CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 Regular Meeting, Monday, January 7, 1878, 1 



Dr. George A. Perkins, Remarks on Liberia, 1. A List of the Birds of 

 Massachusetts with Annotations, by J. A. Allen, 3. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, January 21, 1878, . . . .38 



Prof. E. S. Morse, Lecture upon Japan, 38. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, February 4, 1878, . . . . -38 

 Remarks on the subject of commemorating the 250th anniversary of the 

 Landing of John Endicott, 38. Rev. G. D. Wildes, on Gen. Abbott's 

 military journal, 39. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, February 25, 1878, . ' *_.. ..;... .;:.. 40 



Mr. D. Waldo's Lecture on "Telling the Time," 40. J. S. Kingsley's 

 " List of the North American Crustacea," 63. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, March 18, 1878, 72 



F. W. Putnam's Archaeological Explorations in Tennessee, 72. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, April 1, 1878 85 



Notice of the death of Francis Putnam, 85. Rev. E. C. Bolles, on Salis- 

 bury and a Day at Stonehenge, 86. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, April 15, 1878, 86 



G. D. Phippen, Impressions on the Flora of Texas, 86. 



Annual Meeting, Monday, May 20, 1878, 93 



Retrospect of the year: members, 94; meetings, 96; lectures and con- 

 certs, 97; art department and museum, 98; library, 99; financial, 107; 

 horticultural, 109 ; publications, 109; excursions, 109; resolutions on 

 the death of Francis Putnam, 111 ; officers elected, 112. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, June 3, 1878, 113 



Field Meeting at Centennial Grove, Essex, Monday, June 24, 1878, 113 



J. H. Emerton, Remarks on Arachnida, 114. S. B. Buttrick, List of 

 Plants Collected, 114. John Robinson's paper* on the Life of a Pine 

 Tree, 115. 



Field Meeting at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, Wednesday, July 

 10, 1878 125 



Visit to the Zoological Laboratory of Messrs. Emerton and Minot, 126. 

 The proposed celebration of Endicotl's Landing noticed, 127. G. D. 

 Phippen, Notes on the History of the Neck, 127. J. H. Emerton, on 

 the Development of the Common Starfish, 128. J. S. Kingsley, on the 

 Anatomy and Development of the Tunicates, 129. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, July 15, 1878, . . . . .130 

 Notice of the death of Hon. J. G. Waters, 130. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, August 5, 1878, 131 



Field Meeting at West Newbury, Thursday, August 8, 1878, . 131 



Visit to the residence of Ben Perley Poore, 132. Notice of the Poore 

 Family, 133. Remarks of Haydn Brown, 135; James Parton, 135; 

 J. H. Emerton, 136; George Dixon, 130. 



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