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Monday * December 14, 

 Meeting this evening, the President in the chair. 



Records of preceding meeting read ; and donations were 

 announced from the following : 



To the Library from Jonathan Tucker : Miss E. S. 

 Hotchkiss of New Haven, Conn.: N. J. Lord ; Society of 

 Arts, Manufactures <v.c., London ; John B. Alley M.C.; Red- 

 wood Library and Athenaeum ; J. L. Jenkins. 



To the Cabinets from C. P. Nichols ; T). M. Itolch ; Ed- 

 ward H. Knight ; James II . Emerton ; Charles H. Higbee ; 

 H. P. Nichols ; J. C. Stimpson ; Miss Quiner of Beverly ; 

 Theodore P. Brown ; Prank P. Watson ; Daniel P. Fitz ; 

 A. R. Russell ; John M. Ives ; George Abbot. 



A letter was read from JOSEPH A. TORUEV of Providence, 

 in relation to printing. In this connection Mr. Good ell pre- 

 sented some remarks upon the combination types and other 

 improvements in type-setting as suggested by C. W. Felt of 

 Salem, with some allusion to Mr. P.'s type-setting and justi- 

 fying machine, now nearly finished, and in a condition to 

 test the merits of the invention, to a great extent. 



A letter was read from JOHN A. MC'ALLISTER of Philadelphia, 

 accompanying an impression from an old plate in his posses- 

 sion, " a Caricature of the Congressional Pugilists in 1798." 

 A brief account of the scene to which this referred was 

 read from the Congressional Journal of that date, and a 

 brief sketch of Roger Griswold M.C. from Connecticut, and 

 Matthew Lyon M.C. from Vermont, the persons represented 

 therein, was given by the Secretary. 



Letters were also read from Chicago Historical Society ; 

 Directors of Providence Athenaeum ; Pennsylvania Histori- 

 cal Society ; Trustees of New York State Library ; R. Si 



