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construction, though all are made upon the same general 

 principles. 



Rev. E. C. BOLLES reported progress in the formation 

 and arrangement of the collection of specimens illus- 

 trating some of the industrial arts, specifying a few of the 

 most interesting additions. 



Mr. C. H. HIGBEE, with remarks relative to the arti- 

 cles, presented a series of Heliotypes from J. -R. Osgood 

 & Co., Boston, and also the following donations to the 

 collections ; from E. C. Mack a fire frame and several 

 kitchen utensils of the olden times ; from J. C. Lee speci- 

 mens of pottery from Torquay ; from John Pickering a 

 cast-iron fire place back with the date of 1660, and the 

 initials I. A. P., for John and Alice Pickering, taken from 

 the Pickering house on Broad street, which was built sev- 

 eral years previous to the above date by John Pickering, 

 the ancestor of the present owner of the estate. Ad- 

 journed. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1874. 



MEETING this evening at 7.30 o'clock. PRESIDENT in 

 the chair. Records read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From H. B. Dawson, Morrisania, N. Y., Sept. 30; G. L. Goodale, Cambridge, Nov. 

 9; C. H. Higbee, Nov. 9; J. C. Holmes, Detroit, Mich., Nov. 12; Stanislas Meunier, 

 Paris, Feb. 21; Robert Ridgway, Washington, D. C., Nov. 7; George H. Woods, 

 Nov. 2; New York Lyceum of Natural History, Nov. 2. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions to the 

 library : 



