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REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1870. 



The President in the chair. 



In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. Charles H. Higbee was re- 

 quested to act. Records of preceding meeting were read. 

 The following correspondence was announced. 



J. F. A. Adams, Pittsfield, Mass., March 1 ; Hon. B. F. Butler, Washington, D. C., . 

 March 25; Henry J. Cross, Salem, March 19; Det Kongelige Danske, Copenhagen, 

 Dec. 31; E. Deyrolle flls, Paris, Jan. 27; Win. Gossip, Institute Nat. Science, 

 Halifax, March 26; E. E. Chever, Chicago, March 12; B. A. Gould, Cambridge, 

 Feb. 18, March 21, 24 and 29; J. C. Holmes, Detroit, March 23; Public Library, Bos- 

 ton, March 24; J. F. LeBaron, Boston, March 24; Mary Mann, Cambridge, March 

 4, 21 and 2(5; Charles H. Miller, Salem, March 26; Moravian Hist. Society, Nazareth, 

 Pa., March 21; H. Roundy, Beverly, March 31 ; Henry F. Shepard, Boston, March 

 24; Smithsonian Institute, Washington, March 18; C. M. Tracy, Lynn, March 31; 

 Wm. H. Woods, Rockport, March 25; T. Spencer, Lincoln, Eng., March 9. 



The Librarian Reported the 'folio wing additions. 



By Donation. 



BAKER, NATHANIEL B. Reports of N. B. Baker, Adjutant and Inspector Gen- 

 eral and A. Q. M. G. of the State of Iowa, to Hon. S. Merrill, Svo pamph., Des 

 Moines, 1870. 



BUTLER, BENJ. F., M. C. Speeches of Hon. B. F. Butler in U. S. House of Rep- 

 resentatives, March, 1870, on u Admission of Georgia," Svo pamph. 



LEE, JOHN C. Commercial Bulletin for March, 1870. 



LEWIS, WINSLOW. America, Past, Present, and Retrospective; a Lecture by E. 

 R. Humphreys, 1 vol . 12mo, Newport, 1869. 



STONE, B. W. Catalogue of the University of Virginia, 1869-70, Svo pamph. 



TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C. Report of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury on the State of the Finances for 1869, 1 vol. Svo, Washington, 1869. 



WATERS, E. STANLEY, of Chicago. Diocese of Illinois. Journal of the Thirty- 

 Second Annual Convention, 1869, Svo pamph. 



WATERS, J/LINTON, of Chicago. Report to the Directors of the Illinois Central 

 Railroad Company for 1869, 4to pamph. 



By Exchange. 



PUBLISHERS. American Journal of Numismatics. American Literary Gazette. 

 Book Buyer. Christian World. Cosmos. Eclectic. Essex Banner. Gardener's 

 Monthly. Gloucester Telegraph. Haverhlll Gazette. Land and Water. Law- 

 rence American. Little Giant. Lynn Reporter. Medical and Surgical Reporter. 

 Nation. Nature. Pavilion. Peabody Press. Sotheran's Catalogue. 



The Superintendent reported the following donations to the 

 Museums of the Institute and the Academy. 



JOSHUA P. HASKELL, Marblehead. Twenty-three unfinished Arrowheads in all 

 stages, from Marblehead. 



CHARLES HOWARD, Salem. A piece of " What-cheer" Rock, from Providence. 



ROBERT HOWELL, Nichols, Tioga Co., N. Y. A box of Indian Relics, from Tioga 

 Co., N. Y. 



