145 



Holmes, Detroit, Mich., Sept. 24; O. A. Jenison, Lansing, Mich., Sept. 6; Rufus 

 King, New York, Sept. 23 ; G. W. Patch, Marblehead, Sept. 8 ; W. Hudson Stephens, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 23; Charles A. Walker, Chelsea, Sept. 16; Western 

 Reserve Historical Society, Sept. 14, 17; W. Wheeler, West Roxbury, Sept. 7; W. 

 C. Wood, Wenham, Sept. 22. 



The LIBRARIAN reported the following additions to the 



Library : 



By Donation, 



AIKIN, EDWARD, East Saginaw, Mich. East Saginaw and Saginaw City Direc- 

 tories, 1868-9, 1870-1. 



.CITY OF SALEM. Centennial Exercises, Feb. 26, 1875. 



KIMBALL, JAMES. Cape Ann Advertiser, July, Aug., Sept. 



PUTNAM, F. W. N. Y. Tribune, July to Sept. 



RANTOUL, HANNAH, of Beverly. Mass. Memoires de Sully, 3 vols., 12mo. L'Ob- 

 servation, 2 vols. Fordyce's Addresses, 1 vol. Hebrew Grammar, 1 vol. Apoc- 

 ryphal Testament, 1 vol. Modern Materialism, 1 vol. Religious Creed and State- 

 ments, 1 vol. Conn. Evangelical Mag., 1 vol. Historic des Revolutions Romanies, 

 4 vols. Bielky's Evidences, 1 vol. Moscow, 1 vol. Miscellaneous pamphlets, 107. 



SPENCE, F. A. Annual Report of the President of Brown University, July 17, 

 1875. 8vo. 



U. 8. PATENT OFFICE. Official Gazette, Aug. 17, 31, 1875. 



By Exchange. 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. Proceedings. Vol. xvii, pt. iv, Feb., 

 April, 1875. 8vo. 



PUBLISHERS. American Naturalist. Beetle and Wedge. Boston Daily Globe. 

 Gloucester Telegraph. Hardwicke's Science-Gossip.- Haverhill Gazette. Ipswich 

 Chronicle. Lawrence American. Lynn Reporter. Lynn Transcript. Nation. 

 Nature. Peabody Press. Salem Gazette. Salem Post. Salem Observer. Salem 

 Register. 



BY ADDITION. Documents, U. S. Cong., 1st Sess., 30 Cong., 4 vols.; 1st Sess., 

 32 Cong., 13 vols.; 2nd Sess., 32 Cong., 8 vols.; 1st Sess., 33 Cong., 5 vols. Directo- 

 ries, Concord, 1870; Cambridge, 1868; Lowell, 1870; Bangor, 1871-2; Nashua, 1868-9; 

 Dover and Great Falls, 1869 ; Somerville, Arlington and Belmont, 1869-70; Haver- 

 hill and Bradford, 1869-70, 1872, 2 vols.; Rockland, Belfast, Camden and Thomas- 

 ton, 1868; Metropolitan Business Directory, 1869, 1870, 2 vols; Waltham and Water- 

 town, 1869-70. 



Mr. AUGUSTUS S. BROWN presented a bud of the ba- 

 nana plant from St. Augustine, Florida. 



Mr. JOHN ROBINSON gave a description of the plant, 

 illustrating his remarks with the bud presented and with 

 a stalk and leaf from his greenhouse, and by diagrams on 

 the blackboard. 



Prof. E. S. MORSE spoke of his recent researches at 



ESSEX INST. BULLETIN. VII. 11 



