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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY. Report of the President and Treasurer of Har- 

 vard College, 1870-71. 



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Seventh Annual Catalogue of 

 the Officers and Students, 1871-2. Boston, 1872. 



NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Proceedings of, at the 

 Annual Meeting, Jan. 3, 1872. 



PUBLISHERS. American Chemist. American Journal of Science. American 

 Literary Gazette. American Naturalist. Christian Register. Christian World. 

 Essex County Mercury. Fireside Favorite. Gloucester Telegraph. Haverhill 

 Gazette. Land and Water. Lawrence American. Little Giant. Lynn Reporter. 

 Lynn Transcript. Nation. Nature. Peabody Press. Salem Observer. Shoe 

 and Leather Journal. 



Itoratio C. Merriam of Salem, elected a resident mem- 

 ber. 



KEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1872. 



President in the chair. Eecords of preceding meeting 

 read. 



PASSION PLAY AT OBER-AMMERGAU. 



JUDGE JOHN P. PUTNAM of the Superior Court read a 

 very interesting paper descriptive of the performance of 

 the "Passion Play" at Ober-ammergau, which he wit- 

 nessed in 1871. The audience listened with marked 

 attention, and the Judge's description was exceedingly 

 graphic and curious. 



Ober-ammergau is a secluded village in the highlands of 

 Bavaria, and presents, as it is gradually approached, a very 

 picturesque appearance, nestled in a plain of green fields, 

 with snow-capped mountains in the background, a cluster 

 of quaint looking cottages, built of stone covered with 

 plaster, having the low broad Swiss roof, and each with 

 its little garden of vegetables and rose trees. In the 

 centre is the church, an object of veneration, love and 

 tender care, as the exquisite neatness of the interior, and 



