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The Institute then adjourned, the donations since the last 

 meeting having been previously announced as follows : 



To the Library from Geo. R. Curwen ; Canadian Insti- 

 tute at Toronto ; C. B. Richardson of N. Y. ; J. B. Felt; 



A. B. Johnson, Utica, N. Y. ; Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Science ; Boston Society of Natural History ; John. 



B. Alley, M. C. ; Geo. C. Chase ; Geo. Choate ; G. B. Loring. 

 To the Cabinets from Miss S. A. Chever ; Miss Rebecca 



Johnson of Cohasset ; Mrs. F. M. Creamer ; Forrest River 

 Lead Company ; Arthur Hodges ; John Robinson. 



Monday, January 6, 1862. 



Meeting this evening at Creamer Hall. The President, 

 Asahel Huntington, in the chair. 



The records of the preceding meeting were read. 



Letters were announced from Charles E. Brown of Provi- 

 dence, R. I. ; M. Miles of Lansing, Mich. ; New York Mer- 

 cantile Library Association ; Trustees of Boston Public 

 Library ; John Robinson. 



Among the articles which had been forwarded to the soci- 

 ety was a specimen of the fifteen cent paper currency of the 

 Southern Confederacy picked up at Beaufort, and a sheet 

 of unsigned military orders of various denominations issued 

 by the Board of Supervisors, County of Winnebago, Illinois, 

 on the war fund appropriated for the relief of volunteers. 

 Also some unginned cotton from Port Royal, and specimens 

 of the stones of the Washington well, near Annapolis. 



A. C. Goodell, occupied the evening by reading an inter- 

 esting paper on Thomas Maule, and his times. [See His- 

 torical Collections of the Institute, vol. iii, page 238.] Du- 

 ring the reading, Mr. Goodell presented to the Institute, in 

 behalf of Mr. James B. Curwen, a pencil drawing of the old 



