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Mr. Stodder deposited in the Cabinet of the Society one 

 hundred and forty Massachusetts birds, most of them having 

 been collected and mounted by Dr. G. W. Kinniston, of 

 Newburyport, and belonging to him. 



A fragment of worm-eaten wood was presented in the 

 name of Philip Lovejoy. 



July 20th, 1853. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a communication from the President, 

 announcing that the Address which he had prepared for de- 

 livery at the Annual Meeting, and which he had been pre- 

 vented by ill health from delivering, had been printed, and 

 a copy presented to each of the resident and corresponding 

 members. 



Dr. W. I. Burnett read a paper, entitled ^' Some account 

 of the worm that has been so destructive to the fruit and 

 forest trees of New England and vicinity, within the past 

 two months, Rhinosia (Chsetochilus) pometellaj Harris," as 

 follows : 



Through the kindness of Dr. Harris, and of several editors of 

 agricultural papers, as well as from some observations of my own, 

 I have been able to collect considerable material towards the his- 

 tory of this devastating insect. 



This is not an entirely new-comer among us, as has been sup- 

 posed, for it appears that it came sixty-two years since (1791), in 

 New England, having been particularly noticed in Cumberland 



