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 Votes of thanks were passed to the several donors. 



Mr. JOHN ROBINSON gave an instructive and interesting 

 account of the processes in the manufacture of glass, in 

 all its varieties, tracing it from its origin to the elaborate 

 and skilful workmanship of the present day, exhibiting 

 specimens and illustrating the methods of mixing and 

 melting by drawings on the blackboard. 



Previous to the adjournment, Gen. OLIVER alluded to 

 the Transit of Venus, which was to occur on the 8th, 

 and mentioned the plans that have been adopted by sev- 

 eral of the governments of Europe and of the United 

 States, in locating a line of observers in different places 

 to note the particular phases of this occurrence ; and the 

 importance of these observations in determining facts in 

 astronomical science. 



Adjourned. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1874. 



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 E. J. Attinelli, New York, Dec. 3, 10; Henry B. Dawson, Morrisania, N. 

 Y., Dec. 10; L. C. Herrick, Woodstock, O., Dec. 1; J. Warren Merrill, Cambridge- 

 port, Dec. 5; M. J. Peabody, Boston, Dec. 4; Charles Phillips, Germantown, 

 Penn., Dec. 9; Robert Ridgway, Washington, Dec. 8; J. Henry Stickney, Balti- 

 more, Md., Dec. 17; Henry White, New Haven, Cor.n., Dec. 7; W. C. Wood, Wen- 

 ham, Dec. 12; William H. Yeomans, Columbia, Conn., Dec. 12; Boston Society of 

 Natural History, Dec. 18; Brockton Public Library, Dec. 15; Buffalo Historical 

 Society, Dec. 7; New Hampshire Historical Society, Dec. 14; Rhode Island Histor- 

 ical Society, Dec. 10. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions to the 

 library : 



