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"History of Stenography, with a proposal for a new sys- 

 tem of Phonetic Short-hand Writing;" John McNeil, 

 "On Artificial Fish-breeding and Collateral Topics ; " E. 

 W.- Nelson, "Notes upon Birels observed in Southern Illi- 

 nois between July 17 and Sept. 4, 1875;" A. Sager, 

 "Notes on the Hirudinei observed in Michigan;" F. W. 

 Putnam, "On the Development of the Ceramic Art and 

 Ornamentation among the American Nations ;" J. H. Em- 

 erton, "On Cobwebs;" F. W. Putnam, "Remarks on a 

 specimen of Mexican Sculpture found in a Cave near Aca- 

 pulco;" J. S. Kingsley, "On the Crustacea;" H. W. 

 Foote, a lecture descriptive "of the Church and State un- 

 der Andros;" F. W. Putnam, "Remarks on a Number of 

 Gold Images, principally from graves near Bogota, New 

 Grenada;" John Robinson, "On the fertilization of Flow- 

 ers by Wind and by Insects." 



LECTURES AND CONCERTS. A course of seven lectures 

 under the direction of the Lecture Committee were as fol- 

 lows : 1st, on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1876, by Charles Wyllys 

 Elliott, "How the Pilgrims lived at Plymouth," illustrated 

 by lantern pictures. 2d, on Monday, Dec. 11, 1876, by 

 C. Pfoundes, "On Japan and the Japanese." 3d, on Tues- 

 day, Jan. 9, 1877, by Major J. W. Powell, the U. S. 

 Geologist in charge of the Exploration and Survey of 

 the Colorado Region, "On the North American Indians." 

 4th, on Monday, Jan. 15, 1877, by Major Powell on "The 

 Canons of Colorado." 5th, on Monday, Jan. -29, by Prof. 

 Henry Carmichael of Bowdoin College, "On Flame." 

 6th, on Monday, Feb. 12, 1877, by Prof. Alexander Gra- 

 ham Bell " On the Telephone." 7th, on Monday, Feb. 26, 

 1877, by S. G. W. Benjamin, "The Theory and Practice 

 of Art." 



Under the personal direction of the curator of Music, 



