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Annual Meeting, May 17, 1843. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The President read a paper, embodying the Reports of 

 the Curators, the Librarian and the Treasurer, for the past 

 year. 



The Curator of Comparative Anatomy reports, that the 

 general condition of the specimens in his department is 

 good. 



Valuable donations have been received from Drs. Sav- 

 age, W. Lewis, Jr., D. H. Storer, F. W. Cragin, J. B. S. 

 Jackson, N. B. Shurtleff, and Capt. Cook, of Provincetown. 



The Curator of Herpetology reports the favorable state 

 and regular increase of his department, and mentions in a 

 recent donation from Dr. F. W. Cragin, of Surinam, the 

 tadpole of the Rana paradoxa or Jakia, the largest tadpole 

 known ; which in this state is much larger than when 

 adult. 



The Curator of Ichthyology reports, that he has been 

 able to obtain, since the last annual meeting, specimens of 

 Argyriosus, of a Mustelus, of an Esox, and of a Monocan- 

 thus new to our Fauna, and a species of Torpedo which 

 is new to science. "This last discovery," he says, :: is 

 exceedingly gratifying to me. It is the only specimen 

 which has fallen into the hands of a naturalist. I have 

 called it Torpedo occidentalism 



Donations have been made to this department during the 

 past year by Dr. F. W. Cragin, of Surinam, Mr. J. G. An- 

 thony, of Cincinnati, Mr. Olmsted, of E. Hartford. Conn., 

 Mr. Horatio Leonard, of New Bedford, Dr. Lei and. Dr. 

 Toomey, of Chelsea, and Mr. W. T. Reynolds. 



The Curator of Ornithology reports: 



11 During the past year, the additions to the collection of birds 

 has been as follows, viz. : To the number of mounted birds of 

 Massachusetts 66 specimens, comprising 56 species, the duplicates 

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