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fast at Bunker's hotel, N. Y., 50 cents ; carrying baggage 

 25 cents; boat and stage fare from N. Y. to Princeton, 

 $2.00; dinner in boat, 75 cents; supper, lodging, and 

 carrying baggage at P., 68 cents; stage, extra, from 

 Princeton to Bristol, Pa., $2.00; steamboat from Bristol 

 to Philadelphia, 50 cents ; breakfast on boat, 50 cents ; 

 carrying baggage, 25 cents ; shaving at N. H., 12 cents ; 

 ferry, N. Y. to Brooklyn, 8 cents; four meals and two 

 lodgings at Mrs. Anstris', $2.00; museum, 25 cents; 

 hospital, 12J cents ; porter, 18 cents ; boat and stage from 

 Philadelphia to N. Y., $2.50 ; lodging at N. Brunswick, 

 25 cents; dinner and breakfast in boat, $1.00; porter 

 12 cents; stage from New London to Boston, $7.00; 

 breakfast and dinner, $1.00 ; stage from Boston to Salem, 

 $1.00. Total expenses, $52.42. 



In May, 1837, Dr. Emerson made substantially the 

 same trip with his brother Keuben, and he noted the prin- 

 cipal expenses as follows : 



Salem to Boston, $1.00 ; Boston to Providence, $2.00 ; 

 P. to N. Y. ("found") $5.00; N. Y. to Philadelphia, 

 $3.00; total, $11.00. 



BEGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1873. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. Kecords of preceding meeting read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From William Gray Brooks, Boston, Jan. 28; Caroline H. Dall, Boston, Jan. 9; 

 J. H. Emerton, Boston, Jan. 31; Samuel Henshaw, Boston, Jan. 20; Edward P. 

 Kurd, Newburyport, Jan. 26; Wm. Parsons Lunt, Boston, Jan. 28; J. Munsell , 

 Albany, N. Y., Jan. 24; J. L. Sibley, Cambridge, Jan. 22; D. J. Tapley, New York, 

 Jan. 27; W.O. Townsend, New York, Jan. 20; Charles A. Walker, Chelsea, Feb. 3; 

 Boston, Public Library, Jan. 27; Calcutta, Indian Museum, June 4; Harvard Col- 



