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of any species changing its character at any period, or 

 passing into another was not yet sufficient to warrant the 

 statement. 



A few other gentlemen offered appropriate remarks, after 

 which on motion of'N. J. HOLDEN, Esq. of Salem the thanks 

 of the Institute were tendered to Rev. Mr. Pike, the Messrs. 

 Smith, Prime, Harris, Hills, and Richards, as well as Mrs. 

 Pike and Mrs. Lambert, with others whose kindness to us 

 had been so untiring. The Institute then adjourned. 



Monday, Dec. 8, 1862. 



Meeting this evening at the rooms, Plummer Hall, A. 0. 

 Goodell. jr. one of the Vice Presidents in the chair. 



Records of the preceding meeting read. 

 Donations were announced from the following : 

 To the Library from J. W. Thornton of Boston ; S. A. 

 Green, Surg. 24th Reg. Mass. Vols.; J. Morrisey of Boston ; 

 J. B. Felt; Daniel Barnes of New York ; Jeremiah Colburn 

 of Boston ; 0. C. Marsh ; E. S. Parker of Groveland ; H. F. 

 Shepard ; Boston Society of Natural History ; Mrs. N. D. 

 Cole ; S. E. Pcabody ; Trustees of N. Y. State Library ; 

 Smithsonian Institution ; John L. Sibley of Cambridge : 

 Miss A. M. Hemmenway, of Ludlow, Vt. ; A. B. Almon ; 

 C. B. Richardson of New York ; Theron Metcalf of Boston ; 

 George Livermore of Cambridge ; Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Science ; A. B. Johnson of Utica, N. Y. ; Trus- 

 tees of Dartmouth College , H. L. Williams ; Zoologischen 

 Gesellschaft, Frankfort, a. M. ; D. C. Gilrnan of Yale Col- 

 lege ; Joel Munsell of Albany, N. Y. ; George B. Loring ; 

 Charles H. Dodge ; Montreal Society of Natural History ; 

 W. P. Tucker of Brunswick, Me. ; R. Manning. 



