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KINGMAN, 11, Cornhill, Bostou. REPORT OF THE CUSTODIAN | OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, EMBODYING THE REPORTS OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS. FOR 1864-5. Tue official year now brought to its close, has been an ex- tremely interesting one in the history of our Society; and a review of what has transpired and is now occupying the attention of the community in connection with this Institu- tion will doubtless show, in after years, that it has been the transitional epoch of its history, the link which unites the old and the new. Early in the year, on the second of June, 1864, the Society met in the spacious Hall above, to attend the exercises of the dedication of our new Museum, and to listen to an ad- dress by Prof. W. B. Rogers, in which the steps were pointed out by which the Society had progressed from the first small gathering of a few ardent lovers of Nature, up through the various phases of its career, and our warm thanks were ex- pressed to the many patrons through whose generosity the Society was then able to display its treasures of Nature in an edifice far surpassing in magnificence any devoted to kin- dred objects of which this country can boast.* In but a few months afterwards the efforts of the So- ciety, in endeavoring to raise a working fund, were crowned with complete success. In August last, the subscription books were closed, which brought the Society into posses- sion of $20,000, received from its many patrons,f in addition * For a list of subscribers to the “‘ Building Fund,” see Appendix A. + For a list of subscribers to the ‘‘ Working Fund,’’ see Appendix A. - to the equal sum given by our late most generous benefac- tor, Dr. William J. Walker; by which Fund the care of the collections of the Society was at once securely established for all time. Other direct results flowed from the donation of Dr. Walker; from one-half of the income of this fund, representing his gift, prize funds are accumulating in accord- ance with the provisions of his donation, and a committee has been appointed by the Council to carry these provisions into effect; their report will be presented to you at this meeting.* Quite recently we have been called to mourn the death of our distinguished patron, who in his Will has pro- vided largely for this Society, in common with other Institu- tions of learning, though the exact terms of his bequest have not yet been made public by the executors. These are the more important outside influences which have been brought to bear upon the history of the Society during the past year; let us now turn to observe its internal workings. The year has been spent by the officers of the Societyt in bringing order, symmetry and harmony into the arrange- ments of the collections, ete., after the partial confusion into which they were necessarily thrown during the removal of our stores to our new building. The time of the dedication found much accomplished, and this closing year witnesses an orderly state of things throughout the establishment. In attempting to give a clear account of all the operations of the Society in all its branches for the past year, I will first present the statement of the Librarian, following it by what- ever else has transpired in other departments beside that of the Museum itself, and close with the reports of the Cura- tors in charge of the different collections. The Librarian reports that during the past year a great deal of labor has been expended upon the Library and pub- lications; and that the additions have been very consider- able, larger, he believes, than have been received in any pre- vious year from the ordinary sources, although only $71.89 have been spent in the direct purchase of books. * See Appendix B. + For a list of these see Appendix C, 5 The following table will show the number of these addi- tions by volumes, parts and pamphlets : 8vo. 4to. folio. vis|pts\ph vis pts ph vis ptsph To’l Books presented by individuals. . .. . 55) 26105, 13 35| 67) 1) 3) 305 purchased . . 4) 30 | 34 “deposited. by the Republican Institut’ n}} 25) 2 || 27 «received in exchange for our publica-) | Fe || tions ... 1523857 72|| 88152) 21)| 3) 90) 18) 958 “received in exchange from the Smith- | sonian Institution for duplicates} | RSet AH | from our Library. 9 22; 9) 8 2) | || 50 “received in exchange from the Ameri-|| | el es can Academy for paieaies from | NR ase Ras Fe | our Library. . . > « « |} 28) 6) 16) 22) 43) 3) 1 119 | | | Total. || | (ae |i Una 1 A careful estimate has also been made of the number of books now in the Library —there are 7,262 volumes, 1,596 parts of volumes and 2,333 pamphlets —in all, 11,191. Owing to a more liberal policy instituted by the Council about two years since in the distribution of our publications to scientific bodies abroad, we now find our Library rapidly increasing in size in the Transactions of Learned Societies, and every new invoice received through the medium of the Smithsonian Institution (to which we are deeply indebted for their importation free of every expense), adds to their number and value. The ratio of increase has been very great, as may be seen on comparison of the reports of the Librarian for the past few years; a year ago the Librarian reported the number of volumes and pamphlets received during the previous year from this source as 237; the record for the past year shows 953, or four times as many. The number of scientific associations and periodicals at home and abroad with which the Society now exchange their publications is 243.* The Library has been weeded of superfluous duplicates dur- ing the past and a portion of the previous year, the accumula- tions of years; a MS. catalogue of them has been made with prices annexed, and the more important part of them pub- lished in the sale catalogue of Messrs. Wm. Wood & Co., our agents in New York; their sale has already amounted * A list of these will be found in Appendix D. 6 to $917.51, and some $200 to $300 worth still remain unsold; this money is still on hand for the purchase of new books, an insignificant portion of it only having been expended; the sum of money thus placed at our disposal being more considerable than has been in our hands for this purpose for some time past, the Librarian suggests that it be used mainly in the purchase of larger works, such as the scientific reports of expeditions sent out by foreign governments, of which the Library lacks a great many; it would however be un- doubtedly advantageous to delay any direct action until their cost in our national currency shall not be so great as at pres- ent. Besides the Library duplicates which have been sold, others, particularly the publications of Foreign Societies, have been exchanged with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution; the total num- ber received from this source, as seen by the table, is 169. During the year, the work of cataloguing and arranging the Library has progressed steadily; bock plates have been placed in every volume to which they had not already been fastened, and to every book in the front room except some of the publications of Societies, has been attached a digest of the new Library regulations, a process requiring consid- erable time. The books in the back room are now under- going the same process; every work as soon as received has been entered on the books, catalogued and placed upon the table and shelves, generally with a detention of but a few hours. | There has also been prepared a List, in extenso, of the de- siderata among the publications of Scientific Institutions, with a view of taking active means to remedy the deficiencies of this part of the Library. All this work in the Library would not have been possible without assistance, the expense of which has been defrayed partly by the Society’s funds, partly by subscription among the members of the Council, and partly from money given to the Society for this special purpose. There is now no catalogue of the Library except the Card Catalogue, which, in its present condition, the cards being kept loosely in a partitioned box, is not suitable for examin- ’ 7 ation by the public, because the cards will be misplaced, as, under similar circumstances, they always have been, requir- ing much time and vexation in their reérrangement — neither are they convenient for use by any one, having outgrown the limits of their former sufficient receptacle; what is now needed is a set of separate trays, with elevated sides and back and open front, in each of which the cards belonging to a few letters can be placed, with rods passing through punched holes in the cards, so as to prevent their removal, but permit their readiest examination by all; this method has been found to succeed admirably in other places, and would seem to be peculiarly suited to our wants; it would become a permanent arrangement, because leaving nothing to be desired in convenience; the only change required by the extension of the Library would be the addition of simi- lar trays. Much work still remains to be done in order to place the Library in the condition of ready reference and safety which its value demands. Very many of the pamphlets yet remain to be catalogued and placed upon the shelves before they can be of any use to the members; at present they are piled up in heaps awaiting their turn. The whole Library is also in a somewhat unsafe condition so long as we have no sepa- rate catalogues wherein the books are arranged according to shelves, or what are generally called alcove catalogues; at present the only means of knowing whether a book has been lost is to look for it on the card catalogue after the attention has been specially called to it; on that account I am unable to report whether or not any books have been lost the past year; a day or two with the alcove catalogue will suffice to tell whether any and what books are missing or misplaced in the whole Library, a work which, without such aid, would certainly require the constant toil of one person for more than a month. Few persons are aware of the time necessarily consumed in preparing a book for the shelves ; take, for instance, a vol- ume of Transactions of some Foreign Academy —it is re- ceived through the Smithsonian Institution accompanied by a written blank from them to be signed: it has first to be 8 compared with the record on the blank to see if it be cor- rect; next, for the same purpose, with the letter from the Academy that sends it, and an acknowledgment in full made to the Academy for it, and a record of the acknowledgment taken; then entered on the Record of Publications received in exchange, with all the necessary dates and memoranda; next on the Library Accession Catalogue and indexed for ready reference; after this the title page in full -vritten upon a card with all the necessary cross-references upon other cards; stamped with the Society’s name, the book-plate affixed and its blanks filled out, the Library Regulations fas- tened upon the cover and its place in the Library marked in one corner, it is at last ready for the shelves or tables of the Library ;all these points are absolutely essential ; the time now occupied in taking care of the books which are presented to the Library consumes an average of over two, and per- haps three, hours a day. When we call to mind the yearly increasing influx of books to the Library, it must be appar- ent to all that where the Librarian holds other offices requiring much time in their fulfilment, a regular assist- ant becomes indispensable, especially when so much remains to be done to put the Library already in our hands in proper order. Other expenditures may be referred to, which it is highly desirable should be made upon the Library. There is a multitude of unbound parts of volumes which are ready for the binder’s hands, and the number of loose pamphlets is rapidly increasing, and now numbers over 2,000. These ought to be bound separately in a cheap way, on the plan used in the other Boston Libraries, so that persons wishing to take away a pamphlet need not be compelled to transport a thick volume; the new plan is scarcely more expensive than the old. The dust which is blown in at the sides of our loose win- dows, and will continue to be blown in, especially while so much of the ground about us is unoccupied as at present, is injur ing the books to an unfortunate degree. Weather-strips it is believed would remedy the trouble in great measure, 9 and perhaps also pay for themselves, in the end, by the say- ing of fuel. A book has been furnished, divided off into various sub- jects, wherein members are invited to record the title, place of publication and price of any book which they desire to have purchased for the Society. The Librarian is pleased to be able to state that the By- Laws for the regulation of the Library, concerning which there was considerable discussion and doubt when first adopted, just a year since, have proved successful beyond the hopes of the most sanguine. No difficulty whatever has been experienced in the prompt return of books lent, and it has been necessary to impose a fine in but a single instance, when it was promptly paid. He would propose, however, that, as soon as possible, means should be taken to have the Library opened for one or two hours in the evening, for the accommodation of many who find it impossible to come dur- ing the day; expressions of such a desire have been fre- quently made to the Librarian. The number of persons who have taken books from the Library the year past, has been 74, and the number of books taken out, 426. There have been 18 regular meetings of the Society held during the year, beside two special meetings. In addition to this, the Section of Microscopy has been revived and re- organized under favorable auspices, and seven meetings of this Section have been held ; there has been an average attendance of 34 members at the regular meetings of the Society, and of nine at those of the Section of Microscopy. At these meetings 23 communications have been pre- sented, as follows: May 18, 1864. Prof. J. Wyman. On the development of moulds in the inte- rior of eggs. June 15, 1864. S. H. Scupper. Remarks on the physical geography of the Isle of Pines. Dr. Wa. Stimpson. Malakozodlogical Notices. No. 2. 10 W. H. Nizes. Remarks on the relations between the vegeta- tion and geological structure of the hills of Western Mas- sachusetts. September 21, 1864. C. A. SaurTLEFF. The general Plan of Venation in the or- der of Insects and its modifications in the different sub- orders. October 19, 1864. Capt. N. E. Arwoop. Remarks on the habits of the Mackerel and Menhaden, (Scomber vernalis and Alosa menhaden). November 2, 1864. Dr. James C. Wuite. Description of two human skulls re- cently brought from Stockton, California, and presented to the Society by Dr. C. F. Winslow. Dr. C. T. Jackson. Remarks on the manufacture of Peat. November 16, 1864. Dr. C. F. Winstow. On fossil bones from the Andes. Dr. A. A. GouLtp. Remarks on the diverse signification of descriptive terms among Conchologists. December 7, 1864. Prof. C. E. Hamury. Remarks on some facts connected with the development of Frogs, observed at Waterville, Maine. On a Habit of Certhia americana, supposed to have been hitherto unnoticed by authors. Capt. N. E. Arwoop. Remarks on the habits of the Dog- Fish, (Wustelus canis). December 21, 1864. Dr. C. T. Jackson. Discevery of Emery in Chester, Mass. January 4, 1865. Profs. ALEXANDER WINCHELL and OLtver Marcy. Enu- meration of Fossils collected in the Niagara Limestone at Chicago, Illinois, with descriptions of several new species. Dr. Henry Bryant. Remarks on the typical specimen of Buteo insignatus Cassin, in confirmation of previously ex- pressed views of the author of the identity of several so- called species of Buteo. An examination of the tongue of Sphyrapicus varians in relation to its alleged habit of eat- ing the inner bark of the apple tree. January 18, 1865. Dr. B. Joy Jerrrres. Anatomy and Physiology of accom- modation in the human eye. Tt 8S. H. Scupper. An inquiry into the zoological relations of the first discovered traces of fossil Neuropterous Insects in North America, with remarks on the difference of struc- ture in the wings of living Neuroptera. February 8, 1865. Cuar_Les Stopper. Note on Rhabdonema mirificum. March 1, 1865. Capt. N. E. Arwoop. Remarks on some points in the histo- ry of the Cod-fish, (Morrhua americana). March 8, 1865. R. C. GReEENLEAF. Description of Nitzschia Mitchelliana. March 15, 1865. Prof. J. Wyman. Enumeration of the fossil bones from Rio- bamba, South America, presented by Dr. C. F. Winslow. During the past year, the Society has elected one Honor- ary Member, eight Corresponding Members and 76 Resident Members. Of these latter, 21 have not yet ratified their election by the payment of the admission fee, and six others, who have paid, have not fully complied with the regulations for membership by signing the Constitution. As the Society has not published anything during the past year, of course little has been done in the distribution of our publications abroad. We sent, however, early in the year, the last number of our Journal and nine sheets of our Proceedings to 212 different Societies and Periodicals, which, in addition to a few special gifts, makes the whole number given in exchange to be equivalent to 55 volumes of our Journal and 121 of our Proceedings. Besides this, 171 parts of the Journal, equivalent to about 43 volumes, and 18 volumes of the Proceedings have been sold, and $180.80 realized from that source. The Council has, however, recently authorized the Pub- lishing Committee to print the remainder of the ninth vol- ume of the Proceedings; this is now printed, and will be issued in a few days. They were also directed to reprint a single signature of Vol. II. of the Proceedings, the edition of which had been exhausted, which has been done, and copies of Vol. II. may now be obtained. 12 During the suspension of publication it was decided that the Proceedings could not be furnished any longer free of cost to the members, without serious detriment to the Treas- ury; and it has been further deemed advisable to change the form of the Journal from 8vo to 4to, and the title at the same time to “Memoirs,” and accordingly the Committee were authorized in December last to issue a circular inviting subscriptions to both these Publications, to see if a sufficient number could be obtained to nearly cover the cost of their publication; careful estimates seemed to prove that 200 subscriptions would cover the expense of printing the Me- moirs and 300 that of the Proceedings; up to this time 161 names, representing 172 subscriptions, have been appended to the List, viz., 142 subscriptions to the Memoirs and 164 to the Proceedings. It is confidently hoped that 20 or 30 more names will be added within a month, and that other additions will be made so soon as the issue actually com- mences. Under these circumstances it seems desirable to recommence the regular issue of our publications without delay; it is the only means whereby we obtain the publica- tions of other Societies, an important part of our Library, and a long suspension may bring serious detriment, espe- cially as it is so recently that we have enlarged our list of correspondents. Some of the back parts of the Journal and Proceedings are entirely out of print, and others nearly so, in conse- quence of which, a tariff of prices for the different volumes and parts has been established by the Publishing Committee and will be found in Appendix E. All the copies of the back volumes of the Journal and Proceedings have been carefully examined this year and the latter part of last year; in the early part of this work the Librarian had the welcome assistance of Mr. Horace Mann and Mr. 8. M. Buck. These volumes were removed to this building in a great state of confusion ; in very many cases the signatures of the Journal had never been assorted, and it was impossible to know how many copies were in the Society’s possession until this was done. The copies of the Journal which were perfect in text and plates were placed by 13 themselves and a list made of them, showing that there are. 2,800 parts, besides 48 bound volumes; those of which we had copies nearly complete were next assorted, tied up in bundles and marked, and a list of them taken which shows that we have 731 copies of different parts with the text only, and 874 others with some plates but wanting others, besides some sheets still remaining unfolded as they came from the press. The oversheets still remained with many impressions of plates, from which were culled such separate articles as could be obtained, and the plates added where present; 762 copies of 88 different papers were thus ob- tained, of which a catalogue has been prepared with prices to each annexed. The oversheets and plates still remaining have been assorted, bundled up and labelled, and a list of each prepared and placed on file; there are 1,716 of the for- mer and 1,830 of the latter, of which 68 are colored. The copperplates themselves were then examined, and those which were not present searched for in every plate- printing establishment in the city, though but few of the missing ones were found. A list of all the plates which have “been published by the Society has been prepared for the Publishng Committee, with a special list of the missing ones. By this it can be seen at once at what cost we may be able to reprint back publications when out of print. The same care has been bestowed upon the Proceedings, and a complete list of the perfect volumes and oversheets drawn up, by which it appears that we have in our posses- sion 1,175 unbound and 45 bound volumes, and 15,755 over- sheets. An orderly arrangement has also been introduced, in every other direction. A regular account is now kept with every Society with which we correspond, so that on opposite pages the contents of every parcel received or sent are recorded, and the date of their acknowledgment marked. The trans- mission of our publications, scattered irregularly through several volumes, has also been indexed from the beginning, for more ready reference. The Recording Secretary has also undertaken to make an authentic alphabetical list of the Members of the Society, of 14 all classes, from its foundation, in correcting which he has been assisted by Dr. A. A. Gould and T. T. Bouvé, Esq. This list furnishes, so far as possible, the name, residence, time of election and admission of members, the character of their membership, the time and cause of its dissolution, and the offices, if any, held by them. The Records, both of the Society and Council, from the commencement to the pres- ent time, have been carefully gleaned for all important data, and the list is believed to be as nearly perfect as practicable. Accompanying it is a list of all the officers since the founda- tion of the Society, and the times of their entrance upon and exit from office. In accordance with the provisions of the By-Laws of the Society, the Custodian has opened a Donation Book, in which all objects received for the Museum are entered care- fully and numbered by lots. The increase to the Collections during the past year has been very considerable, although only $68.50 has been spent in the purchase of specimens; there are no means of direct comparison with the accessions of former years. The donations number 443 lots and 21,155 specimens, about half of which are Insects, principally form- ing the cabinet of the late Mr. C. A. Shurtleff, which was bequeathed to us, together with his other collections and ac- companying papers; they form the most valuable addition of the year. The opening of our collections once more to the public, after their long storage, has made our halls again the favorite resort of many; the number of visitors has varied but little, notwithstanding the difficulty of access to the building in the severe winter weather, the unheated apartments at that time, and the breaking up of the ground around us in the spring. No regular record was kept of the number of vis- itors in the early part of the official year, but since the first of January they have been 7,363 in number, averaging 272 on public days. We will turn now to the Reports of the Curators. These I have concluded to present, not in any scientific arrange- ment, but in the order which one would naturally take in 15 passing through the building, endeavoring in the account of each department to give not simply the additions that have been made to it and the work that has been bestowed upon it during the year, but also some general statement of what the collection is as a whole, since no connected account which should combine all the departments, has ever been attempted of recent years. Owing to the absence of some of the Curators, the statements with regard to their collections must be very meagre, but such as they are, they are offered for your consideration. The principal collection upon the lower floor is that of Botany. The Curator reports it to be in admirable preser- vation; the plants are arranged in Manila paper covers and are classified according to Endlicher’s Genera Plantarum, the object of this classification being that any one can read- ily turn to any cover, by ascertaining the number of the desired genus in Endlicher’s work, as the covers of the plants bear numbers in accordance and are ranged in numerical se- quence around the room. The collection of plants is large, and represents to a great extent the Flora of North Amer- ica, besides being rich in European forms. The great bulk of the Herbarium was the result of Dr. Benjamin D. Greene’s botanical correspondence with the first botanists of Europe for twenty-five years, as well as a constant interchange of specimens with American collectors. Some of his collections were very valuable, such as a suite of the plants collected in Franklin’s Arctic Expedition. Among the more interesting acquisitions were Lindheimer’s and Wright’s Texan and New Mexican collections, Vauthier’s Brazilian plants, Bertero’s Chilian collections, and various local ones, which remain as yet undistributed, as they were received from Dr. Greene, though they have been thoroughly examined and are free from danger of the ravages of insects. During the last few years the Society has come into the possession of very valu- able collections of cryptogamous plants. Bailey’s Algze are well known as an extensive suite of the highest importance as authentic forms of the authors own description; the Fungi presented by the Curator himself, the fruit of many 16 years’ collections, numbering some thousand species, are val- uable as being, many of them, new and authentic species named from these very specimens. A collection of dried fruits and seed-vessels has been commenced, and the cabinet devoted to this purpose already exhibits a goodly display, numbering about 250 specimens. The means of study offered to the public are naturally re- stricted when the objects to be examined are dry, crumbling leaves and flowers. Much work remains to be accomplished, and until the loose specimens are securely glued to paper, the Herbarium must necessarily remain locked from general study; only those who are thoroughly familiar with the handling of perishable specimens can be permitted to have access to the Herbarium in its present state. The principal additions during the past year have been a collection of New England plants, about 1,800 in number, the bequest of our late member, Mr. C. A. Shurtleff, and an admirably preserved suite of German plants, numbering over 1,200 specimens, from Col. Joseph Howland. Besides these we have been the recipients of various minor donations from Drs. Kneeland, Otis, Pickering and C. G. Putman, the Rev. Charles Mason, Mrs. Fielding, Miss Kingman, Messrs. L. Babo, N. Bishop, D. J. Browne, A. T. Hall, C. H. Parker, O. Pickering, 8S. H. Seudder, John R. Willis and N. Willis, and the Essex Insti- tute. The small room adjoining the Botanical apartment is that devoted to the Section of Microscopy. The Bailey Bequest forms the basis of this collection, of preéminent value. The slides number nearly 1,400, accompanied by manuscript cata- logues or other memoranda, in which the position of more than 3,000 individual objects on the slides are noted with reference to Bailey’s universal indicator for the Microscope ; these are mostly Diatomacez, but there are also many ani- mal tissues and recent and fossil vegetable tissues. In addition to these there is a great quantity of original specimens of microscopic material, collected by various scientific and ex- ploring expeditions, and an extensive series of specimens received from European correspondents, including Ehrenberg ET and other distinguished microscopists. There is also a vol- ume of microscopic memoranda, containing many valuable notes, and not less than 3,000 sketches, highly valuable as an illustrative accompaniment to the microscopical collection, and a large number ‘of scientific letters containing many valuable scientific facts, well worthy of publication. The rough material has been carefully catalogued by the Curator, and numbers 534 lots. The process of re-cataloguing and arranging the mounted specimens to accommodate them to the indicators now in use has been undertaken by some of the members of the section, and is progressing favorably. The only other collection in this department worth mention- ing is that purchased of the heirs of Dr. W. I. Burnett, con- taining his collection of Acari and other mounted objects, numbering in all about 600 slides, many of them with a number of specimens on each; about 400 of them are animal parasites and the remainder miscellaneous objects such as minute animal organisms, hairs of different animals, ete. In the Vestibule is displayed the principal portion of the Society’s collection of fossil foot-prints, brought together mainly by the late Mr. Marsh and purchased after his death. It is of considerable size and contains many slabs of great magnitude, some of them the finest known, which are of special value in exhibiting the measure of the stride of the paradoxical animals whose impress they bear, as well as in giving one an idea of the abundance of life on the ancient shores of the Connecticut ; one important addition has been made during the past year in a slab containing the track of the Cheirotherium from Sorton Quarry, near Liverpool, for which we are indebted to George Moore, Esq., of the Liver- pool Free Museum and Capt. Anderson of the Cunard Steamship China. Another important and exceedingly in- teresting donation the last year has witnessed, is the origi- nal cast in sandstone of bones of one of the animals which formed these tracks upon the sandstone of the Connecticut River, almost the only important remains of this nature which have yet been discovered, rescued by Prof. W. B. Rogers from the Government edifice at Newport, into which 9 “ 18 the block of sandstone containmg them was about to be placed, and presented by him to us early in the year. With the exception of these slabs, the Geological and Palzonto- logical collection occupies the eastern half of the principal hall of the Society’s Museum and tht large room leading from the main hall at the south-eastern corner. In the first case upon the northern side, are placed the fossil bones and other specimens of such species of animal life as have existed on the earth since its occupation by man, Le., during the- period known as the “ Era of Mind.” Here may be seen some of the remains of enormous birds which have but recently become extinct. Also specimens of rock such as is now forming at Florida, of which a considerable part of that peninsula is composed, made up of the comminuted shells and corals of the adjacent waters. Here, too, are specimens of art, such as jars, bottles and other objects, cemented to- gether by coralline and other deposits, from the bottom of the sea in the Margarita channel eleven fathoms deep, where they were submerged forty years or more since, by the destruction of the Spanish man-of-war San Pedro. These are exhibited to show the progress made in the brief period since their deposit, towards uniting them in a solid conglom- erate, and also as an example of the rate of growth of the coral polypidom. There are also in the same case skulls and other remains of the elephant and mastodon of this conti- nent, and of various animals, all of which were contempora- neous with man, or existed but a short time previous to his epoch, certainly since the earth has presented generally the same features of land and ocean as at present ; the specimens in this case number 198. Following this, and extending around the end of the hall until reaching the passage way to the south-eastern room, is a series of cases filled with shells and fossil bones or casts of bones of the Pliocene and the Miocene Tertiary periods. In these may be found representatives of a large number of the remains of carnivorous and herbivorous animals, as well as some huge reptiles, all from the deposits of the Sivalik Hills in India. The specimens in these cases number 572. On the the southern side, toward the middle of the hall, is a case 19 filled with the remains of the life of the Eocene period. Here are some bones of the gigantic Zeuglodon, almost an entire series of the vertebra of one of which is ranged around the space for the stairway on the middle of the northern side of the hall. In the same case are many beautiful fossil shells of the Paris basin, and some fine impressions of Fishes from Monte Bolea. * The number of specimens in this case is 590. Passing into the south-eastern room, and commencing with the series of wall cases at the right entrance, the visitor first finds the remains of the period in the earth’s history next preceding the Tertiary ; viz., the Cretaceous or chalk period. Here the specimens are all of marine origin, and the preva- lence of Echinoderms becomes a prominent feature among them; about 350 specimens fill the cases of this period; a large proportion of these were presented by Mr. James M. Barnard. Next in order, as we proceed toward the earlier developments of life, we come to the Jurassic period ; and in the cases devoted to its animal remains are to be found many rare specimens of Echinoderms, of Ammonites and other unique forms, together numbering about 260 specimens, in- cluding some in horizontal cases on the same floor. Then succeed the fossil remains of the Triassic period in the next cases, and these include the splendid collection of the animal impressions upon the Red Sandstone of this age belonging to the Society, the first of which have been referred to as adorn- ing the walls of the hall of entrance. Some of the most interesting of these impressions may be seen in the horizontal eases upon the floor, as well as many good impressions of Fishes from the rocks of the same age. The specimens of this period number about 170. We come next to those of the coal period arranged in the succeeding cases, where may be seen the fossil plants from the shales that accompany the coal, to the number of about 225 specimens. To these succeed the remains of the Sub-carboniferous period, about 100 specimens ; then those of the Devonian period, about 230 specimens ; and finally we come to those of the earliest, the Silurian ages, which are represented by many forms of corals, shells and Triobites, numbering over 500 specimens. The 20 whole collection may be said to consist of about 3,200 speci- mens all arranged and labelled. During the past year the cast of the Megatherium pre- sented to the Society by the late Joshua Bates, Esq., of London, has been mounted. This was put up in the centre of the eastern part of the main hall by Mr. Sceva, with artistic skill, under the superintendence of Prof. Jeffries Wy- man and Dr. J. C. White, and it is believed to present a pos- ture in accordance with the character and habits of the animal. The additions during the past year have been considerable, amounting in all to 825 specimens. The most important are a series of casts of large animals obtained from Prof. H. A. Ward in exchange, and a collection of fragments of fossil Mammals from the Andes, collected and presented by Dr. C. F. Winslow. The other donors are the Smithsonian Insti- tution, Prof. H. A. Ward, Drs. H. I. Bowditch, 8S. A. Green, T. B. Hitchcock, C. T. Jackson and 8. Kneeland; and Messrs. E. A. Brigham, W. H. Dall, 8. Rice, J. T. Rothrock, H. B. Stanwood and 8. H. Scudder. The north-eastern room is devoted to the Mineralogical collection which is arranged according to Dana’s system. There are about 1,500 specimens on exhibition. A great deal of labor has been spent upon the collection by the acting curator, Mr. Bouvé. Within the last three months the whole collection has been entirely reirranged, and every specimen, with few exceptions, has been washed and will soon be labelled. 268 specimens were added during the past year by Drs. A. A. Gould, C. T. Jackson and B. 8. Shaw, Rev. E. B. Eddy, Messrs. W. H. Dall, W. T. Eustis, S. H. Scudder, E. L. Sturtevant, and a company of gentlemen. The space allotted to the collection of Comparative Ana- tomy and Mammalia, comprises the entire lower floor of the western extremity of the main hall, opposite the Palzonto- logical collections, with the adjoining apartments. The cases in the hall are entirely devoted to the reception of mounted mammalian skeletons, in which department it may be con- 21 sidered the most extensive of any in the country; the south- western room is partially occupied by the skeletons of the ruminants which could not be accommodated in the large hall, and the skeletons of the birds and reptiles; the rest of this room contains the collection of mammalian crania; dur- ing the past year the Curator has prepared sections of a series of skulls, representing nearly all the families in the various orders of Mammalia, which have been placed in one of the cases and form an instructive illustration of the comparative size and shape of the brain in this class of the animal king- dom. In the north-western apartment the mounted skeletons and parts of skeletons, the odontological cabinet, the skulls of reptiles, the specimens illustrating the comparative osteo- logy of birds and fishes, the dried dissections and the prepara- tions in alcohol consisting of mammals, embryos, etc., are placed. The Curator calls attention to the large collection of skins, which has not yet been placed in the hands of the taxi- dermist, for want of the requisite amount of money, and is still in the cellar exposed to injury from insects, hoping that an early appropriation may place this interesting department in a proper condition for exhibition. Three interesting skeletons have been mounted and placed in the cabinet the past year; viz., the Porpoise, White Whale and Dromedary. So far as practicable, colored representations of the animals have been placed in connection with the labels in the cases containing the mammalian skeletons. The most marked deficiencies im the department are the imperfections in the series of mammalian skulls and particularly the small size of the anthropological cabinet. At the beginning of the present year the collection, apart from the skins of niammals which were not estimated, amounted to 1,040 specimens, as follows : Mammals — skeletons mounted, 73; skeletons unmounted, 25; parts of skeletons, 107; skulls, 279; teeth, 93. Birds — skeletons, 25; parts of skeletons, 56; skulls, 87. Reptiles —skeletons, 13; parts of skeletons, 8; skulls, 12. Fishes — p wts of skeletons, 57; skulls, 21. Alcoholic specimens, 100: horns, 50: miscellaneous, 25. The additions during the past year are enumerated by the 22 Curator as follows: Skins of mammals, 17; bodies of mam- mals, 3; mammals in spirits, 4; skeletons of vertebrates, 8 ; parts of vertebrates, 13; skulls of vertebrates, 32 ; miscel- laneous, 7; total, 84. The donors have been Drs. H. Bryant, W. Channing, W. E. Coale, C. T. Jackson, 8S. Kneeland, B. 8. Shaw and C. F. Winslow ; Mrs. James Phillips, Rev. R. C. Waterston, Capts. N. E. Atwood and Philip Howland; Messrs. Wm. Beetle, Brewer, W. H. Dall, W. P. Kuhn, C. L. Parker, Hy A. Pur- die, J. G. Rich, 8. H. Seudder, C. A. Shurtleff, W. M. Thorup, and Todd; the Chicago Academy of Science, and the Ly- ceum of Natural History, at Williams College. The Ethnological collection is temporarily displayed in the deep cases of the north-western room, designed to contain eventually the skins of mammals. It was founded only a few years since, upon the gift of the Boston Marine Society, which consisted of wearing apparel, models of canoes, ete., of the Chinooks, and from Russian America ; various implements of warfare and household utensils from Central America, the Hawaiian, Kingsmill, Hervey, Feejee, and Navigator Islands, from the Papuan groups, the East Indies, and the Anamo- Siamese countries, a small collection of Egyptian relics, and African krisses of iron procured and forged by the negro tribes. There have been added to this the collection formed in this neighborhood by the late Mr. Thoreau, and bequeathed us by him, consisting of stone implements of war and home of the aboriginal inhabitants of New England. The most inter- esting accession of the past year has been the series of casts of ancient Mexican masks from the originals in the possession of the American Philosophical Society, presented by the Smithsonian Institution. Other donations have been re- ceived from Mrs. James Phillips, Messrs. E. A. Brigham, W. H. Dall, W. L. Parker, Dr. C. F. Winslow, and a com- pany of gentlemen. In presenting his report the Curator of this department offers the following suggestion for the arrangement of a collection of this nature ;— a collection of the handiwork of nations should be arranged aecording to 23 the distance from the historic centre, or Egypt ; beginning at the farthest remove : 1. The aboriginal American tribes and nations. 2. The islanders of the Pacific, Polynesians, Micronesians, Negri l- los and Papuans. 3. The Australians. 4. The East Indian tribes. 5. Madagascar, and Equatorial and Austral Africa. 6. The Japanese and neighboring more Northern islands, with the North Eastern border of Asia. 7. The Chinese empire, with Tartary and Northern Asia. 8. The Anamo-Siamese countries. 9. Hindostan. 10. Persia, Northwestern Asia and all Europe. 11. