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4. New England Journal of Medicine, Surgery, and collateral 

 branches of Science. Boston. 8vo. 



5. Boston Journal of Natural History. Boston. 8vo. 



6. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 Boston. 8vo. 



7. Massachusetts Ploughman. Boston. Folio. 



8. Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture. Boston. 8vo. 



9. Boston Cultivator. Boston. Folio. 



10. Downing's Horticulturalist. New York. 8vo. 



11. Horticultural Register and Gardener's Magazine. Boston. 

 8vo. 



12. Yankee Farmer. Boston. 8vo. 



13. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia. Philadelphia. 8vo. 



14. Encyclopaedia Americana. Philadelphia. 8vo. 



15. Newman's Entomologist. London. 8vo. 



16. Farmer's Cabinet. Philadelphia. 8vo. 



17. Prairie Farmer. Chicago, 111. 8vo. 



18. Salem Observer. Salem, Mass. Folio. 



19. The Journal of Agriculture. Boston. 8vo. 



20. Albany Cultivator. Albany, N. Y. 8vo. 



21. Family Visitor. Cleveland, Ohio. Folio. 



22. Journal of the United States Agricultural Society. Bos- 

 ton. 8vo. 



23. Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society. 

 Albany. 8vo. 



Dr. J. C. White made a communication on two very 

 interesting and valuable specimens, one the lower jaw 

 of an enormous sperm whale, [Physeter macrocephalus, 

 Shaw,) the gift of F. W. Choate, Esq., of Beverly, the 

 other a tooth of the same species, which, though dis- 

 eased, served beautifully to illustrate the dental develop- 

 ment of this animal, and the peculiar change in the same 

 produced by age or accident. The latter was given by 

 G. H. Folger, Esq., obtained through the kindness of Dr. 

 J. B. S. Jackson. 



The first belonged undoubtedly to an animal fully 80 feet 



