34. [PEBRUARY, 
Resolved, That the thanks of the Academy be presented to Dr. 
Ruschenberger for the labor he has bestowed in the preparation of the 
able and faithful Notice read by him before the Society, and that he be 
requested to furnish a copy of the same to the Committee on Proceed- 
ings for publication. 
Resolved, That a Committee of three members be appointed to com- 
municate the foregoing Resolutions to Dr. Ruschenberger. 
Committee, Mr. Vaux, Dr. Bridges and Mr. Pearsall. 
The Rev. Mr. Langstroth read a paper entitled, ‘On the impreg- 
nation of the eggs of the Queen Bee ;” which being intended for publi- 
cation in the Proceedings, was referred to Dr. Leidy, Dr. Le Conte and 
Dr. Fisher. 
Dr. Le Conte presented for publication in the Proceedings, the fol- 
lowing papers: ‘‘ Hints towards a Natural Classification of the family 
Histrini of Coleopterous Insects ;”’ “‘Synopsis of the Parnide of the 
United States ;” “Synopsis of the Eucnemide of Temperate North 
America ;”’ all of which were referred to the following Committee : Dr. 
Bridges, Dr. Leidy and Dr. Elwyn. 
A letter was read from the Librarian of the British Museum, dated 
Jan. 19th, 1852, acknowledging the receipt of No. 10, Vol. 5, of the 
Proceedings. 
Also a letter from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Stockholm, 
dated April 20th, 1851, acknowledging the receipt of No. 12, Vol. 4, 
and No. 1, Vol. 5, of the Proceedings. 
And a second letter from the same, of same date, accompanying copies 
of the Transactions and Bulletin of that Institution for 1849 and ’50. 
Dr. Leidy presented, for the inspection of the members, an interesting speci- 
men of a fossil turtle, from the collection of Dr. D. D. Owen, made in Nebraska 
territory, and sent to him, for examination, by the Smithsonian Institute. It 
proves the existence of a species distinct’ from any of those before described from 
the same region, for which the name Emys Culbertsonit is proposed. Its mea- 
surements are as follows : 
Length of the five vertebral scutes, : : : 17 inches. 
Transverse breadth of carapace in curve, : : 22) NMERIT 
Height, . : : é 5 : (Gas 366 
Length of middle vertical scute, : : : pO pemice 
Breadth é 6é Anes 
Mr. Phillips announced that the collection of Minerals of the late 
Mr. Gilmore, of Baltimore, was for sale. 
February 17th. 
Vice President Bripgzs in the Chair. 
Letters were read from the Secretary of the Trustees of the New 
York State Library, acknowledging the receipt of No. 12, Vol. 5, of the 
Proceedings, and of a copy of Dr. Meigs’ Memoir of Dr. Morton. 
From the Geological Society of London, dated June 24th and Noy. 
6th, 1851, returning thanks for copies of late Nos. of the Proceedings. 
Mr. Vaux, on behalf of the Committee on the subject, read a commu- 
