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to visit this remarkable boulder, which, with an acre of 

 land adjacent, is the property of the Institute ; accordingly, 

 one was held on Wednesday, August 2d. 



A cordial invitation was received to hold a meeting at 

 Rowley during the month of September, but owing to 

 peculiar and unusual circumstances it was deemed advis- 

 able to postpone to another season. 



A special meeting was held on the evening of Sept. 5th 

 to listen to the reading, by Judge Lord, of hi& memoir on 

 the life and character of Mr. Huntington, ex-President 

 of the Institute. This paper has been printed in the 

 eleventh volume of the "Historical Collections" and copies 

 have been also struck off in a separate form. The 

 address was listened to with intense interest and was a 

 faithful and correct delineation of Mr. Huutin^ton's char- 



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acter. 



Evening meetings have been held on the first and third 

 Monday evenings, except during the months of June, July, 

 August and September. The meeting on Monday, Oct. 

 16th, was devoted principally to remarks upon the great 

 loss which our sister institutions, the Chicago Historical 

 Society and the Chicago Academy of Sciences, had sus- 

 tained by the great conflagration that had devastated so 

 large a portion of Chicago on the 8th, 9th and 10th of 

 October, and in the destruction of their entire libraries 

 and collections. Resolutions of sympathy and proffers of 

 aid were passed. A brief history of these Institutions 

 was presented, with some account of their condition when 

 visited by several members of the Institute in the mouth 

 of August preceding. 



Papers or lectures have been communicated, by Dr. A. 

 H. Johnson, on some Mementos from the Franco-German 

 War ; W. H. Foster, on Reminiscences of the Salem and 

 Boston Stage Company; Mr. F. W. Putna'm, on the 



