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liar contrivances for securing reasonable comfort in smoking. 

 Mr. W. accompanied the presentation with various interesting 

 details as to these and other objects of interest, which might 

 eventually be procured from the same sources for the collections 

 of the Institute. 



F. W. Putnam called the attention of the meeting to a singu- 

 lar monstrosity that had been presented by Mr. James Buffing- 

 ton of Salem. This was a young duck that had, apparently, 

 an extra leg developed from its back. Upon dissection this leg 

 proved to be made up in some parts, of two legs closely united. 

 The portion joining the pelvis (the femur,) being single, but 

 the second segment of the leg (tibia and fibula) was shortened 

 and spread out, so as to allow the articulation of tioo tarso-meta- 

 tarsal bones, and from this point the foot was nearly double, 

 having six toes, the two small hind toes being wanting. 



Mr. William Mansfield presented to the Institute a wooden 

 model, used before the city government to illustrate the grade 

 and direction of the proposed route of the Eastern Railroad, in 

 1837-8, through Washington Street, in Salem. This model 

 contains, in miniature, all the buildings then standing on the 

 land included in the present Washington Street South of Essex 

 Street, except the ''Mafston building." The chair gave an 

 historical sketch of these several buildings, and of earlier struc- 

 tures in the same locality. 



Additions to the Museum and Library during January ', 

 February and March, 1864. 



TO THE NATURAL HISTORY DEPARTMENT. 



Bertram, John. Specimen of Malachite. 



Buffington, James. Malformed Young Duck. 



Edmands, Miss A. M. Collection of 24 species of North 

 American Orthoptera, named by Mr. Scudder. 250 speci- 

 mens of New England Spiders. 



Felt, S. Q. Lime incrustation from Brazil. 



