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strange looking mass of liorny matter. This specimen 

 was brought from the West Coast of Africa, where we 

 understand that this practice prevails among the inhabi- 

 tants, giving a strange and unusual appearance to the bird. 



The Institute then adjourned. 



T/nirsda//, April 14, 1859. 



Evening Meeting at 7i o'clock. Vice .President Russell 

 in the chair. Records of preceding meeting were read. 

 Donations were annoimced as follows : — 



To the Cabinets — From B. F. Mudge of Lynn ; Amos 

 Henfield ; A. F. Bosson ; Mrs.^. Eliza Burr ; Alfred Walcott ; 

 Zoological Museum of Cambridge ; Gardner L. Chandler ; 

 Samuel Tufts, jr., of Lynn. 



To the Library — From C. W. Palfrey ; F. H. Lee ; L} ceum 

 of Natural History of New York; Adams, Sampson & Co., 

 Boston ; Chicago Historical Society ; Charles W. Swasey ; M. 

 A. Stickney ; Societe Historique de Montreal ; W. P. Tuck- 

 er of Brunswick, Maine ; Jos. Cloutman. 



Letters were announced from James S. Bryant of Hart- 

 ford ; Smithsonian Institution. 



Some remarks were made by the Secratary in reference to 

 a portrait of Rev. Edward Barnard of Haverhill, who died . 

 in 1774, aged 54. He was grandfather to the late Capt. Ed- 

 ward Barnard, who died in this city, a few months since. 

 The portrait was presented by the family of the late Mr. 

 Barnard, through his son, Mr. Thomas Barnard, of Talla- 

 liasse, Florida. It is gratifying to find that several portraits of 

 the old worthies of the county have recently been added to 



