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done by cultivators to replace such losses, beautiful and* 

 T luable as this Oak is known to be. Attention was, likewise, 

 directed to two unusually large Locust trees, which had 

 remarkably escaped the borer, till, in the case of one, a cir- 

 cumference of ten feet had been attained, four feet above the 

 ground. 



A third division made a rather longer jaunt toward the 

 north, through fields and meadows and along the devious 

 country ways-, at one time very near the line of Boxford, and 

 again, emerging on the bank of that very beautiful sheet of 

 water called Pritchard's Pond, the greater part of which is 

 included in Ipswich. This pond bears much resemblance 

 to that in Middleton ; but is less encompassed with woods ; 

 and having steep and elevated banks, is not, in the part, 

 visited, certainly, as easy of access as the other. 



The various detachments returned in the neighborhood of 

 noon and a general rendezvous was made at " Union Hall," 

 in the basement of the Methodist Church, the use of which 

 had been kindly tendered for the occasion. Not long after- 

 ward, the meeting was called to order by Vice President 

 John L. Russell, and after the reading of the record the fol- 

 lowing donations were announced, received since the 9th ult* 



To the Library from Jonathan Perley ; Peabody Insti- 

 tute, South Danvers ; James S. Bryant, of Hartford, Ct. > 

 George B. Loring ; Trustees of the New York State Library ; 

 Middlesex Mechanic Association, Lowell ; Canadian Insti- 

 tute at Toronto, C. W. ; Henry F. Shepard ; John B. Alley, 

 M. C.; John W. Archer, of Brighton, 111.; Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Science ; Boston Society of Natural 

 History ; J. I. Bowditch, of Boston ; San Francisco Mercan- 

 tile Library Association ; C. Benj. Richardson, of New York ; 

 B. W. Stone ; John C. Holmes, of Lansing, Mich. 



