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was a mere fiction of his imagination ; for an entire cranium has 

 since been found, proving beyond a doubt that the Zeuglodon 

 was not a reptile but a cetacean ; the teeth being inserted by 

 double roots into double alveoli is positive evidence that it was a 

 warm-blooded mammal, Miiller has also carefully studied this 

 specimen, and pronounces it unquestionably a cetacean. 



Dr. C. T. Jackson presented the specimens mentioned 

 by him at the last meeting as found in the tertiary deposit 

 of Marshfield, and identical with those found at Gay Head. 



Dr. Durkee mentioned a method successfully adopted by 

 the farmers in Illinois and Wisconsin for curing their cattle 

 when bitten by the rattlesnake. 



It is simply to cast them, and bury the bitten part in the mud, 

 when recovery rapidly takes place ; he mentioned cases where 

 animals had been seen to be bitten, who recovered with no other 

 treatment than this. He did not know if there was any thing in 

 the mud to account for its alleged curative powers. 



Dr. Durkee mentioned a popular belief at the West, that the 

 *' blow snake," so called, blows out a poisonous vapor from its 

 mouth as a means of attack and defence. 



Dr. Wyman observed that Dumeril, who has written a large 

 work on serpents, denies totally that they hiss, a faculty which 

 they have been supposed to possess from time immemorial ; they 

 occasionally make a slight noise by the expiration of air from the 

 lungs, as tortoises do ; but nothing which can be called a hissing 

 noise. 



Mr. Stodder presented some fine specimens of wheat, 

 grown in Masachusetts by Henry Poor of North Andover. 



There were four varieties, all very flourishing. This was the 

 sixth crop that he had raised, and he is convinced that farmers 

 will find it to their advantage to raise wheat in Massachusetts at 

 least for their own use. From one seed he raised the finest 

 specimen presented, five feet in height, containing forty straws 

 and two thousand two hundred and fourteen seeds. The soil is 

 clayey ; it had been limed ; common manure was employed. 