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, North Africa and Egypt. The wall cases of the first gallery are devoted exclusively to mounted birds, which also occupy a portion of the southern side of the upper gallery. The collection is in very good condition. The Curator complains that owing to the plan of the cases in the gallery, it is impossible to introduce a careful systematic arrangement ; it is much to be hoped that we may soon be able to open one of the side rooms in which this interesting department more properly belongs, to obviate the difficulties which at present are insurmountable. The Curator urges further that immediate measures be taken to tighten the joints of the cases, through the defects of which the birds are too liable to injury from destructive insects, and to keep out the too powerful light to which they are perma- nently exposed, and by which they will be mevitably ruined. The collection numbers about 2,500 mounted specimens ; as a general one it represents very well the different orders and families of birds and affords a very favorable opportunity, with the aid of our library, to study general ornithology. As a special collection, however, of the birds, first of the State of Mass..chusetts, secondly of the United States, and lastly of North America, it is extremely deficient ; and it is of the highest importance that this deficiency be remedied as soon as possible. We need particularly specimens of all our 24 common birds in different states of plumage, commencing with the nestlings. The Curator hopes the Society may be able to authorize the necessary expense for doing this the present year. The donations for the past year have not been very numerous; they number 188 specimens received from the Chicago Academy of Science, Prof. W. B. Rogers, Drs. Aten, Bryant and Coolidge, and Messrs. E. A. Brigham, P. A. Gidney, T. Kumlein, 8. H. Scudder and J. T. Smith, and by purchase. The Department of Odlogy is at present limited to a few of the railing cases of the upper gallery, designed for Insects ; it numbers about 800 specimens of eggs and nests on exhibi- tion, almost entirely of American species. During the past year there has been an addition of 164 specimens from Drs. Bryant and Packard, Messrs. Hills and Willis, and the Chicago Academy of Science, and by purchase. Most of them, however, were either of very common species or of little scientific value. The Curator considers it worthy of remark that the eggs of any bird, unless the parent bird has been fully identified, are of no scientific value whatever ; and farther that there is no department in Natural History wherein absolute and exact care in ascertaining and in per- manently recording the origin of each specimen, is so essen- tial to its value; the eggs of very many species are absolutely indistinguishable from those of several others, unless thus determined. Nor is it enough to ascertain their origin alone ; to remain of permanent value, this knowledge must be asso- ciated with the specimens by some abiding records of pater- nity. These important and indispensable laws cannot be too strongly urged upon the attention of all who would make collections for themselves or others, for scientific purposes; without constant attention to exact identification, collections are valueless and specimens are of no intrinsic importance. Owing to the absence of the Curator of Conchology, I am unable to give so full an account of our admirable collections in this direction as is desirable, though I have received from him some notes in regard to them. The Gasteropods alone are exposed to view, temporarily arranged in the railing-cases of the first gallery. This disposition does not allow of the display of the larger and more showy specimens, so that altogether not more than one-third of the collection is on exhibition, the remainder being stored in one of the un- opened rooms, which we hope may soon be furnished for their public display; in consequence of the want of any suitable place for the exhibition of the specimens in this department, the collection remains much as it was at the last annual report. The Curator calls attention to the deficiency of the Museum in alcoholic specimens of Mollusca, which would greatly enhance the interest and value of the collec- tion for scientific purposes. Some interesting collections have been received during the past year, especially a collec- tion of determined species containing over 500 specimens from Cape St. Lucas, received from Dr. Bryant, and another smaller collection of Cuban shells from Dr. Gundlach. The additions have amounted to nearly 2,500 specimens, received from Drs. 8. A. Bemis, H. I. Bowdite th, H. Bryant, J. Gund- lach, S. Kneeland, A. 8. Packard, and C. F. Winslow; and Messrs. Bishop, Dall, Hubbard, Scudder, Shurtleff and Willis, and by purchase. The upper gallery is devoted to the remaining depart- ments. That of Herpetology occupies the wall cases at the eastern end. The collection consists of about 500 species, not far from half of which are upon exhibition. This num- ber, though small, represents to a tolerable degree the Reptiles of New England, and contains some rare specimens from this, as well as foreign countries; it is much to be regretted, however, that the department wants some of the most common, even, of our Massachusetts reptiles, a deficien- cy which ought least of all to occur here, and which it is hoped will speedily be remedied, now that it is known. The Curator has been occupied during the past year, as far as time and opportunity allowed, in continuing the identifica- tion and classification of the specimens under his care. As soon as this important work can be accomplished, each speci- men will be labelled carefully; at present, the collection is 26 only distinguished by numbers, referring to a numerical catalogue in course of preparation. The collection is, in every way, in a more satisfactory condition than for some time past; but it is a source of regret that so many of the specimens were, in former years, received and deposited without being identified or any distinguishing mark placed with them, not only making the labor incumbent on the pres- ent Curator far more arduous, but rendering the collection of far less value than it might have been with more attention to these important points. As soon as it is possible to complete the arrangement of the collection now in possession of the Society, the Curator has assurance of additions, by donation and exchange, to enable him to fill out certain of the defi- ciences which exist. Although the space allotted to this department is large enough to accommodate the present. collection, the Curator calls our attention to the fact that it cannot long remain so with the ordinary influx of material for display, and urges the fitting up of one of the unoccupied apartments, for his collection, and that of Ichthyology. The additions to this department during the past year have amounted to 140, and have been received from the following gentlemen: Drs. Bryant, Shaw, and Winslow; Messrs. F. Andernach, Bishop, T. T. Bouvé, L. L. Holden, J. Robertson, R. Scott, S. H. Scudder, C. A. Shurtleff, E. F. Snow, H. C. Whitten, and by purchase. The cases in which the Ichthyological collections are dis- played, are those against the northern wall of the upper gallery. At the beginning of the year the collection con- sisted of nearly 650 species, represented by about 1,800 speci- mens, all but 200 of which are preserved in alcohol. The arrangement of the collection is that of a faunal one and in this only the larger faunal districts could be desig- nated, as the collection is not yet large enough to show the more limited faune. The specimens thus arranged come under the following Zodlogical Provinces. 1. The Atlantic coast of North America, from Cape Hatteras northward, including Greenland ; represented by about 90 species. 27 2. The Atlantic coast of North America southward to Cape St. Roque in South America, including Bermuda, the Bahamas and the West Indies; represented by about 170 species. 3. The fresh waters of North America, east of the Rocky Moun- tains; represented by about 115 species. 4. The Pacific coast of North America; represented by 15 spe- cies from the coast of California. 5. ‘The Pacific coast of Central America; represented by 4 species from Panama. 6. The Pacific coast of South America; represented by 6 species from the coast of Peru. 7. The fresh waters of Northern South America; represented by about 50 species. 8. The Mediterranean; represented by 5 species. 9. The coast of Europe; represented by 6 species. 10. The fresh waters of Europe ; represented by 14 species. 11. The Canary Islands and the Northwest coast of Africa; repre- sented by 10 species. 12. The East coast of Africa; represented by 10 species. 13. The coast of Southern Asia and the East Indies; represented by 20 species. 14. The fresh waters of Southern Asia; represented by 5 species. 15. The Sandwich Islands; represented by about 200 species. There are about 64 species in the collection whose locali- ties are not known; these will eventually be used with others, to show the classification and comparative structure of fishes. The dry and stuffed specimens have not yet been identi- fied or catalogued, though they are for the present placed in one of the cases in the gallery. The alcoholic specimens not yet catalogued and exhibited are contained in the following lots: — Ist, a collection of about 200 species of Sandwich Islands fishes presented some years since by Dr. C. F. Wins- low; 2d, the fresh water fishes of Northern South America; 3d, various small ’ots from foreign countries; 4th, the collec- tion of 44 species of Cuban Fish purchased the past year by Mr. Seudder, and kindly identitied by Prof. Poey; 5th, the collection of several hundred specimens made by the Curator during the past season at the Richardson Lakes, and at Lake Sebago in Maine. These specimens cannot be exhibited, nor 28 those now on exhibition properly arranged, until more alco- hol and bottles can be obtained. The work of cataloguing which has progressed rapidly during the past year, is also hindered from the same cause. At the same time the space at the disposal of the Curator is insufficient for the proper distribution of the fishes in a faunal arrangement, and with the rapid growth of the collection similar to what the past year has witnessed, the opening of one of the unfurnished apartments will soon be, if it is not already, essential. The additions during the past year were over 1,200 specimens, some of which were obtained by purchase, while for the remainder we are indebted to Drs. Bryant, Shaw, Shurtletf and Winslow, Messrs. Bishop, Buck, Dall, Nason, David Pul- sifer, Putnam, Snow and Whitten, and to the Lyceum of Natural History in Williams College. A portion of the collection of Radiates has been placed on exhibition during the past year in the wall cases at the west- ern end of the Hall, and in one of the adjoining ones on the southern side. The Echinoderms have been fully catalogued and arranged, with the exception of those preserved i in alco- hol, for which no new alcohol or bottles have as yet been pro- vided; among those arranged are the specimens forming the large and valuable collection of Echini presented by Mr. Barnard. Part of the corals have been displayed, but owing to unavoidable circumstances their final arrangement has been delayed, though it will soon be completed. The collec- tion at present is most complete in the order of Echini and in corals, but even in these there are many undesirable defi- ciencies. The collection of star fishes is still incomplete, even in native species, but we have promise of a series of those found in the Bay of Fundy with their natural colors pre- served, from the Museum of Yale College, which have already been selected for us in exchange for some sent by us. Of Holothurians we haye but a very meagre collection. Abbott Lawrence. Amos A. Lawrence. James Lawrence. Thomas Lee. Little, Brown & Co. Misses Lowell. Theodore Lyman. Nathan Matthews. Samuel May. Mrs. J. L. Merriam. Charles H. Minot. W. W. Moreland, M.D. N. C. Munson. Naylor & Co. Lyman Nichols. William Perkins. E. Pickering. Paschal P. Pope. Mrs. Wm. Pratt. Jonathan Preston. Josiah Quincey. Horace Richardson, M.D. E. S. Ritchie. G. H. Rogers. Henry B. Rogers. William B. Rogers. M. D. Ross. J. T. Rothrock. S. P. Ruggles. A. C. Sanborn & Co. Sanderson, Bros. & Co. Henry Sayles. Mrs. M. F. Sayles. « 37 e 2. SUBSCRIBERS TO Oliver Ames. Wm. 8. Appleton. Elisha Atkins. Gilbert Atwood. A. C. Baldwin. E. P. Bancroft. Chas. Bartlett. B. E. Bates. Bayley, Rollins & Co. James M. Beebe. David Sears. G. Howland Shaw. C. C. Sheafe. John Simmons. D. D. Slade, M.D. Joshua Stetson. H. P. Sturgis. Nathaniel Thayer. N. A. Thompson. E. S. Tobey. Frederick Tudor. Mary Anne Wales. Geo. W. Wales. T. B. Wales. Wilham J. Walker, M.D. Charles E. Ware, M.D. John Ware, M.D. Geo. Washington Warren. J. Mason Warren, M.D. Robert Waterston. William F. Weld. James C. White, M.D. Edward Wigglesworth. Misses M. and A. Wigglesworth. H. W. Williams, M.D. J. Huntington Wolcott. Jeffries Wyman, M.D. THE WALKER FUND. James Beck. G. A. Bethune, M.D. John M. Bethune. Jacob Bigelow. J. A. Blanchard. J. Ingersoll Bowditch. Mrs. Nathaniel Bowditch. Francis W. Brewer. Gardner Brewer. Martin Brimmer. Peter C. Brooks. J. C. Burrage. Geo. B. Cary. Isaac H. Cary. William W. Churchill. Joseph W. Clarke. Thomas Cushing. E. F. Cutter. Eben Dale. Theron J. Dale. S. T. Dana. Jas. Davis, Jr. Daniel Denny. Jas. A. Dupee. Henry F. Durant. J. Wiley Edmands. Henry Edwards. Jonathan Ellis. Wm. Endicott. Edward Everett. Stephen Fairbanks. Tsaae D. Farnsworth. J. Story Fay. Albert Fearing. Frank S. Fiske. Richard Fletcher. John Foster. Rey. N. L. Frothingham. S. Frothingham. S. Frothingham, Jr. C. W. Galloupe. John L. Gardner. P. E. Gay. Benj. R. Gilbert. Thomas A. Goddard. S. H. Gookin. Mrs. Benj. D. Greene. J. S. Copley Greene. Richard C. Greenleaf. Andrew T. Hall. Charles D. Head. Augustine Heard. John T. Heard. Mrs. Augustus Hemmenway. 38 John Hoge. John Homans, M.D. R. W. Hooper, M.D. Samuel Hooper. Gardiner G. Hubbard. H. B. Inches. J. B. S. Jackson, M.D. Samuel Johnson, Jr. E. D. Jordan. Charles S. Kendall. H. P. Kidder. J. G. Kidder. Wm. H. Knight. A. A. Lawrenee. James Lawrence. Henry Lee. Thomas J. Lee. James L. Little. Giles H. Lodge, M.D. Charles Lord. Theodore Lyman. John J. May. Mrs. J. L. Merriam. Hugh Montgomery. William Mounttford. Wn. Munroe. Albert L. Murdock. Naylor & Co. S. D. Nickerson. Otis Norcross. Charles H. Parker. William Perkins. H. W. Pickering. Carlos Pierce. Samuel 8S. Pierce. Avery Plumer. Mrs. Wm. Pratt. Edward 8S. Rand. Geo. C. Richardson. Jeffrey Richardson. S. W. Rodman. Le Baron Russell, M.D. Ignatius Sargent. Mrs. M. F. Sayles. J. C. Sharp, M.D. Geo. C. Shattuck, M.D. G. Howland Shaw. Mrs. G. H. Shaw. C. C. Sheafe. M. H. Simpson. S. G. Snelling. A. W. Spencer. Charles J. Sprague. D. H. Storer, M.D. John Taylor. Nathaniel Thayer. Ticknor & Fields. Edward S. Tobey. James Tolman. James Tuttle. 9 Jos. Vila, Jr. Josiah Vose. Mrs. A. L. Wales. Geo. W. Wales. Miss M. A. Wales. C. E. Ware, M.D: J. Mason Warren, M.D. Robert Waterston. E. M. Watson. Wm. F. Weld. J. Wetherbee, Jr. Misses M. and A. Wigelesworth. Thomas Wigglesworth. J. Huntington Wolcott. Edward Wyman. 40 APPENDIX B. WALKER PRIZES. Tue following prizes were founded by the late Dr. Wixt1am J. WALKER, for the best memoirs, and in the English language, on sub- jects proposed by a committee appointed by the Council of the So- ciety. The first and second are to be awarded annually; the third once in five years, beginning 1870. First — For the best memoir presented, a prize of sixty dollars may be awarded. If, however, the memoir be one of marked: merit, the amount awarded may be increased to one hundred dollars, at the dis- cretion of the committee. Second — For the next best memoir, a prize not exceeding fifty dol- lars may be awarded at the discretion of the committee; but neither of the above prizes shall be awarded unless the memoirs presented shall be deemed of adequate merit. Third —Granp Honorary Prize. The Council of the Society may award the sum of five hundred dollars for such scientific investi- gation or discovery in natural history as they may think deserving thereof; provided such investigation or discovery shall have first been made known and published in the United States of America; and shall have been, at the time of said award, made known and _ published at least one year. If in consequence of the extraordinary merit of any such investigation or discovery, the Council of the Society should see fit, they may award therefor the sum of one thousand dollars. Subject of the Annual Prize for 1865-6. “ Adduce and discuss the evidences of the co-existence of man and extinct animals, with the view of determining the limits of his antiquity.” Subject for 1866-7. “The fertilization of plants by the agency of | insects, in reference both to cases where this agency is absolutely necessary, and where it is only accessory ;” the investigations to be in preference directed to indigenous plants. Memoirs offered in competition for the above prizes must be for- warded on or before April first, prepaid and addressed “ Boston Society of Natural History, Sor the Committee on the Walker Prizes, Boston, Mass.” Each memoir must be accompanied by a sealed envelope enclosing the author's name, and superscribed by a motto corresponding to one borne by the manuscript. - Boston, May, 1865. 41 APPENDIX C. LIST OF THE OFFICERS FOR 1864-5. President. Jerrries Wyman, M.D. Vice-Presidents. Cnartes T. Jackson, M.D., AuGusrus A. Goutp, M.D. Corresponding Secretary. SamureL L. Aspot, M.D. Recording Secretary. SAMUEL H. ScupDER. Treasurer. THomas T. Bouve. Librarian. SAMUEL H. ScupDER. Custodian. SAMUEL H. ScuDDER. | Curators. Thomas T. Bouvé, Of Geology and Paleontology. Charles J. Sprague, Botany. Thomas M. Brewer, M.D., Oology. Henry Bryant, M.D., Ornithology. F. W. Putnam, Ichthyology. James C. White, M.D., Mammalogy and Comparative Anatomy. Samuel H. Scudder, Entomology. B. Joy Jeffries, M.D, Microscopy. Francis H. Brown, M.D., Herpetology. Charles Pickering, M.D., Ethnology. William T. Brigham, Mineralogy. Alpheus Hyatt, Conchology. A. S. Packard, Jr., Crustacea. A. E. Verrill, Radiata. 42 APPENDIX JD. LIST OF SOCIETIES, ETC., TIONS ARE SENT. Albany Institute ; : - : : - e 4 New York State Library . : : 4 3 : : Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club : 4 5 5 5 Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes . Genootschap Natura Artis Magistra . : : : Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen . ; : Société Paléontologique de Belgique : 5 ; - Naturhistorischer Verein . : 4 ; Maryland Academy . 2 : : > ; 5 . Naturforschende Gesellschaft . é : : : : Naturforschende Gesellschaft . : 2 5 Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en W Btooeebnaet Natuurkundige Vereeniging in Nederlandsch Indie Natural History and Philosophical Society Bergens Museum : , E Archiv fiir Anatomie, Physic. ad Ww eeenselarnene Medicin 4 4 Archiv fiir Natcrrecehtclts : F 5 ale F Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft Entomologischer Verein Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde 4 A 5 Koniglich- Preussische Akademie der Wissensch: fteti Verein fiir Beférderung des Gartenbaues . Naturforschende Gesellschaft . $ ‘i Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein des Harzes Imperial Regio Istituto Geologico Reale Accademia delle Scienze : . Bombay Geographical Society . Royal Asiatie Society . > , : : : Naturhistorischer Verein des Preussischen Rheinlandes . Académie Impériale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts. Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles . : : Société Linnéenne : : , American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Horticultural Society Kin. Kais. Maerisch- Bonfecisone Gerenaenalt fiir Beford- erung des Akerbaus, der Natur und Landeskunde ©. Naturforschender V erein. : ‘ : Académie Royale des Sciences, des L etnies et aes Benue! Arts. 5 4 Société E dtaiiolowidue de Baleiqeee Académie Royale des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettr es Société Linnéenne de Normandie : Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Thdia TO WHOM OUR PUBLICA- Albany. “ Alnwick. Altenburg. Amsterdam. “ Anvers. — Augsburg. Baltimore. Bamberg. Basel. Batavia. a Belfast. Bergen. Berlin. oe Bern. Blankenberg. Bologna. “ Bombay. “ Bonn. Bordeaux. its he Boston. ‘ Briinn. “ Bruxelles. “e Caen. “ Calcutta. 43 Asiatic Society of Bengal . Geological Survey of India Cambri dge Philosophical Society . Harvard Natural History Society. Museum of Comparative Zoédlogy —. . : Journal fiir Ornithologie Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali Société Impériale des Sciences Naturelles Elliott Society of Natural History Kongelige Norske Frederiks Universitet Naturforschende Gesellschaft Graubiindtens Naturforschende Gesellschaft Mittelrheinischer Geologischer Verein Académie Impériale des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres. Archiv fiir die Naturkunde, Lief- Est- und Curlands Kais. Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher < : Naturwissenschaftliche Gaucleenntt hs P Dublin Botanical Society. “Quarterly Journal of Senn. “University Philosophical Society . Natural History Society . 4 3 p : Royal Dublin Society “ Geological Society of Read. “Trish Academy : 2 University Z odlogical and Sbeeieal is sociation Royal Scottish Society of Arts . Royal Society of Edinburgh Naturforschende Gesellschaft Senckenbergische naturforschende Gesel Ischaft Zoologische “Gesellschaft : 3 Naturforschende Gesellschaft . F E , - Société de Physique et d’ Histoire Naturelle Oberhessische Gessellschaft Naturforschende Gesellschaft . s Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften British Association for the Advancement of Science Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen Real Sociedad Economica de Amigos del Pais . 5 F Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science Linnaea, ein Journal fiir die Botanik in ihrem Lids Umfange z Naturw issenschaftlicher Ve erein Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft . Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Naturhistorische Gesellschaft - Naturhistorisch-Medicinischer Verein. : . Finska Vetenskaps Societeten Siebenbiirgischer Verein fiir Naturw iceanee nate Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen Tasmania Royal Society Asiatic Society of China Caleutta. Cambridge, Eng. oA Mass. i - Cassel. Catania. Cherbourg. Charleston. Christiania. Chur. Danzig. Darmstadt. Dijon. Dorpat. Dresden. “ Dublin. “ Edinburgh. Emden. Frankfurt a. M. “ Freiburg. Geneve. Giessen. Gorlitz. Gottingen. Great Britain. Haarlem. Habana. Halifax, N. S. Halle. Hamburg. Hannover. Heidelberg. Helsingfors S. Hermannstadt. Hertogenbosch. Hobarttown. Hong Kong. 44 . Royal Hawaiian Agricultural Society. ° So eee Ferdinandeum . : : ; : : - Imper. Kazanskii Univ rsitét 5 : - : = - Jamaica Society of Arts . s 7: Det Kongelige Danske V eh ror Grea 3 ‘ Kongelige Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab-. : 5 : Naturhistorisches Landesmuseum von Kaernten F > Kon. Physikalisch- Okonomische Gesellschaft . _ Société Entomologique des Pays-Bas P 3 Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riduee of Yorkshire 5 : : a é A Philosophical and iy eee Society : : pate Academia Lugduno-Batava . z ‘ 5 Maderlandeche Entomologische Vereeniging Z K6niglich Saechsische Gesctinenant der Wissens peronen 5 Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie . - : : Société d’ Agriculture, Sciences et Arts de la Sarthe - Société Royale des Sciences. : . “ Société des Sciences, d’ Agriculture at des Arts > 5 Academia Real das Sciencias . : : : : : Literary and Philosophical Society . : : - Liverpool Royal Institution - : : : + - Museum Francisco-Carolinum . : : : : 2 Annals and Magazine of Natural History . 5 : : Entomological Society : 3 s : - 5 Entomologist’s W eekly ateiiseencer ; : ; « Ethnological Society . A . ; - : - - Geological Society. = 2 : - - ; India Museum . : : : A “ - - Journal of Entomology. 5 : - ; z ~ Linnzan Society < : : London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine : Microscopical Society : 3 : A - . : Museum of Practical Geology and Geological Snrvey_. Natural History Review . - : ; 7 : 2 Palzontographical Society : ; : - : : Royal Agricultural Society of England. § . “ “Geographical Society . : “Horticultural Society —. : A : : : “ Tnstitution of Great Britain . : : - : ‘© Society . : ; : ~ 2 - E : The Athenzeum . - ‘ : = 5 - - So SIDIS® L-c < 5 ; ; : : > - - “Reader : : : : “| i ; ; : SP moologish 2% ge a SS Zoological Society . A ; - : - : Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein. : 3 ; - : Société des Sciences Naturelles du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg 7 : Académie Impériale des Sciences, Belles_Lettres et Arts Honolulu. Innsbruck. Kazan. Kingston. Kjobenhayn. “ Klagenfurt. Konigsberg. La Haye. Leipzig. “ Mans. Liége. Lille. Lisboa. Liverpool. “ Linz. London. a Luneburg. Luxembourg. Lyon. 45 Société d’ Agriculture, d’ Histoire Naturelle et des Arts Utiles : ‘ . : : : : Société Linnéenne Wisconsin Natural History Society : Literary Society and Auxiliary of the Royal Astatip Society : : Academia Real de iedeiss ; Literary and Philosophical Society . Mannheimer Verein fiir Naturkunde Gesellschaft ftir Beférderung der Gesammten Neier wissenschaften . Philosophical Institution of Victoria. : Société d’ Histoire Naturelle du Départment de la Moselle Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen Imperiale Regio Istituto Lombardo di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti s Museo dei Fratelli V illa Societa Italiana di Scienze Ragen Societa Italiana delle Scienze 4 Société des Sciences, des Arts et des Lettres da Hainault Académie des Sciences et Lettres Canadian Naturalist and Geologist Geological Survey of Canada Société Impériale des Naturalistes : : K6niglich Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften K6niglich Hof-und-Staatsbibliothek . 2 Real ‘Accademia delle Scienze e Belle Lettere . Verein der Freunde der Naturgeschichte in MerklonBare Société des Sciences Naturelles Die Pollichia zu Diirkheim a. H. Bheinpfalz American Journal of Science and Arts Lyceum of Natural History Naturhistorische Gesellschaft - Obshtshestvo Seljskago Khozjaistva Jazhnéi Rossii. Offenbach Verein fir Naturkunde : : Ashmolean Society : Imperiale Regia Accademia di Scienze, Lettere, ed arti! Accademia delle Scienze e belle Lettere . Reale Istituto d’ Incoraggiamento di pagers. Ati e Manifatture in Sicilia Académie Impériale des Sciences Ecole des Mines. Journal de Gonchyliclogie Ministére de la Marine : Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle Revue de Sériciculture Comparée Revue et Magazin de Zoologie . Société de Géographie “* des Antiquaires de Fones Entomologique de France Géologique de France . - “ Lyon. “ Madison, Wis. Madras. Madrid. Manchester. Mannheim. Marburg. Melbourne. Metz. Middleburg. Milano. “ “ Modena. Mons. Montpellier. Montreal. “ Moscou. Miinchen. “ Napoli. Neubrandeburg. Neuchatel. Neustadt. New Haven. New York. Nurnberg. Odessa. Offenbach am Main. Oxford. Padova. Palermo. “a Paris. 46 Société Impériale et Centrale d’ Agriculture . « — Tmpériale Zoologique d’ Acclimatation : Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Academy of Natural Sciences American Philosophical Society Society of Natural History Kiniglich Boehmische Gesellschaft - Lotos, Zeitschrift fir Naturwissenschaften “ : : K6n. Kais. Patriot-Okonomische in Bohmen Verein fur Naturkunde Literary and Historical Society. : Correspondenzblatt fiir Sammler von Heseie 2 Kon. Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft . Zoologisch-Mineralogischer Verein Naturforschender Verein Bataavsch Genootschap der Bretindeer iis Wiis geeberte : : - . - - St. Gallische Guscllschare : - : : : = Natural History Society of New Brunsw ice Académie Impér iale des Sciences Bibliotheque Impériale Publique Etat Major du Corps des Ingénieurs des Manes de Rasta Gidrographitsheskii Departament Morskago Ministerstva Imper. Russkoe Geographitsheskoe Obshtshestvo Russisch-Kaiserliche Mineralogische Gesellschaft Société Entomologique de Russie Essex Institute : : fe : Kon. Kais. Landwinthachaft Gesclischaftie California Academy of Natural Sciences . ‘ f 2 Universidad de Chile. , 4 ; y Skandinaviske Naturforskeres Forsamling . : . Entomologischer Verein : F Bureau de la Recherche Géologique de ie Suéde : E Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien 5 Société d’ Histoire Naturelle . s Fi : Deutsche Ornithologe Gesellschaft : 3 Verein fiir Vaterlandische Naturkunde . i - - Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft Société Vaudoise des Siimnens Naturelles. Koniglich Saechsische Akademie fiir Forst-und Temas wirthe 2 Reale Accademia delle Suisnne. Canadian Institute Académie des Sciences, Thikeriptions et Belles-Lettres Kongliga Vetenskaps Societeten Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen Istituto Veneto di Scienze, ebiars ad Arti Accademia d’ Agricoltura, Commercio ed Arti Smithsonian Institution . a : . : - Kaiserliche Akademie der W sadennehutiae : 5 Paris. “ Penzance. Philadelphia. “ Portland. Prag. “ “ Presburg. Quebec. Regensburg. “ “ Riga. Rotterdam. St. Gallen. St. Johns, N. B. St. Pétersbourg. “ “ Salem, Mass. Salzburg. San Francisco. Santiago. Scandinavia. Stettin. Stockholm. “ Strasbourg. Stuttgart. “ Switzerland. “ Tharand. Torino. Toronto. Toulouse. Upsala. Utrecht. Venezia. Verona. Washington, D. C. Wien. 47 Kon. Kais. Central-Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und Erdmag- netismus < - ‘ « ° ° o Kon. Kais. Geologische Toloheanstett : 4 5 Kon. Kais. Zoilogisch- Botanische Gesellschaft . F Wiener Entomologische Monatschrift : - A Verein fiir Naturkunde . : Fp : 3 : American Antiquarian Society. = : Wiirzburger naturw issenschaftliche Zeitschrift - Wahueforsationde Gesellschaft . - . a > Wien. “ oe “ Wiesbaden. Worcester, Mass. Wiirzburg. Zurich. 48 APPENDIX E. TARIFF OF PRICES FOR THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. JOURNAL. Vol. I., in parts, $6.50. mats, s 6.50. es Sa 6.00. BONES atl + 6250: The cube separately at the following prices. Vol. I. part 2, $2.00; part 3, $1.50. “ IL, part 1, $2.00; part 2, $2.00; parts 3-4, $3.00. a Ty part 3, $1.50; part 4, $1.50. : « YV., part 1, $1.75. “ VIL, part 1, $1.75;, part 2, $1.50; part 3, $1.75; part 4, $1.25. “ VIL, part 1, $2.50; part 2, $1.75; part 3, $1.50; part 4, » $1. 25. PROCEEDINGS (in sheeis). Vole Ue ge25: “ TIT, 2.00. c OPV, 2:00: “ Vi, 2.25. ci Wi 2:00. COValiEs = 2700: “« 1X., 2.50. Subscription price Vol. X., $3.00 to members; $4.00 to the public. Memorrs. Subscription price per part, $3.50 to members; $4.00 to the public. is HOE asta TO VUAAT ese he ee NG:82 zrag at sng yi sit ip » etna ano TE 8 3184 1s £4.,& ayaq...I ' ft tise’ .. 00.88 » te ahaa ¢ 00.8 8 $18q ; + id AG. re E jvsq 68 Ga. ft Sie, 21.18 .& waaq ; (OG1 6 Teeq - at1g 6 TREASURER'S REPORT. ay eld a3 00. + ; - eraSEyom 0.22% miodaivar 0F 06.88 At. SSO si Qabg a bine .1V sim, 00:88 E greq-. 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Morse for labels for speci- temporarily loaned —. ; Ja $12.97) mel : ; 6 ; : 5 $9.44 1865. | | paid C, Richardson & Co. for Ben- Jan. 28. «received, Interest on #4,000 loaned to zine, Creosote, ete, — . ¢ ; 3.32 the city July 28th last 3 é 120.00 | | «paid repairs Skylight 5 } : 16.08 « — yeceived, Interest on $16,000 loaned! «paid Wood & Chester for Bird-stands| 30.00 to State June 25th last, 5 percent.) | paid Moses French for Coal. : 824.33 until July 27th, 6 per cent. July «paid Prescott & Chapin for Coal. 64.12 | 27th to date ' 4 4 otal 556.90) «paid C. Graves for Aleohol — , ; 19.26 March 1. | «received, Interest on $20,000 loaned | “paid and transferred to the General! the State Noy. 22d last, 6 per cent. 825.48) Accounts of the Society, one-half’ April 8. | * received, Interest on $21,105 from | | of all Income received to date. | 618.48 Jan. 28th to Mareh Ist, and on! | | ——, 6,105 from March Ist to date, 080.02 a 6 per cent. . ; , ‘ ; 211.62) April 80. By Balance on date to new account. ; 146.95 | i | 1,226,97]| | $1,226.97 Errors Excepted. Boston, April 30, 1865. AMS KE . T. BOUVE, Treasurer. 52 00'S L0'TR IO TEL 68 TP 00°ST. GO'PP 00°99% ‘wodnsevoty, “TANOM WL ‘SOWL * gunooov MOU 07 OJNP UO DOURIY —,, 0g [dy Te ees a Surpymg. uo 00°8L0'TS eouBINsUy lox “Oo: ‘sup oungdon pred ,, “YOR —- * Sug of uosyyE a pred —,, ‘LqoT — ||00°S8L "CORT * guouroaase od oyaely ‘scr Aq Paes oq OF SE YOM Jo Fey ~OUO “AVOA OF XT Log pur ajry pred —,, . OsUo'T OF sduryg ONUDADY LOZ puw “Yor OF oOVVISEP SUSHAOAPV doy “Ape ‘sonore pred ysep Ag *19q.0990 “POST HEV IST Cor HONTATOG WH WLM LNNOOOV NI Srnras 86 AON | 00'0F6$ “CORT ‘og [dy ‘uoysog ‘poydooxgy S10. ‘ , > uodn poorse su ‘PORT Toy XVZ guNouT Jyey-euo | Toy ‘OYIV 'N “OT ‘Sa JO poaredor —,, | ‘0g Tudyw “GOST OOUVAPT UL “CORT “UIPT 990 OF “POST “UIP “J9O Utoag IVOA OUO WIRE PUB OSNOF], JO Que 1oy ‘OYAV 'N "OP ‘SAY JO poatooar ysug oy *19qG0790 “POST 5 ber Af ‘Tea . VENT, TANOG ‘J, “SOH], re | 53 It will be perceived that there is in the hands of the Treasurer, in account with the Walker Fund, a balance of. : . $146.95 Tn his hands in ace’t with the Bulfinch St. Estate ‘ 2 731.61 Together, . - $878.56 And that there is a balance due him on general ace’t of — . 397.05 Making the actual balance in his hands. : ; ~ $481.51 of all the ace’ts rendered. NEW BUILDING AND CASES. ' The full cost of our New Building, including commissions for architec- tural services, and not including the cases, has been — $94,393.80 The cases, including architect’s commissions, have cost 10,003.36 Making together. = $104,397.16 A result with which the Society certainly has reason to be gratified, as such a building, with the cases, could not now be built for a sum less than one hundred and fifty to one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. PROPERTY OF THE SOCIETY. As Treasurer of the Society I reported the property May Ist, 1862, as worth, exclusive of the Library and Cabinet, . . $85,001.49 May Ist, 1863, it was valued at. : : : . 133,497.80 May Ist, 1864 it was valued at. : : : . 142,512.47 and now, May Ist, 1865, it sums up . F : ‘ . 176,881.51 This consists of The Estate in Bulfinch Street . , . $30,000.00 Courtis Fund . : : P ; . 10,000.00 New Building . : : : ; . 94,393.80 Furniture F : : 10,095.05 Balance due on unsettled account. , 24.42 Walker Fund . : : é : . 41,105.00 $185,618.27 Less due to Trustees of Courtis Fund, borrowed, $8,339.71 And to the Treasurer. Pes UE: 8,736.76 $176,881.51 54 This is, as stated above, exclusive of Library and Cabinet. TI will not undertake to estimate the value of our property in the estate of our late benefactor, Dr. Wm. J. Walker. It suffices me to know that in resigning the office of Treasurer, I leave to my successor the pleasing task of showing on our next anniversary means of usefulness beyond what our most sanguine anticipations could have looked for. With regard to the income that can be depended upon from our present property and from assessments on members, &c., I present the following as approximate results: From Estate Bulfinch Street. : : : : : $1,000 *“ Assessments on members 5 ; © : = 1,000 “ Courtis Fund (note of $3,000) . : z F , 180 “ Walker Fund (notes of $41,105). : : ; 2,466 « Admission fees of new members : 2 : : 200 Making in all . : ‘5 $4,846 Of this, however, one half of the income from the Walker fund is not available for general purposes. Deduct this 1,233 And we have for general purposes. : : : ; $3,613 Our expenses as we are now going on may be estimated as follows : Custodian and Janitor : : : : : ; : $1,500 Other help ‘ 2 : ; : - : : F 200 Stationery, printing, cards, &e. . P : : F F 300 Expressage, transportation, &c. . : 3 . z F 100 Coal, &e. .- : : : ; : ? _ : . 500 Gas and Water . : R ‘ : : : : 100 Insurance . : : : : P ; ; : s 75 Repairs. : : : : : : : E ; 200 Sundries not mentioned F 200 Making : : : : 3 : : $3,175 This, of course, is a rough estimate, and the actual amount may be less or more according as economy is regarded. Allowing our receipts and expenditures to be as indicated, there would be something, say $500 left for publications and purchase of specimens. This is all based, however, upon cireumstances being much as at present, our house in Bulfinch Street let and no change in management. Of course, with the expected accession of wealth and the projected changes in our operations these figures may have but little value. The one half of the Walker Fund not available for general pur- poses, may in part be used for a portion of the estimated expenses above, but probably not enough of it to vary essentially the result. CONDITION AND DOINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY AS EXHIBITED BY THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE CUSTODIAN TREASURER, LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS. MAY, 1866. BOSTON : PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. 1866. ESF CLR AITO o _ jie es Pore wie 4, Vio Semel = ; i.) 7 “€ rt tie ag age hile ego Tir ithe COMPETE a Sue SG 3 : ‘pe ve sre ee ek a 4 eTIgos Ss WASH : 1s See ‘ sf 3Q g@,ie 3 Ht bles FALIHAAM' 4 diadeaeast y HSi TAM " é a = 9 a v4 yee 7 ~~ Par _— a @ fs 7 ; -_ i J wz Y), a e.¢ 4, Roa ere } Pi a meting WOMB bet (2298 Nae yea > u . ~ . ~ @ in REPORT OF THE CUSTODIAN OF THE ‘ BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, EMBODYING THE REPORTS OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS, FOR 1865-6. The past year of the Society has been characterized by much activity in the increase and arrangement of the differ- ent departments of the Museum. While the meetings have been well attended, it is believed that the communications presented fully equal in number and interest those of for- mer years. The first number of the Memoirs and nearly a volume of the Proceedings have been printed, and the additions to the Library have been large and of unusual im- portance. In the Museum the ornithological collection has been more than quadrupled, so that it has now become one of the most important in the country, and unrivalled in the number of type specimens of European authors which it contains; many native species of marine invertebrates and of the lower order of plants in which the Museum has be- fore been deficient, have been added. In the month of May was closed a series of lectures on scientific topics, given gratuitously, under the auspices of the Society, to the teachers of the Public Schools of Boston and vicinity, which was received with great favor by the public, the large main hall of the Museum being crowded to over- flowing on successive Saturdays by very appreciative au- diences, who gave ample assurances that repetitions of the undertaking would prove very acceptable. + There have been twenty stated meetings of the Society, and eight meetings of the Microscopic Section. The aver- age attendance of the meetings of the general Society has been thirty-four members, and of the Microscopic Section, nine members. At these meetings, thirty-six communications have been presented, as follows: May 17, 1865. CuarLtes A. Wuitr, M. D. Observations on the genus Belemnocrinus. June 21, 1865. Capt. N. E. Arwoop. On the habits of the Halibut. July 5, 1865. A. A. Goutp, M.D. The Nudibranchiate Mollusks of New England. September 20, 1865. Prof. J. Wyman. On the formation of Ripple Marks. S. H. Scupprer. Notes upon some Odonata from the Isle of Pines. October 4,1865. | B. G. Witper, M.D. On the Nephila plumipes Koch ? its habits, and a new method of obtaining its silk. S. H. Scupprr. Notes on some White Mountain Odonata. A. S. Packarp, Jr.,M. D. Observations on the Drift Phe- nomena of Labrador and Maine. October 18, 1865. A. AGAssiz. On the Development of the Porcellanide. B. G. Winper, M. D. On an imperforate ear in a Negro. Prof. H. J. Crarx. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Vorticellidan Parasite (T’richodina pediculus Ehr.) of Hy- dra. November 1, 1865. C. T. Jackson, M. D. Account of a Journey to California and Nevada. H. Mann. On the recent Eruptions of Kilauea and Mauna Loa. November 15, 1865. Prof. H. J. Chargk. On the Vestibular Lash of one of the Vorticellide. a H. Mann. On the Denudation observed in the Hawaiian Islands. Prof. J. Wyman. Accounts of some irregularities noticeable in the cells of the Hive Bee. December 6, 1865. Prof. W. P. Brake. Notice of an earthquake occurring at San Francisco, Cal., and vicinity, Oct. 8th, 1865. A. AGAssiz. On the Development of Limulus. N.S. Smarter. Preliminary Notice of some opinions concern- ing the mode of Elevation of Continental Masses. F. W. Putnam. On the Ichthyological Fauna of the Great Lakes of America. December 20, 1865. Prof. H. D. Rogers. On the Pleistocene Climate of Europe. January 3, 1866. H. Bryant, M.D. A List of Birds from Porto Rico pre- sented to the Smithsonian Institution by Messrs. Robert Swift and George Latimer, with descriptions of new species or varieties. Prof. A. E. Verrizt. On the distribution of Birds in the United States, with reference to the physical causes that deter- mine their limits in latitude. On a new preservative fluid, and on the morphology of the eye of insects. J. C. Wuire, M.D. Description of two Crania from Cali- fornia. Rev. S. Werz. A lst of the Vertebrates of Labrador; with annotations by A. S. Packard, Jr., M. D. February 7,1866. A. S. Packarp, Jr., M. D. Observations on the develop- ment and position of the Hymenoptera, with notes on the Morphology of Insects. February 21, 1866. N.S. SHater. On the modification of Ocean Currents in suc- cessive geological periods. Part First. A. Hyarr. On the Morphology of the Shell of Mollusca. March 7, 1866. Prof. W. Denton. On a new Bitumen from rocks of probable miocene age in Utah. 6 A. A. Hayes, M. D. Description and Analysis of a new kind of Bitumen. April 4, 1866. H. Many. Description of some new species of the genus Schiedea, and of a new allied genus. Revision of the Rutaceex of the Hawaiian Islands. C. T. Jackson, M. D. Chemical analyses of minerals asso- ciated with the Emery of Chester, Mass. Capt. N. E. Arwoop. On the habits of the Haddock. April 18, 1866. Prof. A. E. Verriti. A Review of the Polyps and Corals of Panama and vicinity, with descriptions of eleven new species of Corals. On the Polyps and Echinoderms of Long Island Sound, with descriptions of two new species of a new genus. During the year the Society has elected eleven Corres- ponding Members and forty-four Resident Members. The Society having again resumed publication, the first Part of Volume I. of the Memoirs, is now ready for distribution, and nearly one half of Volume X. of the Proceedings, in- cluding the records of the meetings held during 1864 and 1865, have been printed, and issued. There are now two hundred subscribers to the Proceedings, and one hundred and seventy-four to the Memoirs. Still more, at least one hundred, are needed to make these journals self-sustaining. It will be seen by the reports of the Librarian and several Curators, that the additions this year have, in certain depart- ments, been of much importance, while the total number of specimens presented, amounts to 14,000. The collection of birds, especially, has been increased to three times its former size, while its real value has been enhanced ina much greater proportion, by the liberality of the Curator of Ornithology in presenting to the Society a series of birds which formed the largest private collection in Europe. By the addition of this most extensive collection, which was made by Count Lafres- naye, an accomplished ornithologist, and which comprises nearly nine thousand specimens of mounted birds, the Soci- ety’s Collection has now become one of national importanee, and invaluable for reference to our working ornithologists. 7 In order to suitably arrange this immense collection, the two west rooms on the third story have been fitted up for their reception under the superintendence of a committee, consisting of Drs. J. C. White and H. Bryant. An entirely new arrangement of this department is to be made, as the previous collection is to be merged with that of Lafresnaye. Allthe birds are to be removed from the eastern end of the gallery, where they are at present, and the space thus made vacant by opening the new rooms, will be taken up by the collection of fishes to be removed from the gallery above. This arrangement will be soon completed, when the galleries, now temporarily closed to the public, will be reépened. For several months past, two taxidermists have been employed upon the collection. The Acting Librarian presents the following summary of additions by volume, parts of volumes and pamphlets, stat- ing that of the number of books now in the library—there are 7,622 volumes, 2,097 parts of volumes, and 2,462 pam- phlets: 8vo. 4to. || folio. peat } vls/pts/ph vis pts ph vis |ptsph /To’l Books presented by individuals. . ... | 36]. &| 75 Pes Ry 5 ee “2 "136 SeRIDULCHASCUG\em)c; «leis @ c= “© 4% .0 13) 26 | 7 46 «« deposited by the Republican Institu- ROTH Sst Megrad oi /vea, toh volt st ‘ois 82 32 «received in exchange for our publica- HONS AM Mabie a aisite tis (ol, (oie 141291) 45)/121) 52) 4) 1112 767 Total | 981 In answer to the special requests sent out a year ago to the Societies in Europe with whom we are in exchange, for the back volumes of their publications wanting in our series, and also by the renewed application, both in person and by letter, of the Librarian, a most valuable series has already been received. Other important Societies promise to transmit additional series of desiderata. All these parcels have been transmitted through the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, to which the Society is specially indebted for this unusual tax nn its resources. 8 In response to a circular letter sent out through the medium of the Smithsonian Institution early in the year, and also to letters recently written, both in French and German, and sent out from Paris and Berlin through the agents of the Smithsonian Institution in those cities, by the Secretary while abroad, the following Societies, being twenty-nine in addition to those in the previous annual list, have entered into a permanent exchange of publications, some of which have already been received and placed on the shelves. Geological Magazine . - 3 : r - London. Entomological | Society of New South Wales . - - Melbourne. Reale Istituto Tecnico di Palermo . s Z 3 . Palermo. Société de Biologie . 3 : = Pars: Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles du Départe- ment d’Ile et-Vilaine ‘ ~ - Rennes. Civico Museo Ferdinando Whsarhilinno in 1 Trieste : - Trieste. Historischer Verein in Mittelfranken - - Anspach. Cercle Artistique, Littéraire et Scientifique d’Anvers . Anvers. Société Académique d’ Archéologie, Sciences et Arts du Département del’Oise_. ‘ : - + Beanvais. Massachusetts Agricultural Department - ; - - Boston. Museo Pub!ico de Buenos Aires : : - : - Buenos Aires. Buffalo Society of Natural Science . : : : - Buffalo. Chicago Academy of Sciences . . . . ° - Chicago. Videnskabs Selskab i Christiania . . 3 - - Christiania. Société d’Histoire Naturellede Colmar . .. . =. Colmar. Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde open sie ol. xo pL esoere Botanical Society . . . «. « + «. « Edinburgh “ Royal Physical Society . : ‘ ‘ : ‘ 3 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . ; To - “ Institut National Genevois ; : - : - Genéve. