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Society D'Acclimatatiox. Bulletin. IMeusucl. 2me Serie. Tome ix, 1S72. 



Vereix zuu Befordekuxg des Gartesbaues in Berlin. Wochenschiift, 

 Jahrg, xiv. Numbers l-.'52. 1871. 



Zeitsciiuift fur die Gesammten Natcewissenschaften in Berlin. Bd. 

 iv, July-Dei;., 1871. 6 pamphlets. 8vo. 



Publishers. American Naturalist. Cliristian World. Gloucester Telegraph. 

 Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich Chronicle. Land and Water. Lawrence American. 

 Lynn Reporter. Lynn Transcript. Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. 

 Nature. Peabody Press. Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's Friend. Salem 

 Observer. 



The Secretary announced the following correspon- 

 dence : — 



J. W. Balch, Boston, July 31; J. Prescott. Boston, July 30; Boston Public 

 Library, July 22; Bowdoin College, Trustees, Aug. .5; Buffalo Historical Society, 

 July 22. Aug. 2; Frankfort-a-M., Die Senkenbergisclie Naturforschende Gesell- 

 schaft, Mar. 19; Loudon Royal Society', July 1 ; Maine Historical Society, Aug. 5; 

 Maryland Historical Society, July 2.3; New England Historic-Genealogical Soci- 

 ety, Aug. 5; New York Historical Society, July 19, 22, Aug. 3; Ohio Historical 

 and Philosophical Society, July 30; Rhode Island Historical Society, Aug. 1; 

 Stockholm, L. Academic Royale Suedoise des Sciences, Avril, Mai 8. 



The President read the following letters from Messrs. 

 Thomas Spencer and E. W. Farley, which were addressed 

 to him and had recently been received. 



Bransby, NEAR Lincoln, lOtli 7th mo., 1872. 



De.vr Sir: — I have this day forwarded, by son Franklin wlio sails 

 from Liverpool in the "Spain" for New York, a partuil translation of 

 Doomsday book and hope that it may be accepted as a small contri- 

 bution to the historical department of the Institute. I am prompted 

 to do so by the fact that on one of my voyages from Salem to the old 

 countiy, some Salem gentlemen requested me to hunt up a full trans- 

 lation of the original Doomsday. This commission I could not execute 

 and I am not now aware that such a translation is extant. Witli this 

 volume there is a map of England which exhibits a picture of the 

 country very much as the Pilgrim fathers left it behind them. 



I have forwarded by the same conveyance History of the "Battle of 

 Agincourt" because it contains the Roll Call of the principal English 

 gentry, the class who followed our lifth Henry in his famous expedi- 

 tion. I remember on one occasion hearing the Kev. Mr. Wllhington 

 of Newbury quote from this Roll Call to prove from the similarity of 

 names that the principal part of the early settlers of New Eugland 

 were fpm the same class. This little reminiscence prompted me to 

 send the History. It is not a readable book any more than Doomsday, 



