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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1879. 



MEETING this evening. The PRESIDENT in the chair. 

 Records read. Donations and correspondence announced. 



Mr. JOHN ROBINSON presented in the name of Mrs. 

 Samuel Johnson, President of the Salem Female Employ- 

 ment Society (lately dissolved), the records, work and 

 account books of the Society. 



Mr. Robinson read a paper prepared by Mrs. Johnson, 

 giving a historical sketch of said society, its formation, 

 its objects and its work, and what it has accomplished. 



The paper was referred to the committee on publica- 

 tions, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Johnson 

 for the papers, records and account books of the Society 

 and the written statement of its doings. 



The time of the arrival and the habits of some of the 

 early spring birds were discussed by Messrs. William G. 

 Barton, Fielder Israel, John Robinson, Caleb Cooke and 

 others. 



THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1879. 



AT a meeting of the Institute this afternoon, adjourned 

 from Monday, the 21st inst., Messrs. T. F. Hunt, Fielder 

 Israel and Daniel B. Hagar were appointed on the com- 

 mittee to report a list of candidates for the various offi- 

 cers and committees to be elected at the annual meeting. 



MONDAY, MAY 5, 1879. 



AT the meeting this evening Mrs. Daniel C. Manning 

 was elected a resident member. 