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Arazte . - Germany. Glasgow Philosophical Society . : : - - Glasgow. Repertorio Fisico-Natural de la Isla de Cuba : . - Habana. Botanical Society of Canada. =. Sw Sw SCtiSst«s~SCéCXKinggsttionn, CC. W.. Derby Museum. . . 3 - « pe «© ‘s. Jiverual Geological Society . ° - . : Historic Society of Lavidashire and Cheshire . . . Ar nthropological Society . 2 : . ae =e 12.480.00 12 ‘* Cocheco M. Co. : 2 ° . ° ° 8,400.00 2 * Lowell M. Co. . - 4 3 - - e 1,710.00 4 “ Laconia M. Co. - : . . ° 4,800.00 3 “ Pepperell M. Co. oe Ah ht 3,225.00 25. * Essex Co. . e e ° 2,325.00 300 “ Old Colony and Newport R.Co. : . . 31,500.00 110 “ Vermont and Canada R. Co. é ° . 10,560.00 8 “ CapeCodR.Co. . . ° ° . ° 195.00 11 “ Neptunelns. Co. . : ° ° . ° 2,200.00 18 “ Boston Ins. Co. a) As . 2 : J * , : - ' x ‘ , * cS * a ii - * ‘ = ~wrdady) a 1 ¥ ~~ a 4 ‘ . a ge ‘ a = Fs t Pees td ‘ - a t- i P - - “er "7 . > > “. + - ve > — < + a > I “a = a CONDITION AND DOINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY AS EXHIBITED BY THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE CUSTODIAN, TREASURER, LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS. MAY, 1867. BOSTON : PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. 1867. LIST OF OFFICERS IN APRIL, 1867. PRESIDENT, JEFFRIES WYMAN, M.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS, CHARLES T. JACKSON, M.D., THOMAS T. BOUVE. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, SAMUEL L. ABBOT, M.D. RECORDING SECRETARY, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. TREASURER, EDWARD PICKERING. LIBRARIAN, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. CUSTODIAN, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. CURATORS, THOMAS T. BOUVE, THOMAS T. BOUVE, THOMAS M. BREWER, M.D., HENRY BRYANT, M.D.,* JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, FRED. W. PUTNAM, B. JOY JEFFRIES, M.D., CHARLES PICKERING, M.D., ALPHEUS HYATT, A. S. PACKARD, JR., M.D., ADDISON E. VERRILL, HORACE MANN, BURT G. WILDER, M. D., WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM, PALZONTOLOGY. MINERALOGY. ORNITHOLOGY; (NESTS AND Eq@@s). ORNITHOLOGY. MAMMALOGY AND Comp. ANATOMY, ENTOMOLOGY. IcHTHYOLOGY Mickoscopy. ETHNOLOGY. CoNnCHOLOGY. CRUSTACEA, RADIATA. Borany. HERPETOLOGY GEOLOGY. * Deceased. REPORT OF THE CUSTODIAN BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, EMBODYING THE REPORTS OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS FOR 1866-7. The most important events in the history of the past year have been the death of two of the officers of the Society; the bequests of Miss Pratt and Mr. Pope; the opening of the Lafresnaye collection to the public; the formation of a new Section holding special meetings; the division of one of the departments into two; the measures taken by the Council to furnish all the unfinished rooms in the building; and the establishment of a sinking fund to provide for pro- spective enlargements of our boundaries. In the decease of Drs. A. A. Gould and Henry Bryant — so long officially connected with the Society, so prominent in wise counsel, so munificent in gifts—we have met with an irreparable loss. As notices of their lives and services have been prepared by Committees appointed for that purpose, I need only add that, both before and after the death of Dr. Gould, every reasonable measure was taken to secure his Mollusean collection for our Museum, and that had he lived a few months longer, it would doubtless have come into our possession ; but the funds of a private Institution could not compete with the treasury of a State-Museum, even had it been desirable to expend so great an amount upon a collec- tion which would largely duplicate our own. t The bequest of Miss Pratt, which included a rare collec- tion of shells, some choice conchological works, and a fund to provide for their care and increase, will be noticed at length in this report. Nothing could have been more timely than the bequest of Mr. Pope. The necessity of fitttmg up the lecture room, new exhibition rooms, and another apartment for books, had be- come so apparent, that we feared our means of usefulness would be crippled, as in former years, by the almost total ab- sorption of our annual income for purposes of construction. The Council have now less hesitation in expending a portion of the principal of the Walker bequest, given, among other purposes, for building, since the donation of Mr. Pope will enable them to supply the lack of annual income. The do- nation amounted to $20,000. The lower half of the geological room has been fitted up, workmen are employed on the conchological room, and con- tracts are either made, or under consideration, for furnishing the lecture room, the lower half of the rear library, and a room to be devoted to Ichthyology and Herpetology. A plan for courses of lectures is before a special Committee, and as our building will probably require additions in ten years, a sinking fund has been established for that purpose, with the money received from the Bulfinch Street Estate. Twenty general meetings of the Society, one special -meet- ing, and eight meetings of the Section of Microscopy, have been held during the year. A new section for the encour- agement of the study of Insects was formed last November through the agency of the Harris Entomological Club; this Club had already been in existence for two years, and was composed exclusively of members of the Society; six monthly meetings of the new Section have been held, and the results have more than met the anticipations of those specially interested in its establishment. There has been an average attendance of thirty-seven members at the general meetings of the Society; of twelve at the meetings of the Section of Microscopy, and of four- i) teen at those of the Section of Entomology—a slight ad- vance on the attendance of previous years. At these meetings, forty-four communications have been presented by thirty-one individuals, viz., thirty-two commu- nications by twenty-six individuals at the general meetings; three communications by two individuals at the meetings of the Section of Microscopy; and eight communications by five individuals at those of the Section of Entomology. Their titles are as follows : — Dr. 8. L. Assor. Translation of an account of the chase and cap- ture of a male Gorilla, by M. Henri de Parville. March 6, 1867. A. Agassiz. Description of Salpa Cabotti Desor. June 20, 1866. Cart. N. E. Arwoop. On the habits of our native Gadide. De- cember 5, 1866. Pror. L. W. Bartey. Note on some peculiar modifications in form of the flowers of Epigaa repens. January 16, 1867. Epwin Bicknett. On a sculptured stone from Lake Utopia, New Brunswick. November 21, 1866. W. P. Buaxe. Note on the occurrence of Gold with Cinnabar in the Secondary or Tertiary Rocks. October 3, 1866. Dr. T. M. Brewer. On the habits of the Yellow Red-poll War- bler. March 6, 1867. W. T. Bricguam. The Volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands. June 20, 1866. Table of Measurements of three hundred Chinese. December 5, 1866. ; Note on the Pinjrapol or Animal Hospital at Bombay. April 4, 1867. Dr. Henry Bryant. Additions to a List of Birds seen at the Ba- hamas. October 17, 1866. A List of the Birds of St. Domingo, with descriptions of some new species or varieties. December 5, 1866. Pror. H. J. Crarx. On the Spongie Ciliate as Infusoria Flagel- lata, or the structure, animality and classificatory relationship of Leucosolenia. June 20, 1866. 6 Pror. A. L. Freury. Rocks in Nature and in the Arts. March 20, 1867. R. C. GreEntear. On the Diatoms and other microscopic objects found in Soundings from the Gulf of Mexico, between Sand Key and El] Moro. November 14, 1866. Pror. N. M. Hentz. Supplement to the Descriptions and Figures of the Araneides of the United States (posthumous paper). De- cember 23, 1866. Dr. C. T. Jackson. On Meteoric Iron from Colorado. November 7, 1866. Dr. B. Joy Jerrrres. On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Ciliary Muscle in Man. May 16, 1866. Table of measurements of forty members of the Independent Corps of Cadets. November 7, 1866. Dr. SAmuEL KyEELAND. On a fungoid Parasite or Caterpillar fun- gus from the Philippine Islands; with remarks by C. J. Sprague on the probable botanical relations of the fungus, and by C. Stodder on a Microscopical Examination of the same. February 6, 1867. Tueopore Lyman. On the habits of our river fish and the con- struction of Fish-ways. February 6, 1867. Horace Mann. Description of the Crater of Haleakala in the Hawaiian Islands. January 2, 1867. W. H. Nizes. On the Echinoderm Fauna of the Burlington Lime- stone of Iowa. May 16, 1866. Dr. A. S. Packarp, Jr. View of the Lepidopterous Fauna of Lab- rador. October 17, 1866. Materials for a Monograph of the Phalenide of North America. December 26, 1866. Dr. C. Pickerinc. On the evils threatened by the recent introduc- tion of the House-Sparrow of Europe into this country. April 18, 1867. Tryon ReEAkrirT. On a variation of Argynnis Idalia. March 27, 1867. GeroRGE Sceva. On the cramped feet of Chinese Women. Decem- ber 5, 1866. 7 S. H. Scupper. Results of an Examination of asmall collection of fossil Insects obtained by Prof. Wm. Denton, in the Tertiary Beds of Green River, Colorado. January 23, 1867. On the localities of fossil Insects in America and Europe, with re- marks on the fossil larva from the Connecticut River Sandstone. March 6, 1867. On the Devonian Insects of New Brunswick, and on a neurop- terous wing from the Carboniferous Strata of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. March 27, 1867. N. S. Sarer. On the formation of mountain chains. May 2, and June 6, 1866. Notes on the position and character of some glacial beds containing fossils, at Gloucester, Mass. October 3, 1866. CHARLES StoppER. On Infusorial Earth from Peru. October 10, 1866. On a recent gathering of Diatomaceous Mud at Pleasant Beach, Cohasset. February 13, 1867. James G. Swan. On the Meteorology of Cape Flattery, Washing- ton Territory. April 4, 1867. L. Trovvetor. On the reproduction of lost parts in Phasmide. November 28, 1866. On Monstrosities observed in the wings of Lepidopterous Insects, and how to produce the same artificially. Janwary 23, 1867. On a method of stimulating union between Insects of different spe- cies. February 27, 1867. Cot. CHarLes WHITTLESEY. On the Weapons and Military Char- acter of the Race of the Mounds. March 20, 1867. Dr. Burr G. Witper. On a cat with supernumerary digits. May 16, 1866. Dr. J. Wyman. Dissection of a young domestic pigeon. June 20, 1866. On the Morphology of the Leaves of Sarracenia. November 21, 1866. Notes on the fresh-water shell-mounds of the Aborigines of Florida. April 18, 1867. We have elected during the past year four Honorary Members, seven Corresponding Members, and forty-one Res- ident Members. Of the latter ten have not yet ratified their 8 election by complying with the regulations of the Society; seven have neither paid the entrance fee nor signed the Con- stitution; two have signed the Constitution, but have not paid the fee, and one has paid the fee although he has neg- lected to sign the Constitution. We have received eleven new subscribers to our Memoirs and nineteen to our Proceedings; others, however, have with- drawn their names, leaving one hundred and seventy-four subscribers to our Memoirs, and two hundred and thirteen to our Proceedings, a number not yet sufficient to cover three-fourths of the cost of printing. We have issued during the year the first number of our Memoirs in quarto; and the second number is nearly through the press; this is a continuation of the Journal, formerly printed in octavo. We have completed the tenth volume of _ the Proceedings, and printed the first quarter of the eleventh volume, and the Annual Report for 1866. The Publishing Committee have been authorized to print an octavo volume of extracts from the Entomological Correspondence of the late Dr. T. W. Harris, together with any memoranda left by him, which may be of value to the student or agriculturist. The volume will be illustrated and published independently, possibly as the commencement of a series of similar works. An Annual of the Society, and a Guide Book to the Mu- seum, will probably be undertaken during the present year. As the edition of several signatures of the eighth volume of our Proceedings was almost exhausted, the Council re- cently authorized the reprinting of a small edition of the missing parts. In a few weeks the whole volume can be ob- tained; the first volume will then be the only one out of print. Our exchanges with other scientific institutions have been more extensive, both in receipts and in transmissions, than ever before. We have sent away 243 copies of Part IL, of our Memoirs, 901 copies of various numbers of our Journal, — 123 of which were imperfect in plates— 539 volumes of our Proceedings, 268 Annual Reports for 1865, and 245 for 9 1866, an amount equivalent to over 400,000 octavo pages. We are deeply indebted to the Smithsonian Institution for their liberality in transmitting, free of charge, all shipments to and from Europe; by the last Annual Report of the In- stitution, it appears that the transmissions to and by our Society exceed those of any similiar organization in the country. In this connection I may refer to my year’s absence in Europe, where I sought by every opportunity to advance the interests of the Society. I took with me a detailed list of our incomplete sets of publications of foreign Societies, and in every city through which I passed, made personal applica- tion to the officers of these Institutions, for what we needed. Several cities were visited almost solely for this purpose. Whenever other Societies were found with which we made no exchanges, and where such relationship seemed desirable, I made overtures on the Society’s behalf, and almost invaria- bly with success. As this method could but partially effect what I desired, I prepared circular letters, setting forth the character of the Society, and its desire to extend its list of exchanges with similar organizations, and sent them to one hundred and eighty institutions in Continental Europe. And here our thanks are specially due to Dr. Felix Fliigel of Leipzig, and M. Hector Bossange of Paris; they translated these letters into German and French, aided me in procuring the needed addresses, forwarded them to the quarters desig- nated, and permitted the use of their names as agents of the Smithsonian Institution, through whom replies might be for- warded. Their uniform courtesy in assisting me in every way during my stay in Dresden and Paris, deserves my warmest acknowledgments. In reply to these applications forty-three responses have already been received. Three of the Societies declined the offer simply because they made no exchanges. As the letter requested the exchange of back issues of our respective transactions as well as of future publi- cations, we have been favored with many complete series: this explains the large accession to our Library, and the un- usual distribution of our own publications. At the same time, so many promises of extensive series, made to me 10 either in person or by letter, still remain unfulfilled, we may confidently anticipate an equal accession for the coming year. Our publications are now sent to two hundred and fifty- three different Institutions. The following is a List of forty Institutions with which permanent relations of exchange have been recently effected. Akklimatisations—Verein Berlin. Gesellschaft Naturforschender Bieande & Verein von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande Bonn. Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Boston. Vorarlberger Museums-Verein . Bregenz. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein . A Bremen. Schlesische Gesellschaft fiir v jercg Cultur - Breslau. Société Botanique de Belgique . Bruxelles. Société Royale Linnéenne . “ Naturhistorischer Verein . . Dessau. Gelebrte Estnische Gesellschaft . Dorpat. Gesellschaft fur Natur- und Heilkunde F Dresden. Kon. Akademie gemeinniitziger Wissenschaften Erfurt. Societa Ligure di Storia Patria . é 3 Genova. Geological | Society . - Glasgow. Ohadansitzische Gesellschaft age Wissauachaiten : - Gorlitz. Kongliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhalle . - Gotheborg. Verein der Aerzte in Steiermark Graz. Société des Sciences Naturelles . Groningue. Institution Teylérienne Haarlem. Naturforschende Gesellschaft A Halle. Wetterauer Gesellschaft fir die gesammte abana Hanau. Finska Likare-Sallskapet Helsingfors Medicinisch—-naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Jena. Naturhistoriske Forening Fe oe ti UAL Kjébenhayn. +: Tidsskrift . Z ~ 3 - 4 os Obshtshestvo Morskaia Wratchei Kronstadt. Universitas Carolina Lundensis f Lund. Société d’ Agriculture, Industrie, Screngen et nee ae Dé- partement de la Lozére Mende. Société Impériale d’ Agriculture Moscon. Connecticut Academy of Arts and Soiengen New Haven. Odesskoe Obshtshestvo Istorii i Dreynostei Odessa. Société d’ Anthropologie Paris. Société Impériale et Centrale d’Horticulture - Conchological Section of the Academy of Natural Sei- ences : sa lighe awe < Philadelphia. Entomological Suatety “ Meklenburgischer patriotischer Wavein Rostock. Allgemeine Schweizerische Gesellschaft fir die gesamm- ten Naturwissenschaften Switzerland. ll Société Academique du Département de l’Aube ° . Troyes. Kon. Kais. geographische Gesellschaft. eel ee . Wien. The following table gives a summary of the additions to the Library by volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets, maps, or charts: _Bv0. || 4to. || folio. | Maps fee ae vis pts/ph vls pts ph) vls pts ph|Ch’ts To’] Books presented by individuals. . ja) @a34] 8) | a7] 2| 4 32) 219 “received by the Pratt Bequest || = 2) H 4 lI. } 27 SSR ROH ASG) owes. ok oe 92, 11; 7|| 36] 8| 5) 5) || 164 “« deposited by the Republican || | | | | | } | Institution. . . . . . || = | | ! 23 “received in exchange. . . | 895 410 92 ‘108197 27) 109) |'1298 Total . |'528.429 213 155197 52) 5116] 4| 82/1731 The accessions to the Library have never been so large, excepting in 1864. We then received the bequest of the extensive botanical library of Dr. Greene, and the number reached 1748. The greater part of the purchased books I obtained myself in Europe, the Council having appropriated several hundred dollars to that purpose. The most important private gift to the Library was the bequest of Miss Pratt;—by it we received a complete set of Kiener’s Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vi- vantes, and a few other conchological works. Some progress has been made in the perfection of the internal arrangements of the Library. The preparation of an alcove catalogue has been commenced, and the ecard cata- logue has been arranged in trays, after the plan recom- mended by the Librarian in a previous report. The Transactions of Societies have increased so rapidly that they require much more space than formerly; for this reason, the Periodicals and all works on Articulates, Mol- lusks and Radiates, have been removed to temporary cases in the back library. That room is now fitting up with new cases, which will provide ample space for the books in our possession, and for the natural expansion of the Library for 12 several years to come. For the last two years the pamphlets have remained in the condition previously reported ; much work must be accomplished before they can be made readily accessible. As the Council have recently increased the assist- ance in the Library one-half, a portion of the unfinished work may be completed during the coming year; an unusual amount of labor will, however, be entailed by the changes incurred in fitting up the rear Library. The number of books which require binding is exceedingly great. Five hundred and sixty-one books have been borrowed from the Library by seventy-three persons. The number of visitors to the Museum has increased in the past year, but the enumeration must necessarily fall short of the actual number who come. The building has been open to the public one hundred and one days; previous to the exhibition of the Lafresnaye collection of birds, in Sep- tember last, the average attendance was two hundred and fifty-seven ; subsequent to that, three hundred and fifty-two, an increase of one-third. The average of the whole year was three hundred and thirteen. The greatest number of visitors during any one day, eight hundred and forty-six. The Conchological cabinets bequeathed by Miss Pratt formed by far the most valuable accession to the Museum during the year. In the other departments the donations were less numerous than usual. Special mention should be made. of the volcanic minerals given by Mr. Brigham, the donation to the Anatomical Department by Mr. Brooks, and the suite of fossils purchased of Dr. Hayden. The additions to the Museum amount to 20,148 specimens received in 189 lots from 82 different sources. Owing to the establishment of an Ethnological Museum in our vicinity, on an independent basis, with a large endow- ment, it has been thought best to give up the department of Ethnology, and to store our collections until they could be satisfactorily exchanged. The additions to that department have been very slight, 13 consisting chiefly of various implements belonging to differ- erent nations. The donors were the Rev. Edw. Johnson, Dr. G. H. Brown, and Messrs. W. T. Brigham, J. C. Brown, Jr., Wm. Munroe and F. G. Sanborn. The accessions to the department of Comparative Anat- omy and Mammalogy have been as follows: skeletons, 3; parts of skeletons, 19; skulls, 12 ; skins of mammals, 2; mam- mals in spirits, 1; total 47. The articulated skeleton of a pony, and a very valuable model in papier maché, illustrating the complete anatomy of the horse, were presented to the Society by Mr. Francis Brooks. The skeleton of an Asiatic elephant was also pur- chased. During the past two months, this collection has been removed from the cases, cleaned, and to some extent re- arranged. It is now in excellent condition, and contains about twelve hundred specimens on exhibition. The Council have recently made an appropriation to cover the expense of preparing and mounting the mammal skins which have never been exhibited in our present Museum; when ready for exhibition, the ethnological collections will be removed to make place for them. The donors to this department were Drs. J. N. Borland, F. H. Brown, H. Bryant, J. W. Merriam, W. M. Ogden and H. C. Perkins, Miss Carrie Porée, Messrs. F. W. Andrews, Joseph Ballard, W. T. Brigham, Francis Brooks, G. R. Hem- ming, H. Mann, 8. Mixter, F. G. Sanborn, 8. H. Scudder, J. G. Swan and J. F. Wallboum. We are also indebted to the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Since the last annual meeting the invaluable Lafresnaye Collection of Birds has been opened to the public. The Society is under great obligations to Dr. J. C. White for his voluntary labor in the arrangement of the collection, during the absence of the late Curator. The space conceded to the department was all that could then be spared in justice to the other collections; now that new rooms are to be opened, 14 a considerable expansion is highly desirable. During the few weeks that Dr. Bryant spent here, just before his death, he transferred some of the families to cases in the main hall emptied for their reception; this somewhat impaired the unity of arrangement, but the birds presented a more at- tractive aspect, they could be more readily examined and were rendered safer from the depredations of insects. Every reasonable precaution has now been taken to protect them from the exposure to light complained of in the Curator’s former reports. The donations to the collection ee not been very impor- tant; eighty-three specimens have been presented, one spec- imen has been purchased. Our thanks are due to Drs. S. A. Bemis, H. Bryant and 8. Cabot, Maj. Lewis Cabot, Capt. Taylor and Messrs. W. T. Brigham, N. P. Hamlen, H. L. Lawrence, H. Mann and F. G. Sanborn. Messrs. Luther Hills, Thomas J. Lee and E. L. Sturtevant have made small donations to the department of Odlogy, and Mr. B. P. Mann has presented his whole collection of birds’ nests and eggs. The Curator has taken measures to secure large additions during the coming year. The excessive price of alcohol has prevented the Curator of Herpetology from doing much beyond actually preserving the collection under his care. A short time ago, all the spec- imens on exhibition were removed to one of the unfinished apartments, to make room for the expansion of the collection of birds; the Committee of Construction are now making contracts for furnishing a new room; the gallery will be de- voted to this department, and the specimens placed on ex- hibition as soon as the cases are completed. Dr. A. C. Garratt, and Messrs. F. W. Andrews, R. C. Greenleaf, F. G. Sanborn and C. A. Stearns, have made slight additions to the collection. The cost of alcohol has also prevented the Curator of Ich- thyology from paying such attention to his department as would have been desirable. He has endeavored to preserve lo the specimens from destruction, but they are suffering for want of an arrangement which can not be effected until an appropriation is made for bottles, alcohol and other necessary expenditures. The removal of the tax on alcohol used in scientific museums, has greatly reduced this most expensive item, yet the Curator estimates his present needs at from ten to fifteen hundred dollars. He is especially desirous of ex- hibiting a perfect collection of the fishes of this State; this would involve a further expenditure of one thousand dollars. Owing to alterations in the Museum, much time has been spent in changing the specimens from place to place; they are now finally stored, awaiting the completion of the room destined for their reception. On account of our inability to take care of specimens pre- served in alcohol, no effort has been made to increase the col- lection, and but few donations have been made; for these we are indebted to Dr. A. C. Garratt, Capt. N. E. Atwood, and Messrs. F. W. Andrews, W. T. Brigham, C. G. Bush, H. D, Child, W. B. Fletcher, G. D. Oxnard and James G. Swan. In the department of Entomology, Messrs. F. G. Sanborn and G. D. Smith have continued their work of preparing the Coleoptera for exhibition, and Mr. Sanborn has spent much time upon the arrangement of some of the nocturnal Lepi- doptera. Mr. P. R. Uhler has returned most of the Hemip- tera upon which he has been working for some years past. The Curator himself has been unable to pay any special at- tention to the arrangement of the specimens, and but little to their preservation. By the application of rubber tubing and forcing screws, the cases in which the insects are displayed have been made nearly air-tight; the glass in the sashes has been protected by a railing, and green shades will soon be placed over the cases to shield the specimens from the light. At the request of the Curator, the temporary services of a competent person have been secured, and the collection will soon be placed in a condition of greater safety; there will be a preliminary arrangement of the insects in cases where they can be examined to much better purpose than is possible in their present condition. 16 As this section has a greater number of working members than any other, it has recently petitioned for a separate apart- ment; the labor is now carried on, at much inconvenience, in the office-room of the Custodian. The insect-cabinets are also scattered through various unfinished rooms in different parts of the building: as all of these rooms are to be fitted up at once, no place will remain in which the cabinets can be deposited. It has been suggested that one of the high- studded working rooms might be divided into two; this would secure the collection from the danger of further re- moval, and provide all necessary light and room. During the year, Messrs. Sanborn and Smith have pre- sented us with forty-five Coleoptera, of thirty different spe- cies, especially selected to fill breaks in our series. The Society is much indebted to these gentlemen for their con- tinued labors in this department, and for the neatness and satisfactory character of their work. We are also indebted to Mr. Samuel Hubbard of San Francisco, for a collection of nearly two hundred Coleoptera from Lower California, and to the following persons for miscellaneous donations: Drs. S. A. Bemis, H. Bryant, A. C. Garratt, S. Kneeland, A. 8. Packard, Jr., Capt. W. T. M. Ball, and Messrs. F. W. An- drews, T. T. Bouvé, W. T. Brigham, Edw. Burgess, A. Chap- man, H. Davis, R. C. Greenleaf, Benj. D. Hill, Jr., Luther Hills, John Maury, H. H. Rénne, F. G. Sanborn, 8. H. Seud- der, C. A. Stearns, C. K. Stevens and C. Stodder. Our small collection of Crustacea and Annelids has not materially increased. A number of specimens from Maine and Labrador have been labelled and placed on exhibition, and the collection is in good order. The only additions are due to the kindness of Rey. Edw. Johnson and Messrs. F. W. Andrews, R. C. Greenleaf, F..G. Sanborn and C. A. Stearns. The Conchological department, which the active interest of Gould, Binney and Couthouy had formerly placed in ad- vance of all our other collections, has been once more en- riched by the bequest of Miss Pratt. Her collection was one of the finest private general collections in the country, 17 and by far the largest ever given to the Society ; it contains 14,284 choice specimens in the very best condition. The gen- era Marginella, Pyramidella, Murex, Haliotis, Conus, Oliy a, Cyprvea, Rostellaria, Ancillaria, Bulla and Argonauta are re- markable for the beauty and variety of the specimens; the Pulmonifera, particularly the exotic forms of Bulimus and Achatina, form one of the most important parts of the col- lection. As the bequest included a fund of ten thousand doliars to provide for the care and increase of the collection, the services of a conchologist have been secured, and the furnishing of the exhibition room is nearly completed. Apart from Miss Pratt’s collection, 1,484 specimens have been added to this department. The Curator would again call special attention to the necessity of procuring specimens preserved in alcohol for the study of the soft parts,—the only large collection of this kind was presented by Mr. 8. H. Seudder; it contained two hundred and fifty specimens of land and fresh water shells, collected in Texas. Nearly one thousand shells from the Hawaiian and Mar- quesas Islands have been presented by the Rey. Edw. John- son. The other donors to this department are Dr. 8. Knee- land and Messrs. David Baker, W. T. Brigham, H. D. Child, H. Davis, Seth Goldsmith, Luther Hills, W. L. Robinson and R. E. C. Stearns. The labor of identifying, labelling and cataloguing the Radiates has been much advanced during the year. The want of alcohol and bottles prevents the arrangement of the small but valuable alcoholic collection, but it has been ex- amined and most of the species identified; the final labels have been written for a portion of the dried corals and echin- oderms. Eleven donations have been received, containing two hundred and seventy specimens of about seventy-two species. The greater part came from the Hawaiian Islands, and were the gift of Messrs. Brigham and Mann. Capt. R. C. Adams presented twenty-three specimens of twelve species of cor- als from the East Indies, and Rey. Edw. Johnson eight spec- imens of eight species from Micronesia. All these specimens have been labelled and arranged. 2 18 The Curator has also labelled for the Society a collection of East Indian corals, chosen from the duplicates of the Es- sex Institute, and another of Echinoderms and corals from the west coast of America, received in exchange from the Museum of Yale College; these collections have not yet been forwarded. Donations have also been presented by Messrs. F. W. Andrews and 8. H. Scudder, and Capts. N. E. Atwood and Edmund Smith. The Microscopical collection is in good condition and has received additions at nearly every meeting of the Section. These meetings have been growing in interest, and the at- tendance has considerably increased. The donations, con- sisting principally of mounted Diatomacez, with some rough material, were presented by Dr. C. F. Crehore and Messrs. C. G. Bush and Wm. Munroe. Another case has been provided to accommodate the ex- tensive herbarium in the Society’s possession. The plants are in good order, and during the early portion of the year, much labor was expended in gluing the specimens upon stiff paper; this was a continuation of the work of the previous year. There have been but few accessions to the collection ; most of the specimens were such that they required to be exhibited on shelves. A small but interesting collection of Gnaphalium leonto- podium from the Tyrol and the Erzgebirge of Saxony, illus- trating the variations caused in the same individual by differ- ences of warmth, exposure and height, was presented by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Some additions have been received by exchange ; for the rest the Society is indebted to Drs. H. Bryant, E. P. Colby, B. E. Cotting, A. A. Gould, S. Kneeland, Ferd. Miller, and C. Pickering, Prof. Gunning, and Messrs. W. T. Brigham, Francis Brooks, C. L. Brown, H. W. Haynes, H. Mann, C. A. Olmsted, H. H. Rénne, and S. H. Seudder. There has been little change in the Paleontological depart- ment; the donations have been very acceptable, but neither numerous nor rare. The Tertiary fossils collected by Dr. 19 Hayden in the “ Mauvaises Terres” of Nebraska, formed the most valuable accession; they consisted principally of re- mains of turtles and skulls of mammals; for the identifica- tion of the species we are indebted to the kindness of Dr. Leidy. The department is under obligations to the Acad- emy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, as well as to the following persons for donations: Drs. C. T. Jackson, F. V. Hay- den, H. C. Perkins, and J. Wyman, and Messrs. C. G. Bush, H. Davis, B. F. Mudge, 8. H. Scudder, James G. Swan and Joseph Wagner. The department of Geology has been recently separated, as in former times, from the department of Paleontology ; aroom has been furnished, and preparations made for ex- hibiting specimens of rocks, building stones, models of sur- face geology, and whatever may tend to illustrate the depart- ment. This room will soon be opened, but series of oxr most common rocks are still much needed. A large geo- logical map of this and the neighboring States, geological sections, models of mines or of strata, views and photographs of scenery exhibiting remarkable geological formations are most desirable. Printed circulars have been sent to all the principal quarries of Vermont, and to the architects and stone dealers in this city, inviting donations of specimens of build- ing stone. A valuable gift has been received from the Cura- tor, in the large collection of volcanic minerals, made by himself, in 1864-5, in the Hawaiian Islands. It comprises many hundred specimens, and forms the most complete collection of the kind ever brought from that locality. It has been recently unpacked and, in great part, labelled and arranged for exhibition. The collection has received dona- tions from Drs. A. C. Garratt and F. V. Hayden, and from Messrs. H. A. Lawrence, I’. G. Sanborn and G. B. Towle. The condition of the Mineralogical cabinet is very good ; the specimens are all labelled and well arranged for exhibi- tion. Considerable work has been expended upon them by the Curator, and small but valuable donations of ores and other minerals have been received from Drs. C. T. Jackson, . 20 A. S. Packard, Jr., and H. W. Williams, Capt. Taylor and Messrs. G. A. Boardman, T. T. Bouvé, W. E. Coffin & Co., C. S. Hollowell, J. M. Horner, William Munroe and ¢: J. Sprague. The necessary expenditures for construction, during the year, have doubtless been injurious to the special interests of the Museum, but as our annual income will no longer be taxed for those purposes, we may hope for larger accessions in the future. We have already taken steps in that direc- tion by codperating with the Smithsonian Institution in their explorations over the unsettled portion of our country. New fields of interest will thus be opened, and we shall secure for ourselves larger and more desirable results than could be gained by independent efforts alone. ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY AND THE MUSEUM. ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE YEAR ENDING MAY 1, 1867. Annotated Catalogue of the principal Mineral Species hitherto recognized in California and the adjoining States and Territories. By William P. Blake. 8vo. Pamph. Sacramento, 1866. From the Author. Ueber die seit 27 Jahren noch wohl erhaltenen Organisations-Priiparate des Mikroskopischen Lebens. Von C. G. Ehrenberg. 4to. Pamph. Berlin, 1862. From the Author. Catalogue of the Genera Helix, Anostoma, Hypselostoma, Streptaxis, Tomi- gerus, Bulimus, Orthalicus, Partula, in the collection of A. D. Brown, Prince- ton, N. J. Svo. Pamph. 1866. From the Author. Lichens of California, Oregon, and the Rocky Mountains, so far as yet known. By Edward Tuckerman, M. A. 8vo. Pamph. Amherst, 1866. From the Author. Prodrome of a Work on the Ornithology of Arizona Territory. By Elliott Coues, M.D. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. From the Author. Orographic Geology. By George L. Vose. 8vo. Boston, 1866. From the Author. Description of an Ancient Sepulchral Mound near Newark, Ohio. By O. C. Marsh. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1866. From the Author. Der Bliithenstand der Juncaceen. Von Dr. Franz Buchenau zu Bremen. 8vo. Pamph. 1865. From the Author. ; De la Constitution du Soleil. Par M. Emile Gautier. 8vo. Pamph. 1866. From the Author. On Fucoides in the Coal Formation. By Leo Lesquereux. 4to. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. From the Author. ; E‘at Actuel de la Sériciculture et Description du Nid d’un Bombyx exotique. Par M. Henri Trimoulet. 8vo. Pamph. Bordeaux, 1865. From the Author. Notes on the Zygeenidz of Cuba. By A. R. Grote. Parts 1-1. 8yvo. Phila- delphia, 1866-7. From the Author. Diptera Americze Septentrionalis indigena. Descripsit H. Loew. 8vo. Ber- olini, 1861. From the Author. Observations on the Origin of some of the Earth’s Features. By James D. Dana. §vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1866. From the Author. On Gay-Lussite from Nevada Territory. By B. Silliman. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1866. From the Author. Revision of the Genus Schiedea and of the Hawaiian Rutaceze. By Horace Mann. 8vo. Pamph. Boston, 1866. From the Author. On the Young Stages of a few Annelids. By A. Agassiz. 8vo. Pamph, New York, 1866. From the Author. On the Rocks and Cupriferous Beds of Lake Portage, Michigan. By Thomas MacFarlane. 8vo. Pamph. Acton Vale, 1866. From the Author. Catalogue of Casts of Fossils from the principal Museums of Europe and 22 America, with short Descriptions and Illustrations. By Henry A. Ward. 8vo. Rochester, 1866. From the Author. On the Conditions of the Deposition of Coal, more especially as illustrated by the Coal Formation of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. By J. W. Daw- son. 8yvo. Pamph. London, 1866. From the Author. Observations upon the Cranial Forms of the American Aborigines, based upon specimens contained in the Collection of the Academy of Natural Sci- ences of Philadelphia. By J. Aitken Meigs, M.D. 8vo. Pampk. Philadel- phia, 1866. From the Author. Geological Survey of Canada. Catalogue of the Silurian Fossils of the Island of Anticosti. By E. Billings. 8vo. Pamph. Montreal, 1866. From the Author. Conchological Memoranda. List of Shells collected at Bauline’s Bay, Cali- fornia, June, 1866. By R. E. C. Stearns. 8vo. Pamph. From the Author. Observations on the Internal Appendages of the Genus Atrypa; with a No- tice of the Discovery of a Loop connecting the spiral cones. By R. P. Whit- field. S8vo. Pamph. Albany, 1866. From the Author. Results of an Examination under the Microscope of some Japanese Infusorial Earths and other Deposits of China and Mongolia. By A. M. Edwards. 4to. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. #romthe Author. Annual Meteorological Synopsis for the year 1866. Observations taken by J. B. Trembley, M.D. 8vo. Pamph. Toledo, 1866. From the Author. Liquid Stone. Extract from a Paper read before the Boston Society of Nat- ural History. By Prof. A. L. Fleury. 4to. Pamph. 1867. From the Au- thor. ; Conchological Notes. By W. H. Dall. Nos. 1-2. 8vo. San Francisco, 1866. From the Author. Sketch of the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia as illustrated by the Collection of Minerals sent to the Paris Exhibition, 1867. By Prof. How. 8vo. Pamph. Halifax. From the Author. L. W. Schmidt's Scientific Catalogue. 8vo. Pamph. New York, 1867. From the Publisher. Flora Brasiliensis. Edidit C. F. P. de Martius. Fasc. xur. Fol. Lipsie, 1866. From Mrs. B. D. Greene. Map of Public Surveys in the Territory of Washington. To accompany the Report of Surveyor General. 1865. From J. G. Swan. Report of the Postmaster General of Canada, for the year ending 30th June, 1865. S8vo. Ottawa, 1866. From L. A. H. Latour. Proceedings of the Zodlogical Society of London. Parts 1, vi, vm, pp. 1- 81. 8vo. London, 1833-1840. From Dr. Henry Bryant. Photograph of the Sculptured Rock found near Lake Utopia, New Bruns- wick. From £. Bicknell. Prodrome de Paléontologie Stratigraphique Universelle des Animaux Mollus- ques et Rayonnés. Par M. Alcide d’Orbigny. 8 vols. 12mo. Paris, 1850-52. From T. T. Bouve. Report of Commissioners relative to the Restoration of Sea-Fish to the Con- necticut River and its Tributaries. 8vo. Pamph. Montpelier, 1866. From Albert D. Hagar. Advice to Students; an Address delivered at the Opening of the Medical Lectures of Harvard University, Nov. 7, 1866, by Prof. C. E. Brown-Séquard. 8vo. Pamph. Cambridge, 1867. From Dr. H. P. Bowditch. Index to the Catalogue of Books in the Bates Hall of the Public Library of 23 the City of Boston. First Supplement. 8vo. Boston, 1866. From the Trus- tees of the Public Library. Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadel- phia. 8vo. Pamph. 1867. From the Company. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library of the City of New Bedford. 8vo. Pamph. 1867. From the Trustees. Notes on some Members of the Feldspar Family. By Isaac Lea. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. Observations on the Genus Unio. Vol. x1. By the same. 4to. Philadel- phia. From the Author. Geognostiche Wanderungen im Gebiete der nordéstlichen Alpen. Von Carl Ehrlich. 8vo. Linz, 1854. Ueber die nordéstlichen Alpen. By thesame. 8vo. Pamph. Linz, 1850. From the Author. ' Bericht iiber eine Sammelreise durch England, Schottland, Irland und die Schweiz, in 1865. Von Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld. 8vo. Pamph. Wien, 1865. Zoologische Miscellen, rv-v1. By thesame. 8yvo. Wien, 1865. From the Author. Arrangement of Families of Birds. A. American. By Prof. Baird. 8vo. Pamph. Review of American Birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. By the same. pp. 321-450. 8yo. Washington. 1866. From the Author. The Grand Traverse Region, a Report on its Geological and Industrial Re- sources. By Alexander Winchell. S8vo. Pamph. Ann Arbor, 1866. A Plea for Science. An Address delivered in Morrison Chapel, Kentucky University, June 28, 1866. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Cincinnati, 1866. From the Author. A Preliminary Report of the Texas Geological Survey. By S. B. Buckley. 8vo. Pamph. Austin, 1866. Descriptions of New Species of North American Formicide. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. rom the Author. Catalogue of the Species of Corbiculadz, contained in the Collection of Tem- ple Prime. 8vo. Pamph. New York, 1863. Descriptions of two New Species of Mollusca of the Genus Corbicula. By Temple Prime. &yo. Pamph. New York, 1862. From the Author. Lepidopterological Notes and Descriptions, No. 2. By A. R. Grote and C. T. _ Robinson. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1866. Lepidopterological Contributions. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. New York, 1866. From the Authors. Valedictory Address delivered before the graduating class of the Philadelphia Dental College, Session 1864-5. By J. H. McQuillen. 8vo. Pamph. 1865. The Anatomy and Physiology of Expression, and the Human Teeth in their Relation to Mastication, Speech and Appearance. By the same. 8vo. Phila- delphia, 1864. 24 Cuvierian Classification of Animated Nature. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Worcester, 1866. From the Author. Coup d’Cil Général sur la Topographie et la Géologie du Mexique et de ? Amérique Centrale. Par M. Virlet d’Aoust. