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At half-past five the meeting was closed and the com- 

 pany returned to Boston over the Lexington branch and 

 Lowell roads, reaching Salem about eight o'clock, after 

 one of the most interesting and delightful excursions ever 

 participated in by the Institute. 



Adjourned. 



Eegular Meeting, Monday, August 2, 1875. 



Regular meeting this evening. The President in the 

 chair. Records read. 



The Secretary announced the following correspon- 

 dence : — 



From S. P. Boynton, Lynn, July 21; Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., July 17; Buffalo 

 Hist. Soc, July 12; John J. Babson, Gloucester, July 9; Edward Cogan, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y.; Concord, Selectmen of, July 13, 19, 23; Globe Publishing Co., Boston, July 

 19; Henry M. Greenough, Newburyport, July 7; D. B. Hagar, July 15; Charles 

 W. Kenipton, Newbury port, July 8; Kjobenhavn, K. Danske Videnskab. Selskab, 

 June 29; Lowell Bleachery, July 9; New Jersey Hist. Soc, July 13; New York 

 Hist. Soc, July 12; Ohio Hist, and Phil. Soc, July 13; Abner J. Phipps, Boston, 

 July 3; John R. Poor, Boston, July 29; G. Reynolds, Concord, July 17; Royal 

 Polytechnic Soc, Cornwall, July 12; Rhode Island Hist. Soc, July 12; Royal Soc. 

 Of Tasmania, July 23, 1874. 



The Librarian reported the following additions: — 



By Donation. 



Dudley, Dean. Directories:— Plymouth and Barnstable Counties, 1873-4; 

 Hyde Park, Dedham and Canton, 1874; Quincy, Weymouth and Braintree, 1S73-4; 

 Cambridge, 1872; Brookline, Jamaica Plain and We.^t Roxbury, 1873-4, 1 vol.; 

 Concord, 1S74-.5; Dover, Great Falls and Rochester, 1874; Beverly, Peabody and 

 Warblehead, 1875. 



Feaking, a. G., of Boston. Programmes, etc., of the Bunker Hill Monument 

 Association, June 17, 1875. 



FOLGER, W. C, of Nantucket. Miscellaneous Town Reports, 10. 



Gates, Geo. S., Groton. Catalogue of the Groton Public Library. 



Green, S. A., Boston. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 21. 



Hartranft, J. F., of Philadelphia, Penn. Pennsylvania Archives, Second 

 Series, Vol. 1, 1874. 



Kimball, James. Cape Ann Advertiser, May to July. Proceedings of the 

 Mass. Council of Deliberation held in Boston, June 30, 1874. 8vo pamph. 



MUNSELL, Joel, Albany, N, Y. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 31. 



