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pointed to prepare appropriate resolutions, and to recommend such 

 farther action as may be required. 



Mr. F. W. PUTNAM exhibited a fish, Hemirhamphus longirostris, taken 

 off Nantucket. This specimen was captured by Mr. Augustus Welcome 

 of Nantucket, and given to Francis Gardner, Esq. of Boston, by 

 whom it was presented to the Museum. It possesses great interest, 

 being the first specimen of this species, heretofore known, beyond 

 the limits of the Indian Ocean. 



Mr. W. P. UPHAM exhibited a map of the " Common Lands of Sa- 

 lem in 1720," which was found in the Old Lynde House, corner of 

 Liberty and Essex streets, Salem (taken down in 1836), and presented 

 to the Institute by Mr. Robert Peele. He spoke at some length on 

 this subject. Several others also made remarks. 



Mr. W. P. UPHAM also exhibited an original subscription paper, 

 accompanied by a letter from Dudley Atkins Tyng, soliciting aid to 

 educate and improve the condition of the inhabitants of the Isles of 

 Shoals, after their sufferings caused by the Revolution. An added 

 value is given to these papers, by the very interesting article on the 

 Isles of Shoals, that has recently appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. 



Subscription Paper for the Isle of Shoals. 



BOSTON, Sept. 17, 1801. 



The people on the Isles of Shoals, having by the humane exertions 

 of Dudley Atkins Tyng, Esq. and others, been recovered from a state 

 of the most deplorable ignorance, vice and wretchedness, and the 

 Society for propagating the Gospel having employed Mr. Josiah Ste- 

 vens as a missionary and schoolmaster upon these islands, for whom 

 and his successors in office it is absolutely necessary to erect a small 

 dwelling house which will cost about one thousand dollars : 



The subscribers, desirous of promoting the cause of virtue, reli- 

 gion and humanity, and commiserating the unhappy people on the 

 Isles of Shoals, especially their children, do agree to pay the sums 

 annexed to their names for the purpose of building a dwelling house 

 for the use of the minister or missionary residing on the Isles of 

 Shoals forever. 



Mr. Tyng's letter acc'smpanies this subscription paper. The money 

 to be paid to the treasurer of the Society for propagating the Gospel 

 to be appropriated to the object. 



[SIGNED BY] 



William Phillips, Jr., Samuel Salisbury, Stephen Higginson, Stephen 

 Higginson Jr., K ; Boott, S. K. Jones, N. Lee, William Pratt, Francis 

 Amory, Gard. Greene, Adam Babcock, Jona. Davis, N. Frazier, Benja- 

 min Bussey, Jr., Samuel G. Perkins, James Perkins, Joseph Coolidge, 

 S. Salisbury, Jr., I. P. Davis, Samuel Parkman, Thomas C. Amory, 

 John Amory, T. H. Perkins, S. P. Gardner, P. C. Brooks. 



[Whole amount subscribed, $706.] 



Mr. Tyng will collect the remaining sum at Newburyport. 



