BULLETIN 



OF THE 



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One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10th, 1871. 



[Concluded.] 

 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE MUSEUM. 



As the report of the Curators of the Historical Depart- 

 ment will cover all that has been clone in the Museum 

 during the year, there is little for me to report except 

 to state that the collection of antiquities and manuscripts 

 has received the continued care of Messrs. Robinson and 

 Upham, and that their arrangement has been satisfacto- 

 rily advanced. The many specimens received by the 

 Institute in the Natural History Department have been 

 sent to the Peabody Academy of Science, in accordance 

 with the agreement between the two Institutions, and 



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have been duly acknowledged and cared for by the Acad- 

 emy. 



I may be permitted in connection with this report to 

 call attention to the importance of having a person who 

 is thoroughly identified with the Historical Department of 

 the Institute for Superintendent of the Museum, as it is 

 to that department the Museum under his charge is now 

 principally confined, and as my duties at the Academy 



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