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1865. Sur les Salures différentes et les différents Degrés de Salure de Certains Lacs du Mexique. By thesame. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1865. Sur une faune pyrenéenne nouvelle des lignites miocénes d’Orignac, ete. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1865. Phénoménes géologiques observés dans la Tranchée de la Rue de Rome. By thesame. 8yvo. Pamph. Paris, 1864. Histoire des Kaiménis. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1866. From the Author. Une Reconnaissance géologique au Nebraska. Par M. Jules Marcou. §8yo. Pamph. Paris, 1864. } Le Niagara quinze ans aprés. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1865. Notice sur les gisements des lentilles trilobitiféres taconiques de la Pointe- Lévis, au Canada. By thesame. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1864. La faune primordiale dans le pays de Galles et la géologie Californienne. By the same. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1866. Surle Dyas. By thesame. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1866. Sur divers armes, outils et traces de homme américain. By the same. 8vo Pamph. Paris, 1866. From the Author. Report on the Headwaters of the River Waitaki. By Julius Haast. Fol. Pamph. . Christchurch, 1865. : , Report on the Geological Explorations of the West Coast (New Zealand). By thesame. Fol. Pamph. Christchurch, 1855. Report on the Geological Formation of the Timaru District, in reference to obtaining a supply of water. By the same. Fol. Pamph. Christchurch, 1865. Lecture on the West Coast of Canterbury. By thesame. Fol. Pamph. Christchurch, 1865. The Canterbury Times. Vol.1. No. 22. Containing a Report on the “West Coast Passes.’? By the same. Fol. Christchurch. 1865. On the Lake-Basius and Glaciers of New Zealand. By the same. §8vo. Pamph. London, 1865. From the Author. First Annual Report of the Visitors of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College to the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1866. Corals and Polyps of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, with Descrip- tions of other Pacific Ocean species. By A.E. Verrill. 8vo. Pamph. Salem, 1865-6. From Prof. A. E. Verrill. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift, udgivet af Henrik Kroyer. Bind. tv. 8vo. Kjoébenhavn. 1837-43. Meddelelse om nogle vigtige Resultater, der menes vundne ved de udgrav- ninger, som i de sidste Aar ere foretagne i de franske Knokkelhuler. Af Prof. J. Steenstrup. Svo. Pamph. Kjobenhaven, 1866. From Prof. Steenstrup. 25 Documents of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. Vols. 1, 1. 8vo. New York, 1866. Bulletin of the U. S. Sanitary Commission. 3 vols. in one. 8yo. New York, 1866. From the U. S. Sanitary Commission. A sketch of the Origin, Object and Character of the Franklin Fund, for the benefit of young married mechanics of Boston. 8vo. Pamph. 1866. The City Hall, Boston. Corner Stone and Dedication Ceremonies. 4to. Boston, 1866. Boston City Documents. Vols. 1, 1m. 1866. 8vo. From the City of Boston. Sur l’Equus Bisculus de Molina. Lettre de M. G. Claraz 4 M. H. de Saus- sure. 8yo. Pamph. Paris, 1864. Blattarum Novarum Species aliquot conscripsit H. de Saussure. 8yo. Pamph. Paris, 1864. ' Notice sur la Vie et les Ecrits de Alexandre Yersin. Par H. de Saussure. 8vo. Pamph. Schaffhouse, 1866. From Dr. Henri de Saussure. Note sur Ja Lettre de M. Alph. de Rocheburne relative aux Plantes importées. Par M. Des Moulins. 8vo. Pamph. Caen, 1865. Etude sur les Cailloux Roulés de la Dordogne. Bythe same. 8vo. Pamph. Bordeaux, 1866. Etymologie du Nom de lAconit. Par M. le Chevalier de Paravey. 8vo. Pamph. Bordeaux, 1865. From M. Ch. Des Moulins. Rarita Zoologica ossia Houbara venute nel Territorio Romano sullo spirare dell’ Anno 1859. 4to. Pamph. Roma, 1860. . Circular from the New England Commissioners of River Fisheries. 4to. ~ Pamph. Boston, 1867. Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina. By Francis S. Holmes. 4to. Charleston, S. C., 1860. From Theodore Lyman. Patent Office Reports, 1863. Vols. 1,m. 8vo. Washington. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Mortality and Miscellaneous Statistics. 4to. Manufactures. 4to. Washington, 1865-6. Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, showing the Progress of the Survey during the year 1863. 4to. Washington. During the year 1864. 4to. Washington. Art in the National Capitol, and The Metric System of Weights and Meas- ures. Speeches of Hon. Charles Sumner, July 17,1866. 8vo. Pamph. Bos- ton. From Hon. Charles Sumner. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances, for the year ending June 30, 1863. 8vo. Washington. Patent Office Reports, 1864. Vols. 1,11. 8vo. Washington. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Mortality and Miscellaneous Statistics. 4to. Washington, 1865-6. Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln. By George Bancroft. 8vo. Washington, 1866. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the 1st Session, 89th Congress. 8vo. Washington, 1866. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the year 1866. 8vo. Washington. From Hon. Henry Wilson. 26 Spécies Général et Iconographie des Coquilles Vivantes. Par L. C. Kiener. 12 vols. and 2 parts. 8vo. Paris. The Terrestrial air-breathing Mollusks of the United States, and the adjacent [Territories of North America; described and illustrated by Amos Binney. Edited by Augustus A. Gould. 3 vols. S8vo. Boston, 1851-57. Exotic Conchology. By William Swainson. Second Edition, edited by Sylvanus Hanley. 4to. London, 1841. “An Illustrated Introduction to Lamarck’s Conchology. By E. A. Crouch. 4to. London, 1827. A Catalogue of Recent Shells with Descriptions of New or Rare Species con- tained in the Collection of John C. Jay, M.D. 8vo. New York, 1°36. A Catalogue of the Shells, arranged according to the Lamarckian System, together with Descriptions of New or Rare Species contained in the Collection of John C. Jay, M.D. 4to. New York, 1839. A Monograph of the Fresh-water Univalve Mollusca of the United States. By S. S. Haldeman. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1842. An Epitome of Lamarck’s Arrangement of Testacea. By Charles Dubois. 8vo. London, 1828. Index Testaceologicus; or a Catalogue of Shells, British and Foreign, ar- ranged according to the Linnean System. By W. Wood. 8vo. London, 1828. Elements of Conchology. By Rev. E.1. Burrow. 8vo. London, 1825. New Fresh-water Shells of the United States. By T. A. Conrad. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1834. A Monograph of the Fluviatile Bivalve Shells of the River Ohio, from the French of C. S. Rafinesque. Svo. Philadelphia, 1832. Bequest of Miss S. P. Pratt. Der Fiihrer im zoologischen Garten zu Berlin. 8vo. Pamph. 1866. Das Zoologische Museum der Kénigl. vereinten Friedrichs—Universitat Halle- Wittenberg, von C. Giebel. 8vo. Pamph. Synopsis of the Fructification of the Compound Spheriz of the Hookerian Herbarium. By Frederick Currey, Esq. 4to. Pamph. Description d’un Nouvel Anémométre, par M. F. 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Hubbard. A Remora and an African Locust from the Nile River; sand from the Desert of Sahara; and a Horned Toad from the interior of Western Australia, by Dr. A. C. Garratt. A specimen of Mesodesma arctatum from Manchester beach, by Mr. S. Goldsmith. A bird from Hart’s Location, N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Three echinoderms, seven fish, twelve birds, one hundred corals (twelve species), seven specimens of seeds and fungi, one skull and skeleton (in part), six Bostrichide, a,quoit-like stone used in a game, a joint of bamboo, ten specimens of native Kapas, one specimen of Argyroxiphum, fruit of Cucurbitacee, forty miscella- neous fruits, one hundred insects, and several hundred specimens of lavas from the Hawaiian Islands; ten galls from Virginia City, Nevada; and twenty-five specimens of shells, by Mr. Wm. T. Brigham. October 3. Two specimens of Pimpla lunator Fabr., and one of Thyreus Abboiti, from Boston, by Mr. T. T. Bouvé. Larva of Deilephila, from Boston, by Capt. W. T. M. Ball. An egg contained within two shells, from Roxbury, by Mr. T. J. Lee. Twenty-five fossil crabs, carboniferous? from Manhattan, Kan- sas, by Mr. B. F. Mudge. Skull of an Esquimaux dog, from Henley Harbor, 42 Labrador; two Fox skulls, skeleton of a Bat, and skeleton of a Rana, from Con- cord, Mass., by Mr. H. Mann. Spirifers from an artesian well in Bothwell, C. W., by Mr. H. A. Lawrence. Massive garnet, from Arrowsic Island, Bath, Me., by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. Larva of Cassida aurichalcea, from South Danvers, by Mr. Ben}. D. Hill, Jr. Ore of Antimony, from New Brunswick, by Mr. G. A. Boardman. One hundred and twenty-five specimens of minerals and ores, from Colorado, by Mr. C. J. Sprague. The skin of a large snake from Cuba, and a Geotrupes, from Bristol, R. I., by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. A lower jaw and tibial bones of an Indian, from a mound in Feruandina, Florida; skull of a pig from Fernandina, Fla.; Coral from Florida Reefs; fossil Fish and Ceph- alopod, from Mt. Lebanon, Syria; Eagle claws and skull of a skunk, from Wil- liamstown, Mass.; clay burrowed by Termes frontalis Hald., from Salem, Mass. ; and two hundred and fifty specimens of Mollusca in alcohol, from New Braun- fels, Texas, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Shell ornament, from the West Indies, by G. H. Brown, M. D. Human fcetus, by Dr. W. J. Merriam. Six wild straw- berries, from West Plymouth, N. H., by Dr. C. Pickering. Two hundred and fifty vegetable substances and fruits, from Bombay, by Mr. H. H. Ronne. Two specimens of Trichostema dichotomum var. rubellum, from Manchester, Conn., by Mr. C. H. Olmstead. Five specimens of Algz, from Martha’s Vineyard, by Prof. Gunning. Thirty specimens of birds, from India, deposited by Mr. Horace Mann. The bones of an elephant, by purchase. October 17. Two bones of ray, a hog-nosed snake, an embryo of a shark, and three young crabs, from Cape Cod, by Mr. F.G. Sanborn. Twenty-three corals, from the East Indies, by Capt. R. C. Adams. Cast of a skull of a small Hippo- potamus, from Liberia, by the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. A fragment of bone, from Oregon, by Dr. H. C. Perkins. A specimen of Blatta americana, from East Indies, by Mr. C. Stodder. Nidus of Ichneumonidans, from Jamaica, by Dr. H. Bryant. Twelve specimens of Gnaphalium leontopo- dium, from the Tyrol and Erzgebirge, Saxony, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Ten specimens of fruit of Sandwich Island Palm, and three fungi, from the Ha- waiian Islands, by Mr. H. Mann. Bark of Australian Cinnamon, and five spec- imens of the fruit of Banksia, from Australia, by Dr. Ferd. Miiller. Four hun- dred and fifteen shells, a barnacle and a stone adze, from the Hawaiian Islands; eight corals and nine shells, from Micronesia; and five hundred and seventy-six Mollusca, from the Marquesas Islands, by Rev. Edward Johnson. November 7. A stone sinker, used by the Indians, from Martha’s Vineyard, by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Two lizards, three spiders and three crabs, from San Francisco, by Mr. C. A. Stearns. A spider, from Bengal, by Mr. H. H. Rénne. Flower-stalk of the date palm, from the Hawaiian Islands, by Mr. W. T. Brig- ham. Thirty-four specimens of birds, mostly from Malacca, by Mr. N. P. Hamlen. November 21. Skull of Felis domesticus, Boston, by Dr. F. H. Brown. Spec- imens of Coscinodiscus robustus, Auliscus celatus, Auliscus Hardmanianus, Gly- phodiscus stellatus, Actinoptychus splendens, Actinoptychus nov. sp., and a Diatom from California, by Mr. C. G. Bush. A Crustacean, by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. -Three skins and two skeletons of mammals, from Belize, Central America, by Dr. Henry Bryant. A mineral, from Colorado, by Dr. H. W. Williams. December 5. A fish, from the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, by Capt. N. E. Atwood. December 19. Touchstones used by the old Italian goldsmiths for testing gold, by Mr. Wm. Munroe. Three specimens of mollusca and eggs and one Ray, from Nantucket, by Mr. H. D. Child. January 2, 1867. Three Unionide and thirteen insects, from North Wren- 45 tham, by Mr. Luther Hills. A hybrid between Black and Mallard Ducks, and a Mallard Duck, from Lake St. Clair, by Major Lewis Cabot. A Hawk, from Canton, Mass., by Dr. S$. Cabot. Wool from the Fleece of a Cotswold Ram, from Santa Barbara, Cal.; a fossil Crab and Drawings of a Trachypterus, from Neeah Bay, Washington Territory, by Mr. James G. Swan. Humerus of In- dian, from the banks of the Merrimac, by Dr. W. M. Ogden. January 16. A Bat, from Boston, by Miss Carrie Porée. Six specimens of fossil Calamites, from Pictou, N. $., by Mr. Joseph Wagner. A specimen of Bazanite, by Mr. Wm. Munroe. February 6. Five specimens of fish from Lake Winnipisiogee, by Mr. G. D. Oxnard. Fungus on a Caterpillar from the Philippine Islands; anda specimen ot Diapheromera yemorata, from Cohasset, by Dr. S. Kneeland. A Collection of fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-four specimens of shells, by be- quest of Miss Sarah Pickering Pratt. A Wasp’s nest and two nests of Birds from North Wrentham, by Mr. Luther Hills. A shell from the Orchilla Islands, by Mr. DavidBaker. Fragment of a grape-vine eaten by Termites, with a sec- tion, from Salem, Mass.; and three specimens of Faiderbia Bauhinia Guérin, from West Africa, by Mr. 8. H. Scudder. A slab and piece of shell marble, from Hudson River Marble Quarries, Greenport, Columbia Co., N. Y., by Mr. George B. Towle. A specimen of Coal worn by attrition to a globular form, by Rev. I. H. Holton. March 6. Six specimens of minerals, from various localities, by Mr. T. T. Bouvé. A Sponge, taken from a depth of thirty fathoms, off Cape Cod, by Capt. N. E. Atwood. Three specimens of Guarana, from Brazil, by Dr. B. E. Cotting. Seven specimens of Lithocolletis rofinicella Clem., from Beverly, by Mr. Edw. Burgess. Radius of an albatross, from Cape Town, Africa, by Mr. G. R. Hemming. Sixteen fossils, from Dacotah; a Pipe Stone, from Pipe Stone Quarry; and a specimen of Kaoline (manufactured) from Chester Co., Penn., by Dr. F. VY. Hayden. Casts of the jaws of Titanothertum Proutit and Mega- lonyx Jeffersonii, by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. bet CO 2 S = $112,441.46 20,668.21 3,000.00 41,106.21 5,000.00 9,400.00 102,985.00 57.92 | $294,658.80 205.39 $294,453.41 279,784.43 $14,668.98 46 Since my last Annual Report we have received the additional sum of $10,000 from the executors of the estate of Dr. W. J. Walker. The distribution of: the residue of his devise awaits the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States upon the questions which have arisen in the settlement of his estate. The bequest by Miss S. P. Pratt of $10,000 in addition to her cabinet of shells, it will be observed, has been paid over to the Society. The bequest of $20,000 by the late Paschal P. Pope has been also announced. I estimate the necessary expenses of the ensuing year at the same amount as those of the past year. By a vote of the Council the income of the Bulfinch Street Estate Fund is to be reserved by the Trustees for accumulation as a Build- ing Fund. All of which is respectfully submitted, E. PrckerRinG, Treasurer. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES ON THE TRUST FUNDS OF THE SOCIETY, FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1867. 48 11688 TL 00°000'8 . ° U ° ° . : a e : : Pcl qootyg Wott M ou} uo esesjzour Aq pornos o10N TL'688'88 ‘ 3 . ° + * gsomopuy FOTIA nsvot oF pouBoT USvO 10g AQor90g att} JO ssoupo}qopu I Jo s}8{8U09 o}BP UO puny siNoD om} JO Ayaadoig OWL “LO8T ‘og judy << ee e MaANVUds ‘Sve ‘SVHO ‘STAESOML ; ‘NTN MOTEL “Cl AO L “SOHL “LOST ‘08 tady ‘10ys0d “po doox GL SLOLIL ———— —_—_— 00'08TS . + + + gopnedxg [810 -10) sp.avaroy ‘4901008 ony jo ton -svoty, ‘TUM pavapol OF pred yse) kq| *p A400 00 08Ts : , G : + poarooot YSBO OL ‘p 4.Q2N 2 __“LO8T RE: * " “1981 SS —___—__—___ — — — — — — — ‘KMOLSIPL TVUALVN 10 ALAINOG NOLGOG AHL WTA rNAOOOY NI GNOT sILunog . wmrarrTansry CON LWHSLC bry “ag bry . re . rt) aut JO SHULSoy ONINAMOTL AUVMAGY any ‘maovudg ‘¢ “SVHD ganog ‘\L son, ad 49 Dr. Tuos. T. Bouvé, Cuas. J. Spracur, anp Epwarp Pickrerinc, TRUSTEES OF THE Cr. WALKER Prize FuND, In AccouNT WitH THE Bosron Society or Natura History. ~~ 1866. ; — : : May. To Cash ree’d from Trustees of “The Walker | May. By Cash paid for $1000 U. S. Bonds $1,002.50 Fund,” one half of the whole am’t | 116 days Int. 23,20 rec’d by them to this date, less | $300 U.S. Bonds 300.75 | some special expenses paid by them 85 days Int. 5.10 on this acct., all in accordance —_— $1,331.55 with the contract between Dr. Sept. 20. «paid for $400 U. S. Bonds and Int. 431.76 Walker and the Society . A $1,280.10 1867.° Sept. 20. « ree’d, Interest on Bonds . é A 47.45]) Feb. 6 ch $300 “ Us 819.11 keZs « —ree’d from Trustees Walker Fund | March. ee 66 $350 fs A 372.00 one half am’t rec’d by them to date 875.00|| April 5. ts Oh $250 os as 266.62 Oct. 6. « ree’d from Trustees of Walker Fund | ——_ —_ one half am’t ree’d by them to date 241.57]| $2,721.04 1867. | April 30. « Balance to ace’t on date . 5 C 1,21 Feb. 7. « ree’d for Interest on Bonds . i 61.55 a March 13. « ree’d from Trustees Walker Fund 875.00 $2.722.25 April 5. “ec “ “ec “ce “cc ce 241.58 $2,722.25 Errors Excepted. Boston, April 30, 1867. = THOS. T. BOUVE, E. PICKERING, TRUSTEES. CHAS. JAS. SPRAGUE, a SSSSSSESEeEee April 30, 1867. The Property of this Fund on date consists of United States Bonds which have cost - 5 e . e . e ° A 5 : : 5 A $2,721.04 Cash balance on date . . . . . . . . . e . . ° . . . . . 1.21 $2,722.25 00°COr'THS —_—— 00'S0T‘9T x * — qoa.4Js Woovog Ur osnoy TO OFvS}10u1 Aq poanoos ‘savok aay ur orquted ‘eggy “IIL Tudy jo n0N 00'000'Ga% : C y 4 X ’ : 10} ‘odBd}1001 Aq poanoos ‘sivodk uoz UL o[quAud ‘GogyT “4YsT Your JO ON JO S}sIsuoo ‘ayvp WO puny siqy Jo AJaodoay On, “LOST ‘08 IMdyw ‘TOOVUdS ‘SVL ‘SVHO “SOLS OUT, “ONTUA MOI “A ‘CANO WL ‘SOUL "LOST ‘Og Tad y “Wwoysog. *poydooxny s101.1GL OF OFS‘Es 89° 19% "5 8 puny ‘xq jeroedg puB OZII AOY[VAA soojsnay, pred (6) cr 19° Lh% * AJoLOOg oy JO aomnsvory, pred "7 *g [dy 00°918 5 ; * pring “xgp [Rroody pus oz Ioy[VA, JO svoysn.ay, pred 7 " 00'SLE * AJOIOOY oy} JO Aoansvoay, pred i ‘eT qoavyy | LOTS : f * pang “xg reroodg “LOST. pus ozitq Ioy[VAA Soojsnay, pied ,, iy 89° 1bZ * AJOLWOY oy} Jo Jotsvorg, pred —,, 9°90 00'°S18 Q : * oyep WO p,oat 4,18 jo Jivey ouo ‘pung “xq jermedg OF OFS ‘8S puB OZ IOx[VAA soojsnig, pred ,, ” —— 00°SL18 ' *oyBp WO pod 4,UB JO J[VY ST §8P . * COL‘OTR O10ON O8vdz10TT jouo AJoIOOg oy} Jo dAoansvory pred —,, "Iz “ydog UO 4sotOJUT ,SYJUOUL XIS pdsAlooor ”» ‘g judy OL 0se'Ts puny sry utoay opqudvd Ay sta 00°082 * Q00'GZ TOF OJON OFvS}A0T_ So[OI4Av AOF posavyo syunowe Aap UO 4solajUr ,SYJUOUL XIS podAtooved ” "ST Worvyy -UNS SSo[—‘oJVp 07 puny AAA "LO8T Oy} JO JUOWIOOUVOUITUOD OYJ WAT GL 8h * GOL‘OTR OF OJON oFvsIQ107T pool wins OfOyM og JO Jey 9UO UO JSotoJUL ,SYJUOUL XIS poaroood a *9 390 sured sry) ‘Woe Tady purvy wo 00°0SL : OOOESS AO OJON ONUVS LOT! | souyyeq ‘puny s,dxgp peroodg pue WO 4Solo}U SYJUOUL XIS poaAtooowt Ysvg oF, “1Z ydeg OZ IOY[VAA JO soojsnay, oF pred yseg Aq “AVIV OL 088 TS * ayup UO p,Ulod 8B 4,99 SIy} JO oouRlRG OF, “Og [dy *998T. 1 __“998T ‘AUOLSIT] TVUALVN JO ALAIOOG NOLSOG AND HALIM LNAODOYV NI ‘INO VAWTV AA ony, “ 4 r re x - ‘a fed / a r . ral . re) HHL dO SHALSAUT, “ONIUTMOIG GuvMay GNV ‘“ANDSVAdg “f “SVHD “ADO” “J, “SOW, ag 51 Dr. Txos. T. Bouvié, Cuas. J. Spracur, AND Epwarp PIickERrING, TRUSTEES OF THE | ’ ¥ Bucrincu Srreevr Estate, iy Account wirit THe Boston Society or Natura Hisvrory. Cr. 1866. May. To Cash received of Mrs. Clarke, for rent of house one and one-third mos., to 24th inst. . c : Fi A Taxes for past six months. . Old Carpeting . c ‘ : ° June. « —yee’d from the Estate sold May 24th, at auction to J. 3. Smith, the same being with the consent in writ- ing of the Supervisors $20,700 Less am’t of Mortgage Note reec’d in part payment as edd agreement, three y’rs, nt. payable semi-ann’lly 15,000 eee « — yece'd Int. one day on U. 8S. Bonds purchased . : , : ‘ Dec. 21. « —yec’d Int.on U.S. Bonds . 4 wiley £8 a rec’d of J. B. Smith, six mos. Int. on his Note ace’t $15,000. ; $111.11 158.00 9.89 5,700.00. 111 202.57 450.00 $6,632.68 April 30, 1867. The Property of this Fund on date consists of J. B. Smith’s Mortgage Note. Wise sods so) 5h Mt simmers Caslivomhand 0 se sh a he “1866. May. “e June, “ae Leh Dee. 1867. April 80. Errors Excepted. By Cash paid for water rent : : “ce “oe “ce oe “ $20.00 Less ree’d of Mrs. Clark . 10.00 paid Alex. Wadsworth’s bill survey- ing Wstate preparatory to sale . paid W. J. Bowditch, bill for drawing deed and copy- ingie s A i “ . $27.40 Stamps . - 4 5 . 21.00 one half recording Mortgage — 1.50) paid Henshaw & Bro., bill commissions on sale . $1038.50 Tax one forty-seventh . a tele) Advertising and Vlans . - 62.00 paid for $5,550 U. S. 7.80 Notes, at 102 13-16ths . - 5 is : paid for $500 U. 8S. Notes ° : Balance ondate . : ° . Boston, April 80, 1867. THOS. T. BOUVE, BE. PICKERING. CHAS. JAS. SPRAGUE, 49.90 207.25 5,706.10 526.22 6,514.47 118.21 $6,632.68 TRUSTEES. - $15,000.00 6,050.00 118.21 $21,168.21 rrr —— 52 er eT a he a a * — @ATsnpouy ZL0‘691-890'69T “SON ‘GOST ‘084 SPO “g 1,000°8S JO SySIsMOod ayep uo punt siqy Jo Aysodord OWL * LORI. ‘08 judy ae ga) ‘sve ‘SVHO “SALES ATL, ONTHa MOL gANOW ‘TL SOHL “2981 ‘08 Wty 10SOd -poydooxg 81011. Qo" g98s ‘oo g9e8 os'2st ” ” Tee te eee ‘gt 90 | 09°S8T oe ” ” ” “6 000 0g'zeIs syood JO gsuyoand Log LoINSvOLL, p.d ysv Aq] “0g 0uNL 0@° 2813 spuog *S "1 WO 0109 cpaaa0od YSBD OL) “0G aune “9987 | | “99ST = = = = -XUOLSIFT TWAALVN 40 xpaI00g Nosog AHL HLTA zNaoooy NI ‘ONOW LLOOTOM i (@) qnL Jo SUaLsoyy, tonUaMOIG GUVAGH anv ‘anevadg ‘f “SVHO ‘xanog “\L ‘SOH, ad 3 D Dr. Tuos. T. Bouvs, Cuas. J. Spracur, anp Epwarp PicKERING, TRUSTEES OF THE Cr. Prarr Funp, iy Account with THE Boston Socrery or NatTuRAL History. 1867. | 1867. | April 17. ‘Lo Cash received, three per cent. on $10,000 April 17. By Cash paid to the Treasurer of the Society New York Central Railroad towards the payment to be made Bonds, less Tax . ‘ : ; $285.00 by him for studying and arrang- . ing in scientilic order the Con- chological Collection in the new Oakes to seamen $285.00 Errors Excepted. Boston, April 30, 1867. THOS. T. BOUVE, E. PICKERING, TRUSTEES. CHAS. JAS. SPRAGUE, ni ea SSS April 80, 1867. The Property of this Fund on date consists of 10 New York Central Railroad Bonds, Nos. 19, 59, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 72, @ $1000 each. Interest six per cent., payable semi-annually . .» + + roe conan $10,000.00 OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR. AUGUSTUS A. GOULD, PREPARED BY DR. JEFFRIES WYMAN ON BEHALF OF A COMMITTEE APPOINTED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Augustus Addison Gould was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, on the 23d of April, 1805, among the high hills and under the shade of one more prominent than the rest, which helped to form what he calls the amphitheatre that surrounds the town. His early life was passed there, and as soon as he was old and strong enough to labor the larger part of the year was given to his father’s farm, and the rest to the common school. At the age of fifteen he took the whole charge of the farm; nevertheless a part of the year was devoted to study, and some progress was made in the classics. By the careful husbanding of the odds and ends of time and a year’s teaching at an academy, he was prepared to enter college, and entered at Cambridge in 1821. With his college life came a struggle, the forerunner of many such by which his strength was to be tried. He had already come to know something of the barrier which limited means had put between himself and the things he aspired to, and now this assumed larger proportions, such as to most persons would have been disheartening. College duties and exercises demanded his time, nevertheless his education must be paid for, and he must do largely towards earning the means; and so by strict economy, by performing various duties for which indigent students received compensation, and also by hard work in vacations and on those days which others gave to By) relaxation, he says he at length fought his way through, and attained to respectable rank. In college he was noted among his classmates for industry, and it was there, too, that his taste for natural history began to show itself. He became familiar with the most of our native plants and to the end of life never lost his love for them. After leaving college, he held the office of private tutor in Maryland, and at the same time began the study of medicine. The rest of his pupilage was passed in Boston, and the last year of it at the Massachusetts General Hospital as house student. He was graduated in medicine in 1839, and at once began the practice of his profession, having given good grounds to his friends for expecting future emi- nence. But his struggles with poverty were not yet ended. Until his profession could yield him a support, he must go out of it, and did, to earn the necessaries of life. To this end he undertook burdensome tasks; one of them, the cata- loguing and classification of the fifty thousand pamphlets in the library of the Boston Athenzum, was Herculean, as any one may see who will take the trouble to look over the four large folio volumes he wrote out, monuments of his pa- tient industry and handiwork, and for which he got only a pitiful return. The study of natural history was nearer to his heart than all other pursuits, and to that he could always turn, and did, whenever he could command a few spare hours or moments to do so. As a matter of course, he became a member of this Society. This was soon after its organization, and to the time he died, he labored for us without stint. When his studies began to assume a methodical shape, his first investi- gations were in the class of insects, of which, at one time, he had a large collection. Among his first published works was a monograph on the Cicindele of Massachusetts, printed in 1834, and in 1840 he published an account of the Ameri- can species of shells belonging to the genus Pupa, in regard to which he found much confusion. These shells are very small, and Mr. Say, who named all the species previously described, gave no figures, and consequently naturalists fell into error. “I have received from our best conchologists,” 56 Dr. Gould says, “a single species under four of the names that Mr. Say applied to as many different species.” Dr. Gould then points out how, by the use of the microscope, and a careful study of their minuter details, the classification of them might be improved. This paper was illustrated by about thirty figures carefully drawn by himself, with the aid of the microscope. In 1841, he read before this Society a paper entitled “ Re- sults of an examination of the species of shells of Massa- chusetts, and of their Geographical Distribution.” This is the more noteworthy since the geographical distribution of animals had at that time attracted but little attention, and none amongst us. Now it involves one of the most impor- tant zodlogical problems. From his examination it appeared that of the shells found within the borders of the State, forty-two were of land or fresh water, and two hundred and three of marine origin. While some of the marine species are found on the transatlantic shores, he thought that all the fresh water or land species were imported. Animals found in territories widely separated by salt water, appear to have been created distinct, and ever remain so, unless mingled by design or accidental transfer. Dr. Gould also points out in this paper the influence of shore outlines, and shows from a comparison of species, that Cape Cod, which stretches out into the sea in a curved direction some forty or fifty miles, forms to some species an impassable barrier. Of two hundred and three species, eighty do not pass to the south, and thirty have not been found to the north. In the same paper he calls attention to the importance of the fact that certain species appear and disappear suddenly, and of the necessity, in order to construct a correct catalogue of the shells of any region, to extend observations through a series of years, a consideration which many naturalists, even of the present day, might profit by. In the spring of 1830, Osteo- desmus was strewed upon Chelsea Beach in great number, and of very large size, but had never been observed there before, and has scarcely been seen since. Cyprina Iceland- ica, Solemya velum, Varenius gemma and Margarita arctica, also present instances of periodicity at long intervals. Dur- 57 ing the winter of 1838-39, Nucula thracieformis was fre- quently found in the stomachs of the sand-dab, but search for them since has been almost fruitless. One of the first results of the joint action of the members of this Society, and of which it has more reason to be proud than any other, was the part taken by some of them in the series of admirable reports on the natural history of the State, presented to the General Court in compliance with a legislative enactment. The report on the Trees was by Mr. George B. Emerson, then President of the Society, on Fishes, by Dr. D. H. Storer, on Insects Injurious to Vegetation, by Dr. T. W. Harris, and on the Invertebrate Animals, except- ing insects, by Dr. Gould. They at once gained for their authors wide-spread reputation. The Molluscs were Dr. Gould’s favorite subjects for study, and his attention was chiefly given to them. Up to this time, few if any attempts had been made to give as complete a zoological survey as practicable of any particular region of the United States. As regards the Molluscs, the descriptions of Say, Conrad and others, pioneers in conchology, pertained more to the Middle and Western States, than to New Eng- land. Their writings were fragmentary and scattered through the narratives of travels, journals of science, and even news- papers. It was no small labor, therefore, to become ac- quainted, merely as a preparation for his task, with the writ- ings of his predecessors. To make his report as complete as possible, and to ascertain what changes in the classification of Molluscs recent important progress growing out of the study of them would indicate, he opened correspondence for information and exchanges with European naturalists inter- ested in the same branch of study, who obligingly and cour- teously lent their aid, and out of this correspondence grew up long continued friendships. The report fills a volume of nearly four hundred pages, illustrated by more than two hundred figures skilfully drawn from nature by himself. “Every species described,” he says, “indeed, almost every species mentioned, has passed under my own eye. The descriptions of species previously known, have been written anew, partly that they might be more mi- 08 nute in particulars, and partly with the hope of using lan- guage somewhat less technical than is ordinarily employed by scientific men.” The number of species described was about two hundred and seventy-five of Molluscs and nearly one hundred of Crustaceans and Radiates. As a contribution to zodlogical science, this report gave him an honorable name among the the naturalists of Europe and America, and so he attained to eminence. Dr. Gould edited the admirable work entitled “The Ter- restrial Air-breathing Molluscs of the United States,” pre- pared, but left unfinished at the time of his death, by his intimate friend, Dr. Amos Binney, formerly the respected president of this Society, and whose name we hold in grate- ful remembrance, not only for his contributions to science, but for the munificent bequest which fills so large a space on the shelves of our library. The plan of this work was broad and philosophical, pass- ing far out of the region of generic and specific technicali- ties into the wider subjects of the principles of classification, of the geographical distribution of genera and species, and the causes influencing it, of zodlogical foci or points of origin, geological relations, habits, faculties and anatomical structure. Its incomplete state, the fact that many of the species col- lected by Dr. Binney in the southwestern States and Texas, had not been described by him up to the time of his death, and the changes made by more recent observations rendered the editorship of this work no sinecure. No one could be found more fit for the task, or more worthy to bring before the world the labors of a deceased friend. In 1848 he was associated with Prof. Agassiz in the prep- aration of the Principles of Zéology. His largest and most important contribution to natural history was the description of the shells of the United States Exploring Expedition. This was prepared under circum- stances somewhat embarrassing. The collection was not made by himself, but by the late Capt. James P. Couthouy, well remembered as one of the most zealous and active members of this Society. Capt. Couthouy had drawn up full notes on the external characters of the soft parts, habits, 59 geographical distribution, and on other important points. Before the voyage was completed he left the expedition, but the notes and collections were sent to Washington. The former were wnaccountably lost, and no trace of them was found. The coliections, when they came into the hands of the Navy Department, were repacked by incompetent hands, the arrangement of them disturbed, labels in many cases lost, and the whole thrown more or less into con- fusion. Dr. Gould was called upon to save the wreck, but in accepting the task was obliged to submit to various arbitrary restrictions, and to leave undone many things he deemed of much importance. Fully appreciating the value of a knowledge of the internal structure of the animals, and knowing too well the folly of attempting to find all the char- acters for a zodlogical description in the shell alone, he ex- presses his regret at the outset that full dissections and delineations of the internal features had not been directed or allowed. This was all the more to be regretted, since there was a great abundance of material for the required in- vestigations. Agreeably to his instructions, the work is almost wholly confined to generic and specific descriptions. In the intro- duciion, however, he presents several generalizations of im- portance. By a careful comparison, he shows that Mollusea are confined generally to definite districts or areas. Descrip- tive writers have frequently given support to opposite views, and have fallen into error from not having taken proper care to ascertain the locality from which certain species came, a de- termination which is now considered of such prime impor- tance. Shells purchased in the Hawaiian Islands are de- scribed as denizens of these islands, notwithstanding they may have been carried there from far off places. New Eng- land shells which have been sent to the western coast of America, have been known to come back in the way of ex- changes, as natives of the Pacific shores. Errors have also been committed by attempting to decide the identity of spe- cies from distant places, by the shell alone, when observa- tion has proved this in many cases impossible. When such, and other sources of error, are eliminated, the number of 60 apparently identical species from widely different sources rapidly diminishes. In fact the doctrine of the local limita- tion of animals meets with so few exceptions, that we admit it as an axiom in zodlogy, he says, that species resembling one another from widely diverse localities, especially if a continent intervenes, and if no plausible means of communi- cation can be assigned, are different until their identity can be proved. It is true that some species are more or less cos- mopolite, as the Cypreas, and as at present understood, do not appear to be limited by seas, while others become cos- mopolite by transportation, as certain Helices, which attach themselves to the water-casks of ships, and thus are carried around the world. Another general consideration, and closely related to geo- graphical distribution, grows out of the fact that the shells from definite regions have peculiarities of external form and color, of what may be called style, just as have the human races from different parts of the world. Thus, he says, we distinguish the loose, colorless structure of the northern spe- cies, the stony, corroded and livid New Zealanders, and the polished and absolutely perfect specimens from the coral seas, Another generalization illustrated by the ample stores of the Expedition, is the occurrence of analogous species in co- ordinate regions, though the species themselves are absolutely distinct; in confirmation of which he gives a list of some thirty-two species found on the eastern and western coasts of the United States. Lastly, it is shown by a careful comparison cf the land shells of the Pacific islands, how one is helped in drawing inferences as to the lands which once occupied the area of the Pacific, and how, in consequence of their submergence, their mountain peaks, which now alone project above the surface of the water, constitute these islands. The Samoa and Friendly Islands give evidence of such relation in hay- ing identical species. The Otia Conchologica was the last of his printed vol- umes, but this was merely a reprint in a condensed form of the descriptions of species of shells previously published sep- arately in different works. Besides the works already men- 61 tioned, there is a long catalogue of communications made to the Boston Society of Natural History, and which is ap- pended to this notice, which may be referred to as showing that he did not allow himself to become a mere specialist, but kept his mind awake to the relation of individual forms to higher and more general truths. We must not forget that Dr. Gould was a member of the medical profession, and that his time was of necessity chiefly devoted to this, while the scientific labors we have been considering were the yield of spare moments made useful, He was an active member of the medical societies of this city and of the State, and held offices of trust in them. The Massachusetts Medical Society conferred on him the honors which it has to bestow upon its fellows. In 1855 he delivered the annual address, which was: marked for the soundness of its views and the characteristic clearness and elegance with which they were presented. He took for his text the advice of Harvey to the Royal College of Physicians of London, when he founded the annual oration whicn bears his name, and in which, among other things, he enjoins upon the orator “an exhortation to the members to study and search out the secrets of nature by the way of experiment.” Dr. Gould was elected president of the Society, and his term of office ended within a few months of his death. He was for several years one of the physicians of the Massachu- setts General Hospital, was an efficient member of the Bos- ton Society for Medical Improvement, where he often com- municated valuable observations, and took an active part in its discussions. He labored much and long in preparing the vital statistics of the State from the official returns. At one of the meetings of the National Academy of Sci- ences, of which he was a member, he presented an impor- tant paper on the distribution of certain diseases, especially consumption, in reference to the hygienic choice of a loca- tion for the cure of invalid soldiers. The census of 1860 gave the means of arriving at a definite result, and of showing that the mortality from the disease mentioned was greatest in the north, and diminished southwards almost as regularly as the States could be called. 1t causes about twenty-nine per cent. 62 of all the deaths in Maine, and only three per cent. of those in Arkansas. Infirmaries established with the idea of send- ing patients to those regions where the disease to be treated is presented in its mildest aspect, must be far more successful than the ordinary method of mingling together invalids suf- fering from all sorts of infirmities. As a citizen, Dr. Gould made a principle of going out of the ordinary routine of life to lend a helping hand wherever it was desired and he could. He served the public in many capacities; in the religious society of which he was from early life a member, and in the public schools where he took an active interest in all attempts to improve the ways and means of instruction. He from time to time gave public lectures, and although in this capacity he could not be said to be bril- liant or highly accomplished, yet his unostentatious manner and simplicity, his knowledge of his subject and hearty interest in it, always gained him attentive listeners, who went away instructed. What can be said by way of acknowledgment of the un- - requited work he did for us? of his services in the formation of the cabinet, and in promoting the interests of the Society in a hundred ways, above all in the drudgery which only ended with his life, his aid in preparing for the press and in superintending the publication of the various volumes printed by the Society, from the first to the last? What has now been said relates only to some of the more tangible features of his principal works, leaving out of sight the industry, the critical acumen, the tact and perceptive power required to prepare them. This we can never appre- ciate, nor the difiiculties under which his work was done. One could only do this by watching his patient studies in the intervals of professional calls, or as he labored at early dawn or late at night in the hours stolen from sleep. Though often an invalid, the sickness must have been irksome indeed, which could restrain him from his accustomed work. In his temperament he was genial, and drew friends around him, retaining the old and attracting new. He came to the social gathering with joyous face and kindly feelings. His Jove for natural scenery was genuine and hearty, and what- 63 ever personal enjoyment came from this source, it was always enhanced if others partook of it with him. There are too many naturalists who stand in the presence of nature all their days, but see her not. To them the world offers nothing but the forms they would technically describe and arrange in their cabinets. Take away this object and all be- comes a waste, for they are neither warmed nor enlivened by the world around them. Not so with our associate; no one toiled more industriously than he over individual forms and specific descriptions ; but all this aside, every aspect of nature touched him to the innermost. Those who have been intimate with him know how his face would light up while in the presence of the least as well as of the greatest natural objects! the flower of a day, or the sturdy tree that had known its centuries of life, the quiet or the grander scenes of the world. His emotions were not those of an enthusiast, . but rather came of a clear perception and calm contempla- tion of the things around him, and of his own responsive na- - ture. His life, all too poorly and inadequately represented in this sketch, was throughout a consistent one, and to the end each day was full to the round. He was still endeavoring to im- prove what had been done before, and looking forward to the accomplishment of new and better ends, when suddenly it was closed. He had been less well than usual; on the after- noon of September 14th, 1866, he manifested the usual symp- toms of an attack of Asiatic cholera, soon after fell into a state of collapse, and on the following morning just before the dawn, he died. For the following chronological catalogue of Dr. Gould’s communications, I am indebted to Mr. Samuel H. Scudder, Secretary of the Society. Lamarck’s Genera of Shells with a Catalogue of Species. Trans- lated from the French. 16mo. Boston, 1833. On the Cicindele of Massachusetts. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., 1. Art. iv, pp. 41-55, Plate 3. Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany and Zodlogy of Mas- sachusetts, made and published by order of the government of that 64 State. 2d Edition, by Edward Hitchcock. 8vo. Ambherst, 1835. Part rv. A Catalogue of the Animals and Plants in Massachu- setts. vi., Crustacea, by A. A. G. pp. 548-50. Part Iv. sepa- rately published. Crustacea, pp. 28-30. First Report on the Geology of the State of Maine, by C. T. Jack- son. 8vo. Augusta, 1837. List of shells found in Maine, by A. A. G. p- 119. Reports of the Commissioners on the Zoological Survey of the State. Massachusetts House Documents, 1838, No. 72. Dr. Gould’s Report (on molluscous and the other lower animals,) pp. 105-7. Scientific Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History in the months of June, July and August, 1838; drawn up from the Records of the Society, by A. A. G., Recording Secretary. