingo, 
comprising 1340 specimens of mollusks, and 86 specimens of 23 
species of corals. Presented by William M. Gabb. 
Several collections of fossils from the marl pits near Vincenttown, 
Pemberton, Ayrestowm, and Glassboro, New Jersey, comprising a 
multitude of specimens of vertebrae, and teeth of sharks of the 
genera Lamna, Otodus, Carcharodon, Oxyrliina, and Galeocerdo; 
also teeth of Pristis, Myliobatis, and Encliodus; the snouts of 
Histiophorus and Coelorrhynchus; in addition, fragments of 
turtle shells, of Mosasaurus and other saurian bones, dermal 
plates, bones and teeth of crocodiles, etc. Specimens also of 
Belemnites, Ammonites, Ostrea, several gastropods, Spatangus, 
etc. Presented by Col. T. M. Bryan. There were likewise pre¬ 
sented by the same gentleman, some fossil fishes, mollusks, and 
plants, from Colorado. 
A small collection of shark teeth and a cetacean rib, from 
Ashley R., S. C. Presented by S. T. Abert, through Col. Bryan. 
A collection of seventy-five fossils, from the vicinity of Lexing¬ 
ton, Scott Co., Md., was presented by Dr. W. D. Hutchings. 
A collection of fort} T -four fossils, from California, was presented 
by Sarah P. Monks. 
A collection of teeth and vertebrae of sharks, from Ashley R., 
S. C., and a collection of post-pliocene fossils, from the coast of 
Cuba, were presented by Mr. John Ford. 
Other small collections and single specimens of fossils were 
presented by Dr. S. C. De Besy, W. W. Jefleris, J. B. Dillingham, 
Alfred G. Baker, John M. Hartman, Joseph P. Hazard, C. J. 
Hardekopf, Joseph Krall and Dr. F. L. Gault. 
From the Otago Museum, Dunedin, N. Z., there was received 
a collection of bones of Dinornis, in exchange. 
From the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, there was 
also received, in exchange, a collection of casts in plaster, of verte¬ 
brate fossils. 
Plants .—One hundred and eighty-nine species of plants, collected 
in the Sierra Nevada, California, b}^ Lemmon, were presented by 
Messrs. John H. Redfield, John S. Haines, and Thomas Meehan. 
A collection of Parry’s plants of Wyoming and of Southern 
Utah of 1873-74 was presented by Wm. H. Dougherty. 
