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Julia H. West and others ; 2d, Monday, Dec. 30, Cecilia 

 Quartette, Miss Abbie Whinery, Mrs. J. W. Weston, 

 Mrs. H. E. Sawyer, Mrs. Jennie Noyes, J. W. Preston, 

 pianist. 3d, Monday, Jan. 13, by B. J. Lang, Wulf 

 Fries, and C. N. Allen. 4th, Monday, Jan. 27, by Salem 

 Schubert Club. 5th, Monday, Feb. 10, by William S. 

 Fenollosa, Miss Clara Emilio, Mrs. C. H. Fowler, and 

 others. 



Excursions. — Three very pleasant excursions, under 

 the direction of the Secretary, have been made during the 

 past season. 1st, to Newport, R. I., visited the Redwood 

 Library, the Torpedo station at Goat Island, and other 

 objects of interest in this old historic town, now a well 

 known sea-side resort. 2d, iSIonday, July 22, to Mon- 

 treal and Quebec via Plymouth, N. H., and Lake Mem- 

 phremagog ; returned the following Saturday. 3d, Tues- 

 day, Sept. 3, to the White INIountains, via Concord, 

 Centre Harbor, and Plymouth, thence by stage up the 

 valley of the Pemigewasset to the Profile House, thence 

 to the Fabyan, where a meeting was held. Prof. J. H. 

 Huntington, wiio had spent a winter on Mount Washing- 

 ton connected with the U. S. Sio:nal Station, srave a 

 graphic description of the duties of this service, and Mr. 

 George D. Phippen spoke of the flora of the mountains. 

 Returned on Saturday by w^ay of Conway, Portsmouth, 

 and Newburyport. 



Museum. — The specimens of Natural History, includ- 

 ing those in Ethnology and Archaeology, which have been 

 given during the year, are on deposit with the trustees of 

 the Peabody Academy of Science, in accordance with 

 previous arrangements. These have been reported at 

 our meetings, and have been duly acknowledged. The 