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVI; pp. 379-93, XXxXVII; pp. 391-7. Report on a paper by J. P. Couthouy on Thracia Conradi, with Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVI}; pp. 379-80. : On the marine product commonly called Neptune’s Goblet. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVI; p. 386. Remarks on Rostellaria occidentalis. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVI; p. 396. On Dephinula minor. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XxxxvimT; p. 193. Descriptions of Shells. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVIII; pp. 196-7. Otia Conchologica, pp. 179-81. Report on shells from California. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXVI; p. 396. On Scutella bifissa. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. XXXIX; p- 183. Monograph of the Species of Pupa found in the United States; with figures. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., m1, Art. xiii, pp. 395-404, Plate 11; Iv, Art. xxviii, pp. 350-60, Plate xvi. Otia Concholo- logica, pp. 182-3. Results of an Examination of the Shells of Massachusetts and their geographical distribution. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., m1, Art. xviii, pp. 483-94. Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, comprising the Mol- lusea, Crustacea, Annelida and Radiata. Published agreeably to an order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. 8vo. Cambridge, 1841. Otia Con- chologica, pp. 181-2, 237. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 2° Ser. T. xvi, p. 379. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. X11; p. 378 Revue Zoologique, 1841. p. 282. 65 Results of investigations concerning the Testacea of Massachusetts. Proe. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1 ; pp. 6, 7. Notice of the origin, progress and present condition of the Boston Society of Natural History. Amer. Quart. Register, x1v ; pp. 236-41. Also published separately, pp. 1-8. Characters of shells to be fully described in the next number of the Journal. Boston. Journ. of Nat. Hist., 1v, third page of the cover of No.1. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 137-8. Otia Conchol- ogica, p. 183. Review of Ellis’s work on Corallines. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Fist: «Ep. 16. Notice of Paludina ponderosa. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p- 32. Examination of a paper by Henry C. Lea, purporting to describe eight new species of shells. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 61. Remarks on the variations of a species of Neritina. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 71. On the powers of locomotion in Mytilus edulis. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 72. Notice of Sowerby’s Thesaurus Conchyliorum, No. 1. Proe. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 86. Review of a pamphlet by Prof. C. B. Adams, on the Mollusca of Vermont. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 89. Description of Pasithoe umbonata. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., I; pp- 92-3. ; Notice of some works recently published on the nomenclature of Zoology. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. xiv; Art. i. pp. 1-12. * Remarks on Dr. Binney’s critical notice of the species of the genus Pupa found in the United States. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 106. Notice of Mighel’s Catalogue of the marine, fluviatile and terrestrial shells of the State of Maine and adjacent Ocean. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 117-8. Notice of Haldeman’s Monograph of the freshwater univalve Mol- lusca of the United States. Genus Physa. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 132-3. Review of characters of shells described on the cover of the Boston Journal of Natural History, Vol. rv., No. 1. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 137-8. Otia Conchologica, p. 183. Descriptions of two foreign species of Pupa. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 138-9. Otia Conchologica, p. 189. Characterization of Shells appearing to be hitherto undescribed, re- ceived from the Rev. Francis Mason, missionary at Tavoy, British Burmah. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist.,1; pp. 139-41, 144. Otia oy) 66 Conchologieca, pp. 189-92. Mason’s Burmah, pp. 371, 372, 374. Journ. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, [n.s.,] No. 186, pp. 62-5. Report on Papers of the Rev. R. T. Lowe, relating to the plants and land-shells of Madeira. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 148-9. Remarks on some Shells received from Dr. Savage from Cape Palmas. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1; p. 153. Descriptions of Shells received from Drs. Savage and Perkins, from Africa. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. of Hist., 1; pp. 157-9. Otia Concholog- ica, pp. 192-3. Descriptions of two species of Anodon from the River Salwen in British Burmah, sent by Rev. F. Mason. Proce. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 160-1. Otia Conchologica, pp. 193-4. Mason’s Burmah, p-: 379. Descriptions of Land Shells from the Province of Tavoy in British Burmah. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., rv ; Art. xxxvii, pp. 452-9, Plate xxiv. Otia Conchologica, pp. 183-4, 189-92. Mason’s Burmah, pp. 371-2, 374. Journ. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, [n. s.,] No. 186. pp. 62-5. Descriptions and notices of some of the Land Shells of Cuba. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., rv; Art. xli, pp. 485-98. Plate xxiv. On Helix lucida. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 174. Descriptions of two species of Helix from the Sandwich Islands. Proe. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 174. Otia Conchologiea, p. 194. Notice of a paper by Mr. I. Lea, describing shells supposed to be new. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp. 183-4. Remarks on Mighel’s descriptions of shells. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 189. ; Descriptions of species of Land Shells from the Sandwich Islands. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 26-8. Otia Conchologica, pp. 194-6. Descriptions of Shells collected by Dr. Charles J. Bates, on the Coast of Liberia. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 37-8. Otia Con- chologica, pp. 196-7. Descriptions of recent Shells collected by Mr. John Bartlett in the Everglades of Florida. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 11; p. 53. Otia Conchologiea, p. 197. Descriptions of Shells from the Coast of Africa. Bost. Journ. of Nat. Hist., v; Art. xix, pp. 290-3, Plate xxiv. Otia Conchologica, pp. 196-7. On Pholas costata and P. truncata. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; pp- 81-2. Remarks on certain characters in the shell distinctive of Lottia and Patella. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 83-4. Description of Shells from Tavoy. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1 ; pp. 98-100. Otia Conchologica, pp. 198-9. Mason’s Burmah, pp. $67,370, 373. 67 Description of a species of Bulimus from Brazil. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 1; p. 101. Otia Conchologica, pp. 199-200. On the occurrence of Esox lucius in Connecticut River. Proc. Bost. Nat. Hist., 11; p. 107. Expedition Shells; described for the work of the United States Ex- ploring Expedition, commanded by Capt. Wilkes, U. S. N., during the years 1838-42. 8vo. Boston, 1846. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 1; 141-5, 148-52, 153-6, 159-62, 165-7, 170-3, 175-6, 177-9, 180-1, 182-4, 185-7, 190-2, 196-8, 200-3, 204—6, 208-9, 210-12, 214— 15, 218-21, 222—25, 237-9, 251-2. m1; 73—5, 83-5, 89-92, 106-8, 118- 21, 140-4, 151-6, 169-72, 214-18, 252-6, 275-8, 292-6, 309-12, 343- 8. Otia Conchologica, pp. 1-100. Note to description of two new species of Shells by William Case. Amer. Journ. of Science and Arts. [2] 11; pp. 101, 276. Description of new Shells received from Rev. Mr. Mason of Burmah. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 218-21. Otia Conchologica, pp. 200-201. Mason’s Burmah, pp. 371, 374-5. Remarks on Planorbis multivolvis. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 11; -p- 259. Description of shells collected by Dr. C. T. Jackson on the shores of Lake Superior. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., iz; pp. 262-4 (wood cuts). Otia Conchologica, pp. 201-2. On the experiments of Prof. Matteuci with reference to the phos- phorescence of animals. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., mr; p. 7. On the occurrence of Bulla solitaria on Plymouth Beach. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., m1; p. 9. Principles of Zodlogy, touching the structure, development, distribu- tion and natural arrangement of the races of animals, living and ex- tinct; with numerous illustrations. For the use of schools and colleges. Part I. Comparative Physiology, by L. Agassiz and A. A. G. 8vo. Boston, 1848. English Edition, revised by Th. Wright. 8vo. London, 1851. German Edition, 8vo. Stuttgart, 1851. 2d edition, 1855. Description of Shells collected by Mr. J. Bartlett in the southwestern States. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., mr; pp. 37-41. Otia Concholog- ica, pp. 202-5. Description of Shells found in Connecticut, collected and named by the late Rev. J. H. Linsley. Amer. Journ. Science and Arts. [2] vi; Art. xxi, pp. 233-6. (wood-cuts). Descriptions of Shells. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., m1; pp. 64-5. Otia Conchologica, pp. 205-6. The Naturalist’s Library, containing scientific and popular descrip- ' tions of Man, Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles and Insects ; com- piled from the works of Cuvier, Griffith, Richardson, Geoffroy, Lacé- pede, Buffon, Goldsmith, Shaw, Montague, Wilson, Lewis and Clarke, 68 Audubon and other writers on Natural History; arranged according to the classification of Stark, edited by A. A. G. With four hundred engravings. 8vo. Boston, 1849. On the nature of the Ohio clay formation containing Mastodon bones. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 117-18. An account of some tame fishes and turtles at Hingham, Mass. Proce. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., m1; p. 175. Remarks on specimens of Lymnza from Lake Superior. Proce. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 11; p. 181. On the occurrence of Helix hortensis of Europe, on an island near Cape Ann. Proc. Bost Soe. of Nat. Hist., m1; p. 181. Descriptions of new species of Shells from Africa, presented by Dr. Perkins. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 193-7. Otia Conchol- ogica, pp. 206-10. Lake Superior, its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals; compared with those of other and similar regions, by Louis Agassiz. 8vo. Boston, 1850. Art. v. Catalogue of Shells with descriptions of new species, by A. A. G. pp. 243-5. On the occurrence of Ixodes in a human subject. Proe. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., 11; pp. 335, 351. Descriptions of sixteen species of Melania, regarded as new by Mr. J. G. Anthony. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., mm; pp. 359-63. The Terrestrial Air-breathing Mollusks of the United States and the adjacent territories of North America; described and illustrated by Amos Binney. Edited by A. A. G. 2 vols. Text. and 1 vol. Plates. Svo. Boston, 1851-7. On the relation of Shells from the East and West Coast of America. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist.,1v ; pp. 27-8. On the Formation of rounded masses of Fish-scales in the Shale at Hillsborough, N. B. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., rv; p. 66. Descriptions of Californian Shells, collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., rv; pp. 87-93. Otia Conchologica, pp. 210-15. On the Natural Productions of the Surface as illustrating the char- acter of particular geological formations. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. . Hist., Iv; pp. 100-1. On the track of Idotza. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., rv; p. 132. Descriptions of Shells from the Gulf of California and the Pacific Coasts of Mexico and California. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., v1; Art. xxiv. pp. 374-408. Plates xiv-xvi. Otia Conchologica, pp. 196-7. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-42 un- der the command of Charles Wilkes, U. S. N. Vol. xi. Mollusea and Shells. Text. 1 vol. 4to. Boston, 1852. Atlas. 1 vol. folio. Phil- adelphia, 1856, (1861 according to Binney). Otia Conchologica, pp. 2235-36. 7 69 On the attempts to bring living fresh water shells from Cuba and England to this country. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist.,1v ; pp. 287-8. Remarks on Mollusca and Shells. 1. On the Zoological Regions. 2. Specific identity of Shells. 3. Local aspect of species and character- istic forms of regions. 4. Analogous species in co-ordinate regions. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Lv1; pp. 74-80. Remarks on Dr. Burnett’s paper on the Development of Mollusks in Holothuride. Proc. Bost Soc. of Nat. Hist., rv; p. 373. On the Motion of the Earth-worm. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., IV; p. 375. Remarks on some specimens of Argonauts in the collection of the late Col. Perkins. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., v; pp. 35-6. A Paper on the Orange Insect, drawn up from notes made by the late Dr. W. I. Burnett. Proc. Soc. of Nat. Hist., v; pp. 108-10. Results of an examination of some deep dredgings off the coast of Georgia and Florida, by the Officers of the Coast Survey. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., v; 126-7. Otia Conchologica, p. 215. New Species of Land and Fresh-water Shells from Western North America. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., v ; pp. 127-30, 228-9. Otia Conchologica, pp. 215-19. Report of a Reconnoissance and Survey in California in connection with explorations for a practicable railway route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean in 1853, by Lieut. R. S. Williamson. Pre- liminary Geological Report by W. P. Blake. Appendix, Art. ii. Cat- alogue of Shells collected in California by W. P. Blake, with de- scriptions of the new species by A. A. G. pp. 22-8. 8vo. Washing- ton, 1855. United States Naval Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hem- isphere during the years 1849-52, Lieut. J. M. Gilliss, Superintendent. List of Shells brougut home by the U. 8. N. Astronomical Expedition, by A. A.G. Vol. ur. 4to. Washington, 1855. p. 263. On the Impurities of Cochituate Water. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist.,v; 164,176. Proc..Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences. 111; p. 252. Resolutions upon the decease of Dr. T. W. Harris. Proc. Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences. 111; pp. 224. Descriptions of Shells. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., vr; pp. 11- 16. Otia Conchologica, pp. 219-222. Remarks on Lumbricus in the Human Stomach. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., vr; pp. 18-19. Remarks on the Statements of Dr. Séquard upon the suprarenal capsules. Proc. Bost Soc. of Nat. Hist., v1; pp. 68-9. On the true Nautilus umbilicatus of Lister. Proc. Zool. Soe. of 70 London. xxv; pp. 20-21. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, [2] Xx; pp. 57-9. Remarks on a Species of Helix described by Mr. E. S. Morse. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., v1; p. 72. Remarks on Geographical Distribution of Shells. Proc. Bost. Soe. of Nat. Hist., v1; pp. 123-4. . Notice of the decease of Prof. J. W. Bailey. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., v1; pp. 173-5. Resolutions presented on the occasion of the receipt of the bequest of Prof. Bailey. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., vr; pp. 180-1. Report of a Committee on the bequest of Prof: Bailey. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., vi; pp. 194-200. Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practica- ble and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, made under the direction of the Secretary of War in 1853-4. Vol. v. Report of Explorations in California for Rail- road routes to connect with the routes near the 35th and 32d parallels of north latitude by Lieut. R. S. Willamson, 1853. Part II. Geological Report by W. P. Blake, 1857. Appendix, Article iii. Catalogue of the recent shells, with descriptions of the new species by A. A.G. pp. 330-6. Plate x1. 4to. Washington, 1856. On the power of Arachnida to produce fertile eggs, though com- pletely isolated from the male. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist., vr; p. 285. An Address, in commemoration of Professor J. W. Bailey, Presi- ident of the Association, delivered before the Association, August 19, 1857. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sc., 11th meeting. pp. 1-8. Cam- bridge, 1858. 8vo. Description of Shells collected in the North Pacific Exploring Ex- pedition under Captains Ringgold and Rodgers. Proc. Bost. Soc. of Nat. Hist. v1; pp. 422-6, vir; pp. 40-5, 138-42, 161-6, 323-40, 382-9, 400-9, vil; pp. 14-40. Otia Conchologica, pp. 101-178, under the title, Shells of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, Commanders Ringgold and Rodgers; mostly collected by William Stimpson. On the distribution of land-shells on the islands in the Pacific Ocean. Proc. Amer. Acad. of Arts and Sciences. Iv; p. 195. 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Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., x; pp- 77-8. OBITUARY NOTICE OF DR. HENRY BRYANT, PREPARED BY A SPECIAL COMMITTEE, AND READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING, IN MAY, 1867. Dr. Henry Bryant was born in Boston, May 12th, 1820. He received his early education here at Mr. Thayer's school, and was prepared for college at Mr. Welles’ school in Cam- bridge. He entered Harvard University in 1836 and grad- uated in 1840, and immediately commenced the study of medicine in the Tremont Medical School and the Medical School of the University, from the latter of which he re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1843. Soon afterwards he went to Europe to prosecute his professional studies still farther in Paris. Some time in the year 1845 he received the appointment of Jnterne in the Hospital Beaujon in Paris, an appointment specially honorable, as it is only obtainable as the result of a severe competitive examination. The close confinement and laborious duties of this office broke down his health, and he was in consequence obliged to resign his position a few months afterwards. Availing himself of an opportunity which was offered to him, through the kindness of some French army officers whose acquaint- ance he had made, and seeing in it a probable means of re- storing his health, he joined the French army in Africa as a volunteer surgeon, and served in this capacity during a win- ter campaign in Algeria in 1846. It is probable that this experience, by fitting him for the responsible duties of an 73 army surgeon, had an important influence in leading him to offer his services in this capacity at an early date during the recent war in this country. From Europe Dr. Bryant returned home in October, 1847, and commenced the practice of his profession in Boston, associating himself with Dr. Henry J. Bigelow as surgeon to a private dispensary for surgical cases. In carrying out the plan of this arrangement he again made a trip to Europe, where he remained for a few months. Shortly after his re- turn home his health again failed him, under his assiduous application to his duties, and he was finally obliged to aban- don the practice of his profession; this he was enabled the more readily to do, as his circumstances in life were such as not to compel him to rely upon his profession for support. Dr. Bryant was married January 6th, 1848, to Elizabeth B. Sohier, daughter of William D. Sohier, Esq., of Boston. After giving up the practice of his profession, Dr. Bryant devoted himself with more or less assiduity to the study of Ornithology, which had been a favorite pursuit with him from boyhood. It was at about this period that Dr. Bryant met with a severe accident, causing alarming symptoms at the time, and, as he thought himself, having much to do with the subsequent attacks of indisposition from which he suf- fered very frequently to the close of his life. In landing from his boat at Cohasset. his foot slipped on some wet sea- weed and he fell with great violence upon a rock, receiving a severe blow in the region of the stomach. He was taken up insensible, and was confined to his bed for several weeks, suffering very severely. The precarious state of his health compelled him to take a great deal of out door exercise ; and his active, energetic temperament led him often to the most distant parts of this country in excursions for the purpose of collecting specimens of ornithology and other objects of natural history; and on which he was often exposed to great hardship and privation, but which only seemed to in- vigorate him. He had a singular power of endurance, and, invalid as he was, a most stoical indifference to considera- tions of personal comfort on these expeditions. Thus he passed his time, partly at his summer residence at Cohasset 74 in this State, partly at his house in Boston, at short intervals disappearing from sight for a few weeks or months, to return from the extreme north or south laden with the spoils of his campaign. Of late years he made quite frequent visits to the West India islands during the winter seasons, for the same purpose. Subject to this necessity of prolonged excursions from home and an active life in the open air, the outbreak of the civil war in this country found him untrammelled by profes- sional bonds, and prepared by a previous experience of army life to enter at once upon the arduous and responsible duties of an army surgeon. It was a time when the number of medical men thus qualified, in this country, was extremely small, and the demand for them was the most urgent. It was all the more honorable, therefore, to the subject of our notice, that, uninfluenced by any pecuniary necessity, and unstimulated by any professional ambition, with the leisure and opportunity of devoting his time in the pleasantest way to the delightful branch of natural history which he had made his special study, he yet felt it his duty to come for- ward early and offer his services to his country. Not con- tent with the appointment which the necessity of the case or the influence of friends might easily have secured for him, he went to Washington and offered himself as a candidate for the office of assistant surgeon in the regular army. As might have been anticipated the severe ordeal of examina- tion to which he was subjected was no obstacle to him, and he returned home with the commission for which he had offered himself. Without waiting for the position which this appointment might give him in the regular army, which was then dwindling into insignificance in point of numbers in comparison with the volunteer host which was mustering, he accepted the appointment of Surgeon to the 20th regi- ment of Massachusetts volunteers, and was commissioned in that capacity, July Ist, 1861. He was promoted to be Brig- ade Surgeon, September 10th, but remained with his regi- ment until after the disaster of Ball’s Bluff in October, when he joined General Lander in the Shenandoah valley, and served on his staff until the death of that officer. He next 75 joined the command of General Shields in the same depart- ment, in the capacity of Medical Director. While engaged in this service he received a severe injury of the knee from his horse falling with him on icy ground. From this acci- dent he suffered many months, part of the time being con- fined to his bed in extreme pain, and much of this period being unable to set his foot to the ground. His injury was so severe that the question of amputation was at one time entertained; yet during the whole of this term of service he continued on duty and did not ask for leave of absence until his convalescence was fully established. It was while suffering in this way that he organized the military hospitals in Winchester in addition to his other arduous duties. He accompanied General Shields’ command to Fredericksburg in August, 1862, and in the same month was ordered to take charge of a small military hospital near Washington, known as Cliffburn hospital. Having thoroughly organized it, and put it in successful operation, he left it, by orders from Gov- ernment, for Washington, December 23d, 1862, where he took charge, on the 30th, of the Lincoln Hospital, one of the first of the large army hospitals, at a time when the elaborate system under which so many were subsequently planned and put in operation by the Medical Department of the army was as yet in embryo. Upon him individually, therefore, rested the whole labor of planning and putting into execution the multitude of details involved in so re- sponsible an experiment. That his efforts were crowned with the most complete success is the verdict of every medi- cal man who had an opportunity of visiting his well-ordered establishment. In fact the Lincoln Hospital under his ad- ministration was regarded as a model hospital. But here, as on every occasion before, where he had been exposed to the exhaustion attendant upon close confinement and excessive mental labor, his strength and health failed him, and finally, completely broken down, he was compelled to throw up his commission and resign his place in the army in the month of May. A characteristic extract from a letter to a friend, dated 76 May Ist, 1863, shows his determined spirit, and to what an extremity his indisposition had brought him. He writes: — “ T am as nearly dead as a man can be without stopping his breath. I have not touched a morsel of food for seventy-two hours; and for the week previous did not eat more than three ounces a day. I can not at times drink a mouthful of cold water without suffering excru- ciating pain. I am so weak that I can hardly stand, but I have to work all the time. If I don’t get better shortly I shall leave and let everything go.” After the establishment of peace in this country, he visited Europe once more, accompanied by his family, whom he left there after a few months, returning to this country en route of another ornithological excursion to the warmer latitudes. of North America. Again he crossed to Europe, and again returned to Boston towards the close of 1866. He sailed for Porto Rico, December 1st, and arrived there on the 9th, intending to proceed to St. Thomas, but which he was de- terred from doing by the reports of the prevalence of cholera and yellow fever in that island. He remained, therefore, at Porto Rico, and on the 28th of January, 1867, after travelling in the island, he reached Utuado. On the 29th he shot for an hour or two in the afternoon in this mountainous region with- out fatigue and slept well. On the 30th he was taken sick with what he regarded as rheumatism, suffering excruciating pain in his back and limbs. According to the statement of his companion, his pain was such as to compel him to leave the house and walk the street to relieve his intolerable restless- ness; a circumstance which indicates that his suffering must have been very great, as he had, on ordinary occasions, an uncommon power of endurance and self-control. A large dose of opium quieted him at last, and he passed a com- fortable night. On the Ist of February, finding that his symptoms were no better, he determined to go to Araceibo, a distance of twenty-five miles, on horseback. His pain was excessive, but at ten o’clock he and his companion mounted their horses and rode until one. Although suffering in- tensely, with characteristic energy he dismounted at a bridge at one o’clock for the purpose of shooting some swallows which were flying over the river, and fired twice. 77 From that point to Araceibo, a distance of eight miles, he was compelled to walk most of the way, being unable to bear the motion of riding. The following night he slept well, having taken a glass of whiskey and water and a heavy dose of opium at bed time. He had proposed starting in a varriage for St. John, a distance of fifty miles, on the follow- ing morning. On being called by his companion at six and a half o’clock he inquired what time it was and said he felt better. He then asked to be called at seven, as he did not wish to rise then. At seven a druggist came in to learn how to skin a bird, Dr. Bryant having promised to teach him. At first he declined for want of time, but afterwards sent for a bird skin and explained the process. At ten minutes past seven he rose and dressed, came out of his chamber and took some coffee, but seemed stupid and heavy, and returned to his chamber, asking his companion to get his luggage ready. At half past seven the coach came, the trunks were put on, and he was called but did not answer. On going to his room he was found in a state of unconsciousness from which all attempts at arousing him were unavailable. His symp- toms pointed to the brain as the seat of some grave disease, and he received the most assiduous attention of his physi- cians until he died, which event took place at a quarter past four, P. M. This brief history of the life and death of our departed associate is all which the Committee have been enabled to prepare. The absence of all of his nearest relatives from the country deprives them of the opportunity of giving many details which they would have been glad to have presented. Enough has been said, however, to show that Dr. Bryant was aman of no common kind. To many of his acquaintances, however, he was, in some respects, an insoluble problem. He was regarded by most people as somewhat peculiar and eccentric, and the Committee feel it their duty, therefore, to dwell a little upon certain points in his character which were not generally well understood. He was well known to a large number of persons, in the sense that certain traits and peculiarities of his were familiar tothem. But these peculiarities, in the judgment of those 78 who knew him best, rather concealed than showed his real character. For instance, he was often very communicative, extremely free in his mode of address, even with strangers or persons entitled by age or station to superior respect; and probably seemed to most people exceedingly free and easy and demonstrative. At the same time, perhaps his strongest characteristic was reserve ; areserve so deep-seated and hab- itual that even the familiarity of years, and entire mutua confidence did not do much towards really removing it, even after it had ceased to be a concealment. His repugnance to speaking of matters which touched him closely, though there might be nothing in them that he wished in the least to con- ceal, was remarkable, and stood in strange contrast with the extreme irreverence and the off-hand way in which he handled any topics of only general interest. This reserve was not always passive merely or silent, but aggressive, and showed itself in banter and mystification, and in an assumed cynicism, which formed much of the surface he showed to the world. Beneath this, the real man was of an almost childlike simplicity and affectionateness, and of an integrity that revealed itself in naive astonishment when he found the disbelief in unselfish motives which he so often professed, really acted upon by another. The key to much that was puzzling in him is to be sought in the combination of quick and even overquick perception, and a lively, impatient dispo- sition (lacking at the same time all heat of temper), with an utter want of that social conscience, that mastering sense of what is usual and what is expected, which makes better citi- zens sometimes of persons far more scantily provided by nature than he. The absence of it saved him no doubt from many snares that beset most men’s paths, but he missed with it the useful effect of the old ruts of convention in utilizing energy and in supplying a ready-made guidance always at hand, and at any rate much better than none. Dr. Bryant said of himself that his great defect was too much quick- ness. What he needed was to run weighted and between fences. Wanting these external helps, driven by his viva- cious temperament, impatient of inaction and still more im- patient of routine, his energies found no suitable outlet in 79 steady work, but escaped in an irregular and fitful way, in self-appointed tasks, shrewdly planned and admirably exe- cuted, so far as they were executed at all, but undertaken, avoided, or dropped rather as whim or chance might dictate, than of any settled purpose. Iil-health had, no doubt, much to do with this. But the waste of force was aggravated by something deeper than mere bodily disturbances. His insufficiently balanced en- ergy made him hard to please with any attainable results of his own or others, not from censoriousness, for there was not a grain of malice or sourness in him, but with the necessary effect, often, to leave him to take up with something inferior merely as less inviting attack. He dearly loved thoroughness, and insisted upon it in all that he did or directed, and in himself or in others could more easily tolerate omission than slack performance. His acute logical intellect took nothing for granted and received nothing upon hearsay or second-hand assurance. This love of exactness, however, was no love of quiddling, but he looked always to substantials, and readily seized the point of real importance. Hence it was, no doubt, that with all his tenacity of purpose he always gained and kept the respect and attachment of those with whom he had to do, for they felt that it had in it nothing of fussiness or self-importance, but came only from an uncompromising adherence to a really elevated standard. He was true as steel, through and through genuine, and with far more kindliness and far wider comprehensiveness and sympathy than he ever liked to show. In his dealings with others, his intellectual honesty and clearness of sight, his horror of fallacies and conventionali- ties, together with his recklessness of appearances and of consequences made him impatient of any suspension of judg- ment, and needlessly intolerant of those buffers of sentiment which between most people ease off the shocks that human infirmities render inevitable. He must go straight to the end that happened at the moment to be before him, and the consequence was a certain want of poise and of breadth of view. Upon these obstructions he wasted too much of his 80 strength ; and though he made his mark and lived not in vain, yet now only his friends can know what possibilities lay in him, and how superficial were the hindrances that pre- vented them from being fully realized. They alone can know the real elevation of purpose and the real humanity that were often hidden from the eyes of the world under an assumed air of carelessness or of cynicism. Dr. Bryant was elected a member of the Society Novem- ber, 1841, and appointed cabinet-keeper at the annual meet- ing in 1843, but resigned November Ist of the same year. In 1854 he was elected Curator of Ornithology, which office he filled until his death. In 1855 he also took charge of the Entomological collection for a time. During his connection with the Society he read the fol- lowing Communications and Papers, which were published by the Society. 1853. February 3. A paper on the non-identity of Grus canadensis and Grus americana. 1857. January 21. On the birds observed at Grand Manan and at Yarmouth, N. 8, from June 16th to July 8th, 1856. March 4. Communication on the supposed new species of Turkey from Mexico, described by Mr. Gould. 1859. January 19. On birds observed by him in East Florida, south of St. Augustine. July 6. A list of birds seen at the Bahamas from January 20th to May 14th, 1859, with descriptions of new or little- known species. 1860. January 18. ‘A Paper on Turdus minimus and Vireo bogoten- sis, from Bogota. 1861. January 16. Remarks on some of the birds that breed in the Gulf of St. Lawrenee. March 6. Remarks on the variations of plumage in Buteo borealis Auct., and Buteo Harlani Auct. March 20. Monograph on the Genus Catarractes Moehring. 1863. July 1. Description of two birds from the Bahama Islands, hitherto undescribed; Pitangus bahamensis and Saurothera bahamensis. December 16. Description of a new variety of Parus from Yarmouth, N. S.; also Remarks on the Genus Galeoscoptes Cabanis, with the characters of two new genera, and a de- scription of Turdus plumbeus Linn. 81 1865. January 4. Remarks on the type of Buteo insignatus ; also Remarks on Sphyropicus varius Linn. 1866. January 3. A list of birds from Porto Rico presented to the Smithsonian Institution by Messrs. Robert Swift and George Latimer, with descriptions of new species and varieties. October 17. Addition to a list of birds seen at the Bahamas. December 5. A list of the birds of St. Domingo with descrip tions of some new species or varieties. Dr. Bryant also published in the Comptes Rendus, xxv1, p. 276, 1848, a paper on the Corpus striatum in birds. During the last ten years he made the following expedi- tions for scientific research and collections, viz.: To Grand Manan, Florida, Bahamas, Florida, Canada and Labrador, North Carolina, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Porto Rico. His Donations to the Society are as follows :— 1859. A collection of reptiles, fishes, crustaceans and shells from the Bahamas. 1860. Miscellaneous collections from Labrador and Florida. 1861. A valuable collection of skins of mammals procured by him through the Smithsonian Institution. 1864. Three hundred mounted foreign birds from his own collec- tion, and three hundred and forty-six specimens of mounted birds obtained by him from the Smithsonian Institution; the specimens from this Institution, in the last two donations, haying been procured through pecuniary aid received from him. 1865. Twenty-five hundred specimens, chiefly shells and insects. Five hundred specimens of fossils from Lyme Regis. 1866. The magnificent Lafresnaye collection of birds, containing nearly nine thousand speeimens, was purchased by him at Falaise, France, and presented to the Society. Of this addition to the Mu- seum, Prof. Baird, in a letter to the Committee, writes as follows :—* I have little hesitation in saying that no other single cabinet in Europe. public or private, contains so many types of American species, and could I have chosen at will, J certainly would have selected that in your possession as the most desirable to have in America. This is due to the fact that Lafresnaye, during the many years in which he was occupied in forming his collection, was the principal authority for South American ornithology ; and nearly all the principal ; gatherings from Bogota, Ecuador, Bolivia, etc., passed into his hands for descrip- tion, and either by purchase or donation he retained for himself types of has species.” CONDITION AND DOINGS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, AS EXHIBITED BY THE ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE CUSTODIAN, TREASURER, LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS. MAY, 1868. BOSTON : PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY. 1868. LIST OF OFFICERS IN APRIL, 1868. PRESIDENT, JEFFRIES WYMAN, M.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS, CHARLES T. JACKSON, M.D., THOMAS T. BOUVE. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, SAMUEL L. ABBOT, M.D. RECORDING SECRETARY, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, TREASURER, EDWARD PICKERING. LIBRARIAN, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. CUSTODIAN, SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. THOMAS T. BOUVE, THOMAS M. BREWER, M.D., JAMES C. WHITE, M.D., SAMUEL H. SCUDDER, FREDERIC W. PUTNAM, B. JOY JEFFRIES, M.D., ALPHEUS HYATT, A. S. PACKARD, JR., M.D., ADDISON E. VERRILL, HORACE MANN, BURT G. WILDER, M. D., WILLIAM T. BRIGHAM, J. ELLIOT CABOT, EDWARD S. MORSE, CURATORS, MINERALS. Brrps; (NESTS AND Ea@s). MAMMALS AND Comp, ANATOMY, INSECTS. FIsHEs. Mickoscopy. PALZONTOLOGY. CRUSTACEANS, RADIATES. Borany. REPTILES. GEOLOGY. Brrps. MOLLUSKS. REPORT OF THE CUSTODIAN OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY, EMBODYING THE REPORTS OF THE LIBRARIAN AND CURATORS OF THE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS, FOR 1867-68. Dvurine the year now brought to a close, the work of con- struction, partially sketched in my last report, has been carried successfully forward, and to-night for the first time, we hold our anniversary in the lecture hall, which has proved for eight months so well adapted to its purpose. In addition, two exhibition rooms have been fitted up, new cases built in several departments, and galleries constructed for the cab- inets which will soon be required; the working apartments have been doubled in number and increased in efficiency ; a second library room has been furnished and occupied; a printing office added to the establishment; and, on sanitary grounds, the Janitor’s apartment entirely remodeled. The completion of the lecture room has enabled us to carry out a long cherished plan of giving public courses of popular lectures on natural history—an experiment which the Society in its younger days was one of the first to in- augurate; the Council has not yet fully perfected its plans a and two courses only have been given; the first, by Mr. E. 8. Morse, Curator of Mollusks, upon the natural history of Shell Fish, a series of six lectures, at which about sixty persons were present; the second, by Mr. Horace Mann, Curator of Botany, upon the structure of Plants, a series of eight lec- tures, attended by about one hundred persons. Twenty general meetings of the Society, seven of the Section of Microscopy, and nine of the Section of Entomol- ogy have been held during the year. The average attend- ance at the general meetings has been nearly forty, and at each of the Sections a little more than nine. At these meetings, eighty-six communications — nearly double the number nee the previous year—have been pre- sented by thirty-nine individuals, viz., fifty-six communica- tions by thirty-one individuals at the general meetings ; four communications by two individuals at the meetings of the Section of Microscopy ; and twenty-six communications by eight individuals at those of the Section of Entomology, under the following titles :— A. Acassiz. On the position of the sandstone of the southern slope of a portion of Keweenaw Pomt, Lake Superior. June, — 5, 1867. Pror. L. AGassiz. Remarks upon the antiquity of man. October 16, 1867. Remarks upon Dr. Wilder’s paper, on the want of symmetry in leaves. November 6, 1867. Comparison of the aurochs of Europe with the bison of America. November 6, 1867. Remarks on the age of certain rocks in Scotland, formerly referred to the Old Red Sandstone. November 20, 1867. Remarks upon the Rev. Mr. Perry’s paper, on the Red Sandstone of Vermont. December 18, 1867. Observations upon the classification of the Siluroid fishes. De- cember 18, 1867. T. T. Bouvé. Notice of new localities of minerals. Jay 1, 1867. 5 A. S. Broxmore. Some notes of a short journey on the Island of Yesso, and remarks on the Ainos. December 4, 1867. Sketch of a journey through the interior of China from Canton to Haukow. February 19, 1868. On the Ainos, or hairy men, of Yesso, Saghalien and the Kurile © Islands. March 4, 1868. Dr. T. M. Brewer. Defence of the house sparrow from the de- structive habits attributed toit. February 5, 1868. W.T. BrigHam. Remarks on the form of volcanic craters. Nov- ember 20, 1867. Dr. E. P. Corby. Notice of the capture of Coccinella similis Rand. November 27, 1867. J. Curtis. Notice of a stone image found in a cave near Knoxville, Tenn. May 15, 1867. A. M. Epwarps. Note on a point in the habits of Diatomacee and Desmidiaceez. January 8, 1868. Pror. GAMGEE. On the use of carbonic oxide gas for the preserva- tion of meat in large quantities. April 1, 1868. Dr. JonN GREEN. On binocular vision. July 3, 1867. Dr. H. Hacen. The Odonat-fauna of the Island of Cuba. Septem- ber 25, 1867. Remarks on a species of Chelifer found attached to the legs of a fly. November 27, 1867. Lachlania abnormis, a new genus and species of Ephemerina from Cuba. January 22, 1868. Remarks on some Ameriean species of Psocus. January 22, 1868. Description of an apterous Termes from Japan. February 26, 1868. Extracts from newspapers and private letters concerning a meteor seen in Prussia. March 18, 1868. Notice of an orthopterous insect which deposits its eggs in the stems of the cotton plant. March 25, 1868. On the Pseudoscorpions of America. March 25, 1868. 