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VOL. 8. SALEM, MASS., MAT, 1876. No. 5. 



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One Dollar a Year in Advance. Ten Cents a Single Copy. 



ANNUAL MEETING, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1876. 

 MEETING this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. Records read. 



The SECRETARY announced the following correspon- 

 dence : 



From S. P. Baird, Washington, May 8; E. F. W. Baker, Dorchester, Mar. 21; C. 

 F. P. Bancroft, Andover, Mar. 6; A. Graham Bell, Boston, April 10; C. H. Bell, 

 Exeter, N. H., Mar. 3, 14; Bresil, Commission Geologique de 1'Empire, Feb. 16; 

 Haydn Brown, West Newbury, May 8; Matthew Cooke, London, Feb. 11; A. W. 

 Corliss, Camp Mc'Dowell, Arizona Terr., Feb. 16; F. M. Etting, Philadelphia, 

 Penn., Mar. 4, 18, Apr. 10, 20; M. H. Fisk, Ipswich, May 6; A. C. Goodell, Jr., Mar. 

 5; Julia Ward Howe, Boston, Mar. 21; S. C. Jackson, State Library, Boston, May 

 9; O.-A. Jenison, Lansing, Mich", Apr. 4, May 4; Kansas Academy of Science, Mar. 

 11; T. Curbing Ladd, Philadelphia, Apr. 5; J. Francis Le Baron, Boston, May 10; 

 George B. Loring, Feb. 26; Madrid, Observatorio de, Feb. 21; E. S. Mills, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., Mar. 22 ; D. Moore, Salem Gas Light Co., May 4 ; Moscou, Societe Imperiale 

 des Naturalistes, Apr. 10; New York Academy of Science, Mar.; W. D. Northend, 

 Apr. 15; Charles Palmer, Ipswich, Feb. 29; Paris, Socie^ d'Anthropologie, Apr. 3; 

 Francis Peabody, Boston, Apr. 6; F. B. Perkins, Boston Athenaenm, May 10; J. D. 

 Philbrick, Feb. 25, Mar. 21; Edward Porter, Lexington, Apr. 11; M.' A. Porter, 

 Treas. Ladies' Centen. Com., Salem, May 13; Abby S. Richardson, New York, Mar. 

 7; E.P.Robinstfn, Saugus, May 1,9; John Robinson, Feb. 23; Leverett Saltonstall, 

 Boston, Apr. 15, May 4; Sampson, Davenport & Co., Feb. 28, Apr. 1; Hon. Binney 

 Sargent, May 11; Scribner, Armstrong & Co., New York, Mar. 1; Smitlfeonian In- 

 stitution, Apr. 15 ; Richard S. Spofford, Washington, Apr. 11 ; Charles P. Thomp- 



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