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The thanks of the Institute were voted to Mr. Thornton for 

 this valuable contribution. 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10. Ordinary meeting. 



H. J. Cross in the chair. 



Charles Creesey and Joshua Safford, of Salem, were elected 

 Resident Members. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22. Evening meeting. 

 Vice President, A. C. Goodell Jr., in the chair. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinets were announced. 

 F. W. Putnam presented a communication by A. S. Pack- 

 ard Jr., of Brunswick, Maine, entitled " Notes on the Family 

 ZygcBnida" Referred to the Committee on Publications. 



R. S. Rantoul read the following communications which he 

 had recently received from the War Department, at Washing- 

 ton, accompanying the same with a brief account of his visit to 

 Washington and his interview with Mr. Whiting, the Solicitor 

 for the Department, in relation to the subject of naming the 

 Forts in Gloucester and Marblehead : 



WAR DEPARTMENT, ) 



Washington City, Feb. 8th, 1864. ) 

 ROBERT S. RANTOUL Esq., 

 DEAR SIR, 



I have the pleasure of enclosing the order of the 

 Secretary of War made at my request in accordance with the 

 wishes of the Essex Institute, naming Fort Glover and Fort 

 Conant. 



Respectfully, your obedient servant, 



WILLIAM WHITING, 

 Solicitor of the War Department. 



WAR DEPARTMENT, 

 Washington City, Feb. 7th, 1864. 

 SIR, 



The Secretary of War directs me to acknowledge the 



