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vestry of the Old-Town Church in Newbury, which was built 

 by the Ladies Benevolent Society, where the afternoon 

 meeting was held. 



Several alighted from the cars at the Serpentine quarry, 

 collected specimens of minerals, also zoological from woods 

 adjacent and on the road side to the place of rendezvous. 

 The old burial ground in the vicinity of Rev. Dr. Withing- 

 ton's church offered many objects of interest and presented 

 many quaint inscriptions ; The venerable Pastor of this par- 

 ish, who was settled in 1816, joined the company at the ves- 

 try and added interest to the meeting by his presence and re- 

 marks. Dr. W. in his 75th, year is still hale and vigorous. 

 In 1804 he was among first apprentices to the printing bus- 

 iness in the office of the late J. T. Buckingham. He subse- 

 quently entered Yale College, and his scholary. honorable, 

 and useful career since is well known. 



The meeting was called to order at 3 P. M., A. C. Good- 

 ell, Jr., one of the Vice Presidents, in the chair. Records of 

 preceding meeting read, &c. 



Donations were announced from the following, received 

 since the Field Meeting, Aug. 20, 1863 : 



To the Library Humphrey Devereux ; Firelands Histor- 

 ical Society of Norwalk, Ohio ; American Academy of Arts 

 and Science ; Miss A. M. Ileinmenway of Ludlow, Vt.; Mon- 

 treal Society of Natural History ; J. Hammond Trumbull of 

 Hartford, Conn. ; Trustees oi New York State Library ; Iowa 

 Historical Society ; Charles T. Brooks of Newport, R. I. ; 

 Hemy M. Brooks ; E. P. Robinson of Saugus ; N. J. Lord ; 

 Mrs. James Chamberlain ; Adams, Sampson & Co^ Boston ; 

 C. B. -Richardson of New York ; Editors of British American 

 Magazine ; George R. Curwen ; Redwood Library and Athen- 

 aeum ; Charles F. Nichols ; Henry P. Nichols ; R. S. Rantoul ; 

 R. Damon of Weymouth, England ; Long Island Historical 





