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buried within the house, and the value of the articles 

 placed in the graves with them. 



Third. The Stone Grave people of Tennessee, judg- 

 ing by the entire absence of articles of European make 

 in the hundreds of graves that have been opened, never 

 came in contact with the white man, and probably were 

 driven out or absorbed by other and more warlike, or 

 larger tribes of their own great race, before his advent 

 on this continent. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, April 1, 1878. 

 Meeting this evening at 7. 30 p. m. Vice-President 

 D. B. Hagar in the chair. Records read, and correspon- 

 dence and donations announced. 



Messrs. H. H. Edes, of Charlestown and John H. 

 Langmaid, of Salem, were elected resident members. 



Mr. John Robinson referred to the recent decease of 

 Mr. Francis Putnam, an original member of the Institute 

 and for many years an officer. Mr. Robinson said that 

 the Institute was largely indebted to Mr. Putnam for his 

 liberal contributions of flowers at the Horticultural exhi- 

 bitions, covering a period of" more than forty years. He 

 was alwa} T s one of the largest contributors, and at the 

 exhibition in 1844 he placed more than four hundred 

 varieties of the Rose in the. stands. He was the third 

 person in Salem who successfully raised the Night Bloom- 

 ing Cereus, and during the past ten or fifteen years has 

 been interested in the improvement of the Gladiolus and 

 the Amaryllis, and at a recent exhibition of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society he was awarded the silver 

 medal, for new and valuable varieties of the latter flower. 



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