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air to such an extent as to enable them to float on the sur- 

 face of the water like an inflated balloon, rendered it al- 

 most impossible for any other fish to swallow them. The 

 flesh of many species of this family are well known to be 

 poisonous, and an old sailor will seldom risk eating them. 



The following correspondence was announced, 



New England Society of Orange, Feb. 20; Smithsonian Institution, Feb. 15; E. 

 W. Buswell, Boston, Feb. 28; G. F. Choate, Salem, Mch. 6; J. Colburn, Boston, 

 Feb. 20; Wm. Graves, Newburyport, Mch. 2; M. How, Haverhill, Feb. 25; Mrs. E. 

 D. Kimball, Salem, Feb. 22; D. Webster King, Boston, Feb. 20; W. S. Perry, 

 Geneva, N. Y., Feb. 23; William Prescott, Concord, N. H., Feb. 25; A. H. Quint, 

 New Bedford, Feb. 23, 27; J. K. Wiggin, Boston, Feb. 21. 



The following additions to the Library were reported. 



Donations. 



ABBOTT. A., of Newburyport. Moore's Almanack for 1778. An Act for Regu- 

 lating and Governing the Militia of Massachusetts in 1793. The New England 

 Courant printed in 1723. 



BLAKE, C. J., of Boston. Late contributions to Aural Surgery by donor. Read 

 May 24, 1870. 



BUTLER, B. F., M. C. Speech in H. R. Feb. 14, 1871, on Expulsion of West 

 Point Cadets. 



GARRISON, W. P., of New York. Constitution and By-Laws of the New Eng- 

 land Society of Orange, as adopted May 12th, 1870. 



LEE, JOHN C. Commercial Bulletin for Feb. 



LINCOLN, SOLOMON. Memoir of Mrs. Rowson by Elias Nason. 1 vol., small 

 4to, Albany, 1870. 



SUMNER, CHARLES, U. S. S. Drake's Speech in U. S. Senate, Dec. 16, 1870. 

 Congressional Directory, 3rd Sess., 41st Cong. Schurz' Speech in U. S. Senate, 

 Jan. 27, 1871. Hoar's Speedfc in U. S. H. R., Feb. 7, 1871. Eulogies delivered in 

 U. S. Cong., Feb. 9, 10, 18/1, on Death of Hon. John Covode. Report of the U. S. 

 Commissioners to the Paris Exposition. 6 vols. 8vo. Washington, 1870. Reports 

 of the Total Eclipse of August 7, 1869, 1 vol., large 4to. Message and Documents, 

 2d Sess., 41st Cong. 1869-70. 1 vol. 8vo. 



HINGHAM PUBLIC LIBRARY. Address delivered at the Dedication, July 5th, 

 1869, by Hon. Thomas Russell. 



WATERS, J. LINTON, of Chicago, 111. Free Labor the first condition of Free 

 Trade. By C. W. Felt. 



By Exchange. 



BUFFALO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings for 1869-70. 



IOWA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Annals of Iowa for Jan., 1871. 



MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Account of the Settlement of Ellicott's 

 Mills, read before the Society, Nov. 3., 1870. 



PUBLISHERS. American Naturalist. Christian World. Eclectic. Essex Ban- 

 ner. Gloucester Telegraph. Haverhill Gazette. Historical Magazine. Land and 

 Water. Lawrence American. Literary World. Little Giant. Lynn Reporter. 

 Medical and Surgical Reporter. Nation. National Farmer. Nature. Peabody 



