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To the Library from American Antiquarian Society ; 

 Wm. P. Tucker of Bowdoin College ; E. E. Chever ; Boston 

 Society of Natural History ; S. A. Lord of South Danvers ; 

 Mass. Legislature ; Henry M. Brooks. 



To the Cabinets from John C. Chad wick ; Wm. Hulin 

 of Rockford, Illinois; E. E. Chever; Geo. F. Austin; C. 

 H. Norris; A. C. Goodell, Jr.; Samuel F. Nichols ; Mrs. F. 

 M. Creamer. 



Adjourned. 



Monday, February, 17, 1862. 



Meeting this evening, A. Huntington, President, in the 

 chair. 



In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. George D. Phippen 

 was chosen Secretary, pro tern. 



Records of preceding meeting read. 



A letter was read from Sanborn Tenney, Esq., of Cam- 

 bridge, relative to the delivery of a course of lectures in 

 Salem, under the auspices of the Essex Institute, on the 

 subject of Geology ; which was referred to the appropriate 

 Committee. 



Rev. C. C. Beaman read a paper giving a geographical 

 outline of Cape Cod, its discovery, the Indians resident upon 

 it, its adaptation to their wants, sustenance from shell and 

 other fish, deer and other game, geese and ducks, nuts, 

 plums and berries, and the convenience of fresh water in 

 ponds and springs, and of salt water in creeks, coves, bays 

 and small inlets, passing to a description of the simple and 

 happy life led by its original inhabitants before the white 

 man came. The settlement by the whites was briefly narra- 

 ted the arrival from England in 1639, of the minister 

 Lothrop, with a portion of his church, to take up their abode 



