At a future meeting Mr. Putnam trusted to be able to 

 a more decisive opinion on several points, after a careful 

 study of the specimens shall have told their story so far 

 as it can be read from old bones and broken pottery. 



QUARTERLY MEETING, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1871. 



President in the chair. Records read. 



Rev. E. C. Bolles was added to the Lecture Commit- 

 tee, and Mr. G. D. Phippen to the Publication Committee. 



S. W. Arlington, of Salem, was elected a member. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1871. 



The President in the chair. Records read. 

 The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From Philadelphia Library Company, Nov. 11; Keene Natural History Society, 

 Nov. 10; J. H. Emerton, Providence, R. I., Nov. 13; James P. Franks, Salem, Nov. 

 7; B. Perley Poore, Indian Hill Farm, Nov. 11; S. Salisbury, Worcester, Nov. 13. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions : 



By Donation. 



BUSWEUL, E. W., of Boston. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 20. 



COGSWELL, WM. Report on the Statistics of Labor in Mass. 1871. 1 vol. 8vo. 

 Marine Insurance Report. 1870, 1871. 2'vols. 8vo. Report on the Statistics of Labor 

 in 1871. 2 vols. 8vo. Ceremonials at the Unveiling of the Statue of Gov. John A. 

 Andrew, Feb. 14, 1871. 10 copies. Massachusetts State Documents for 1870, 1871. 

 Report of the Commissioners on Inland Fisheries. Jan., 1871. 8vo pamph. Mis- 

 cellaneous pamphlets, 7. 



DORCHESTER, D. Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College, 

 1871-72. Catalogue of Officers and Students of Tufts College, 1870-71. 



FRANKS, J. P. History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, by S. P. Bates. 4 vols. 8vo. 



GILLAN, JOHN. British Shipmasters' Guide. 1 vol. 8vo. Bowditch Navigator. 

 1 vol. 8vo. Blunt's Coast Pilot. 1 vol. 8vo. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 14. 