6 E. D. Harris. Remarks upon the character and habits of various breeds of domesticated pigeons. January 3, 1868. J. L. Hayes. The Angora goat; its origin, culture and products. March 18, 1868. W. Hoxie. Notice of a peculiar habit of blue jays. June 19, 1867. Dr. C. T. Jackson. Analysis of fossil guano from the neighborhood of Charleston, 8. C. February 19, 1868. Recent methods for the preservation and coloration of wood. April 15, 1868. Dr. B. Joy Jerrries. On the deceptive appearance which lines present when they meet at certain angles. March 18, 1868. Dr. S. Kyretanp. On the relation of the plumage of birds to their modes of nidification. November 20, 1867. Dr. G. Lincecum. Notice of the destructive grasshoppers of Texas. March 25, 1868. T. Lyman. Remarks on the artificial reproduction of the shad. January 3, 1868. On methods used in hatching the spawn of the shad. February 19, 1868. H. Mann. Remarks on the fruit of Cyclanthera explodens. Sep- tember 18, 1867. J.C. Merrity, Jr. Notice of the occurrence of Pieris rape in Vermont. September 25, 1867. E. S. Morse. Remarks on the principle of cephalization applied to the classification of Mollusca. September 18, 1867. Remarks on the shell-heaps of Casco Bay. September 18, 1867. Remarks on the probable age of the shell-heaps of Casco Bay. October 2, 1867. On the mode of growth of a new entomostracous Crustacean. March 4, 1868. W.H. Nires. Remarks on the principle of cephalization applied to the classification of Echinoderms. September 18, 1867. T Dr. A. S. Packarp, Jr. On the development of a species of Di- plax. January 22, 1868. Remarks on insects which live, during their earlier stages, in brine or salt water. January 22, 1868. On the structure of the ovipositor and of the parts in the male insect homologous to it. /ebruary 26, 1868. Rey. J. B. Perry. Queries on the Red Sandstone of Vermont, and its relations to other rocks. December 18, 1867. E. N. Riorre. Description of a new mineral, stetefeldtite. May AES Gre F. G. Sansorn. Remarks on some interesting insects. November 27, 1867. S. H. Scupprr. Additional notes on the Odonata of the Isle of Pines and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. September 25, 1867. Notes on the stridulation of some New England Orthoptera. Oc- tober 23, 1867. Remarks on the stridulation of Orthoptera. November 6, 1867. Notice of a curious specimen of Diapheromera. November 27, 1867. Remarks on Dr. Packard’s paper, concerning the development of Diplax. January 22, 1868. Considerations drawn from the study of Mole-crickets. January 22, 1868. Supplement to a list of the butterflies of New England. January 22, 1868. On the rank of the families of Orthoptera. February 5, 1868. Notice of some new butterflies from Iowa. February 26, 1868. ~ Remarks on two new fossil insects from the carboniferous formation in America. February 26, 1868. On an orthopterous insect which deposits its eggs in the stem of the cotton plant. March 25, 1868. Description of anew species of butterfly, Thecla Juanita. March 25, 1868. C. Sropper. Description of Navicula carassius Ehr. October 9, 1867. Remarks upon the resolution of Nobert’s test lines. December 11, 1867. 8 On soundings made off the coast of Maine, near Mt. Desert Island. April 8, 1868. Dr. D. H. Storer. Notice of his history of the fishes of Massa- chusetts. November 6, 1867. Dr. E. L. Sturtevant. Note on the occurrence of Pinus strobi in a peat bog in Framingham, Mass. February 19, 1868. L. Trovuvetor. On some parasites of the common rabbit. March 25, 1868. P. R. Unter. Some remarks upon the Odonata of Hayti. -Septem- ber 25, 1867. G. L. Vose. On the distortion of pebbles in conglomerates ; with illustrations from Rangely Lake, in Maine. January 3, 1868. Rev. R. C. Waterston. On the changes undergone by feathers in a pillow-case long in use. June 5, 1867. Tribute to Mr. Thomas Bulfinch. June 19, 1867. W. WickersHam. On the travelling of rocks. July 3, 1867. Dr. B. G. Witper. Description of a new method of collecting and arranging information. May 15, 1868. Remarks on the so-called gorilla and ‘‘what is it” in Barnum’s Museum. October 16, 1867. Remarks upon the want of perfect symmetry in the leaves of elms and hop-hornbeams. November 6, 1867. Dr. J. Wyman. Notice of a shell-heap in Salisbury, Mass. May 15, 1867. On symmetry and homology in limbs. June 5, 1867. Notice of the propensity of female spiders to destroy their mates. September 18, 1867. Description of the shell-heaps of Mt. Desert. September 18, 1867. Remarks on a collection of flint implements from Norway and the Island of Riigen. October 2, 1867. On the former occurrence of the great auk in Maine. October 16, 1867. Notice of a visit to the Dighton Rock. October 16, 1867. On the position of the foramen magnum in the different races of men. November 20, 1867. 9 Résumé of observations on the shell-heaps of New England. De- cember 4, 1867. On the after-impression.of objects. March 18, 1868. Observations upon crania. April 15, 1868. We have elected during the past year one Honorary Member, two Corresponding and forty Resident Members. Of the latter, thirteen have not yet ratified their election by complying with the requirements of the Constitution ; two of the thirteen have paid their entrance fee but have not yet signed the Constitution; while eleven have neither signed the Constitution nor paid the initiation. By arecent change in the By-Law regulating admission to the Society, persons elected to resident membership are re- quired to comply with specified conditions within six months or forfeit the opportunity of fellowship; and, by a vote of the Council, those who were elected previous to 1867 and neglected to respond within a definite time to a recent, spe- cial request to ratify their election to membership, were dropped from the list. Lists of members will hereafter be printed annually and the confusion and mistakes of former years avoided. There has been no essential change in the subscription list of our Publications; a few names have been withdrawn and a few more added. Early in the year we issued the second part of our Me- moirs, containing papers by Dr. Coues, on the Osteology and Myology of the Colymbus torquatus; by Mr. Scudder, on two fossil insects from the carboniferous formation of Illinois, with a discussion of the importance, for classification, of characters drawn from the neuration of the wing; by Mr. Hyatt, on the occurence of features characteristic of old age among Cepha- lopods, at the period of the decadence of that group; and by Dr. Packard, on the glacial phenomena he had observed in Labrador and Maine, together with a review of the recent invertebrates of Labrador. Within a few weeks, the third 10 part of the Memoirs has been published and the printing of the fourth and concluding part commenced. The third part contains two papers; one by Prof. Clark, giving the descrip- tion and history of many species of sponges, for the purpose of proving their animality; the other, by Mr. Brigham, em- bracing both his own and all previous observations upon the volcanoes and volcanic phenomena of the Hawaiian Islands. We have completed the eleventh volume of the Proceedings, issued the Annual Report for 1867, and published a small edition of the supplement to Prof. Hentz’s Araneides of the United States, extracted from the eleventh volume of the Proceedings. A new edition of six signatures of the eighth volume of the Proceedings has been printed and copies of the complete volume can now be had. In the twelfth volume some improvements in typography will be introduced. About sixty pages of the Entomological Corres- pondence of the late Dr. T. W. Harris (mentioned im the last Report) arein type; the book will be issued during the coming summer or autumn as the first of a series of inde- pendent works, to be entitled Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. The first Annual of the Society, containing its Charter and Constitution, a sketch of its history, catalogues of the officers and members with their addresses and other similar lists, may be expected in a few days. It will be published every May, and furnished gratuitously to any member who will keep the Secretary informed of his correct address. The establishment of a printing office within the Museum has enabled us not only to print an unusual amount apart from our regular issues, but the Proceedings them- selves have advanced so rapidly that we have ready for de- livery all the printed Records of the Society up to this eve- ning’s report. A comparison of the dates of the meetings for the past ten years, with those of the signatures of the Proceedings in which the records occur, will show that on an average, six or eight months have elapsed between the i reading and the publication of a paper; we now propose to maintain the position we have gained and print every article with the utmost promptness. By exchanges with correspondents we have sent away 270 parts of the Memoirs, 110 parts of the old Journal (half of which were imperfect), 66 complete volumes of the Pro- ceedings, unbound sheets which would more than double the amount, and 41 copies of the annual Reports. The Smithsonian Institution, by its transmission of these publica- tions to all parts of the world, free of expense, has laid us under renewed obligations. In response to our requests we have received from the following Societies many early volumes of their Transactions: Société des Sciences Naturelles a AN . : . Neuchatel. Journal de Conchyliologie at te Ry, DUR see ee Manis Entomological Society . .~ _. London. Senckenbergische abentonsabends Gesellschaft . . Frankfurt a. M. Naturhistorisch-medizinischer Verein. - - Heidelberg. Imper. Russkoe Geographitsheskoe Obshtskaseen : . St. Petersburg. Obshtshestvo Seljskago Khozjaistva Joujnoi Rossii . . Odessa. Naturhistorische Gesellschaft . i eee) ook NUrmbers. Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen . ° Middelburg. Académie Impériale des Sciences, Arts et Ballas Letien. Dijon. Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles . : Bordeaux. Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Boat Arts de Belgique . 3 > : P “ > - Bruxelles. Naturforschende Gesellschaft . . . . . + #~. Bern. Naturhistorischer Verein . oe 0 ' Mee ee eae AUD Spur. Deutsche geologische Gesellschaft . . . . . Berlin. Royal Society . é - . Edinburgh. Hollandsche eencolizppit der Welenschapyaen - - Haarlem. Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes - _. Altenburg. Liverpool Geological Society . . . «. «. . Liverpool. Glasgow Philosophical Society =, le) teen yet to Glasrows Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique is! y=. bruxelles. We must especially thank the Academy of Dijon, the Geological Society of Berlin, the Royal Society of Edin- burgh, the Society of Sciences at Haarlem and the Natural History Society of Altenburg, which have favored us with 12 very extensive series of their publications, long needed in our library. We have now upon our lists the names of three hundred and fourteen corresponding institutions, fifteen of which have been added during the year, viz:— State Agricultural Society .- By osc ak BE Sons ae Société d’Emulation du Doubs Besancon. Werner-Verein zur geologischen Darthii@eckanng yon Mahren und Schlesien - Briinn. Société Malacologique de Belgique . Bruxelles. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology Cambridge, Eng. Association Zoologique du Léman Genéve. Verein fiir siebenbiirgische Landeskunde - Hermannstadt. Société d' Agriculture, Sciences, Arts et Commerce ie Puy Le Puy. Journal of Travel ana inkatel Story London. American Atheneum New York. Revue de I’ Horticulture Paris. Landes-ober-Realschule und Raul’Gyuidierdiaw St. Pélten. Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, Geologie und Palacéii- tologie Stuttgart. Société teeter sectetens Rte et Belles-Lettres af Département d’Indre-et-Loire Tours. Scientific Association of Trinidad Trinidad. One topic, connected with the general interests of the Society, demands our attention. During the life of our late honored Vice President, Dr. A. A. Gould, the Legislature of Massachusetts authorized the republication of his valuable work on the Invertebrates of Massachusetts, with additional text and illustrations; a small edition of twelve hundred copies was provided for, at an expense of $4000; two hundred copies of the work were to be placed in the hands of the author, and about four hundred distributed among the mem- bers of the legislature and officers of the Commonwealth; the disposition of the residue was left to a future legislature. Dr. Gould, as you all know, died before the completion of the work, and the Governor very appropriately com- missioned Mr. W. G. Binney to finish the task. Ow- ing to the loss of the original copperplates and the ad- 13 vanced price of labor and material, Mr. Binney was obliged to ask for a double appropriation; the request has just been granted, and, at the same time, a further distribution of the edition determined on, by which each member of the pres- ent legislature and every public library in the Common- wealth will be provided with a copy, and the remainder— not fifty copies at the most—placed for distribution in the hands of the Trustees of the State Library. Anxious that a work so important, and so creditable to the State should be widely circulated among scientific institutions, the Council of the Society petitioned for an extension of the edition and a supply of five hundred copies to be sent abroad through its agency. The request was acknowledged to be reasonable and more important to the State than to the Society, but was denied upon the ground of its expense (about $1500). The meagre edition provided for, will thus be almost exclusively distributed among those who will value it little for its scien- tific merits; and, since neither the text is to be stereotyped nor the plates preserved, it is improbable that another edi- tion will ever be printed. It will be known in Europe, only by a few copies in the large libraries, and before many years we shall hear unjust complaints of the negligence of Eu- ropean authors to give due credit to American writers. The following table gives a summary of the additions to the Library by volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets and maps or charts. Octayo. |] Quarto. || Folio. Mapa vls|pts phi vis ptsjph. vis [pts|ph. \Ch’ts To’ Books presented by individuals. . 57| 8/101} 33) 3] 13)) 19) 1 8) 243 * ? «« Publishing Com. 14) 4 1) 2 21 Pop aperpnased yy ii). tka 17| 14/205} 5} 24) 6]} 2) 21) 1 295 “« deposited in Binney library . 27 3] 3 2 35 “s ** by the Republican In- AitieOM! S| 20 20 “received in exchange. . . il 72\| 61/158) 17 56 2)/1083 otal . |{s00'512/385|fo2ltse) gall 2al zal al a0l607 14 As an additional room has been fitted up for the library, much of the time needed for the completion of unfinished work, mentioned in former reports, has been used in arrang- ing and numbering the books in the new apartment and rearranging those in the front library. Temporary assist- ance has, however, been granted during the past few months, and some progress effected. The alcove catalogue of the front library is nearly completed, the pamphlets have been newly classified and their cataloguing commenced. A few months ago the Council appropriated several hun- dred dollars towards binding serial works, and we are pleased to announce that it has recently authorized the employment of a binder in the building; in a short time the appearance of the library will be greatly improved, few books having been bound during the past five years. The gallery of the front library is now devoted to the transactions of societies and the Lloyd library of the Repub- lican Institution. The floor is oveupied by works on gen- eral anatomy and natural history, vertebrates, botany, local faune and flor, geology, mineralogy, travels and voyages. The rear library contains the Bailey library of microscopy, works on insects, mollusks and radiates, scientific journals, en- cyclopzedias, bibliographical works, and other volumes on mis- cellaneous topics. We have also provided a cabinet of port- folios and sliding shelves for the imperial folios, cases for the books recently received and additional closets for the pub- lications. Four hundred and sixty-four books have been borrowed from the Library by seventy-five persons. The additions to the Museum are estimated at 115,000 specimens received in one hundred and thirty-nine lots; the most important are the following; the North American birds’ eggs and the series of humming birds and nests, selected in Europe by the late Dr. Henry Bryant, and presented by Mrs. Bryant; the collection of rock specimens, minerals and fossils, 15 received from Dr. C. T. Jackson, and the Guatemalan animals purchased of Dr. Van Patten. Under the joint auspices of the Smithsonian Institution and this Society, Col. Grayson has successfully explored the natural history, and especially the ornithology, of the island of Socorro, one of the Revillagigedos, situated off the west coast of America, in latitude 19° N. The birds obtained, although not very numerous, prove of peculiar interest; they are nearly all new to science, and distinct from the species, either of the neighboring continent, or of the Tres Marias, islands still nearer the coast. The manuscript notes of Col. Grayson, together with the animals obtained, are in the hands of Professor Baird, who will furnish a memoir upon them, for our publications. Besides the work of construction already referred to, we have opened in the Museum a geological room, together with the botanical room in its rear, which had been closed during the preparation of the former. Storage, packing and _ spirit rooms have been fitted up in the basement, and the elevator rendered more serviceable by its removal to the opposite side of the building. About a year ago, the Council secured temporary aid for the arrangement of the Mollusks, and in the month of January, engaged Mr. F. G. Sanborn as perma- nent assistant. In addition, a new system of labelling the collections has been lately introduced, which will add much to their unity, attractive appearance and ready usefulness, and the cases have been numbered, as a preliminary step to the preparation of a Visitor’s Guide Book. The number of visitors to the museum has probably in- creased, but the demand upon the Janitor’s time during the work of construction has rendered his enumeration very imperfect; by count there have been 34,625 visitors during the year. The museum has been open to the public one hundred and five days; on Thursdays, to ticket holders, fifty-three days; the average attendance on public days has 16 been three hundred and nineteen; the greatest number of visitors, during any one day, eight hundred and forty, on the second of November. The facilities of approach to the museum offered by the new line of horse cars, will doubtless augment these numbers in the future. The additions to the department of Mammals and Com- parative Anatomy during the year, are as follows: skele- tons, 1; parts of skeletons, 1; skulls, 6; skins of mammals, 9; mammals in spirits, 4; miscellaneous, 2; total 23. The most important of these is a collection of skulls from Ariz- ona, given by Dr. J. W. Merriam, and a fresh skin of a male caribou, two years old, received from Messrs. J. H. and C. D. Presho. About two hundred unmounted skins have been crefully examined, poisoned and packed away in glazed cases, where they will remain in safety until they can be mounted. The horns of ruminants, which were taken down during the construction of a gallery in the room devoted to skeletons and skulls, have been replaced in posi- tion, and newly labelled. Other additions have been made to this department by purchase, and through the favor of Drs. G. H. Brown, J..B. S. Jackson, W. M. Ogden, Messrs. W. T. Brigham, J. W. Clarke, W. W. Goodhue, J. R. John- son, J. C. Little, Jr. 8. J. Mixter, J. Norton, F. G. Sanborn, C. A. Stearns and the Smithsonian Institution. Two cases have been added to the Bird cabinets by closing up windows on the southwesterly side of the square rooms, and new skylights constructed, which throw a much _bet- ter light upon the specimens; by the removal of the rep- tiles from the main hall, the whole of the first gallery has been devoted to birds, thus partially relieving the crowded condition of certain cases, and enabling the Curator to make some progress toward a special collection of Massachu- setts birds ; specimens of the latter are solicited, either in the 17 fresh state or in skins. The following list of desiderata has been furnished by the Curator :— Sparrow Hawk. Solitary Vireo. Marsh ° Cat-Bird. Hairy Woodpecker. Brown Thrush or Thrasher. Yellow-bellied “ Common Wren. Ruby-throated Humming-bird. | Brown Creeper. Whippoorwill. Chickadee. Night Hawk. Goldfinch. (¢) King-bird. American Crossbill. (¢) Least Flycatcher. White-winged “ (9) Acadian - “ Bay-winged Finch. Trails. Yellow-winged Sparrow. Wood Thrush. Blue Snow-Bird. Blue-Bird. Chipping Sparrow. Ruby-crowned Wren. Fox-coloured “ Golden-crested “ Black-throated Bunting. Mourning Warbler. Baltimore Oriole. (3) Connecticut “ Crow. Worm-eating ‘“ American Bittern. Nashville ms Night Heron. Black-throated Green Warbler. Willet. cS “Blue as Dusky Duck. Blackburnian 3 Pintail. Prairie o- King Eider. Scarlet Tanager. (¢) Common Tern. Bank Swallow. Arctic . Great Northern Shrike or Roseate = Butcher-Bird. Least ‘ Warbling Vireo. Red-throated Loon. Most valuable additions have been made to this depart- ment during the year. Besides the rich and varied series of humming birds, embracing over seven hundred specimens, and perhaps three hundred species—the gift of Mrs. Bryant— a collection of more than two thousand Guatamalan birds was purchased from Dr. Van Patten. For other additions we are indebted to Mrs. H. F. Chase, Messrs. G. A. Boardman, J. E. Cabot, C. Cowing, E. C. Derby, J. Ennis, C. Q. Hill, P. 2 18 R. Hunt, F. Perrin, J. Ritchie, S. H. Sylvester and the Smithsonian Institution. - The department of the Nests and Eggs of Birds has been enriched by the collection of eggs presented by Mrs. Bryant, numbering 1500 specimens of more than 350 species; the greater part are from North America, and were chosen by Dr. Bryant himself, as a first selection from the duplicates of the Smithsonian Institution. A suite of nests, 75 in number, accompanied the collection of humming birds, already men- tioned as the gift of Mrs. Bryant. A number of nests and eggs of American birds have been received from the Smith- sonian Institution, and a few other donations from Rey. J. M. Hubbard and Messrs. W. T. Brigham and D. F. Carlton. The law permitting scientific museums to obtain alcohol free of excise, enabled us to purchase a large quantity ata low price ;?_ as a sufficient number of glass jars has also been procured, the restrictions formerly resting on the Curators of reptiles and fishes, are now wholly removed; a room has been furnished for their special use, and the public will soon be invited to witness the progress which has been made in these departments. The dry specimens of Reptiles have been carefully poi- soned and prepared for exhibition, and the wet specimens examined, separated and placed in a safe condition. The collection will soon be transferred to new cases, where the American and foreign specimens are to be arranged sep- arately by orders. The Curator reports eight hundred speci- mens in this department, to three hundred and thirty-three of which localities are attached. About fifty of these local- ized specimens are dry; of the alcoholic specimens, 155 are North American and 128 exotic; the former comprise 29 Ichthyodi or tailed batrachians, 20 Anura or tailless batrach- ‘ Unfortunately the law has been recently rescinded, and much of what we had obtained is already consumed. 19 ians, 65 Ophidians or serpents, 34 Saurians or lizards, and 7 Chelonians or turtles; the foreign specimens number 6 Ichthyodi, 15 Anura, 61 Ophidians, 45 Saurians, and 3 Chelonians,— most of the localized specimens representing as many different species. Where the locality of specimens is unknown (and this unfortunately includes more than half of the collection, although many of them are duplicates), the specimens are divided as follows: 51 Ichthyodi, 68 Anura, 285 Ophidians, 164 Saurians, and 10 Chelonians. These can only be used for anatomical purposes, or as illus- trations of the different groups; in view of their great number, the Curator wishes to remind donors of the com- paratively slight value of a specimen where the locality is unknown, and to express his regret that some of the donations of the past year have been deficient in this respect. Sixty-one specimens have been added to the department, the most valuable being a small collection of foreign species from Mr. W. T. Brigham, and a few reptiles from the Guatemalan collection purchased of Dr. Van Patten; for the rest we are indebted to Mrs. D. D. Hughes, Drs. G. H. Brown, and E. P. Colby, and Messrs. W. T. Brigham, R. C. Greenleaf, A. Reynolds and F. G. Sanborn. As the Fishes have been stored for a long time, many of them in kegs and cans, they will require much prepara- tion before they can be exhibited ; yet the Curator hopes to open the room to the public within a few weeks, and to com- plete the arrangement of the collection during the present season. The most interesting additions to the department have been obtained by purchase; they comprise a series of specimens of small fish, collected by Mr. J. A. Allen, from small streams on either side of the “ great divide” in central Towa, separating the waters of the Mississippi and Missouri, and a few Guatemalan fish purchased of Dr. Van Patten. Drs. G. H. Brown, and J. Homans, Capt. N. E. Atwood, and 20 Messrs. E. Bicknell, N. H. Bishop, W. T. Brigham and P. R. Hunt, have made small donations during the year. The meetings of the Section of Entomology have been remarkably sustained, often proving as full of interest as the general meetings of the Society; almost every month several papers have been read. By the construction of a working- room, the insect cabinets, formerly scattered through various parts of the building, have been brought together; during their storage in inaccessible places, some injury resulted from the ravages of Anthreni, and, although these pests have been carefully eradicated, only constant vigilance, which the centralization of the collection will now permit, can ensure its safety. Over forty trays have been arranged and placed on exhibition. The collection of Guatemalan insects, pur- chased of Dr. Van Patten, is very rich in duplicates, and enables us not only to effect exchanges with museums and individuals, but affords an opportunity, seldom enjoyed, of studying the variation of tropical species. With the assistance proffered by Mr. P. 8. Sprague, about one thou- sand Coleoptera have been selected from this collection, set and arranged, while Mr. Sanborn has spread and displayed half as many Guatemalan Lepidoptera. The following per- sons have presented specimens to the department: Miss Lucy Brewer, Rey. I. F. Holton, Drs. G. H. Brown, 8. Knee- land, I. T. Talbot, and C. E. Ware, Capt. Lewis, Messrs. E. N. Abbott, F. W. Brewer, W. S. Brewer, W. T. Brigham, J. W. Brooks, E. Burgess, E. C. Cabot, R. C. Greenleaf, C. Q. Hill, S. Hubbard, D. M. King, A. A. Kingman, T. Lyman, J.C. Merrill, Jr, A. Reynolds, 8. H. Scudder and L. Weth- erell, The Lower Articulates remain in the condition reported a year ago; afew purchases have been made, and donations received from Drs. G. H. Brown, and J. B. 8. Jackson, and Messrs. N. H. Bishop and W. T. Brigham. 21 At the time of the last annual meeting the Curator of Mollusks was engaged to devote three consecutive months to the arrangement of that collection; but mechanics were at work so long in the exhibition room and laboratory devo- ted to the department, that he could only commence his task a month after the expiration of the specified time; other engagements made it impossible for him to renew the agreement, but every day that could be spared since then has been given up to the collection. The labor has nec- essarily been of a preliminary character; boxes have been unpacked, complete suites separated from the Bartlett Flor- ida collection, the old collections rearranged in the new room, and many of the specimens removed to new trays. Much time has been given to the Pratt collection, and the Massachusetts shells which it contains are all disposed in win- dow cases, permanently mounted on fresh tablets with new labels; the arrangement of the collection will proceed as fast as possible, and a portion of the new room soon be open to the public. We are indebted to Mrs. Henry Bryant for a valuable collection of mollusks, mostly terrestrial, from the Bahamas and other parts of the West Indies, collected by Dr. Bryant. They have been placed for examination in the hands of Mr. Thomas Bland, of New York, who has made the land shells of the West Indies his special study. We have recently purchased an interesting collection of Ha- waiian shells labelled by Mr. W. Harper Pease, and dona- tions have been received from Mrs. Winslow, Drs. F. H. Brown, J. Homans and B. J. Jeffries and Messrs. W. T. Brigham, J. H. Huntington, C. A. Stearns and R. C. Stone. The collection of Radiates is now in a satisfactory condi- tion, so far as its safety and value for scientific study are concerned; the catalogue is nearly completed, the alcoholic collections have been placed in new jars, and many labels written. Much time must be expended in mounting the corals in their natural upright condition, and in making the 22 collection generally interesting to the public. The additions have been few; we have received in exchange from the Museum of Yale College a selection of forty-eight corals and Echinoderms of twenty-one species, nearly all new to the collection, and in great part types of species from Panama and Peru, recently described by the Curator. Capt. Daniel H. Hutchinson has presented us with an exquisite specimen of sponge, the Euplectella speciosa or Venus flower basket, from the Island of Zebu, Philipines, and a few specimens have been received from Drs.G. H. Brown and J. B. 8. Jack- son, Capt. N. E. Atwood and Mr. F. A. Andrews. A new room has been assigned to the department of Microscopy, and the rough material of the Bailey collection transferred to it. According to the provision of Professor Bailey’s will, the mounted material, letters, and manuscripts have been placed, with the books, in a case constructed for that purpose in the rear Library.. Instruments from the Boston optical works, and mounted specimens from the Es- sex Institute microscopical works have been exhibited at almost every meeting of the Section, and have added greatly to the géneral interest. Mr. C. P. Dillaway has presented specimens of soundings from Maine and Louisiana. An’ additional cabinet has been constructed for the Her- barium, the herbarium itself partially rearranged and a new disposition made of the larger objects on exhibition. The Curator has devoted much time and labor to the ex- tensive collection of Algze bequeathed by Professor Bailey, and hopes to complete his work in a few weeks. ' a ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM DURING THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1868. May 15, 1867. Marl from the West Jersey Company’s pits, Glassboro, N. J. by Mr. C. K. Landis. Section from the charter oak of Hartford, Ct., by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Nuts from China, by Dr. S. Green. Two specimens of oxide of manganese by Hon. Albert Fearing. Specimens of ochre and the rock in which it occurs from Lexington, Mass., by Dr. S. Kneeland. June 5. A bird from Wellfleet, Mass., by Mr. C. Cowing. A golden-crowned thrush from Brookline, Mass., by Mr. J. E. Cabot. Skin of common sheep; seeds and seed-vessels of mahogany, etc.; stalk of sugar cane and asphaltum from Barbadoes; Vellela and crustaceans from the N. Atlantic, by Dr. J. B. S. Jack- son. A pair of elk horns, fossil wood and pebbles from Columbia River, Oregon; bark and foliage of Wellingtonia gigantea from Colmesos Grove, Cal.; cinnabar from New Almaden mines, Cal.; black oxide of manganese from San Francisco Bay, Cal.; soap plant and indian implement from California; silver ore from Virginia City and Egon Cafion, Nevada; copper ore from Colorado River, Arizona; siempre viva and shells from Acapulco, Mex.; and Indian im- plements from Maine, by Mr. C. A. Stearns. Ore from the Cheever ore bed. Port Henry, N. Y., by Mr. O. S. Presbrey. June 19. Auriferous and argentiferous galena and quartz, black blende, automatite, auriferous copper pyrites, gold quartz and talco-micaceous slate, from Bridgewater, Vt., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. July 8. A collection of Japanese Lepidoptera and a specimen of Saturnia ceanothi Behr and its cocoon from San Francisco, Cal., by Mr. Samuel Hub- bard. Horned toad, reptiles and insects preserved in alcohol, by Mr. A. Rey- nolds. Tree frogz from Hempstead, Long Island, by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. September 18. Dendrites and egg of cow bunting from Dorchester, Mass., by Mr. D. F. Carlton. A flying fish from the South Pacific, by Dr. J. Homans. Amianthus from Brookline, Mass., by Miss Blaikie. Philampelus satellitia from. Beverly, Mass., by Mr. T. Lyman. An hemipterous insect from Boston, by Dr. Talbot. Luminous larve of Coleoptera from Brookline, by Mr. E. C. Cabot. Tenthredo from Boston, by Mr. L. Wetherell. A mounted loon, by Mr. S. H. Sylvester. Post pliocene fossils from the mouth of the Kennebec River, by Mr. A.A. Kingman. Model of the “Old Man of the Mountains,’’ Franconia Notch, N. H., by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. A white mouse from Framingham, Mass., by Mr. James W. Clark. Florida gallinule, from Easton’s Pond, Newport, R. I., by Mr. John Ennis. October 2. Iron ore from Franklin Fall, Franklin Co., N. Y., by Mr. Gordon 5 66 C. Lane. Salamanders, tree frog and mice from Fire Island beach, Long Island; pickerel from Andover, by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Calamites from Olive Quarry, St. John, N. B., by Mr. G. Barry. Rod of granite, by Dr. B. Joy Jef- fries. Larve of dragon flies from the stomach of a trout, taken in Profile Lake, White Mts. N. H.; green snake from Needham, Mass., by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. October 16. Fungus from White Mts., N. H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Larva of an insect from Cohasset, by Dr. S. Kneeland. Minerals from Arrowsic Island off Bath, Me., by Mr. C. J. Sprague. Double butternut from Grafton, Mass., by Mr. W. T. Brigham. November 6. Spatangoid from West Indies, by Mr. Frank A. Andrews. Cast skin of a black snake from Michigan, by Mrs. D. D. Hughes. Diapheromera Jemorata from Winchester, Mass., by Captain Lewis. Fourteen birds and a pipe fish from Madras, India, by Mr. P. R. Hunt. Body of an African goat from Cape Palmas, by Mr. W. W. Goodhue. White owl from South Weymouth, Mass., by Mr. E. C. Derby. Malformed bone ofa chicken, by Mr J. L. Little, Jr. Centipede, by Mr Chas. Q. Hill. Snail by Dr. J. Homans, Jr. Birds nest from Calcutta, and lizard, by Mr. W. T. Brigham. Skull of Apache Indian, Canis atrans, Lepus, skins of prairie wolf, rattle of rattlesnake, stone axe head used by Apache Indians and minerals from Arizona; ores from California and Mexico, by Dr. J. W. Merriam. Iron ores and glass sandstone from Sylvania, by Mr. J. W. Clarke. November 20. Flamingo from Madras, India, by Mr. P. R. Hunt. Fossil wood from Australia, by Dr. F. Mueller. Prepared skull of human feetus, by Dr. W. M. Ogden. An extensive collection of nests and eggs of birds, chiefly Ameri- can, by Mrs. Dr. Henry Bryant. Fruit of Osage orange, by Mr. W. T. Brigham, Lignite from Martha’s Vineyard, by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Model of the “wel- come nugget” of gold, and Relief Maps of Vesuvius, Etna and Bourbon, by purchase. , December 4. Specimens of 2 Lachnus from the linden trees in Boston, by Mr. S. H. Seudder. Saturnia Polyphemus found on Arbor vite, by Mr. J. C. Merrill, Jr. Rock specimens from Jonesport, Me., by Mr. D. Wellington. Nest of squirrel made in the nest of a catbird from Middleton, Mass., by Rev. J. M. Hubbard. Spine of a ray from Cape Charles, Chesapeake Bay, by Mr. J. R. Johnson. December 18. Quicksilver from California, by Mr W. H. Logan. Mam- mals from Germany, by Mr. Jacob Norton. Bitter oranges from New Orleans, by Dr. S. Kneeland. Crystals of mica from Buckfield, Me., by Mr. J. J. May. January 3, 1868. Soundings from a depth of ten and twenty-five fathoms off. Mt. Desert Island, Me.; deposit of Salt Spring, and specimens of the mud- lumps of the delta of the Mississippi, by Mr. C. P. Dillaway. Building stones of the public buildings in Washington, by the Smithsonian Institution. Shells from near Capetown, Africa, by Mrs. Winslow. Birds from New Brunswick and Maine, by Mr. G. A. Boardman. Variegated clays from Martha’s Vineyard, by Mr. J. C. J. Brown, Jr. Insects from various localities, by Miss Lucey Brewer. January 15. Relief maps of Palma and Teneriffe, by purchase. Lichen from 67 St. Stephen, N. B., by Miss Lydia B. Felt. A collection of six hundred and fifty fishes from various small streams in central Iowa, forty-four reptiles, forty-three Insects, twenty-nine Crustacea, one hundred and eighty-two Mollusca and thirty worms from Iowa, by purchase. Woody bodies from bark of white pine in Templeton, Mass., by Mr. Lucas Baker. Skin of bald eagle, from vicinity of Boston, by Mr. James Ritchie. Land shells from Kahlenberg, near Vienna and salt from mines near Hallstadt, by Dr. F. H. Brown. A wasp’s nest from Wilton, N. H., by Mr. E. N. Abbot. February 5. Fragment of oak enclosing stone, Sutton, Mass., by Mr. H. D. Barnes. A flying fish from near Bermudas, blind fish and craw fish from Mam- moth Cave, Ky., by Mr. N. H. Bishop. A collection of seventy-five nests, one hundred and seventy eggs, forty-four skins and four heads of North Ameri- can Birds and skin of Lepus campestris from Fort Anderson, by the Smithsonian Institution. An owl from Westboro’, Mass., by Mr. Frank Perrin. A collection of about one hundred thousand insects in alcohol, six thousand butterflies, two thousand three hundred birds, three hundred mollusca, seventy- five reptiles, seventy-five fish and five mammals from Guatemala, by purchase. Febuary 19. A mouse, twenty-three lizards, six fishes, one hundred larve and pup of insects, one hundred other insects of various orders, besides one hundred and fifty spiders and myriapods, thirty crustacea, and fifty mollusca from Punahoa, Hawaiian Islands; Orthoptera from Hong Kong and fourteen in- sects from Calcutta, by Mr. W. T. Brigham; one hundred Odonata from Ply- mouth, N. H., Waterbury, Vt., Quincy and Cambridge, Mass.; Orthoptera from Mass. and N. H., by Mr. J. C. Merrill, Jr. Cocoon of Samia Cecropia from Bos- ton, by Mr. 8. H. Scudder. Gills of sword-fish from the Atlantic, by Mr. Edwin Bicknell. An ant’s nest found in an herbarium, and other insects from South Malden, Mass., by Rev. J. F. Holton. Flying fish with barnacles attached, taken in latitude 27°, longitude 26° 20’, by Capt. N. E. Atwood. Fossil or sub- marine guano from near Charleston, S. C., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. Cones of Pinus strobi from peat bogs in Framingham, Mass., by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant; a mouse with diseased head from Boston, by Mr. J. L. Little, Jr. March 4. A collection of over seven hundred humming birds and seventy- five nests of humming birds, and a.large collection of West Indian Mollusca, by Mrs. Dr. Henry Bryant. A bat, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks and echinoderms from Saba, Netherland West Indies, and of reptiles, fishes and mollusks from the Island of Testegus, by Dr. G. H. Brown. March 18. Fungi and specimens of wood from North Wrentham, Mass., by Mr. Luther Hills. Red Squirrel with a white tail from Hardwick, Mass., by Mr. S. J. Mixter. Skin and bones of a caribou from Mocsehead Lake, Me. by Messrs C. D. and J. H. Presho. Two living specimens of Belostoma from Milton, Mass., by Mr. J. W. Brooks. Cocoon of Samia cecropia from Boston, by Mr. A. A. Kingman. Wood of a tree showing the annual growth and cocoon of the bee moth, by Dr. C. E. Ware. Fossil shells from the middle of the boun- dary line between Illinois and Indiana, by Mr. R. C. Stone. Cicada from Bridgewater, Mass., by Mr. D. M. King. petra, by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. Fossils from Sumner Co., Tenn., shells from Natchez Bluff, Miss., and concre- tions from Tennessee, by Mr. H. J. Huntington. 68 , April 1. A gnarled root of spruce from Mt. Washington N. H., by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. Fossil plant from Newport, R. I.; rock salt from the island of Petit Ance, Vermillion Bay, Bayou Téche, La., by Hon. David Sears. A series of specimens from the lacustrine deposits in Robenhausen near Zurich, Switzer- land, by Mr. C. H. Dalton. April 15. Photograph of a bent grave stone in Philadelphia, by Mr. G. L. Vose. A collection of New England Characee and of Vermont Boleti, by Mr. C. C. Frost. Specimens of Coquina from near St. Augustine, by Dr. H. P. Bowditch. A specimen of Euplectella speciosa from the Island of Zebu, Philip- pine Islands, by Capt. Daniel H. Hutchinson. April 22. Six nests of ants, of four species, from Hingham, Mass., by Messrs. F. W. and W. T. Brewer. REPORT OF THE TREASURER ON THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE SOCIETY, FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1868. 70 REPORT OF E. PICKERING, TREASURER, ON THE FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE SOCIETY, For the year ending April 30, 1868. The Receipts and Expenditures for the year have been as follows : Receipts. Dividends and Interest Annual Assessments . Admission Fees Life Membership Walker Fund Income (one halt. ) Saba < Prat hal P 'P a t ascha ‘0 ques A : - c - H. Harris = 5 ° : - A 4 . W.J. Walker ae ; - Total : = 5 - “ - 2 : - Expenditures. New Building, Furniture, Uaxs. Be 7 - ° Repairs of ona I - ‘ . . Cabinet z Library : : : : : ¥ 5 Memoies and Proceedings : . $3,981.16 Less amount of subscription and sale . 530.31 ea and wages Less received from sale of tickets = 152.00 GeneralEixpenses 5... +: ww «« Ue Oe Excess of Receipts over Expenditures ° 71 The following is a statement of the Property of the Society, ex- clusive of the Cabinet and Library. New Building. Cost of Building and Furniture, pe last heaps > Expended during the year. : Buljinch St. Estate Fund. Note secured by mortgage 5 s ‘ : U.S. 5-20 Bonds, $7,550, “costing <, =e | Courtis Fund. St. Louis City Bonds, $10,000 . ae . 3 8 Walker Fund. Notes secured by mortgage. : ‘ U.S. 5-20 eg ni 850, eosting Cash . H. F. Wolcott Fund. U.S. 5-20 Beats, $5, ane, conting Cash . S. P. Pratt Fund. N. Y. Central Railroad Bonds, $10,000 . 5 : : General Fund. 17 Shares Bates Manufacturing Co. Everett Mills 30 “ Hamilton Woollen Man. Co. . 1 ‘* Lawrence Man. Co. ‘ 80 “ Washington Mills . : : 12 ‘* Cocheco Man.Co. . A : : = 2 ‘ Lowell Man. Co. 4 “ tlaconiaMan.Co. . 3 ‘* Pepperell Man. Co. . ll “ Neptune Ins. Co. 18 <‘ Boston Ins. Co. 114 “ Vermont and Canada R. R. Co. 50 ‘* Michigan Central R. R.Co. . $10,000 Bonds, Vermont & Canada and Vermont Cen- tral R. R. Co. 3 2 : : 4 . $10,000 Bonds, ‘Albany 6’s a $10,000 Bonds, Chicago & N. Western R. R. Co, ‘10's $5,000 Bonds, Cook Co. (Illinois) 7’s F $300 U. S. 5-20 Bonds, $300, costing Note Receivable secured by mortgage Miscellaneous. Unsettled Accounts . - : . 2 Cash on hand x 5 : : Total Value of Property May 1, 1867 - . : . Gorlitz. Naturhistorische ES : = = 2 . Hannover. Finska Vetenskaps- Gadicieten : 2 Helsingfors. * Provinciaal Genootschap van Kunsten en Woetensaiianipen Hertogenbosch. Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire : : Pa cnn eG Sales * Zeitschrift fir Wiksanscliattiiche Zoologie + fe es Leipzias Academia Lugduno-Batava . “ “ . Leyden. * Société Impériale des es de > Agriculture et des Arts : . - Lille. Royal Gar neal Recricae Ta O or rasniGri. : iL he:ZGolovistts: "sae. eto. aroun ere et eS “e Konigliche Realschule . . . . « « .« Mesertiz * Société Impériale d’Agriculture . . . . ~~ Moscou. t «des Naturalistes . fs aE bd Die Pollichia: naturwissenschaftlicher versa der Rhein- plalzeie i: EN ee : cya tte : - Neustadt. * Ministére de la Mane : : - . : : . Paris. * Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle : - - : - < Société des Antiquaires de France se “ Géologique de France ohh Se * “ Impériale et Centrale i Aesticia Harr ¢ - A ae * Universidad de Chile . . - + . Santiago. K. K. Zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft Stiijiela sete Of these we must particularly express our thanks to the Imperial Society of Antiquaries, the Minister of the Marine, the Imperial Society of Agriculture, the Geological Society and the Museum of Natural History,—all of Paris, the Uni- versity of Chili, the Leyden Academy, the new Magazine of Natural History at Christiania, the Provincial Society of Sci- ence and Arts in North Brabant, and the Imperial Society of Science, etc., of Lille; they have favored us with extensive series of great importance. The following institutions, in addition to those prefixed by an asterisk in the list above, have been added to our circle of correspondents. State Agricultural Society : . Albany. Ministére de l’Intérieur du Royaume des Pays. Bas . Amsterdam. Natural History and Philosophical Society . : . Belfast. Cambridge Philosophical Society . . . . «. Cambridge, Eng. Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e - ; . Chemnitz. 1869.] 13 {Annual Report. Oekonomische Gesellschaft im Kénigreich Sachsen - Dresden. Botanical Society . oie « ae ... Edinburgh; Societa Entomologica Italiana - : : ° . Firenze. Deutsche Malakozoologische Giceieehan: 6s Pranktorta. M: Universitit 5 at Pas Mrs - Kiel. Historic Society of Lancashire a Cheshire Ges. <. Laverpool. Geological Magazine . S| ewes ondon. Journal of Travel and Natural History ies Mice f Scientific Opinion . . a ee ere ss Scientific Students’ ‘Acpastalsote Capa Sena aii : MariGhORters Naturhistorischer Verein von Wisconsin - : . Milwaukee. Reale Istituto d’Incoraggiamento alle Scienze Naturali . Napoli. American Apriculturist . -. . . #«. . .. New York. Revue et Magazin de Zoologie sc Pps; (egies: Sieoy Deane Société des Antiquaires . - - : : ae Lotos: Zeitschrift fiir Naturw Peenechatien — oe brag Le Naturaliste Canadien . : : y i : - Quebec. American Entomologist . . Slice) Koes Louis: Allgemeine Schweizerische Gesellschaft fiir die gesamm- ten Naturwissenschaften eee) s.. | Gas - Switzerland. Canadian Entomologist . . . . . #. ~~ . Toronto. The accompanying table gives a summary of the additions to the Library by volumes, parts of volumes, pamphlets and maps or charts. Octavo. | Quarto. | Folio. pean vls}pts}ph lvls ik pote) lvls pts) alae Weigel ts (Tol Books presented by individuals. . 101 63}156)| "22 3) 4 3) | sa 410 aa 4 «© Publishing Com. 1} 35) 10 1) 6 1 54 “ purchased (Wolcott Fund) . 18} 1 3} 3} 2 5 | 82 “ deposited in Binney library . 2| 2 4 “ “« by the Republican In- Bautione. -.) f26) rey St) 6 6 “ received in exchange . . . — }/300/551/103)/ 86/189) 41)) 10) 42) 1 2 1525 Total . |/426)650/269]/118|195) 52 “4 “50 z 61/1831 The arrangement of the books in the back library, not completed at the time of the last report, was finished shortly after ; since then the alcove catalogue of the whole library has been completed, while the correction of the card catalogue, Annual Report.] 14 [May 5, necessitated by the almost entire rearrangement of the books on furnishing the new library, is advancing as rapidly as pos- sible. The constant employment of a binder in the building has wrought a most agreeable change in the appearance of our shelves. Six hundred and seventy-seven books have been bound, and more than five hundred volumes are at this time in various stages of completion. But the work of the binder has not been limited to the library, for besides the folding of the signatures of our Proceedings and of extras issued to au- thors, six hundred copies of the Harris Correspondence, and over four hundred volumes of the Proceedings have been bound in cloth, and more than four hundred numbers of the Journal stitched. The binder has also been employed in some outside work, for which the Society charges but a slight ad- vance upon the cost, and which is permitted by the Council in order to lessen the immediate expense incurred. The work of the library assistants has been greatly increased, by the necessary preparation of so many books for the binder, and as their time has also been partly occupied by the Curators, much work still remains unfinished ; notwithstanding the con- tinual employment of a second assistant, the mass of pam- phlets still remains inaccessible; all new pamphlets, however, have been catalogued as soon as received, and perhaps one tenth of the old ones are now upon the shelves. 636 books have been borrowed from the library by 82 per- sons. In connection with the Smithsonian Institution, the Society has continued to carry on explorations in Central America. Since Col. Grayson’s return from the island of Socorro, he has been investigating the natural history of the Sierra Madre, but no returns are expected for several months to come. Col. Grayson’s account of his expedition to Socorro and the Tres Marias, sent to us for publication, has been re- vised and partly annotated by Prof. Baird, but still remains in his hands, awaiting the result of additional excursions on the 1869.] 15 [Annual Report. main land, that the peculiar fauna of that region may be more fairly represented. In consequence, none of the birds obtained by Col. Grayson have yet been distributed, but a fine collection from Costa Rica, identified by Mr. Lawrence, and kindly presented to us by Professor Henry, is an earnest of what we may expect from time to time; indeed, our col- lection of birds bids fair to exhibit in the course of a few years a more complete representation of the fauna of North- west Mexico and the adjacent islands, than can be found outside of the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. We have also contributed toward an exploration of the isthmus of Tehuantepec from ocean to ocean, carried on through the patronage of the Smithsonian Institution by Prof. Sumichrast, a most assiduous and scientific collector. It will probably continue for one or two years, and a few re- turns have already been received and distributed to various parties for identification. The expedition promises to be very successful. For several months we have been employing one of our members, Mr. W. H. Dall, to select specimens from the Smithsonian duplicates, partly in return for the contribution we made toward their Explorations, partly as a direct gift from the Institution. We have already received many fossils and mollusks, and are daily expecting a large collection of the nests and eggs of birds. By the favor of the Mayor and Chief of Police, two offi- cers are detailed on museum days to protect our collections and preserve order; they render most efficient aid, without which we think it would be impossible to maintain our prac- tice of opening the museum twice a week. There have been more than 36,000 visitors to the Museum during the year, but it has been impossible to keep an accu- rate record ; the enumeration has often been a partial one and at times estimates had to take the place of more careful counting. The Museum has been open to the public 104 . Annual Report.] . 16 [May 5, days; on Thursdays, by ticket, 52 days; the average attend- ance on public days has been at least 336. In the department of Mammals and Comparative Anatomy a very desirable step has been taken, authorizing the Cura- tor to obtain mounted specimens of all our New England mammals; to make room for them the Ethnological collec- tions will be removed. For several months the department was left without a curator, but lately the objects have been placed in better order, and recently acquired specimens put on exhibition. The principal additions have been a black bear and an antelope, both in a fresh condition, one received from Mr. W. T. Adams, and the other from the City, through Mr. J. Galvin. : ) The collection of mounted birds has been rearranged so as to bring it into more convenient view, and a case for skins completed, which will enable the Curator to arrange the unmounted birds more safely than has heretofore been possi- ble. In accordance with the request made in last year’s report, the collection of land birds of Massachusetts has been enriched by a number of specimens, and especially by. a donation of twenty-five birds from Mr. L. L. Thaxter of Newton. Mrs. Bryant has again laid the department under obligation for a valuable and extensive collection of un- mounted birds from the West Indies and Central and South America, and Prof. Henry of the Smithsonian Institution has presented eighty specimens of Costa Rican birds, all of which have been labelled by Mr. Lawrence. The department of the nests and eggs of birds has been entirely rearranged and newly labelled, and is now in a very satisfactory condition. In round numbers the collection consists of the eggs of seven hundred birds, viz:—four hundred Ameri- can, two hundred European, and one hundred from various parts of the world; about one hundred and fifty of the whole number are accompanied by nests; this estimate includes a 1869.] : ig {Annual Report. collection of European eggs which the Curator purposes to present as soon as he can select them. Other important ac- cessions have been received. Over fifteen hundred duplicates of eggs of about fifty species, most valuable for exchange, were given by Mrs. Bryant, and about two hundred and fifty nests and eggs selected by the Curator, were presented by the Smithsonian Institution. About thirty specimens from Europe have been received in exchange, and a small number of nests and eggs purchased. The following list of the nests and eggs of birds in our collection has been prepared by the Curator, with the assist- ance of Mr. Sanborn; any not specified would be acceptable additions to this department; they are all the gift of the late Dr. Henry Bryant, excepting those prefixed by an asterisk; n. following the name of the bird signifies that the nest alone is in the collection; x. e. signifies nest and eggs; in all other cases the eggs only are meant. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA NORTH OF MEXICO. Cathartes aura Illig. Cathartes atratus Lesson. Falco anatum Bonaparte. Hypotriorchis columbarius Gr. Falco candicans Gmelin. Falco islandicus Sabine. Tinnunculus sparverius Vieill. Astur atricapillus Bonap. Accipiter Cooperii Bonap. Accipiter fuscus Bonap. Buteo calurus Cassin. Buteo borealis Vieill. Buteo montanus Nuttall. Buteo lineatus Jardine. Archibuteo lagopus Gray. Archibuteo ferrugineus Gray. Elanus leucurus Bonap. Ictinia mississippiensis Gray. Circus hudsonius Vieillot. Aquila canadensis Cassin. Haliaetus leucocephalus Savigny. PROCEEDINGS B.S. N. H.—VOL. XIII. Pandion carolinensis Bon. Polyborus tharus Cassin. Craxirex unic actus Cassin. Bubo virginianus Bonap. Scops asio Bonap. Otus Wilsonianus Lesson. Brachyotus Cassinii Brewer. Syrnium nebulosum Gray. Crotophaga ani Linn. Geococcyx californianus Baird. Coccygus americanus Bonap. n.e. Coccygus erythrophthalmus Bonap. Picus villosus Linn. Picus pubescens Linn. Picoides areticus Gray. Sphyropicus varius Baird. Centurus carolinus Bonap. Centurus flaviventris Sw. Melanerpes erythrocephalus Sw. Melanerpes formicivorus Bonap. Melanerpes torquatus Bonap. 2 AUGUST, 1869. Annual Report.] 18 [May 5, Colaptes auratus Swainson. Icteria viridis Bonap. n.e. Colaptes mexicanus Swains. Icteria longicauda Lawr. on. e. * Lampornis mango Swains. n. Helminthophaga chrysoptera B. n. e. Trochilus colubris Linn. n. e. Helminthophaga ruficapilla Bd. n. e. Atthis Auna Reichenb. n. e. Helminthophaga celata Baird. n. e. Cheetura pelasgia Steph. n. e. Helminthophaga veregrina Cab. Antrostomus carolinensis Gould. Seiurus aurocapillus Sw. n.e. Antrostomus vociferus Bonap. Seiurus noveboracensis Nutt. n. e. Antrostomus Nuttalli Cassin. *® Seiurus ludovicianus Bonap. n. e. Chordeiles popetue Baird. Dendroica virens Baird. « n. e. Chordeiles Henryi Cassin. Dendroica coronata Gray. n. e. Chordeiles texensis Lawrence. Dendroica Blackburnie Baird. Ceryle alcyon Boie. Dendroica castanea Baird. Milvulus forficatus Sw. n. e. * Dendroica pinus Baird. n. e. Tyrannus carolinensis Baird. n.e. Dendroica pennsylvanica Baird. n. e. Tyrannus dominicensis Rich. Dendroica striata Baird. n. e. Tyrannus verticalis Say. n. e. Dendroica xstiva Baird. n. e. Tyrannus vociferans Sw. n. e. Dendroica maculosa Baird. n. e. Myiarchus crinitus Cab. * Dendroica discolor Baird. n. e. Myiarchus mexicanus Baird. n.e. | Myiodioctes mitratus Aud. Sayornis nigricans Bonap. n. e Setophaga ruticilla Sw. n.e. Sayornis fuscus Baird. n. e. Pyranga rubra Vieill. * Sayornis Sayus Baird. n. Pyranga estiva Vieill. * Contopus Richardsonii Baird. n. Hirundo horreorum Barton. n. e. Contopus virens Cab. n. e. Hirundo lunifrons.Say. Empidonax Traillii Baird. n. e. Hirundo bicolor Vieill. * Empidonax pusillus Cab. n. e. Cotyle riparia Boie. n.e. Empidonax minimus Baird. n. e. Cotyle serripennis Bonap. * Empidonax acadicus Baird. n. e. Progne purpurea Boie. Empidonax flaviventris Baird. Ampelis garrulus Binn. * Empidonax difficilis Baird. n. e. Ampelis cedrorum Baird. n. e. Pyrocephalus mexicanus Sclat. Collyrio ludovicianus Baird. Turdus mustelinus Gm. n. e. Collyrio excubitoroides Baird. n. e. Turdus Pallasi Cab. Vireo olivaceus Vieill. Turdus fuscescens Stephens. n. e. Vireo altiloquus Gray. n. e. Turdus ustulatus Nuttall. n. e. Vireo gilvus Bonap. Turdus Swainsonii Cab. n. e. Vireo Belli Aud. n. e. Turdus Aliciae Baird. n. e. Vireo noveboracensis Bonap. n. e. Turdus migratorius Linn. n. e. * Vireo solitarius Vieill. * Saxicola cenanthe Bechst. Vireo flavifrons Vieill. n. e. Sialia sialis Baird. n. e. Mimus polyglottus Boie. Sialia mexicana Swains. n. e. Mimus carolinensis Gray. n. e. Anthus ludovicianus Licht. Oreoscoptes montanus Baird. Mniotilta varia Vieill. n. Harporhynchus redivivus Cab. n. e. Parula americana Bonap. Harporhynchus cinereus Xantus. Geothlypis trichas Cab. n. e. Harporhynchus curvirostris Cab. * Geothlypis Macgillivrayi Baird. n. | Harporhynchus longirostris Cab. 1869.] Harporhynchus rufus Cab. Campylorhynchus brunneicapillus Gray. n.e. 19 * Spizella Breweri Cass. * Campylorhynchus affinis Xantus. n.e. Thryothorus ludovicianus Bonap. n.e. Cistothorus palustris Cab. Cistothorus stellaris Cab. n.e. Troglodytes don Vieill. n. e. Troglodytes Parkmanni Aud. , Sitta carolinensis Gmelin. * Sitta pygmeea Vigors. n. Polioptila czerulea Sclat. n. e. Parus atricapillus Linn. Parus carolinensis Aud. Psaltriparus minimus Bonap. n. e. Paroides flaviceps Baird. n.e. Certhiola flaveola Sund. n. e. Eremophila cornuta Boie. Carpodacus purpureus Gray. n.e. Carpodacus frontalis Gray. n. e. Chrysomitris tristis Bonap. n. e. Chrysomitris psaltria Bonap. n. e. Chrysomitris Lawrencii Bonap. n. e. * #giothus linaria Cab. #£giothus fuscescens Coues. n. e. * Plectrophanes lapponicus Selby. n. e. Plectrophanes pictus Sw. n. e. * Plectrophanes ornatus Towns. n. e. Plectrophanes Maccownii Lawr. Passerculus savanna Bonap. nn. e. Passerculus anthinus Bonap. Passerculus alaudinus Bonap. n. e. Pooecetes gramineus Baird. n. ' # Coturniculus passerinus Bonap. n.e. Coturniculus Henslowi Bonap. Ammodromus caudacutus Sw. Ammodromus maritimus Sw. Chondestes grammaca Bonap. n. e. Zonotrichia leacophrys Sw. Zonotrichia Gambelii Nutt. n.e. Zonotrichia albicollis Bonap. n. e * Junco oregonus Sclat. n. e. Junco hyemalis Sclat. n. e. * Poospiza bilineata Sclat. n.e. Spizella monticola Baird. n.e. Spizella pusilla Bonap. n. e. Spizella socialis Bonap. un. e. {Annual Report. Spizella pallida Bonap. n. e. n. ¢. Melospiza melodia Baird. n. e. Melospiza Lincolnii Baird. Melospiza palustris Baird. Peucea estivalis Cab. Peuceea Cassinii Baird. Passerella iliaca Sw. Calamospiza bicolor Bonap. Euspiza americana Bonap. n. e. Guiraca ludoviciana Sw. n. e. Guiraca melanocephala Sw. un. e. Guiraca cerulea Sw. n. e. Cyanospiza ciris Baird. n. e. Cyanospiza amcena Baird. Cyanospiza cyanea Baird. Pyrrhuloxia sinuata Bonap. Cardinalis virginianus Bouap. n. e. Cardinalis igneus Baird. Pipilo erythrophthalmus Vieill Pipilo fuscus Sw. n. e. Pipilo chlorura Baird. Pipilo albigula Baird. n. e. Dolichonyx oryzivorus Sw. n.e. Molothrus pecoris Sw. Agelaius pheeniceus Vieill. n. e. Agelaius gubernator Bonap. Xanthocephaius icterocephalus Bd. ns @s Trupialis militaris Bonap. Sturnella magna Sw. Sturnella neglecta Aud. Icterus Audubonii Giraud. Icterus parisorum Bonap. Icterus cucullatus Swains. Icterus spurius Bonap. n. e. Icterus baltimore Daudin. n. e. Icterus Bullockii Bonap. n. e. Scolecophagus ferrugineus Sw. n. e. Scolecophagus cyanocephalus Cab. n. e. Quiscalus macroura Sw. Quiscalus major Vieill. Quiscalus versicolor Vieill. n. Corvus carnivorus Bartram. Corvus eryptoleucus Couch. Corvus americanus Aud. n.¢e n. e n. e@. e. Annual Report.] Corvus ossifragus Wilson. Pica hudsonica Bonap. Cyanura cristata Sw. n.e. Cyanocitta californica Strick. Cyanocitta floridana Bonap. Columba Jeucocephaia Linn. Ectopistes migratoria Sw. Zenaida amabilis Bonap. Melopelia leucoptera Bonap. Zenaidura carolinensis Bonap. Scardafella squamosa Bonap. n. Chamezpelia passerina Sw. Oreopeleia martinica Reich. Ortalida M’c Calli Baird. Meleagris gallopavo Linn. Meleagris mexicana Gould. Tetrao obscurus Say. Tetrao canadensis Linn. Centrocercus urophasianus Sw. Pedicecetes phasianellus Baird. Cupidonia cupido Baird. Bonasa umbellus Steph. Lagopus albus Aud. Lagopus Reinhardtii. Ortyx virginianus Bonap. Ortyx texanus Lawr. Oreortyx pictus Baird. Lophortyx californicus Bonap. Cyrtonyx massena Gould. Grus canadensis Temm. Demiegretta Pealii Baird. Demiegretta rufa Baird. Demiegretta ludoviciana Baird. Garzetta candidissima Bonap. Herodias egretta Gray. Herodias californica Baird. Ardea herodias Linn. Audubonia occidentalis Bonap. Florida czerulea Baird. Ardetta exilis Gray. Botaurus lentiginosus Steph. Butorides virescens Bonap. Nyctiardea gardeni Baird. ‘Nyctherodius violaceus Reich. Tantalus loculator Linn. Ibis alba Vieillot. Ibis Ordii Bonaparte. 20 (May 6, Platalea ajaja Linn. Pheenicopterus ruber Linn. Charadrius virginicus Borck. ZEgialitis vociferus Cassin. gialitis Wilsonius Cassin. Zgialitis semipalmatus Cab. Agialitis melodus Cab. * Squatarola helvetica Cuy. Haematopus palliatus Temm. * Strepsilas melanocephala Vig. Recuryvirostra americana Gm. Himantopus nigricollis Vieillot. Phalaropus Wilsonii Sab. Phalaropus hyperboreus Temm. * Phalaropus fulicarius Bonap. Philohela minor Gray. Gallinago Wilsonii Bonap. * Macrorhamphus griseus Leach. Tringa maritima Briinnich. * Tringa Wilsonii Nuttall. Ereunetes petrificatus Ill. Symphemia semipalmata Hartl. Gambetta flavipes Bonap. * Rhyacophilus solitarius Bonap. Tringoides macularius Gray. * Philomachus pugnax Gray. Actiturus bartramius Bonap. * Tryngites rufescens Cab. Limosa hudsonica Sw. Numenius longirostris Wils. * Numenius hudsonicus Latham. * Numeuius borealis Latham. Rallus elegans Aud. Rallus crepitans Gm. Rallus virginianus Linn. n. e. Porzana carolina Vieill. Crex pratensis Bechst.: F Fulica americana Gmelin. Gallinula galeata Bonap. Gallinula martinica Lath. Cygnus americanus Sharpless. * Cygnus buccinator Rich. * Anser hyperboreus Pallas. Anser Gambelii Hartlaub. Bernicla canadensis Boie. * Bernicla Hutchinsii Bonap. * Bernicla nigricans Cassin. 1869.) 21 {Annual Report, # Thalassidroma pelagica Bonap. * Puffinus anglorum Temm. ® Chloephaga canagica Bonap. Dendrocygna autumnalis Eyton. Anas boschas Linn. Anas obscura Gm. Dafila acuta Jenyns. Nettion carolinensis Baird. Nettion crecca Kaup. Querquedula discors Steph. Querquedula cyanopterus Cassin. Spatula clypeata Boie. Chaulelasmus streperus Gray. Mareca americana Stephens. Mareca Penelope Bonap. Aix sponsa Boie. Fulix marila Baird. Fulix affinis Baird. * Fulix collaris. Baird. Aythya americana Bonap. Aythya vallisneria Bonap.., Bucephala americana Baird. * Bucephala albeola Baird. Harelda glacialis Leach. * Lampronetta Fischeri Brandt. Melanetta velvetina Baird. Pelionetta perspicillata Kaup. Somateria mollissima Leach. n. © Somateria v-nigra Gray. * Somateria spectabilis Leach. Erismatura rubida Bonap. Mergus americanus Cass. Mergus serrator Linn. Lophodytes cucullatus Reich. * Pelecanus erythrorhynchus Gm. Pelecanus fuscus Linn. Sula bassana Briss. Sula fiber Linn. Tachypetes aquila Vieillot. Graculus carbo Gray. Graculus dilophus Gray. Graculus floridanus Bonap. Graculus penicillatus Bonap. Graculus violaceus Gray. Plotus anhinga Linn. Phaeton flavirostris Brandt. * Procellaria glacialis Linn. * Thalassidroma furcata Gould. Thalassidroma Leachii Temm. Puffinus obscurus Lath. Stercorarius parasiticus Temm. Stercorarius cepphus Ross. Larus glaucus Brinn. Larus glaucescens Licht. Larus leucopterus Faber. Larus marinus Linn. Larus argentatus Briinn. Larus occidentalis Aud. Larus californicus Lawr. Larus delawarensis Ord. Larus brachyrhynchus Rich. Chroicocephalus atricilla Linn. Chroicocephalus Franklinii Br. Chroicocephalus philadelphia Lawr. Rissa tridactyla Bonap. Xema Sabinii Bonap. Sterna aranea Wils. Sterna regia Gambel. Sterna acuflavida Cabot. Sterna fuliginosa Gm. Sterna Wilsoni Bonap. Sterna macroura Naum. Sterna Forsteri Nutt. Sterna paradisea Briinn. Sterna frenata Gambel. Hydrochelidon plumbea Wils. Anous stolidus Leach. Rhynchops nigra Linn. Colymbus torquatus Briinn. Colymbus arcticus Linn. Colymbus pacificus Lawr. Colymbus septentrionalis Linn. Podiceps griseigena Gray. Podiceps occidentalis Lawr. Podiceps cornutus Latham. Podiceps californicus Heermann. Podilymbus podiceps Lawr. Alca torda Linn. Mormon cirrhata Bonap. Mormon arctica Illiger. Cerorhina monocerata Cassin. Uria grylle Latham. Uria columba Cassin. Uria carbo Brandt. Annual Repcrt.] Uria lomvia Briinnich. Uria ringvia Briinnich. bo bo Uria arra Pallas. BIRDS OF EUROPE. * Halietus albicilla Leach. * Buteo vulgaris Bechst. * Archibuteo lagopus Brehm. * Pernis apivorus Bonap. * Milvus regalis Briss. * Milvus niger Briss. * Falco lithofalco Gmel. * Falco tinnunculus Linn. * Falco cenchris Naum. * Astur palumbarius Bechst. * Accipiter nisus Pall. * Circus zruginosus Savigr. *® Circus cyaneus Boie. * Circus cineraceus Naum. * Syrnium aluco Brehm. * Strix flammea Linn. * Otus vulgaris Flemm. * Scops Aldrovandi Willughb. * Picus major Linn. * Picus medius Linn. * Gecinus viridis Boie. * Gecinus canus Boie. * Yunx torquilla Linn. * Cuculus canorus Linn. Coracias garrula Linn. * Merops apiaster Linn. * Alcedo ispida Linn. * Sitta europza Linn. * Certhia familiaris Linn. * Upupa epops Linn. * Corvus corax Linn. * Corvus corone Linn. * Corvus cornix Linn. * Corvus frugilegus Linn. * Corvus monedula Linn. * Pyrrhocorax alpinus Vieill. * Pica caudata Linn. * Pica cyanea Wagl. * Garrulus glandarius Vieill. * Lanius minor Gmel. * Lanius rufus Briss. * Lanius collurio Linn. * Sturnus vulgaris Linn. * Passer domesticus Briss. * Passer hispaniolensis Degl. * Passer montanus Briss. * Pyrrhula vulgaris Temm. * Coccothraustes vulgaris Vieill. * Ligurinus chloris Koch. * Fringilla celebs Linn. * Montifringilla nivalis Brehm. * Carduelis elegans Steph. * Chrysomitris spinus Boie. * Serinus meridionalis Bonap. * Cannabina linota G. R. Gray. * Cannabina flavirostris Brehm. * Linaria borealis Vieill. * Linaria rufescens Vieill. * Miliaria europzea Swains. * Emberiza citrinella Linn. * Emberiza cia Linn. * Emberiza hortulana Linn. * Cynchramus scheeniclus Boie. * Plectrophanes lapponicus Selby. * Alauda arvensis Linn. * Alauda arborea Linn. * Otocoris alpestris Bonap. * Melanocorypha calandra Boie. * Galerida cristata Boie. * Agrodroma campestris Swains. * Anthus arboreus Bechst. * Anthus pratensis Bechst. * Anthus spinoletta Bonap. * Anthus obscurus Keys. et Blas.. * Budytes flava Bonap. * Motacilla alba Linn. * Motacilla Yarrellii Gould. * Oriolus galbula Linn. * Turdus merula Linn. * Turdus torquatus Linn. * Turdus pilaris Linn. * Turdus viscivorus Linn. [May 5, 1869.) * Turdus musicus Linn. * Rubecula familiaris Blyth. * Philomela luscinia Selby. * Cyanecula suecica Brehm. * Ruticilla pheenicura Bonap. * Ruticilla tithys Brehm. * Saxicola cenanthe Bechst. * Pratincola rubetra Koch. * Pratincola rubicola Koch. * Prunella modularis Vieill. * Sylvia atricapilla Scop. * Sylvia hortensis Lath. * Curruca garrula Briss. * * Curruca orphea Boie. * Curruca ciuerea Briss. * Curruca melanocephala Boie. * Hypolais icterina Z. Gerbe. * Hypolais olivetorum Z. Gerbe. * Hypolais elwica Z. Gerbe. * Calamoherpe turdoides Boie. * Calamoherpe arundinacea Boie. * Calamoherpe palustris Boie. * Locustella naevia Degl. on. * Calamodyta phragmitis Mey et Wolf. * Troglodytes parvulus Koch. * Phyllopneuste trochilus Brehm. * Phyllopneuste rufa Bonap. * Phyllopneuste sibilatrix Brehm. * Regulus cristatus Charlet. * Regulus ignicapillus Licht. * Parus major Linn. * Parus ater Linn. * Parus ceruleus Linn. * Orites caudatus G. R. Gray. * Panurus biarmicus Koch. * Muscicapa nigra Briss. * Butalis grisola Boie. * Hirundo rustica Linn. * Chelidon urbica Boie. * Cotyle riparia Boie. * Cypselus apus Il. * Cypselus melba Il. * Caprimulgus europzeus Linn. * Columba palumbus Linn. * Columba cenas Linn. * Columba livia Briss. bo co Turtur auritus Ray. Lagopus scoticus Bonap. Lagopus mutus Leach. Tetrao urogallus Linn. Tetrao tetrix Linn. Perdix greca Briss. Perdix rubra Briss. Perdix petrosa Lath. Starna cinerea Bonap. Coturnix communis Bonnatt. Phasianus colchicus Linn. Otis tetrax Linn. Glareola pratincola Leach. (dicnemus erepitans Temm, Pluvialis apricarius Bonap. Charadrius hiaticula Linn. KKK KKH HK KK KH HK OH OR Hematopus ostralegus Linn. Numenius arquata Lath. Limosa xegocephala Leach. Scolopax rusticula Linn. Gallinago scolopacinus Bonap. Tringa maritima Briinn. Pelidna cinclus Bonap. Machetes pugnax G. Cuv. Totanus calidris Bechst. Totanus glareola Temm. Actitis hypoleucos Boie. Phalaropus fulicarius Bonap. Lobipes hyperboreus Steph. Recurvirostra avocetta Linn. Himantopus candidus Bonnatt. Rallus aquaticus Linn. Crex pratensis Bechst. Porzana maruetta G. R. Gray. Gallinula chloropus Lath. Fulica atra Linn. Ardea cinerea Linn. Ardea purpurea Linn. Egretta garzetta Bonap. * Bubulcus ibis Bonap. * Buphus comatus Boie. * Ardeola minuta Bonap. * Botaurus stellaris Steph. * Nycticorax europeus Steph. * Ciconia alba Willughb. * eK HK KK KH MH HK KKK KH KK KK HK KR HK {Annual Report. Vanellus cristatus Meyer et Wolf. Annual Report.) * Ciconia nigra Gesn. * Phatalea leucorhodia Linn. * Sula bassana Briss. Phalacrocorax carbo Leach. * Phalacrocorax cristatus Steph. * Phalacrocorax pygmeus Dum. * Procellaria glacialis Linn. * Puffinus anglorum Boie. Puffinus obscurus Boie. *® Thalassidroma pelagica Selby. * Thalassidroma Bulweri Bonap. * Stercorarius catarractes Vieill. * Stercorarius pomarinus Vieill. * Stercorarius parasiticus G. R. Gray. Larus glaucus Briinn. Larus leucopterus Ferber. Larus marinus Linn. * Larus fuscus Linn. Larus argentatus Briinn. ® Larus canus Linn. Larus tridactylus Linn. Larus ridibundus Linn. Sterna cantiaca Gmel. Sterna hirundo Linn. Sterna paradisea Briinn. Sterna minuta Linn. Hydrochelidon fissipes G. R. Gray. Hydrochelidon nigra G. R. Gray. Cygnus ferus Ray. eX RRE HRD EH 24 * Anser cinereus Meyer. * Anser sylvestris Briss. * Tadorna Belonii Ray. * Anser erythropus Newton. * Spatula clypeata Boie * Anas boschas Linn. [May 5, * Chaulelasmus strepera G. R. Gray. * Mareca penelope Selby. * Dafila acuta Eyton. * Querquedula crecca Steph. * Clangula islandica Bonap. Harelda glacialis Steph. * Somateria mollissima Bvie. Oidemia nigra Flem. Oidemia fusca Flem. * Mergus merganser Linn. * Mergus serrator Linn. * Podiceps cristatus Lath. * Podiceps fluviatilis Degl. * Uria troile Lath. Uria ringvia Briinn. Uria arra Keys. et Blas. Uria grylle Lath. ’ * Uria Mandtii Lichst. * Mergulus alle Vieill. * Fratercula arctica Vieill. * Fratercula corniculata Brandt. Alea torda Linn. BIRDS OF JAMAICA. Crotophaga ani Linn. Tyrannus griseus Vieill. Tyrannus caudifasciatus D’Orbign. Myiarchus validus Cab. Myiarchus stolidus Gosse. Dendroica petechia Sclat. n. Petrochelidon fulva Cab. Progne dominicensis March. Tachornis pheenicobia Gosse. n. Vireo modestus Baird. Vireo altiloquus Gray. n. Mimus orpheus Baird. n. ee eK RR RR Phonipara Marchii Baird. Loxigilla anoxantha Sclat. Loxigilla violacea Sclat. * Certhiola flaveola Sund. * Coturniculus tixicrus Gosse. * Icterus leucopteryx Wagl. n. n. Quiscalus crassirostris Swains. n. * Columba leucocephala Linn. Zenaida amabilis Bonap. * Melopelia leucoptera Linn. Chameepelia passerina Swains. Ortyx virginianus Bon. BIRDS OF MEXICO AND LOWER CALIFORNIA. * Pitangus Derbianus Sclat. n. * Turdus Grayi Bonap. n. * Campylorhynchus affinis Xantus. n. * Cardinalis igneus Baird. n. 1869. 2 * Volatinia jacarina Cab. * Harporhynchus cinereus Xantus. * Zonotrichia melanotis. n. * Cyanospiza Leclancheri. n. * Spermophila torqueola Sclat. v {Annual Report. * Tcterus pustulatus Wagl. n. n.* Cassiculus melanicteris Swains. n. * Pipilo albigula Baird. n. * Todirostrum sp. indet. Tabaxo. n. TROCHILID. Ramphodon nevius Cab. & Hein. n. Glaucis hirsuta Gould. n. Glaucis mazeppa Reich. n. Phethornis eurynome Gould. n. Pygmornis eremita Gould. n. Pygmornis rufiventris Gould. n. Eupetomena macroura Gould. n. Sphenoproctus pampa Gould. n. Campylopterus hemileucurus Cab. & Hein. n. Aphantochroa cirrhochloris Cab. & Hein. n. Lampornis mango Cab. & Hein. n. Lampornis gramineus Cab. & Hein. n. Eulampis jugularis Cab. & Hein. n. Eulampis holosericeus Bonap. n. Aithurus polytmus Gould. n. Thalurania glaucopis Bonap. n. Thalurania furcata Bonap. n. Florisuga mellivora Bonap. n. Florisuga fusca Cab. & Hein. n. Lophornis ornatus Gould. n. Lophornis magnifica Bonap. n. Lophornis chalybea Gould. n. Gouldia Langsdorfii Bonap. n. * Trochilus colubris Linn. n. e. Mellisuga minima Bonap. n. Calypte Costz Gould. n. Calypte Anna Gould. n. Selasphorus platycercus Bonap. n. Calothorax lucifer Gray. n. Chetocercus Mulsantii C. & Hein. n. Cheetocercus Rose G. R. Gray. n. Calliphlox amethystina Gould. n. Pterophanes Temminckii C.&H. n. Agleactis cupripennis Sclat. n. Rhamphomicrus Stanleyi Sclat. n. Metallura tyrianthina Reich. n. Avocettula recurvirostris Bonap. n. Chrysolampis moschitus Boie. n. Orthorhynchus exilis Reich. n. Cephalolepis Delalandii Sclat. n. Clais Guimetii Sclat. n. Augastes superbus Bonap. n. Petasophora serrirostris Gray. n. Petasophora anais Gould. n. Polytmus viridissimus Gould. n. Patagona gigas Gould. n. Heliangelus clarisse Cab. & Hein. Clytolema rubinea Gould. n. Eriocnemis vestita Bonap. n. Eriocnemis Alinze Cab. & Hein. Eriocnemis Luciani Gould. n. Leucochloris albicollis Reich. Agyrtria niveipectus Cab. & Hien. n. Agyrtria Milleri Cab. & Hein. n. Agyrtria brevirostris Cab. & Hein. n. Agyrtria albiventris Cab. & Hein. n. Agyrtria maculata Cab. & Hein. n. Amazilia beryllina Gould. n. Eucephala cyanogenys Gould. n. Chlorostilbon phaethon C. & Hein. n Chlorostilbon prasinus Gould. n. n. MISCELLANEOUS. *® Cacicus cristatus Gmel. n. * Rhynchotus rufescens Wagl. * Rhea americana Lath. * Struthio camelus Linn. * Dromaius Nove-Hollandie Vieill. Sphenezcus gramineus Gould. n. * Gallinula pheenicura Penn. * Ploceus philippinensis Linn. n. * Ploceus ocularis Smith. n. * Ploceus baya Blyth? n. Orthotomus longicauda Strickl. n. Nectarinia metallica Licht.? n. Fiscus collaris Linn. n. * Collocalia nidificans Lath. n. Annual Report.] 26 {May 5, The Curatorship of Reptiles was left vacant early in the year by Dr. Wilder’s acceptance of a Professorship in Cornell University ; the Curator subsequently chosen in his place leay- ing for the south soon after his election, has only just returned. He reports the collection to be in excellent condition, but poorly represented even in our own reptiles; much labelling remains to be done, and the proper identification of the species is not completed. The Curator proposes to supply temporarily some deficiencies in the representation of the Massachusetts species, from the unlabelled specimens laid aside for anatomi- cal purposes. He will also revise the whole collection with care, and have skeletons prepared from the duplicates to illus- trate the bony framework of at least each family. The collection has been rearranged in the new gallery devoted to it, and although not fully prepared for public inspection, has been on exhibition for the first time during the past week. In the new room devoted to Fishes, and recently opened to the public, the specimens have been reassorted in glass jars and arranged in extended faunal divisions: thus, the species from the fresh waters of North America, east of the Rocky Mountains, form one collection; the marine fishes of the Atlantic shores, north of Cape Hatteras a second ; those from the south of Cape Hatteras to Brazil a third, and the species of the Hawaiian Islands a fourth. The collection con- tains more than one thousand numbers, which have all been entered in the catalogue, and in many instances the species identified and recorded under their proper names; but al- though the collection is in a safe and accessible condition, it cannot be considered in proper order until every jar shall have its label for the information of visitors. It will re- quire more time than the Curator can afford to identify and name all the specimens; and, unless some special arrangement can be made, this work must necessarily proceed very slowly. The collection is very deficient in the sea fishes of our neigh- borhood, and a large outlay would be necessary to complete it. 1859.] QT {Annual Ieport. In the Entomological department Mr. P. 8. Sprague has spent much time upon the Carabide, and we are indebted to © Dr. LeConte, Dr. Horn and others, for identifying many species sent to them. Rev. Mr. Trask, Mr. Stebbins and Miss Sanborn have also assisted in various ways, both in this and in other departments. Mr. Sanborn has rearranged the Hemiptera of the Harris collection in the new cabinets, a few additional trays of specimens have been placed on exhibition, and about two thousand butterflies from Ceritral America spread, and thus made available for exchange. Much atten- tion has been given to the preservation of the collections, which, although not yet in the most desirable condition, are greatly in advance of their state a year ago. Most of the additions to this department have been made in small quanti- ties by many persons. Some interesting East Indian Lepi- doptera have been received in exchange from Mr. A. 8. Bick- . more, and Dr. C. F. Waters has constantly added new objects from our own vicinity. The lower Articulates remain in good condition. A num- ber of species of Cancroids and Grapsoids, sent to Mr. S. I. Smith of New Haven, for study, have been carefully labelled and returned; the Astaci have also passed through the hands of Dr. Hagen of Cambridge. Thirty-six specimens of fifteen species of Crustacea, from various parts of America, have been received, in exchange, from the Museum of Yale Col- lege. A portion of the new room devoted to the department of Mollusks, has been placed in order and opened to the public. In the month of January an arrangement was made with the Curator to devote one half of the year to the collections under his charge; in consequence, more than one thousand tablets have already been arranged and placed on exhibition. The Curator’s entire attention has been given to the Pratt collection, and its arrangement will be completed before he proceeds to other work. From what he has seen of the Soci- Annus) Report.] 28 [May 5, ety’s old collection, he regrets to state that it is even in worse condition than he had supposed. Nearly all the type speci- mens of Mighels, Gould, and others are missing; very many tablets are empty, while specimens are not infrequently mis- placed. When a newly-appointed Curator finds his collection in a disorganized condition, much time must be spent in prelimi- nary work; this was the case with the last Curator, and although he gave two consecutive months of attention to the collection, it did not suffice to restore anything like order. The subsequent removal of the specimens to their new room, required a repetition of much of the old labor. With the exception of the work done by the last incumbent, there is no evidence of any attention bestowed upon the specimens for the last fifteen years, during which time the Curator has been familiar with the collection; it is now in a worse condition than it was years ago, showing, that in this case, gratuitous aid has proved a failure ; and any one who has passed his eve- nings and holidays in arranging a small private cabinet will appreciate the amount of time which an extensive public col- lection will require, where all the groups must receive im- partial attention, and new donations be placed upon exhibi- tion at the earliest moment. The Curator considers the upright wall cases in which the shells are arranged as entirely unsuitable for the display of the dry collection; the very nature of such objects requires their exhibition in horizontal cases, where they may be seen from above. He knows of but one other museum in the coun- try where an upright arrangement is adopted, and there only from lack of room,—to be remedied at the earliest possible moment. The Society is indebted to Dr. J. W. Newcomb and Mr. R. E. C. Stearns for assistance they have rendered in identi- fying and labelling Mollusks from the Hawaiian Islands and the west coast of America. An effort will be made during the coming year to complete the collection of Massachusetts 1869.) 29 {Annual Report. Mollusks, and the Curator solicits material for this purpose. The collection lacks all the smaller species, whether from land, sea, or river. Nearly five hundred species of Mollusks from various local- ities determined by the late Mr. Cuming, have been pre- sented by the Smithsonian Institution; a valuable dona- tion of fifty-one species of deep-water Mollusks from our own coast, has been received from Mr. E. R. Mayo, and ninety- seven specimens of thirty-three Florida Mollusks from Mr. R. E. C. Stearns. The collection of Radiates has not been greatly increased during the year; the most important additions are a small collection of starfishes from California, presented by Mr. R. EK. C. Stearns, and a series of typical specimens of corals and echinoderms, mostly of species described by the Curator and sent by the Museum of Yale College, in exchange. A number of Echini have been borrowed by Mr. Alexan- der Agassiz for monographic work, and the condition of the collection is generally satisfactory. The Echinoderms are all identified and catalogued, although the final labels remain unwritten; the corals have been mostly identified, and about . half catalogued; the collection would be improved if all the corals were mounted in their natural position, and atten- tion will be given to this point during the year. The Curator begs leave to state that numerous species of Radiates on our own coast, especially among the Hydroids, Ophiurans, and small starfishes still remain unrepresented. The specimens in the department of Microscopy are in good condition; there is much rough material in the Bailey Collection ready at any time to be made use of by those in- terested in diatoms. Little has been done to the Paleontological collections ; near- ly all the specimens are still mounted on the old plaster trays, which do not form an agreeable contrast to the new tablets and Annual Report.] 50 (Bay 5, labels of the neighboring departments. The Trenton Lime- stone fossils have, however, been newly mounted and rela- belled with the old names. The collection, even in its present meagre representation of past epochs, requires the attention of one person for several months in the year to revise the nomenclature, and relabel and catalogue the specimens. The most important addition consists of a series of casts of twenty- eight species of fossils (mostly cretaceous) received from the Smithsonian Institution. The department of Geology has been enriched by a collec- tion of more than five hundred named specimens of rocks, purchased from Dr. Krantz of Bonn. The local collections of volcanic products are mostly labelled and arranged in cases, and the systematic collection of rocks has been rearranged. The economic collections have not increased to the extent hoped for by the Curator, and although architects and pro- prietors of quarries have promised specimens, none have been received during the year. A new case has been placed in the room, but the Curator deems the additional facilities of gal- lery cases needed for a proper display of the collection under his care. The Curator of Mineralogy reports that he has rearranged nearly all the specimens in his department, in order to carry out his plan of having the collection correspond in system with that of the recent edition of Dana’s Mineralogy. He has also adopted the new system of labelling introduced in other parts of the Museum, and the extent of his work can be estimated, from the fact that about two thousand seven hundred specimens are on exhibition. He expects to com- plete the task before another annual meeting. As usual, the department is indebted to Dr. C. T. Jackson for many valu- able specimens. I cannot trust myself to dwell on the loss which has befallen the Society in the sudden death of our Curator of Botany; 1869.) 31 (Annual! Report. we cannot penetrate the mystery of his early decease, nor estimate the value of his counsel and the increasing import- ance of his aid. Mr. Mann’s life -was so rich in promise, his heart so full of generous impulse, his judgment so mature, that he was endeared to us all. We have looked in vain for his successor, and long shall we lament our loss. The collec- tion remains as he left it, and but few additions have been received during the year. This closes our review of the Society’s operations for the past year. We would pass on to the next with better hope were we not encumbered by the embarrassments of which the Treasurer will shortly speak. For an institution like ours the expenditures of the past twelve months have certainly not been extravagant; all of them seem highly desirable, and we are forced to ‘the conclusion that larger means are absolutely essential to our prosperity and growth. We have taken a high stand among Societies of a kindred nature in this coun- try, but unless our income is nearly doubled we cannot retain it. Two things are urgently required,—more money and a larger staff of assistants; otherwise, in receiving such large additions as have been sent to us since our removal to the present site, without the corresponding monetary bequests, we shall be overwhelmed in the course of a few years by our own external prosperity. Annual Report.] 82 [May 5, LETTERS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1869. From the Académie Royale des Sciences, etc., de Belgique, Bruxelles, Septem- ber 14th, 1867; Bibliotheca Universitatis Lugduno-Batave, October 22d, 1867; Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam, October 23d, 1867; Bureau de la Recherche Géologique de la Suéde, Stock- holm, December 31st, 1867; Director of the Real Gymnasium und Ober- Realschule, St. Pdlten, December, 1867; Office of the Geological Survey of India; Der Nassauischer Verein, Wiesbaden, January 6th, 1868; K. K. zoolo- gisch-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien, January, 1868, and February, 1869; Madras Literary Society, March, 1868; Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, March, 1868; Smithsonian Institution, April 6th, June 26th, August 8th and December 12th, 1868; Massachusetts Horticultural Society, June ist and Juné 26th, 1868; Royal Society of London, April 20th, 1868; Naturforschende Gesell- schaft, Freiburg, May 3d, 1868; Société des sciences physiques et naturelles du Département d’Ille et Vilaine, Rennes, May 27th, 1868; Museum at Bergen, May 28th and October 10th, 1868; Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., May 29th, June 26th, August 5th, October 28th, November 24th, December 14th, 1868, January 16th, February 3d, March 12th and April 14th, 1869; Naturforschende Gesell- schaft in Bern, May, 1868; Lyceum of Natural History, New York, June ist and July 15th, 1868, February 8th, March ist, April 6th and April 12th, 1869; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2d and 23d, and August 13th, 1868, April 19th, 1869; Institute of Natural Science, Halifax, N.S., June 8th, 1868; New York State Agricultural Society, Albany, June 16th, 1868; Acad- emy of Sciences of Chicago, June 18th, 1868, and April 29th, 1869; Massachu- setts Historical Society, Boston, June 27th and Sept. 8th, 1868, and April, 1869; Public Library of the City of Boston, June 27th and December 10th, 1868; Schweizerische Gesellschaft, Bern, June, 1868; Amherst College Library, June, 1868; Regents of the University of the State of New York, Albany, July 3d, 1868; Corporation of Harvard College, Cambridge, July 20th, 1868, and April 6th, 1869; Linnean Society, London, July 22d, 1868; Société Hollandaise des Sciences & Harlem, September 11th, 1868; Société Royale des Sciences & Upsal, September 15th, 1868: Cercle Artistique, Littéraire et Scientifique d’Anvers, September 26th, 1868; Académie Royale des Sciences & Amsterdam, October 13th, 1868; Naturforschende Gesellschaft des Osterlandes zu Altenburg, Octo- ber 15th, 1868; Corporation of Williams College, Williamstown, October 20th, 1868, and April 20th, 1869; the Natural History and Medical Reunion at Heidel- berg, October 21st, 1868; Physikalisch-medizinische Gesellschaft in Wurzburg, October 24th, 1868; Gesellschaft ziir Beforderung der Naturwissenschaften zu Ireiburg i. B., October 24th, 1868; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Basel, October 80th, 1868; Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, November 18th, 1868, 1869.] 