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vegetables, &c., but no resemblance could be traced between 

 them sufficient to account for the impression in question. He 

 stated that he had recently received from the same locality, 

 Turner's Falls, a large slab, bearing very distinct impressions of 

 Coniferne. 



The Committee appointed to nominate candidates for the 

 vacant curatorships, reported — that it is inexpedient at 

 present to fill those offices. The report was accepted. 



October 18, 1854. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The President gave a brief history of the Zeuglodon, 

 exhibited a specimen of the teeth, and monographs upon 

 this subject by Koch, Carus, and Miiller. The first speci- 

 men of Zeuglodon was brought before the public by Dr. 

 Koch several years since, and exhibited under the name of 

 Hydrarchos, in New York and Boston. This specimen was 

 represented by Dr. Koch to be comparatively perfect, and 

 to contain the bones of one animal only ; but Prof. Wyman 

 detected falsifications or mistakes in several portions of the 

 skeleton, and satisfied himself that the bones belonged to 

 different individuals. This specimen was sold to the king 

 of Prussia for a large sum, (in the neighborhood of fifteen 

 or twenty thousand dollars,) and is now in his possession. 

 Prof. Carus considered it a veritable specimen, and pub- 

 lished his monograph upon it as such. 



A second skeleton of the Zeuglodon is now in Boston, and 

 belongs to the President of this Society. It is about seventy 

 feet long, and numbers about forty vertebrae, many of them 

 quite perfect. There is a good portion of the cranium and 

 lower jaw, a perfect os humeri, etc. 



