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Regular Meetings, twenty-five, usually on the first and 

 third Monday evenings of each month. The following 

 communications received and lectures delivered may be 

 specified: "Notes on Pacific Coast Crustacea," by W. 

 N. Lockington ; "List of the Birds of the Hudson High- 

 lands, with annotations," by Edgar A. Mearns ; "An Ac- 

 count of the Flora of the Sandwich Islands," by Charles 

 Derby; "Remarks on the Subject of Heredity," by Al- 

 pheus Hyatt ; "A Catalogue of the Fishes of Essex 

 County, Massachusetts, including the Fauna of Massa- 

 chusetts Bay," by G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. 

 Bean ; "Ornithological Explorations of the Lesser An- 

 tilles," by Frederick A. Ober ; "Notes on the native and 

 extensively introduced woody plants of Essex County, 

 Mass.," by John Robinson; "The artificial hatching of 

 Cod Fish," by J. H. Emerton ; ''Halibut fishing on the 

 banks of Newfoundland," by Raymond L. Newcomb ; 

 "On Perfect Harmony in Music," by Theodore M. Os- 

 borne ; "On the old merchants of Salem," by N. Silsbee. 



LECTURES AND CONCERTS. A course of eight lectures 

 under the direction of the Lecture Committee were as 

 follows : 1st, Monday, Oct. 28, by Samuel Johnson of 

 North Andover, "On Florence." 2d, Monday, Nov. 11, 

 1878, by S. G. W. Benjamin of New York, "Sculptured 

 3d, Monday, Dec. 9, by G. L. Vose of Bowdoin College, 

 "The Light-house System of the United States." 4th, 

 Monday, Dec. 23, by W. R. Ware of Boston, "Architec- 

 ture." 5th, Monday, Jan. 27, by Winslow Upton of 

 Salem, "The Solar Eclipse of 1878." 6th, Monday, Feb. 

 17, by J. W. Symonds of Portland, Me., "Nathaniel 

 Hawthorne;" 7th, Monday v March 10, by L. J. Osbun of 

 Salem, "The Electric Light." 8th, Monday, March 24, 

 by W. W. Thomas of Portland, "A Ramble in Norway." 