33 : {Annual Report. March 8th and April 9th, 1869; American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, November 13th, 1868 and March 8th, 1869; Institut National Genevois, Genéve, November 14th, 1868; Finska Liikare-Sillskapet, Helsingfors, November 15th, 1867; Zodlogical Society of London, November 10th, 1868; Prof. A. de Bary, Director of the Botanical Garden of the University of Halle, November 10th, 1868; Royal Institution, London, November 18th, 1868; Editors of the Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, Stuttgart, November 4th, 1868; Literary and Philo- sophical Society of Manchester, November 11th, 1868; K. K. Centralanstalt fir Meteorologie und Erdmagnetismus in Wien, November 26th, 1868; Belfast Nat- ural History, etc., Society, December 4th, 1868; Royal Horticultural Society, London, January, 1869; Royal Society of Edinburgh, January Sth, 1869; Anthropological Society of London, January 20th, 1869; Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Goérlitz, January 27th, 1869; Naturforschender Verein, Dessau, January, 1869; Portland Society of Natural History, April 6th, 17th and 80th, 1869; American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., April 6th, 1869, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications. From the K. preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin, December 31st, 1867; Bureau de la Recherche Géologique de la Suéde, December 31st, 1867, and June 15th, 1868; Manchester Scientific Students’ Association, 1868; Nassau- ischer Verein fiir Naturkunde, Wiesbaden, January 6th, 1868; Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, January 8th, 1868: Verein fiir sieben- biirgische Landeskunde, January 24th, 1868; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft zu Hannover, February 2d, 1868; Société Entomologique des Pays-Bas, Leide, Feb- ruary 12th, 1868; Naturforschender Verein zu Riga, February 18th, 1868; K. K. zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien, February 25th, 1868; Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, March, 1868; Académie Impériale des Sciences, Belles- Lettres, etc., de Lyon, April 10th, 1868; Universidad de Chile, April 15th, 1868; K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, April 23d and August 26th, 1868; Société Entomologique de France, Paris, April 25th, 1868; Oberhessische Gesell- schaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, April 27th, 1868 ; Académie Royale des Sciences, etc., Bruxelles, April 27th, 1868; K. bihmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, May 14th, 1868; Société Hollandaise des Sciences, Harlem, May 20th, 1868; Batavian Society, Rotterdam, May, 1868; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., June Ist, 1868; Société Impériale d’Agriculture de Moscou, June Ist, 1868; K. K. geographische Gesellschaft, Wien, June 30th, 1868; Naturfor- schende Gesellschaft in Bern, June, 1868; Schweizerische naturforschende Gesellschaft, Bern, June, 1868; Naturforscher-Verein zu Riga, July 13th, 1868; Académie Impériale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres, ete., Lyon, July 15th, 1568; So- ciété Linnéene de Lyon, July 15th, 1868; W. Hunter, Acting Secretary of State, in behalf of A. Mazel, Minister from the Netherlands to the United States, August 8th, 1868; Société Royale des Sciences & Upsal, August 1st and Septem- ber 15th, 1868; Schlesische Gesellschaft fiir vaterlindische Cultur, Breslau, August 15th, 1868; Museum Francisco- Carolinum, Linz, August 19th, 1868; Académie Royale des Sciences & Amsterdam, September 2d, 1868; K. Leopol- dino-Carolinische deutsche Academie der Naturforscher, Dresden, September, 1868; Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Niirnberg, October Ist, 1868; Geological and PROCEEDINGS B. S. N. H.—VOL. XIII. 2 SEPTEMBER, 1869. Annual Report.] 34 [May 5, Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Leeds, October 16th, 1868; Wetterauische Gesellschaft fir die gesammte Naturkunde zu Hanau, November lith, 1868; Université Royale a Christiania, November, 1868; Mannheimer Verein fiir Naturkunde, November, 1868; K. Preussische Akademie der Wissen- shaften, Berlin, December 28th, 1868; Medizinisch-naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, zu Jena, January 29th, 1869; Prof. C. M. Von Siebold, Leipzig, February 15th, 1869; Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Febru- ary 17th, 1869, presenting their various publications. From the Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, February 7th, 1868; Société d’ Agriculture, etc., de la Sarthe, Le Mans, March ist, 1868; Natur- forschende Gesellschaft, Gérlitz, March 8th, 1868; Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Danzig, June 2d, 1868; Société Impériale Géographique, St. Petersburg, July 13th, 1868; Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen, Septem- ber ist, 1868; K. K. geologische Reichsanstalt, Wien, October 16th, 1868; Oberhessische Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, Giessen, October 24th, 1868; Meklenburgischer patriotischer Verein, Rostock, October 25th, 1868; Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genéve, November Ist, 1868; Die Pollichia, Diirkheim, November 20th, 1868; Société d’Histoire Naturelle de Strasbourg, December 10th, 1868; K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gittingen, January, 1869; Société Royale Linnéenne de Bruxelles, February 15th, 1869; Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, March 8th, 1869; Edward Newman, Esq., London, Eng., March 11th, 1869; Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, March 12th, 1869, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications, and presenting their own. ‘ From the Geographical Society of Berlin, December 20th, 1868, acknowledg- ing the receipt of the Society’s publications, and accepting the proposition to exchange. From the Oekonomische Gesellschaft, Dresden, April 8th, 1868, presenting its publications and accepting the offer of exchange. From the K. Norske Universitet, December 7th, 1868, presenting publications and asking exchange. , From the Société Littéraire du Brabant Septentrional 4 Bois le Duc, Novem- ber 17th, 1868; Ministére de la Marine et des Colonies, Paris, December 16th, 1868; Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles de Bordeaux, January 12th, 1869; Verein fiir vaterlindische Naturkunde in Wiirttemberg, Stuttgart, Febru- ary 15th, 1869, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications, present- ing their own, and asking that missing numbers of the Society’s publications may be sent to them. From the Bataafsch Genootschap der Proefondervindelijke Wijsbegeerte te Rotterdam, September 29th, 1868, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications, and offering to complete the set of its own publications in the possession of the Society. From the Universitas Lugduno-Batava, September 14th, 1868; and from Sefior Felipe Poey, Havana, September 19th, 1868, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications, and promising to supply deficiencies in the publi- cations heretofore received by the Society from them. From the Société des Sciences de Finlande, Helsingfors, November 30th, 1568, 1869.] 35 {Annual Report. and from the Schlesische Gesellschaft fiir vaterlandische Cultur, Breslau, De- cember 2d, 1868, acknowledging the receipt of the Society’s publications, and regretting inability to supply deficiencies in the publications heretofore trans- mitted to the Society. From the K. K. zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien, November 23d, 1868, presenting its publications, regretting its inability to furnish publications asked for by the Society, and asking that missing numbers of the publications transmitted by the Society may be supplied. From the K. K. zoologisch-botanische Gesellschaft, Wien, October 12th, 1867; Naturhistorischer Verein der preussischen Rheinlande und Westphalens, Bonn, March ist, 1868; Verein fiir vaterliindische Naturkunde in Wiirttemberg, Stuttgart, April 12th, 1868; Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, May 20th, 1869; Andrew Murray, Esq., London, November, 1868; Institut Impérial de France, Paris, December 5th, 1868; and the Société d’ Agri- culture, Sciences et Arts dela Sarthe, Le Mans, February 27th, 1869, acknowl- edging the receipt of the Society’s publications, and asking that missing numbers may be supplied. From the Société Entomologique de France, Paris, April 16th, 1869, acknowl- edging the receipt of the Society’s publications, asking for missing numbers, and promising to complete the series of its publications in the possession of the Society so far as possible. From the Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux, March 17th, 1869, asking that de- ficiencies in their series of the Society’s publications may be supplied to them, and promising to reciprocate. From the Royal Geographical Society, London, January 4th, 1869, presenting some of the back numbers of its publications. From Dr. H. Loew, Meseritz, Prussia, February 28th, 1868; Prof. 0. C. Marsh, New Haven, Conn., July 6th, 1868; Prof. William H. Brewer, New Haven, Conn., July 22d, 1868; Prof. T. Eulenstein, Dresden, Saxony, October 5th, 1868; Prof. Burt. G. Wilder, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y,, January 24th, 1869; Prof. Charles Wedl, Vienna, Austria, February 20th, 1869, in acknowledgment of their election as Corresponding Members. From Dr. Christopher Kollock, Cheraw, N. C., June 22d and October 2Ist, 1868; Henry Davis, Money Creek, Minnesota, October 27th, 1868; and John W. M. Appleton, Waldingfield, W. Va., November 5th, 1868, offering specimens to the Society, etc.; A. A. Gautier, Chevalier de Ja Légion d’Honneur, Paris, September 30th, 1868, a circular concerning the cultivation of the Potato; Dr. C. A. Martius, Miinchen, December 15th, 1868, announcing the death of Dr. Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius; Biological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, February 25th, 1869, a circular concerning the objects of the department; the University of Vermont, Burlington, March 9th, 1869, in acknowledgment of having been placed on the list of Institutions to which the Society’s publications ace sent. Annual Report.) 36 [May 5, ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY DURING THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1869. A Guide to the Study of Insects. By A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Parts 1- vi. 8vo. Salem, 1868-9. From the Author. Annual Meteorological Synopsis for the year 1867. By J. B. Trembley, M. D., in the city of Toledo, Ohio. 8vyo. Pamph. From the Author. A System of Mineralogy. By James Dwight Dana, aided by George Jarvis Brush. 5th Edition. 8vo. New York, 1868. From the Author. Queries on the Red Sandstone of Vermont, and its Relations to other Rocks. By the Rey. John B. Perry. 8vo. Pamph. Boston, 1868. From the Author. Notes on certain Terrestrial Mollusca, with Descriptions of new Species. By Thomas Bland. 8vo. Pamph. New York, 1868. From the Author. The Institutes of Medicine. By Martyn Paine, M. D. 8vo. New York, 1867. From the Author. Contributions to the Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By Professor How. m1. 8vo. Pamph. 1868. From the Author. Catalogue of the Phznogamous Plants of the United States east of the Mississippi, and of the Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of North America, north of Mexico. By Horace Mann. 8vo. Pamph. Boston, 1868. From the Author. Mr. Meek’s Notes on my Preliminary Report of the Geology of Kansas, as edited by Dr. Hayden. By Prof. G. C. Swallow. 8vo. Pamph. St. Louis, 1868. From the Author. On some Cretaceous Fossil Plants from Nebraska. By Leo Lesquereux. 8vo. Pamph. Columbus, 1868. From the Author. ‘ Céphalopodes Siluriens de la Bohéme. Groupement des Orthocéres. Par Joachim Barrande. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1868. From the Author. Derivative Hypothesis of Life and Species. By Professor Owen. 8vo. Pamph. London, 1868. rom the Author. Capillar-Blut undefibrinirtes zur Transfusion. Von Dr. med. Franz Ge- sellius. 8vo. Pamph. St. Petersburg, 1868. From the Author. Outlines of Comparative Anatomy and Medical Zodlogy. By Harrison Allen, M.D. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1869. From the Author. Mutillarum novarum species aliquot. Auctore H. de Saussure. 8vo. Pamph. Paris, 1867. From the Author. : Notes on the later extinct Floras of North America. By J. 8. Newberry. 8vo. Pamph. New York, 1867. From the Author. The Pampas and Andes. A Thousand Miles’ Walk across South America. By Nathaniel H. Bishop. 12mo. Boston, 1869. From the Author. Action of Anzesthetics on the Blood Corpuscles. By J. H. MeQuillen, M. D. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1869. rom the Author. Introduction to Zodlogy. By Robert Patterson, F.R.S. 16mo. Belfast, 1866. From the Author. 1809. 37 [Annual Report. On the Geology and Silver Ore of Wood’s Location, Thunder Cape, Lake Superior. By Thos. Macfarlane. 8vo. Pamph. Actonvale, 1869. From the Author. Die Vegetationsverhiiltnisse von Croatien. Von Dr. August Neilreich. 8vo. Wien, 1868. From the Author. Die Zoophyten und Echinodermen des Adriatischen Meeres. Von Prof. Cam. Heller. 8vo. Pamph. Wien, 1868. rom the Author. On the Origin of Genera. By Edward D. Cope, A. M. 8vo. Pamph. Philadelphia, 1869. From the Author. Flora Brasiliensis. Edidit Carolus Fridericus Philippus de Martius. Fase 44-46. Folio. Lipsiae, 1868. From Mrs. B. D. Greene. Annual Report of the Surgeon-General, United States Army. 8yo. Pamph. Washington, 1868. From the Surgeon-General. California Wine, Wool and Stock Journal. J. Q. A. Warren, Editor. Vol. 1. 4to. San Francisco, 1863. From the Editor. Geological and Natural History Survey of North Carolina. Part m1. Bot- any, by Rev. M. A. Curtis, D. D. 8vo. Raleigh, 1867. From C. J. Sprague. Report on the State of the Militia of the Province of Canada, for the year 1867. S8vo. Ottawa, 1868. From L. A. H. Latour. Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Mercantile Library Association of the City of Boston. 8vo. Pamph. 1868. From the Association. The Galaxy, Vol. v, No.6. 8vo. New York, 1868. From the Publishers. Drawing of Cyprea. From Mr. G. W. Pratt. The Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3d Series. Vol. uv1, No.1. 8vo. Philadelphia, 1868. From the Institute. ; American Cervus, by John D. Caton. 8vo. Pamph. Ottawa, 1868. From Mr. B. D. Walsh. Photographs of Macherodon. From Mr. J. Dorr. - A General Catalogue of Books, arranged in Classes, offered for sale by Ber- nard Quaritch. 8vo. London, 1868. From Mr. Bernard Quaritch. Beitrag zur Kentniss der mikroskopischen Fauna jurassischer Schichten. Von Conrad Schwager. 8vo. Pamph. Stuttgart, 1865. From Dr. C. F. Winslow. Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Yale College, 1868-69. 8vo. Pamph. New Haven, 1868. From the Trustees of Yale College. Hawaiian Club Papers. Edited by a Committee of the Club. 8vo. Boston, 1868. From Mr. William T. Brigham. Ueber Capillargefiiszsysteme von Gasteropoden. Von. Prof. Dr. C. Wedl. 8vo. Pamph. Wien, 1868. From Dr. F. H. Brown. The Missisquoi Springs and their wonderful Cures. 12mo. Pamph. New York. From the Proprietors of the Springs. Acts and Resolves passed by the General Court of Massachusetts, in the years 1864-68. 8vo. Boston. From Mr. Alanson Hawley. The Atheneum. 1850, Vol. 1; 1851, m-1v; 1852, 1-1; 1853, 1-1: 1854, im. 4to. London. From Mr. N. L. Hooper. Public Library of Cincinnati. Rules, By-Laws and other Items, with Annual Reports. 8vo. 1868. From the Trustees. Annual Report.] 38 [May 5, The Inaugural Address of Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Mayor of Boston, to the City Council, January 4, 1869. 8vo. Boston, 1869. From the City of Boston. An Act to aid in the preservation of Birds, Birds’ Eggs and Deer. Senate, No. 111. The same, Senate, No. 191. 8vo. Pamph. Boston, 1868. From Mr. H. A. Purdie. Free Public Library of the City of New Bedford. Seventeenth Annual Re- port of the Trustees. 8vo. 1869. Supplement to the Catalogue. 8vo. 1869. From the Trustees. Geology of New Jersey. George H. Cook, State Geologist. 8vo. Newark, 1868. Map, 4to. From the Board of Managers of the Survey. North-West Territory. Report on the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Explor- ing Expedition, by Henry Youle Hind, M. A. 4to. Toronto, 1859. From Mr. C. S. Minot. Reports of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of Maine, for the years 1867 and 1868. 8vo. Augusta, 1869. From the Commissioners. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and Arts of the Province of On- tario, for the year 1868. 8vo. Toronto, 1869. From the Commissioner. A Concise History of High Rock Spring. By Henry McGuier. 16mo. Pamph. Albany, 1868. From Dr. S. Kneeland. 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H., by Dr. S. A. Bemis. Cranium and Atlas of Felis from the Cape of Good Hope, by Dr. Edw. Gilchrist, U.S. N. 585.00 Wolcott ‘ Hs : e ° * 799.49 Walker “ « (onehalf.) . = é 1,233.15 Annual Assessments . : - ° ° 1,340.00 Admission Fees ° ° 5 - - = 130.00 Life Membership = 5 “ ° ° 100.00 Profit on sales of Stock : > - C : - 43.00 Total : EET See, Ame Cee $13,311.04 Expenditures. Museum Sullne and Fornre 2 é A $694.95 Cabinet . 3 . 1,417.71 Library ter eee ee 279.97 Memoirs and Publications . - « $7270.16 Less receipts . ; : - 1491.90 5,778.26 Gas. 3 ® ‘ PPR: 2 . P : 168.29 Fuel - : : : : : Z 439.75 Repairs of Building « eter be . . 5 483.49 Binding : ails oa ° : : { 1,674.06 Lectures. : b A “haan - . $713.88 Less receipts . : . : : . 204.00 | 509.88 Faunal Map he Va ae 418.15 Smithsonian Institute Explorations on» RAN Gira a 300.00 Salariesand wages... ees ee gee | 6,156.85 Insurance . - é : : : - . “ | 375.00 General Expenses g a 2 5 ? 7 ‘ : | 943.25] $19,639.61 Excess of Expenditures over Receipts oh ai | $6,828.57 1869.) 69 {Annual Report. The following is a statement of the Property of the Society, ex- clusive of the Cabinet and Library, which are not susceptible of a definite valuation. Museum Building. Cost of Building and Furniture, per last Hepost Bee Expended during theyear . . . ri | Bulfinch St. Estate Fund. Note secured by mortgage © i) Got RRM Pepa rempont N ational Becke sae Maur en eee Courtis Fund. 50 Shares Globe National Bank 85 Shares Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balt. R.R. Co. $400 U.S. 5-20 Bonds erst Suby option Walker Fund. Notes secured by mortgage. 26 Shares Tremont National Bank . 1) & Atlas és Cash . 5 ‘ = : “ H. F. Wolcott Fund. $6,000 Chicago and N. Western R.R. Co. 10’s Bonds . S. P. Pratt Fund. = Shares Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balt. R.R. ors « “Norwich & Worcester R.R. Co. . , 40 « Webster National Bank . : : ‘ 3 Gorge eogion 4 rn : ~ . 3 Cash . . - : 2 : : : General Fund. 2 Shares Bates Manufacturing Co. . . . Cy Everett Mills . : “ : 3 “ Yamilton Woolen Manuf. Co. 2 1 “* Lawrence Manuf. Co. é 80 ‘ Washington Mills . 114 “ Vermont and Canada RR. Co. eerie @® tee cht eo ate ove 12 “* Cocheco Manuf.Co. . - : : : 2 “ Lowell Manuf. Co. “ g 4 - 3 4 ‘* WLaconia Manuf. Co. 2 - 3 ‘ Pepperell Manuf. Co. . - = Mh «Neptune Ins. Co. . - 3 - « Boston Ins. Co... $4000 Yermiont ¢ Cent. & Vermont & Canada I R.R. Co.’s onds . - - $10,000 Albany City Bonds . $1,000 Chicago & N. Western R. R. Co.’s Bonds | 95 Shares Michigan Central R.R. Co. “ — Ogdensb’g & Lake C hamplain R.R. Pref. Stks. 88 “ Philadelphia, Wilmington & Balt. R.R. Co. may Sf National Bank of Redemption . . . Miscellaneous. Unsettled pacgents é 5 - ; . - $24.43 Cash 2 2 : c A : . 2,544.14 Less outstanding bills. + oe Cae eee Total value of Property April 30, 1869 . ° 4 OE er Diminution of value the past year Z : - : $136,030.19 694.95 $15,000.00 10,122.00 142.45 $6,250.00 1,827.50 425.00 $41,105.00 3,133.00 2,204.00 797.49 sen Be oo iad S69 69 NEOSHO Popo Basesss Sess RRaS3ss_ Ssss $2,568.57 177.86 $186,725.14 8,502.50 47,289.49 6,000.00 8,472.82 92,817.25 2,390.71 $327,411.86 $340,710.79 $13,298.95 Annual Report.} 70 [May 5, This apparent diminution is occasioned principally by a reduction to the amount of $9,356.00 in the estimated value of the manufactur- ing and insurance stocks received under the Walker bequest, by the expense of binding the pamphlets and periodicals which have accumu- lated for several years, and by the unusually large cost of the publi- cations, including the Harris Correspondence, etc. The publication of this work, of which three hundred copies are still undisposed of, was authorized nearly six years ago by the Council, and has cost about $2,000. We receive in exchange for our Memoirs and Proceedings, the publications of Foreign Scientific Societies; and in this way the value of the library has been increased during the past year by the sum of, at least, five thousand dollars. It should be observed that a large portion of the income of the Society cannot be applied to general purposes. One half of the in- come of the Walker Fund is not received by the Treasurer, or in- cluded in the above receipts, but is reserved as a prize fund for essays on subjects relating to Natural History, and for other special purposes. The income of the Wolcott Fund can only be used in the purchase ef books; and that of the Pratt Fund is applicable only to the Concho- logical Department. Under an order of the Council, the Bulfinch Street Estate Fund, with its accruing income, is to constitute an accumulating Building Fund, and for this reason, such income also is not included in the receipts of the Treasurer. All which is respectfully submitted, E. PICKERING, Treasurer of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, April 30, 1869. Mr. T. T. Bouvé, on behalf of the Trustees, presented the following report on the Trust Funds of the Society for the past year: — {Annual Report. 71 1809.) , Dr. Tuos. T. Bouvsé, Cuas. J. Spracur anp Epwarp Picxertne, TRUSTEES, IN ACCOUNT” Cnr. WITH THE CouRTIS FunD or THE Boston Sociery or Natura History. 1868. 1868. Sept. 26. |To Cash received for Interest on $10,000 St. Sept. 26. |By Cash paid to Edw. Pickering, Treasurer, $300.00 1869. Louis Bonds P F é ~ $300.00 1869. March. “received for Interest on $10,000 St. March 26. “ o ce s 300.00 Louis Bonds eR he 800.00 April. «paid for Stock, as follows: April. * received for $10,000 St. Louis Bonds ** 60 Shares Globe Bank, at 125. ; 6,250.00 sold at $81 (it being thought best “85 Shares Phil, & Wil. R.R., at 52, 1,827,50 by the Trustees to invest in prop- paid Treasurer balance cash . ; 22.50 erty not so readily transferable by delivery only, and less likely F to cause loss by robbery) , : 8,100.00 [The Trustees intend to transfer from General — Fund stocks to make this prop-| $8,700.00 $8,700.00 erty again $10,000.) J Errors Excepted, Boston, April 30, 1869, THOS. T. BOUVE, CHAS. JAS. SPRAGUE, $ Trustees. E. PICKERING, —_——_.?_ Mem>., April 30,1869. The property of this Fund consists on date, of : 60 Shares Globe Bank at 125. . é . ’ . ° A . ° ° . - . . . 85 Shares Phil. & Wil. R.R. at 52 . 7 . ° . ° . ’ . . . . 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WITH THE INCOME FROM THE WALKER Founp or THE Boston Society or NATURAL History. 1868. 1868. Sept. |To Cash, six months’ Interest on note secured Sept. |By Cash paid to Treasurer, one half of amount by mOreaReS . ‘ ‘ : $750.00 received on date for Interest on Oct. «© six months’ Interest on note secured Note. 5 ; 5 : 2 $375.00 by mortgage oD Gayl oee'-s 483.15 «paid to Trustees of Prize Fund . 875.00 1869. Oct. “paid to Treasurer, one half amount March 1. “six months’ Interest on note secured received Interest on note secured by mortgage . : - : 750.00 by mortgage : - f < 241.58 April 5. «six months’ Interest on note secured | «paid to Trustees of Prize Fund . 241.57 by mortgage ee ar en 483.15 1869. March 1. “« paid to Treasurer, cne half amount received on date . 4 é : 875.00 es «paid to Trustees of Prize Fun 875.00 April 5. «paid to Treasurer, one half amount received on date . : See fuk 241.57 We «paid to Trustees of Prize Fund . 241.58 $2,466.30 $2,466.30 Errors Excepted. 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Dec. ae 1869. Apr. 80. “a “e To Cash balance on hand on date : « yeceived for Interest Coupons on U.S. Bonds . 4 . ; « — yeceived for Interest Coupons on U.S. Bonds . . ‘ : “received for U. S. Bonds, $200 7 « yeceived for Interest Coupons 01 U.S. Bonds . . hy ; ; « yeceived for Interest accrued 01: Bonds sold. E < : J “ received for $5,000 U. S. Bonds sold, exchanged for Chicago and North Western Bonds . F ; i “ received for $400 Government Bonds, 5-20’s iw . A ° 5 - $15.51 225.00, 217.48 220.50 287.50 100.00 5,575.00, 425.00, $7,016.99. Memo., April 80, 1869. The Property of this Fund on date consists of Chicago and ..orth Western Railroad Bonds 1868. July 1. |By Cash paid for U. S. ’67 Bonds, $200. $217.60 Dec. «paid to Treasurer to be expended by him for books A ° < ‘ 244.51 fi 5 “ paid to Treasurer for books . 217.48 dDe Apr. 30. «paid to Treasurer for books. . 837.50 (Not all expended by the Treas- urer for books. 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PICKERING, i Re ee ee 5 ee $6,000.00 Which represent $6,058.27; the increase being due to non-expenditure of the whole income for books, (May 5, 76 Aunual Report.] 2E'SL48S #6° ZT Bile asin’ whic walle 58 lu iis eeetaiire alls seies, ses ere . + + puvq no 1s89 €9°LOFL : : : : si 2 ot top oe : ¢ 419 yu peosie3y uo Sayeny M pu eiydpaprirt.T sores 1Z GLSLOT. ee he ey 3% ere eee de * LOTS YB AUB 10}S9 AA SOLVTS OT GZ L99 } e ; My ‘ f : . : 0 * eos ye yur [vuonvy uoysog sorvys 9 GLG1so$ ; ; 3 : . 4 : : aes S * POTS 1B pvodey 10Js90.10 AA PUB TPOIM.ALON Sarvys 0G JO S}SISUOD OJep WO pun siq} Jo AyAodorg oy, “GOST ‘OB ady “owasy ‘ONTHAMOML “A "SHMLSAUL ) ANOVAS ‘SVE ‘SVHO TAROT ‘L ‘SOHL _ "698T ‘08 [dy ‘moqsog *poydooxny 8101157 28'190'6S $6 120 "8 oyep Wo puvy To cousyeq ysuD Ag ” 89° LOFT * %19¢ 4B ‘proarey Wo,SuruT ; TEM pus BIG lopeitrd sersys 1% 28'L90'6S GL'GL0'T * “019% ‘WUVE [CMON 10}8q0.AA SATIS OT ZB SLPS * iSite ibe megBOO ISNT, Ory 93'L99 * AG0L YB Jo aj0A Aq ‘spuog pore, [Bay ‘quvg [VUOTeN woysoge SVs 9 U0) YLOK MON OOOOTS LOF poatooor GLZIG'9 : FOL 9B “pvoaprery 107 00°008 ‘ SpUog UO ysadozUT POAToooT 4 ‘udy “SO0L0 AA PUB YOIMAON Sorvys 0g o0'eszes : ‘ «XB, sset ‘spuog SSMOT[OF SB HO0}S Loy pred ,, ” pooartvar [Bqm9D ~YIOK MON 00'g8as ‘ * + gornsvory of} 03 pred ystp Aq] ‘0g ‘adv 0000S WO *gu0d 10d d0149 ‘paatodad YSBO OF) “1g ‘390 “698T “898T__ “AUOLSIFT IVYOLVNY JO ALAINOOG NOLSOG AHL dO GNOW ILVUd AHL WLI "IQ «= INQOOOV NI ‘SaaLsoUy, ‘ONIUTMOIG GUVMaY GNV FTADvadg ‘f ‘SVHD “AANOG ‘yf, ‘SOW, “AC CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. ACT OF INCORPORATION. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. An Act to incorporate the Boston Society or Narvurau History. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- tatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That Benjamin D. Greene, George Hayward, John Ware, Walter Channing, Edward Brooks, Amos Binney, Jr., D. Hum- phreys Storer, Simon E. Greene, Joshua B. Flint, William Grigg, George B. Emerson, and Henry Codman, with their associates, and such other persons as snall from time to time be duly admitted members of the Corporation hereby created, be, and they hereby are constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the Boston Society or Natura History, and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of suing and being sued, of prosecuting and defending unto final judgment, in all Courts and places whatsoever, and may have a Common Seal, with power to change the same at pleasure. Sect. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Society shall have power to hold real or personal estate by gift, grant, devise, or other- wise, and the same or any part thereof to alien or convey, provided that the clear annual income of such personal and real estate, shall not exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purposes than the encouragement and promotion of the science of Natural History. Sect. 3. Be it further enacted, That said Society shall have power to elect a President and all other necessary officers; to make iV ACT OF INCORPORATION. rules and by-laws for the election and government of its members, for the management of its property, for collecting annual contribu- tions from its members, for regulating the times and places of meeting, for expelling such members as refuse to comply with the by-laws or regulations, and for the managing of the affairs of the Society, provided such rules and by-laws be not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this Commonwealth, or of the United States. Sect. 4. Be it further enacted, That the persons herein before . named, or any three of them, shall have power to call the first meeting of the members of said Society, in such manner as they may think proper. Secr. 5. Be it further enacted, That this Act may be altered, amended, or repealed, at the pleasure of the Legislature. In House of Representatives, February 23, 1831, passed to be enacted. WM. B. CALHOUN, Speaker. In Senate, February 24, 1831, passed to be enacted. SAM’L LATHROP, President. FEBRUARY, 25, 1831. Approved, LEVI LINCOLN. A Copy of the Original Act, Attest, EDWARD D. BANGS, Secretary of the Commonwealth. An Act to authorize the Boston Society or Naturat History to amend its Constitution. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : — The Boston Society or Natura History is hereby authorized and empowered to amend the eighth article of its Constitution, by inserting after the word ‘* members,” in the third line of the printed copy thereof, the following words: “ present at any two consecu- tive meetings of the Society, the members having been first duly notified of any proposed alteration.” [Approved by the Governor, April 3d, 1852. ] CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. CONS TEPUTION. ARTICLE I. Tue Society shall be called the Bosron Society or Naturan History. t ARTICLE II. It shall consist of Members, Corresponding and Honorary Mem- bers, and Patrons. ARTICLE III. Members shall be chosen by ballot, after having been nominated at the meeting immediately preceding that on which the ballot is taken: the affirmative votes of three fourths of the members pres- ent shall be necessary to a choice. Corresponding and Honorary members shall be elected in a similar manner, but their nomination shall proceed from the Council. Any person who shall contribute at one time, to the funds of the Society, a sum not less than fifty dollars, shall be a Patron. ARTICLE IV. Members only shall be entitled to vote, to hold office, or to trans- act business: Corresponding and Honorary Members and Patrons may attend the meetings, and take part in the scientific discussions of the Society. vi CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE Y. The officers of the Society shall be a President; two Vice: Presidents, first and second; a Corresponding Secretary ; a Re- cording Secretary and Clerk ; a Treasurer; a Librarian ; Curators, and a Cabinet Keeper; who, together, shall form a Board for the management of the concerns of the institution, ana be called the Council. ARTICLE VI. Officers shall be chosen by ballot, and a majority of votes shall be sufficient for a choice. ARTICLE VII. By-laws, for the more particular regulation of the Society, shall from time to time be made. ARTICLE VIII. This Constitution may be altered or amended in any of the pre- ceding articles, by a vote to that effect, of three fourths of the members present at any two consecutive meetings of the Society, the members having been first duly notified of any proposed alter- ation: but the article which immediately follows this shall be unalterable. ARTICLE IX. The consent of every member shall be necessary to a dissolution of the Society. In case of a dissolution, the property of the Society shall not be distributed among the members, but donors may claim and receive such donations as they have made to the museum, and the remainder shall be given to some public institution, on such con- ditions as may then be agreed on; and the faithful performance of such conditions shall be secured by bonds, with sufficient penalties for the non-fulfilment thereof. BY-LAW se. SECTION I. OF MEMBERS. Art. 1. Every person who shall have been elected a member of this Society, shall subscribe an obligation, promising to conform to the Constitution and By-laws thereof, and shall pay into the treasury an initiation fee of five dollars. He shall possess none of the rights of membership, nor shall his name be borne upon the roll of members until the said fee shall have been paid. Any per- son of respectable character and attainments, residing in the city of Boston or its immediate neighborhood, shall be eligible as a mem- ber of this Society. Art. 2. Corresponding and Honorary members shall not be required to pay an initiation fee, or other contribution. Corres- ponding members shall consist of persons not resident in the city, who may be interested in the study of Natural History, or desirous of promoting the interests of the Society. Honorary members shall be selected from persons eminent for their attainments in science, on whom the Society may wish to confer a compliment of respect. Art. 3. Persons who have been unsuccessful candidates for admission, shall not be again proposed as members until after one year. Art. 4. Any member may withdraw from the Society, by giv- ing written notice of his intention, and paying all arrearages due from him. A refusal or neglect on the part of a member to pay any due for the space of one year, shall be considered an intima- tion of a wish to withdraw from the Society ; and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to report the names of such delinquent vill BY-LAWS. members yearly to the Council, at their first meeting after the annual meeting, who may thereupon order their names to be stricken from the rolls. Art. 5. Members may be expelled from the Society, by a vote of three fourths of the members present, at a meeting specially called for that purpose, by a notice given at least one month previous. SECTION II. OF OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES. Art. 1. The President shall preside at meetings of the Society and of the Council; shall preserve order, regulate debates, and announce donations and other interesting information. Art. 2. The Vice-President shall perform the duties of Presi- dent, in his absence. Art. 3. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the corres- pondence of the Society, and keep a record thereof; shall keep the common seal; acknowledge all donations ; notify correspond- ing members of their election, and receive and read to the Society all communications on scientific subjects which may be addressed to him. Art. 4. The Recording Secretary and Clerk shall take and preserve correct minutes of the proceedings of the Society and Council, in a book to be kept for that purpose; shall have the charge of the papers and documents belonging to the Society ; shall notify members of their election, and committees of their appointment ; shall call meetings when directed by the President ; and shall give written notice to the Treasurer and Corresponding Secretary of all matters which shall occur at any meeting requiring the action of those officers. Arr. 5. The Treasurer shall have charge of all moneys and other property of the Society, except their Library and Museum ; shall collect all fees and assessments, and receive any donations in money which may be made to it; shall pay all accounts against the Society, when the same are approved by a vote of the Council ; shall keep a correct account of all receipts and expenditures in a book belonging to the Society, and shall, at each annual meeting, and at other times when required by the Council, make a detailed report of the same. BY-LAWS. 1X Art. 6. The Librarian shall have control of the books belonging to the Society, or deposited for their use ; he shall make a correct catalogue of them, and keep a record of such as are taken from the Library by the members; shall permit the use of the Library to members and others, under such regulations as may from time to time be adopted, and shall annually report the condition of the Library. Art. 7. The Curators shall be intrusted with the care of the Museum. ‘They shall, within six weeks after a donation is made, deposit such donation in their particular Cabinets. Each Curator shall have his particular department allotted to him at the time of his election. The Curator having charge of any division of the collection, shall keep the keys thereof; shall arrange the speci- mens after some approved system, and, so far as is practicable, label them with the names they bear in such system. He shall keep a correct catalogue of articles in his care, and shall be alone authorized to select duplicate specimens from the Cabinet, and effect exchanges. He may select from among the members of the Society a person to assist him in arranging and labelling the speci- mens. ‘The Curators shall, at the annual meeting, make a written report to the Society, concerning the Museum, the state of the different Collections, the additions made during the past year, and the deficiencies which exist. Art. 8. The Cabinet Keeper shall have the general charge of the room or rooms belonging to the Society; shall see that their contents are kept in the best order; shall select a competent per- son as a porter or attendant, and this person shall be considered as under his immediate control. He shall keep the Donation Book, and see to the execution of the duties enjoined in Art. 4, Sec. 5. He shall also, when convenient, attend personally, during the days of public visitation. Art. 9. The Council shall provide suitable rooms for the meet- ings of the Society, for lectures, and for the Museum ; they shall select the subjects of the lectures, regulate the order in which they shall be given, and determine on what terms the public may be admitted to them ; appoint Lecturers, and fix their compensation ; authorize the expenditure of money for the increase of the Library and Museum, and designate the books which shall be purchased ; and do any other acts not inconsistent with the Constitution and ~ 2 >. ¢ BY-LAWS. By-Laws, which they may think necessary to the continuation and success of the Society. i SECTION III. OF ASSESSMENTS. Art. 1. Every member who shall have resided in the city of Boston, or within ten miles thereof, during the six months preceding the first of October in each year, or during any part of said term, shall be subject to an annual assessment of three dollars, payable on that day ; Provided, that no assessment shall be required of any member during the six months succeeding his election. Art. 2. Any member who shall pay into the treasury at one time, the sum of thirty dollars, shall be exempt from the annual assessments. Art. 3. Whenever a member of this Society shall become acquainted with a young man of good moral character, who is desirous of joining the Society from a pure love of Natural Sci- ence, and shall be aware of his inability to become a member should an initiation or assessment fee be demanded, —he shall be allowed to nominate the said individual in the usual way, sparing his feelings by making no reference to his situation. But in case of his election, he shall state his situation to the Treasurer, and pledge the honor of the individual elected, that all the fees which would ordinarily be demanded, shall be promptly paid, except arrears, whenever his situation will allow; and the Treasurer shall make known his circumstances'to no one save his successor, who shall as carefully guard his feelings. SECTION IV. OF THE LIBRARY. Art. 1. The Library shall consist of works on Natural History, and other subjects connected therewith. Arr. 2. The selection of books to be purchased for the Library shall be made by the Council; but for the present, such books as are not found in other public Libraries in the city of Boston, shall be purchased in preference. Arr. 8. Members may deposit books in the Library for the use of théSociety ; but such books shall not be taken from the Library- room, without the consent of the owners. BY-LAWS. xi Art. 4. The Society shall be responsible for the safe-keeping and careful usage of books deposited, and shall recompense the owners for any damage which may occur to them while in the Society’s keeping. Art. 5. Books owned by the Society may be taken from the Library by members, upon signing a receipt for the same, and promising to make good any damage which may be sustained when in their possession, and to replace the same if lost. Art. 6. The Council may prohibit valuable and rare books from circulation. Arr. 7. Books shall not be kept from the Library more than one calendar month, by the same person, without renewing the loan. Art. 8. The Council may appoint particular days for taking books from the Library. Art. 9. All books shall be returned to the Library on the third Wednesday of April, annually, and remain one fortnight ; and any person having then one or more books, and neglecting to return the same, shall be reminded of his delinquency by the Librarian. Arr. 10. The Council may extend the use of the Library to other persons than members. SECTION V. OF THE MUSEUM. Art. 1. The Museum shall consist of collections in the different departments of Natural History. Arr. 2. All specimens sent to the Museum shall be considered the property of the Society, unless the owner shall make known in writing his wish to retain the privilege of withdrawing them. Arr. 3. Whena member deposits in the Museum a sufficient number of articles to fill an entire case, a key of the case shall be at all times at his command. Arr. 4. The names of donors, with the articles given, shall, in every instance, be recorded in a book kept for that purpose, by the Cabinet Keeper, under the direction of the Curators of each de- partment. Art. 5. No specimens shall be removed from the Museum, without the leave of the Curator of the department to which they xil BY-LAWS. belong, who shall take a receipt for the same, and give notice thereof to the Cabinet Keeper, and be himself responsible for the restoration of the same in good order. Art. 6. Members, Honorary and Corresponding Members, and Patrons, shall have access to the Museum at all times, and the public occasionally, subject to the regulations of the Council. Art. 7. Members or other persons desirous of examining or describing specimens, or of taking them from the cases for the purpose of study, must apply to the Curators who have charge of them, who may grant such request at discretion. SECTION VI. OF LECTURES. Art. 1. Public lectures, when judged expedient by the Council, shall be given under the auspices of the Society, on the several branches of Natural History. Arr. 2. The order in which the lectures shall follow each other, shall be fixed by the Council. Arr. 3. Members of the Society shall have free admission to the lectures ; other persons shall be admitted on such terms as the Council shall prescribe. Art.4. The moneys received for admission to the lectures shall go to pay the compensation of Lecturers and other expenses; the balance, if any, shall be paid into the Treasury of the Society. SECTION VII. OF MEETINGS. Art. 1. A meeting shall be held on the first Wednesday in May annually, for the choice of officers and other general pur- poses. At this meeting, or at a subsequent meeting, if so ordered by a vote of the Society, reports shall be made, by the Treasurer, on the state of the Funds; by the Librarian, on the condition of the Library ; and by the Curators, on the condition of the Museum. Art. 2. Stated meetings of the Society shall be held on the first and third Wednesday of every month. Art. 3. Six members shall form a quorum for business. Art. 4. Members will be expected to communicate at the meet- ings of the Society, such interesting information as may come into BY-LAWS. xill their possession respecting Natural History in general, and particu- larly any new facts respecting that of our own country. Arr. 5. Written communications on subjects connected with Natural History, may be made by the members ; the subjects, and time of reading, shall be chosen by themselves; but after the same shall have been read, the opinions and facts therein contained, shall be open to remark by other members. Art. 6. The order of proceeding at meetings shall be as fol- lows, to wit: 1. Record of preceding meeting read. 2. Written communications read. 3. Verbal communications made. 4. Business called up by special resolutions. 5. Donations announced. 6. Candidates for membership proposed. 7. Adjournment. Pay Rok BINDING SECT. 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