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nected with the Institute, by invitation, dined with the 

 venerable President, the teachers and the members of the 

 senior chiss of the Academy. Vice President Hagar pre- 

 sided at the meeting, and remarks were made by Dr. 

 Cogswell, Prof. E. S. Morse, John Robinson, Esq., John 

 H. Sears, Esq., and others. The day was fine and all who 

 participated in the meeting were much pleased. 



During the past season papers have been read before 

 the society, in Plummer Hall, by the following persons : 



Wm. A. Mowry^ Esq. , on " U. S. Boundaries and Bound- 

 ary Commissions." 



A. A. Post, Esq., of Boston, on "Volapuk." 



Rev. G. T. Flanders, D.D., on "Our Aryan Ances- 

 tors." 



Rev. Joseph Kimball, of Andover, on "Arts : Present 

 and Future." 



Prof. Edw. 8. Morse, on "Japanese Pottery." 



Sidney Perley, Esq., on "Prehistoric America." 



Mr. J. Waller Fewkes, of Boston, on " Study of an 

 Aborigi nal Ceremoni al . "^ 



Rev. A. P. Putnam, D.D., of Concord, on "Wenham 

 Lake Ice Co." 



Sylvester Baxter, Esq., of Boston, on "Municipal De- 

 mocracy." 



Col. Henry Stone, of South Boston, on "General Sher- 

 man." 



Rev. E. O. Dyer, of South Braintree, on "Coligny and 

 the Huguenots." 



JDr. J. E. Wolf, of Cambridge, on "The History of 

 Rocks learned by the Microscope" — with lantern illustra- 

 tions. 



Dr. P. G. Knapp, of Boston, on "Hypnotism." 



'See Bull. Essex Inst. Vol. xxiv, p. 113. 



