BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX IE"STITTJTE. 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., November, 1871. No. 11. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, November 6, 1871. 



The President in the chair. Records read. 



The Secretary read the following letter from Dr. 

 William Stimpson, secretary of the Chicago Academy of 

 Science, addressed to Vice President F. W. Putnam. 



Chicago, Oct. 26, 1871. 



I have just received your very kind letter of the 19th hist. Our 

 postal delivery is deranged on account of the lire, in which the post- 

 office did not escape. 1 have also received Packard's letter and that 

 of the Secretary of the Institute. I am on the point of starting for 

 the East, and have only time to write a line of thanks for them. 

 When I get to Maryland I will answer them in full. We have held 

 one meeting since the fire, and the copy of resolutions of the Essex 

 Institute arrived in time for it. The Academy is going on, although 

 we are obliged to commence at the very beginning again, but we are 

 greatly encouraged by the offers of aid received from all sides. 



With many thanks for your own kind oilers I remain, 



Very sincerely yours, Wm. Stimpson. 



Letters were also read from the following : — 



American Congregational Association, Oct. 21; Berlin Akklimatisations Verein, 

 June 20; Brunn, Naturforschende Verein, MayjJl; Buffalo Historical Society. Oct. 

 27; Chemnitz, NatnrwissenschaftlicheGesellschaft, June ; Danzig, Naturforschende 

 Gesellschaft, June 24; Freiburg, Naturforschende Gesellschafb, May 12; Kjoben- 

 liavn. K. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Sept. 14 ; Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, Oct. 28: New England Hist >ric-Genealogical Society, Oct. 28; New York 

 Genealogical and Biographical Society, Oct. 20. 21; New York Historical Society, 

 Oct. 28; New York Lyceum of Natural History. Oct. '30; Riga, Naturforschende, 

 Verein, May 19-31; Wiesbaden, Nassauischen Vereins fur Naturkunde, May 1; 

 Hanaford, P. A., New Haven, Oct. 25; Hough, F. B., Lowville, Oct. 25. 



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