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BULLETIN 



ESSEX insrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 14. Salem: April, May, June, 1882. Nos. 4, 5, 6. 



Eegular Meeting, Monday, January 16, 1882. 



Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. Donations and correspondence announced. 



Mr. John H. Sears read a communication on "The 

 Forest Trees of northern New York ;" a continuation of 

 his remarks at a previous meeting (Monda}^ Dec. 19, 

 1881). The subject was discussed hy Messrs. F. Israel, 

 D. B. Hagar, R. C. Manning, John H. Sears, and the 

 chair. 



The chair alluded to a recent communication from the 

 Secretary of the Virginia Historical Society, announcing 

 the gratifying intelligence of its good fortune in obtain- 

 ing ample accommodations for the arrangement of its 

 library and collections ; also its intention of renewing 

 its publications, in printing some of the valuable manu- 

 scripts in its possession relating to the early history of 

 the Old Dominion, and of many of its illustrious sons who 

 took a conspicuous part in the formative period of this 

 republic of states. 



After a consideration of the subject of a Winter Field 

 Meeting, adjourned. 



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