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KIMBALL JAMES. Salem Directories, 1866,[18f>9. 2 vols. 8vo. Keport on Prisons 

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MORSE, E. S. Remarks on the Adaptive Coloration of Mollusca by donor. 8vo 

 pamph. Remarks on the Relations of Anomia, by donor. 8vo pamph. 



PALFRAY, C. W. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 9. 



POORE, B. PERLET, Washington, D. C. Syracuse Directory, 1857. 1 vol. 8vo. 

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 and Annals for 1851. 1 vol. 12mo. National Calendar and Annals of U. S., 1831, 

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 Newburyport Directories, 1851, 1852. 2 vols. 12mo. Boston Almanac. 1850. 1 vol. 

 16mo. Almanacs, 75. Congressional Directories, 19 nos. Navy Register, 4 nos. 

 Army Register, 4 nos. Miscellaneous pamphlets. 7. 



WALKER, FRANCIS L., of London. Notes on Chalcidise. Parts III, IV. 

 S.pamphs. 8vo. 



WASHINGTONIAN HOME. Report for 1871. 8vo pamph. 



By Exchange. 



BIBLIOTH^QUE UNIVERSELLE ET REVUE SUISSE. Archives des Sciences phys- 

 iques et naturelles. Nos. 164, 165. 8vo pamph. Geneve, 1871. 



MARYLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The First Steamboat Voyage on the West- 

 ern Waters. By J. H. B. Latrobe. 8vo pamph. 



PROVIDENCE ATHENAEUM. Report of the Directors of, Sept. 25, 1871. 8vo pamph. 



SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY IN TAUX- 

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The following donations to the Historical Department 

 were reported. 



BOLLES, E. C. Plan of Chicago, showing the burnt district. 

 GILLAN, JOHN. Miscellaneous Charts, 30. 



TRASK, W. B., of Dorchester. View of the Trask House, Boston St., taken Oc- 

 tober, 1871. Miscellaneous Charts, 8. 



LITTLE AUK. 



The PRESIDENT mentioned that among the recent addi- 

 tions to the museum were several specimens of the Little 

 Auk (Mergulus alle) which were found at Middleton, 

 Hamilton, Salem and other places, driven inland by the 

 gale of the Wednesday preceding ; this storm was con- 

 sidered the most severe, and the tide the highest, of any 

 since April, 1851. Some of the above specimens were 

 exhausted by buffeting weather and fatigue, so that they 



