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of Science, at the late meeting in in Montreal, to hold its next 
arety reer St. Louis; that it had been well received, and 
ed another year. 
September 21, 1857. | 
The President, Dr. B. F, Suman, in the chain, 
The Corresponding Secretary laid upon the table the Pro- 
ceed. of the Bos. Soc. o = . Hist. August, 1857, from the 
Society; Catalogue of WA r. Mammals, from Prof. 8. F. 
Baird ; Jour. of the Franklin not, P Philad., Vol. LXIV.,, No. 
381, from the Society; Proceed. of the Elliot Soc. of Natural 
Hist., Charleston, 8. C., 1857, from om Society. 
A letter was read from Prof. D.S. Sheldon, of Iowa Coll., 
avenp ng | 5 from that vicinity, 
aa + exhibited a specimen of abnormal gor in 
« corn growing in the “set a one. 
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