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Oct. 1G; Soci<?te National des Sciences Naturellcs de Cherbourg, Sept.; Societe" d' 

 Agriculture. Sciences et Arts de la Sarthe, Nov. 27; Literary and Philosophical 

 Society Of Liverpool, Dec. 1 ; New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 

 Jan. 6; Vale College, New Haven, Jan. 11. 



The Librarian reported the following additions : — 



By Donation. 



Bollks, E. C. Miscellaneous pamphlets, c,. 



Brooks, Mrs. H. M. Woman's Journal for 1873. 



BUTLER, B. F., of U. 8. H. R. Speech in the U. S. H. R., Jan. 7, 1874, by donor. 

 Speech of Eon. R. B. Elliott in the U. S. II. R., Jan. 6, 1874. 



Crosby, A. The Commonwealth for 1873. 



IIai.l, E. W., of WatervUle, Me. Historical Discourse at the Fiftieth Anniver- 

 sary of Colby University, Aug. 2, 1870, byJ.T. Champlin. Catalogue of the Colby 

 University, 1873-74. Obituary Record, with Supplement, 1S22-73. 



Harris, D. L., of Springfield. Mass. Annual Report of the City Library Asso- 

 ciation of Springfield. May 6, 1873. 



National Association of Wool Manufacturers. Bulletin, Oct.-Dcc., 1873. 



Richardson, W. A., of Washington, D. C. Annual Report on the State of the 

 Finances to the Forty-Third Congress, 1st Session, Dec. 1, 1873. 1 vol. 8vo. 



U. S. Patent Office. Official Gazette, Jan. 6, 13. 1874. 



Waters. J. L. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 15. 



Wilder. M. P., of Boston. Address of donor at the Annual Meeting of the 

 New England Historic-Genealogical Society, Jan. 7, 1874. 



Williams, Mrs. C. F. Miscellaneous Log Books, 31. 



By Exchange. 



Boston Pitslic Librarv. Bulletin, Jan., 1874. 



Harvard College. Forty-eighth Annual Report of the President. 1872-73. 



Iowa State Historical Society. The Annals of Iowa, Oct., 1S73. 



New Yore Genealogical and Biographical Society. Genealogical and 

 Biographical Record, Jan., 1874. 



PUBLISHERS. Forest and Stream. Gloncester Telegrapb. Haverhill Gazette. 

 Ipswich Chronicle. Lawrence American. Lynn Reporter. Lynn Transcript. 

 Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Teobody Press. Salem Observer. 

 Salem Post. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited several rare and inter- 

 esting fishes from the harbors of Marblehead, Salem and 

 Beverly, as follows : — 



Cryptacanthodes inornatus Gill. The Ghost-fish. A 

 fine specimen of this very rare species was taken in Mar- 

 blehead harbor by Mr. Tucker of that town, while spear- 

 ing for eels through the ice in December last, and pre- 

 sented to the Peabody Academy of Science by Mr. Wm. 



