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without salt ; preparing a very wholesome and nutritious 

 food without that salt which has been generally supposed 

 so necessary for perfect nutrition. Dr. Cabot alluded to 

 certain experiments showing that salt considerably increases 

 the nutritive properties of food. 



Dr. Cabot announced the addition to the Cabinet of the 

 male and female Wood Grouse, Guinea Fowl, common 

 Pheasant, and two Penelopes, in exchange with Mr. Kim- 

 ball ; of Schinz's Sandpiper and Scarlet Tanager (changing 

 plumage) from Mr. Theodore Lyman ; and a donation of 

 $10, from Mr. G. Rowland Shaw. 



Dr. Kneeland announced the addition to the Cabinet, by 

 exchange, of a skeleton of a young fallow deer, Cervus 

 dama, Lin. 



Mr. Algernon Coolidge, of Boston, and Mr. James P. 

 Low, of Charlestown, were elected members of the Society. 



November 6, 1850. 



Dr. J. C. Warren, President, in the Chair. 



Present, thirty-three members. 



Dr. Warren announced the arrival at the Society's 

 Rooms, of a portion of the valuable donation of casts of 

 the Himalaya fossils, from the Hon. East India Company 

 of London ; consisting of forty-one specimens, mostly of 

 Mammalia. The collection is peculiarly rich in Pachyder- 

 mata, especially Mastodons and Elephants, and will add a 

 number to the species of both these genera. Among the 

 reptiles, were a cranium, humerus, and parts of the sternum 



