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Fun i , <.i ii. F. Essays on Peace, on War. I vol. 12mo. L827. 



Gheen, Dr. 8. A., of Boston, Mass. Sweetser on Consumption. 1 vl. 8vo. 

 Thacher on Hydrophobia. I vol. 8vo. Brera's Treatise. lvol.8vo. 8weetseron 

 i ' je Won and Disorder. I vol. 8vo. Salsted's New Method of Curing Dyspepsia. 

 I vol. l-ui'i. Jackson on Fever. Lvol. 12mo. Constitution of the Mass. Charitable 

 Mechanic Association. L vol. 12mo. M lellaneous pamphlet 



Holmes, J. ( .. of Detroit, Mich. Third Annual Report of the Secretary of the 

 Pomological Society of Michigan, 1873. l vol.8 



Mack, E. C. The National Era, 1852-1859, 115 numbers. 



Meuniek, St lnisl is, of Paris, Prance. Cours de < ieol gle I omparee, by donor. 

 1 vol. 8vo. 1874. 



Office of the Chief of Engineers. Report of the Board oi Commissioners 

 on the Irrigation of the San Joaquin, Tulare and Sacramento Valleys of the State of 

 Cal. Report on the Compressive Strength, Specific Gravity, etc., bj Q. A. Gillman. 



U.S. Patent Office. Official Gazette, Oct. 20, 27, 1874. 



Walton, E. N. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 7. 



Waters, if F. Calcutta Journal. 60 numbers. 



By Exchange. 



[owa State Historical Society. The Annals of Iowa, July, 1874. 



N. E. Historic-Genealogical Society. Historical and Genealogical Register, 

 Oct.. Dec, 1874. 



Phiia. Academy of Natural Sciences. Proceedings of the. Pt. ii. Apr.r- 

 Sept., 1874. 



Society of Natoe u. Sciences of Buffalo. Bulletin of. Vol. ii, No. 3, 1874. 



Publishers. Forest and stream. Gardener's .Monthly. Gloucester Telegraph. 

 Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich Chronicle. Lawrence American. Lynn Reporter. 

 Lynn Transcript. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. Nature. Salem Post. 

 Silliman's Journal. Salem Observer. 



The Secretary reported specimens of glass ware, 

 illustrating glass making, from W. Libbet, of the New 

 England Glass Company. Also the manuscript speech 

 of Charles Sumner, delivered in Faneuil Hall, Nov. 5, 

 18G0, after his return from Europe, whither he had gone 

 in search of health. It was received from Mr. Sumner's 

 executors, through the instrumentality of Mr. R. S. Ran- 

 toul. 



M. McPherson, of Salem, was elected a resident mem- 

 ber. 



The principal interest of the meeting centred in the 

 Indian skeletons and relies, recently discovered on the 



