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an inch in length, and | of an inch in width when flattened out, 

 entering the intestine at a right angle, and communicating with it 

 by an orifice somewhat smaller than the calibre of the appendix 

 itself. The coecal appendices were about 6^ inches in length. 

 The gizzard was very large and strong, being 2| inches in its 

 longest diameter, and having muscles 1 inch in thickness ; it con- 

 tained fragments of shells broken into small pieces ; its lining 

 membrane was very tough and hard, being |^ of an inch in 

 thickness. 



DONATIONS TO THE CABINET. 



Numerous specimens of minerals and fossils, collected in Col. 

 Kearney's Expedition in the Territory at the eastern base of the 

 Rocky Mountains. From Lt. J. H. Carlton, U. S. Dragoons, 

 and Mr. Henry Loring, Jr. 



ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 



American Journal of Science and Arts. Second Series, No. 1. 

 Jan., 1846. From the Editors. 



Magazine of Horticulture. For Jan., 1846. From the Editors. 



February 4, 1846. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The President read a letter from George Lister, M. D., of 

 Washington county, Alabama, concerning the fossil bones 

 collected there by Dr. Koch, and since exhibited in this and 

 other cities, as the remains of an extinct animal, under the 

 name of Hydrarchos. The circumstances which elicited 

 this letter, were as follow. It was stated, by Dr. Koch, 

 that the bones had been found together, in a position which 

 proved that they belonged to one individual, and that the 

 vertebrae formed a complete and integral series, arranged in 

 the order in which they were lying when discovered. This 



