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[Annual Meeting. 
13. Superville, Daniel. — Some reflections on generation and on mon- 
sters. — Phil. Trans., xli, p. 302, 1744 (from Dumeril). 
14. Thomas, A. In Dumeril (5) p. 312. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 2. 
Fig. 1. 
Five-legged frog, dorsal view. 
r.i.min. 
rectus internus minor. 
Fig. 2. 
Articulation of hind legs. f.s. 
o.f. 
os femoris. 
false symphysis. 
o.c. 
os cruris. 
Fig. 3. 
Ventral view of muscles of legs. 
t.a. 
tibialis anticus. 
a.l. 
adductor longirs. 
f. 
a.b. 
adductor brevis. 
Fig. 4. 
Dorsal view of muscles of fifth 
a.m. 
adductor magnus. 
leg. 
s. 
sartorius. 
sem. 
semitendinosus. 
v.i. 
vastus internus. 
v.e. 
vastus externus. 
r.i.mj. 
rectus internus major. 
Annual Meeting. Mat 4 , 1881 . 
The President, Mr. S. H. Scudder, in the chair. Fifty-seven 
persons present. 
The following reports were presented : 
The final steps in the arrangements which are to make the 
Museum an effective and active agency in the education of the 
community, have been jiartially completed in two collections, 
those of Mineralogy and Geology, which it is hoped will, in the 
course of the next year be so far advanced that they can serve as 
examples of what it is essential to attain in all the other depart- 
ments. They will show that what we have aimed to acomplish in 
the plan of the Museum is not only of much higher grade, but of 
greater usefulness than was at first anticipated. This favorable 
result is, however, counterbalanced by the unexpected vistas of 
work to be done, specimens to be purchased, models to be made 
etc., before the remainder of the Museum can be brought up to 
the same standard. 
Our Museum is already used to a considerable extent by the 
teachers of the Boston public and private schools, and these are 
