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«lelivery iof tlie young the parent lay on the right side, with 

 the body curved in sucji a manner as to bring the sexual or- 

 jficc opposite that of the pouch, the mouth of the pouch was 

 ■<:)pen or drawn down by contraction of the muscles so as to 

 receive the young when delivered. The young were seven 

 in number. The time occupied in delivery was about four 

 hours. The parent remained in the same position about 

 thirty-six hours and refused all sustenance. 



Innnediatcly after the transfer of the young to the pouch 

 It removed one,43y detaching it from the teat, in order to as- 

 .(^ertain if llie movement of the foetus was instinctive. I found 

 that it Avas at least partly voluntary, as it made an effort to 

 regain its place in the pouch, and the same movement was 

 made by the parent, as at first, to receive it. I did not no- 

 tice any use of the limbs or lips of the parent during the 

 transfer of the young. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam staled the results of his investigations 

 on the growth of fishes noticed during his residence on the 

 borders of Lake Champlain during the past season. Adj. 



Monday, Nouemhcr 0, 1863. 



Meeting thi^ evening, Vice President Goodell in the Chair. 



Kecords of preceding meeting read. 



i3onations were announced from the following : 



To the Library — From Department of the Interior ; Hen- 

 ry Wheatland ; Jonathan Perlcy Jr. ; Editors of British 

 American Magazine ; John B. Alley, M.C.; Zoologische Ges- 

 ellchaft, Frankfort a. M.; John L. Sibley of Cambridge ; 

 John H. Silsl)ee ; George Blake. 



To the Cabinets — From H. F. King ; Charles F. Nichols ; 

 C. H. Higbce ; Henry Wheatland ; Frank P. Watson. 



Letters were read from the Trustees of Boston Public Li- 

 brary; Smithsonian Institution; George Perkins; Arthur 

 J. Upton ; F. W. Putnam ; C. T. Jackson of Boston ; J. W. 

 Proctor of South Han vers. 



ESSP:X INST. PliOCEKD. VOL. iii. o7. 



