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portion of the Institute collection, with such specimens as have been 

 received by the Academy, was opened to the public on Wednesday 

 May 5th. 



The rules of the Academy provide that its Museum shall be open to 

 the members of the Essex Institute and the East India Marine Society 

 on Tuesdays, from 10 A. M. to 5 P. M., and to the public, at the same 

 hours, on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Monday 

 of each weelv being strictly kept as a closed daj'. 



The members of the Institute will be undoubtedly gratified with the 

 appearance of the new Museum, which owes so much to their past 

 labors, aud thankful that the change has been so harmoniously and 

 satisfactorily accomplished. 



The removal of so large a portion of our former Museum, and the 

 deposit with the Institute of a large number of specimens of an his- 

 torical and antiquarian character, by the Trustees of the Academy, 

 renders it very important tiiat active measures should be taken by the 

 Curators of the Historical Department in I'e-arrangiug the collection 

 under their charge. 



Attention is also called to the large collection of medals, coins, and 

 paper money in the possession of the Institute, and a similar one 

 held by the Academy from the East India Marine Society. Neither of 

 the collections are on exhibition, and if some arrangement could be 

 made by the Academy and the Institute, by which the specimens could 

 be arranged and exhibited together, a most valuable and instructive 

 collection would be the result. 



During the past year a large number of donations have been re- 

 ceived by the Institute, and after having been announced at the meet- 

 ings, those belonging to tlie Natural History Department have been 

 transferrt'd to the charge of the Academy. 



The LinijAijiAN has the honor to report, that from one hundred and 

 ninety donors, sixty-three diflerent learned societies, and thirty-six 

 publishers, there have been received as donations and exchanges, the 

 following, of which a more detailed list accompanies this report. 



Serials, 906 



Bound volumes, 940 



Almanacs, 50 



Pamphlets, 3,314 



5,210 



The exchanges this year have been especially valuable; of these, 

 forty or more are from different foreign societies and publishers, to 

 which may be added one hundred and forty-one different papers and 

 serials received in exchange for the "American Naturalist," and at 

 present deposited in the Reading Room. 



