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Jr., on the character of our deceased associate as a scholar, 

 a physician and a citizen, the following resolutions were 

 unanimously adopted : 



Resolved, That the Essex Institute hereby expresses 

 its deep sense of the value of the labors of its late resi- 

 dent member, Dr. HENRY C. PERKINS, in various branches 

 of science ; its appreciation of the purity of his life and 

 character ; and its sympathy in their loss with the mem- 

 bers of his family. 



Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed to put these 

 resolutions upon record, and to furnish a copy of the 

 same to the family of the deceased. 



A resolve was also adopted, directing the Secretary to 

 invite some friend or friends in Newburyport to prepare 

 a memoir of Dr. Perkins for publication in the "Historical 

 Collections of the Essex Institute.'' 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1873. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. Records of preceding meeting read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From B. F. Browne, Salem, Feb. 5; Jacob Batchelder, Lynn, Feb. 11; Wm. G. 

 Brooks, Boston, Feb. 15; C. H. Dall, Boston, Feb. 5; Henry B. Dawson, Morris- 

 tinia, N. Y., Feb. 4; Joseph H. Frothingham, New York, Feb. 14; Alfred Osgood, 

 Newburyport, Feb. 11; W. Stevens Perry, Geneva, N. Y., Feb. 7; Edmund F. 

 Slafter, Boston, Feb. 10; Bruxelles, Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Jan. 24; 

 Iowa State Historical Society, Feb. 5; New York State Library, Feb. 1. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions : 

 Bij Donation. 



BUTLER, B. F., of U. S. H. R. Report of the Department of Agriculture for 

 Jan., 1873. 8vo pamph. Alabama Claims, by donor. 8vo pamph. 



CUTTER, ABRAM E., of Charlestown. Annual Report of the School Committee 

 of Charlestown for 1872. 8vo pamph. 



