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PICKERING, CHARLES, of Boston. U. S. Exploring Expedition for 1838, 1839, 

 1840, 1841, 1842. 1 vol. 4to. Boston, 1863. 



U. S. SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE. Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon 

 General's Offioe. 3 vols. 4to. Washington, 1874. 



WATERS, J. LINTON. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 6. 



U. S. PATENT OFFICE. Official Gazette, Apr. 14, 21, 28, May 5, 12, 1874. 



By Exchange. 



BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY. Superintendent's Monthly Report for April, 1874. 



BOWDOIN COLLEGE. Seventy-second Annual Catalogue for 1873-74. 



MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Collections of. Vol. iii, Pt. ii, 1874. 



N. E. HISTORIC-GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Memoir of Hon. Edmund P. Tiles- 

 ton. By E. Holden. Boston, 1874. 



PHILADELPHIA ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. Journal of. New Series, 

 Vol. viii, pt. I. April, 1874. 



PHYSIKALISCH-MEDICINISCHE GESELLSCHAFT IN WURZBURG. Veihandlungen, 

 Neue Folge, v Bd. 4 Heft. 1874. 



SOCIETY MALACOLOGIQUE DE BELGIQUE. Annals, Tome vi, vii. 1871-72. 2 

 vols. 8vo. Proces-Verbaux Des Seances de la. Tome ii, 1873. 1 vol. 8vo. 



SOMERSETSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. Proceed- 

 ings for the year 1872. Vol. xviii. 1 vol. 8vo. Taunton, 1874. 



PUBLISHERS. Forest and Stream. Gardener's Monthly. Gloucester Telegraph. 

 Hardwicke's Science Gossip. Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich Chronicle. Lawrence 

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The PRESIDENT, in alluding to the pleasant, rambles 

 about this ancient town and the several places of interest, 

 some to the student of nature 4 and others to the local 

 historian and antiquarian, said that many Salem people 

 had sprung from Ipswich, and consequently were always 

 gratified in revisiting the old homesteads where their an- 

 cestors had resided years long since, and whose remains 

 are in the old cemeteries. He mentioned several dona-^ 

 tions to the museum, specifying a fine specimen of Pec- 

 ten magellanicus taken at Beverly Bar a few days since 

 by Laban S. Osborne, of Salem, and called upon 



Prof. E. S. MORSE, of Salem, who gave an account of 

 this pecten, a rare species on the shores of Essex county, 

 describing the anatomical structure and comparing the 

 same with other mollusks. The special subject of Mr. 

 Morse's remarks was 



