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to me there is the whole delightful future." The quiet trust of our 

 friend meant, 



"And so beside the silent sea 

 I wait the muffled oar ; 

 No harm from Him can come to me 

 On ocean or on shore. 



I know not where His islands lift 

 Their fronded palms in air, 

 I only know I cannot drift 

 Beyond his love and care." 



[To be concluded.} 



OEDER OF MEETINGS. 



Regular semi-monthly meeting held Feb. 1st. President in the 

 chair. Records were read. Recent Correspondence and Donations 

 were announced. 



The President read an intere'sting paper prepared bj' David R. Pea- 

 body, upon the temperance organizations in the city of Salem, formed 

 since 1841, vide next number. 



Voted, — That the thanks of the Institute be given to Mr. Peabody 

 for his valuable paper, and that it be referred to the Committee on 

 Publication. 



The President presented a manuscript memoir of Horace Maun, jr., 

 from a friend and associate, vide page 25. 



Voted, — To refer this also to the Committee on Publication, and 

 that the thanks of the Institute be tendered to the writer. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited several specimens of trout, about two 

 weeks old, which had been placed in his charge for the purpose of 

 having them drawn for a paper in the Naturalist, by Dr. A. Coolidge 

 of Boston. These specimens were all monstrosities, and presented 

 the following characteristics : — One had a second head and anterior 

 part of the body growing out from its side, while another had two 

 heads and was double throughout its anterior portion, but with a per- 

 fect and single tail portion. Other specimens exhibited a singular 

 curvature of the spine which had prevented the fish, when alive, from 

 swimming except in a circle. Dr. Coolidge has noted the fact that in 

 all the several double headed monsters of trout that he has had alive 

 that it was the left head that governed the motions of the fish, the 

 right bead in every case holding an inferior position. Mr. Putnam 

 gave a farther account of the anatomy of these singular specimens, 

 from information furnished him by Dr. Coolidge, which was followed 

 by a discussion of such malformations as illustrative of the principle 

 of germination, during which Dr. A. H. Johnson noticed the latest 



