XLIV 



The records of the preceding meeting were read, and 

 letters were announced from the following : 



A. Agassiz, of Cambridge ; John II. Klippart, Sec'y Ohio State Bd. of Agri- 

 culture; J. Mayer & Co., of Boston; S. F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion; Edward L. Graeff, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; E. T. Cresson, of Philadelphia; 

 J. A. Allen, of Springfield; L. Trouvelot, of Medford; Henry White, of New 

 Haven, Conn. ; C. B. Richardson, of New York, relative to the publications. 

 From the Maine Historical Society ; Massachusetts Historical Society ; 

 Literary and Historical Society, of Quebec ; Lyceum of Natural History, of 

 New York ; Corporation of Harvard College ; Trustees of Newburyport Public 

 Library; Trustees of Boston Public Library, severally acknowledging 

 receipt of publications. From Jere. Page ; Willard Goldthwaite ; Charles 

 Bowker ; Francis Boardraan; Geo. P. Daniels; W. J. Stickney; H. K. Oliver; 

 M. Fenollosa ; G. B. Jewett, accepting membership. From C. M. Tracy, of 

 Lynn ; Mrs. P. A. Hanaford, of Reading ; S. H. Scudder, of Boston, relating 

 to Field meetings. From Long Island Historical Society ; A. S. Packard, of 

 Me. Hist. Soc. ; Henry W. Moulton ; Smithsonian Institution, relating to 

 exchanges and transmission of books and specimens. From J. Porter, of 

 Wenham ; Henry A. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio ; Mrs. Hannah B. Russell ; 

 Morris Phillips, of New York ; C. B. Preston, of Danvers ; R. M. Piper, of 

 Nahant ; Lowell Bleachery ; Geo. A. Ward, on business matters. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinets, were announced. 

 The chair proceeded to give an account of the geology of 

 the place, as observed by him. He spoke of the "Jasper 

 Ledge" of "Round Hill" and its amygdaloid, and of the fine 

 porphyries of this region. At this point Vice President 

 A. C. Goodell Jr. arrived and took the chair. 



C. M. Tracy, of Lynn, described a variety of plants and 

 flowers gathered during the day. A fine cluster of rhod- 

 odendrons being sent to the table he gave some account 

 of the family to which it belonged and of its peculiarly 

 fine developement among the Alps and Himalayas. Also 

 of the other splendid members of this family, the azaleas, 

 the kalmias, the heaths, &c. 



Wilbur F. Newhall, of Saugus, gave somewhat extended 

 remarks on the more prominent points in the history of 

 the town. He remembered the old Newhall Tavern for- 

 merly kept here by an ancestor of his, and famous in its 



