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KEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JANUAKY 17, 1870. 



The President in the chair. ' Records of preceding meeting read. 

 The Secretary reported the following correspondence. 



J. F. A. Adams, Pittsfield, Jan. 12; Jacob Batchelder, Lynn, Jan. 16; John A. 

 Battis, Salem, Jan. 13; T. Apoleon Cheney, Watkins, N. Y., Jan. 6; George E. 

 Emery, Lynn, Jan. 15; G. L. Goodale, Brunswick, Me., Jan. 12; A. C. Hamlin, 

 Bangor, Me., Dec. 21, 24; P. A. Hanaford, Reading, Jan. 12; Leeds Philosophical 

 and Literary Society, Aug. 21, 1869; Mannheimer Verein fur Naturkunde, August, 

 1899; Museum, Bergen, Norway, Nov. 18, 18G9; Kussell and Erwin Manufacturing 

 Co., New York, Dec. 20, 1869; South African Museum, Cape Town, Dec.; Socie"t6 

 de Physique and d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Sept. 8, 1869; W. Hudson Ste- 

 phens, Lowville, N. Y., Jan. 14; C. M. Tracy, Lynn, Jan. 12; Charles Vose, Boston, 

 Jan. 5; J. K. Wiggin, Boston, Nov. 30, 1869; George D. Wildes, Biverdale, N. Y., 

 Jan. 13; John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, Jan. 7. 



The Librarian announced the following additions. 



By Donation. 



BEMIS, LUKE, of Boston. Pennant's Arctic Zoology, 4 vols. 4to, London, 1792. 



BUTLER, BENJ. F., M. C. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1868, 1 

 vol. 8vo. Monthly Report of the Departirfent of Agriculture for Nov. and Dec., 

 1869, 8vo pamph. 



COLUMBIAN ASSOCIATES. Portland Transcript for 1868, 1869. New York Mer- 

 cury for 1869. 



GARFIELD, J.- A., M. C. Report of the Librarian of Congress for 1869, 8vo pamph. 



GREEN, SAMUEL A., of Boston. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 14. 



GKOVESNOR, DANIEL P. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 29. 



KIMBALL, JAMES. Jewett's Lectures and Writings on Temperance, 1 vol. 12mo. 

 Boston, 1849. The Trojan Sketch Book, 1 vol. 12mo, Troy, 1846. 



LANGWORTHY, 1. P., of Boston. Reports of British and Foreign Bible Society, 

 13 pamphlets, 8vo London, 1814, etc. Reports of American Tract Society, 10 

 pamphlets, 8vo, Boston, 1856, etc. Bible Society Records, 61 numbers. Miscella- 

 neous pamphlets, 59. 



LEE, JOHN C. Commercial Bulletin for December, 1869. 



LINCOLN, SOLOMON, of Hingham. Transactions of the Hingham Agricultural 

 and Horticultural Society for the year 1869. 



PALFRAY, CHARLES W. Miscellaneoiis pamphlets, 30. 



RICHARDSON, E. S. L., of Oswego, 111. The Chicago Tribune, 7 numbers. 



STONE, BENJ. W. Josep^jsH. Ramsey against the Erie Railway Company and 

 others, 8vo pamph., New York, 1869. 



VERRILL, A. E., of New Haven. Conn. Synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of 

 the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 8vo pamph., 1889. 



WATERS, J. LINTON, of Chicago, 111. Parks in the West Division of the City of 

 Chicago. Second Annual Report of Chicago Relief and Aid Society. Peregrine 

 Pickle and Polinto's Christmas Papers, 3 pamphlets, 8vo, Chicago, 1869. 



By Exchange. 



ACADEMIA BELLA SCIENZE DELL' INSTITUTO DI BOLOGNA. Universalita dei 



mezzi di previdenza, difesa, e salvezza per le Calamite degli Incendi. Opera Pre- 

 miata in Concorso dalla Accademia della Scienze dell Instituto di Bologna. Scritta 

 da Francisco del Giudice, Royal 8vo, Bologna, 1848. 



