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 Records of the preceding meetings were read. 



Letters were read from A. B. Almon ; Thomas H. Johnson ; 

 S. H. Brooks. 



Rev. C. C. Beaman read an interesting paper, being a 

 historical sketch of the Howard street Church in Salem, 

 with brief notices of the several ministers who have success- 

 ively officiated in that place. 



Remarks were offered by Messrs. T. Ropes ; J. B. Felt ; 

 A. C. Goodell jr., and the Chairman, suggested by the 

 above paper and containing many interesting reminiscences 

 of the founders of the church and some of their cotempora- 

 ries. Mr. Goodell moved that a vote of thanks be tendered 

 to Mr. Beaman for his interesting and valuable contribution 

 to the ecclesiastical history of the city, and that a copy of 

 the same be placed at the disposal of the Committee on Pub- 

 lications to be inserted in the Historical Collections. (See 

 Historical Collections of the Institute, vol. iii, page 272.) 



Donations since the last meeting were announced as 

 follows : 



To the Library from the Directors of the Lowell City 

 Library ; Vermont Historical Society ; American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences ; A. B. Almon ; C. B. Richardson of 

 New York ; Directors of Newburyport Public Library ; Ariel 

 L. Cummings of Roxbury ; Wm. Mansfield ; John Robinson ; 

 Henry M. Brooks ; Geo. C. Chase ; John H. Stone. 



To the Cabinets from C. H. Fifield ; S. H. Brooks ; H. 

 M. Brooks ; E. E. Chever ; Thomas H. Johnson. 



Adjourned. 



Monday, February 3, 1862 



Meeting this evening, A. Huntington, President in the 

 chair. 



