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To the Cabinets from S. Q. Felt ; Geo. P. Ives ; Abiel 

 H. Wardwell; Stephen Cloutman ; John Robinson ; Chas. 

 H. Manning; M. Miles, Lansing, Mich.; A. C. Goodell, Jr. 



Adjourned. 



Monday, March 24, 1862. 



Meeting this evening at 7 1-2 o'clock. In the absence of 

 the President and Vice Presidents, A. C. Goodell Jr., was 

 called to preside. 



Records of the preceding meeting read. 



Letters were announced from Chas. W. Felt ; S. Jillson of 

 Feltonville ; C. H, Manning ; and J. Wingate Thornton of 

 Boston. 



Rev. J. B. FELT read a valuable communication on the early 

 piracies on this coast, with a particular reference to those of 

 Capt. William Kidd. (See Historical Collections of the In- 

 stitute, vol. iv. page 30.) 



Remarks were offered in connexion with this subject, by 

 the chair, Messrs. C. C. Beaman, G. D. Phippen and other 

 members. 



On motion of Mr. Phippen it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Institute be tendered to Mr. 

 Felt, for the communication read this evening,and that a copy 

 be placed at the disposal of the Publication Committee. 



Donations were announced from the following : 

 To the Library from N. J. Lord, Montreal Society of 

 Natural History ; Boston Society of Natural History ; Mu- 

 seum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge ; W. R. Clout- 

 man ; Chicago Historical Society ; J. Wingate Thornton of 

 Boston ; George F. Read, James B. Curwen. 



