To the Senate and House of Representatives : 
I transmit to the House of Representatives, for the information of 
the Legislature, a Report on Quadrupeds, by Professor Emmons, of 
Williams’ College; a Report on Birds, by Rev. W. O. B. Peabody, of 
Springfield ; and a Report on Fishes, by D. Humphreys Storer, M. D., 
of Boston: Commissioners appointed to survey the Zoology of the 
State, under a Resolve of April 12th, 1837. 
EDWARD EVERETT. 
Counci, CHAMBER, 
6th April, 1838. 
