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assembled in the upper hall of the Institute building. 

 The beauty and talent of the city were well represented. 

 Among the distinguished invited guests, most of whom 

 were present, were his Excellency the Governor; Presi- 

 dent Loring of the Senate ; Speaker Sanford of the House ; 

 his Honor Mayor Cogswell ; Hon. R. C. Winthrop, Presi- 

 dent of Massachusetts Historical Society ; Hon. Stephen 

 Salisbury, President of American Antiquarian Society ; 

 Prof. Asa Gray, President of American Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences; Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of 

 the New England Historic-Genealogical Society ; T. T. 

 Bouve, President of the Boston Natural History Society ; 

 J. D. Runkle, President of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology; William Wood, M. D., President of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History ; O. C. Marsh, Pro- 

 fessor of Palaeontology in Yale College ; Nathaniel Paine, 

 President of the Worcester Natural History Society ; 

 President Eliot and Professors Agassiz, Pierce and Lov- 

 ering of Harvard University ; John G. Whittier ; E. H. 

 Chapin, D. D., of New York, and others. 



After the guests had assembled and a short time had 

 been spent in social intercourse, the company proceeded 

 to the lower hall, which had been fitted up as a banquet- 

 ing room. Three tables extended through the entire 

 length of the hall, at the heads of which were seated 

 Vice Presidents Wm. Sutton, A. C. Goodell, Jr., and 

 F. W. Putnam, and at right angles to these, on the 

 platform, a table was spread for the invited guests. In 

 the alcoves, to the right *and left of the guest table, were 

 spread tables for the reporters. The hall had been taste- 

 fully decorated under the direction of Messrs. John Rob- 

 inson and Caleb Cooke. On the gallery front, over the 

 guest table, was a white tablet, bordered with green, 

 with the inscription in box and brilliant autumn leaves, 



