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REGULAR MEETING, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1870. 



Adjourned from Monday evening, April 18. 



President in the chair. 



Records of preceding meeting read. 



The. folio wing correspondence was announced : 



N. E. Atwood, Boston, April 20; Howard Challen, Philadelphia, Penn., April 11; 

 A. C. Hamlin, Baugor, Me., Dec. 21; S. Henshaw, Boston, April 18; George J. 

 Laighton, New York, Dec. 20; F. H. Lee, Boston, April 9, 14; Lyceum of Natural 

 History, New York, April 11 ; Sarah A. Lynde, Stoneham, April 18; Maine Histor- 

 ical Society, Brunswick, Me.; E. Mayard, Cape Town, Dec. 9; Moravian His- 

 torical Society, Nazareth, Penn., April 11; New England Historic-Genealogical 

 Society, Boston, April 6; Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Penn., 

 April 8; Public Library, Boston, April 9; Charles Reed, Montpelier, Vt., April 

 16; Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, R. I., April 7; A. A. Scott, Sau- 

 gus Centre, April 19; Henry F. Shepard, Boston, April 18; George D. Smith, 

 Boston, March 15. 



The LIBRARIAN, in reporting the following additions, spoke of the 

 generous exchanges that had been received from George H. Moore, 

 Esq., Librarian of the New York Historical Society, which had en- 

 abled him to nearly complete the Laws and Resolves of Massachu- 

 setts from 1775 to the present time, the series of laws being now 

 complete with the exception of eight leaves, and these, he trusted, 

 would soon be received. He also alluded to other valuable exchanges 

 and donations to the Library. 



By Donation. 



BARNARD, J. M. The New Guide to the City of York, 1 vol, 8vo. Black's Pic- 

 turesque Tourist of Scotland, 1 vol. 12mo, Edinburgh, 1841. Statistical Almanac, 

 1843, 1 vol. 18mo. Handbook for Switzerland, 1 vol. 16mo, 1811. Versailles et sou 

 Musee Historicyie, 1 vol. IGmo. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 8. 



BENNETT, JAMES. Annual Report of the School Committee of Leominster, 

 1869-70, 1 vol. 8vo. 



BUTLER, BENJ. F., M. C. Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture for 

 February, 1870. Speeches of Hon. J. S. Witcher and Hon. B. C. Cook, in U. S. H. 

 R., March, 1870, on " The Tariff." Speech of Hon. W. Lawrence, in U. S. H. R., 

 April, 1870, on "National Debt, Taxation, Currency, Labor." Speech ef Hon. J. 

 A. Logan, in U. S. H. R., March, 1870, " In Answer to Letter of General W. T. 

 Sherman." 



GOODELL, ABNER C., Jr. New Bedford, Cambridge, Portland. Charlestown, 

 Lowell, Providence City and Rhode Island Business Directories, 7 vols. 8vo. 



GREEN, SAMCEL A., of Boston. Barnaby Rudge, 15 numbers. Taxable Valua- 

 tion of Dorchester, 1869, 1 vol. 8vo. Lacroix Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic, 

 1 vol. 8vo, London, 1823. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 121. 



HOLMES, JOHN C. Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Organization of the First 

 Congregational Church of Detroit, Mich., 8vo pamph., 1870. 



HOYT, ALBERT H. Report on Cheap Railway Transportation between Boston 

 and Lake Ontario, Svo pamph., 1870. 



HUGUET-LATOUR, L. A. Report of the State of the Militia of the Dominion of 

 Canada for 1868, Svo pamph., Ottawa, 1869. 



