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himself in various ways and degrees of usefulness on his 

 day and generation, deserves to be held in honored 

 remembrance ; and we are happy to have it reported to 

 us this evening, that the work of preparing a fitting and 

 just memorial of his life, and character, is entrusted to 

 entirely competent hands, and that in due time, it will be 

 ready for publication in our Historical Collections. 



Resolved, That these Resolutions be entered at length 

 on our records, in perpetual remembrance of the respect 

 we bear for the memory of our deceased associate and 

 friend, and of our grief at his death ; and that an attested 

 copy thereof be transmitted by the Secretary to the 

 nearest relatives of Mr. Ward. 



The acceptance of the resolutions was moved by Rev. 

 G. D. Wildes and seconded by Prof. A. Crosby, and they 

 were unanimously adopted. 



MONDAY, OCTOBER 24. Evening meeting. 

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

 Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 

 Letters were read from 



Maine Historical Society, acknowledging the receipt of publications : Prof. 

 S. F. Baird, of Washington, relating to the " Naturalist's Directory": H. L. 

 Ordway, of Ipswich, on the habits of the Canker worm : Albert B. Russell 

 and Theodore Atwill, of Lynn, accepting membership : Department of the 

 Interior, Washington, giving notice of the transmission of books : A. L. 

 Babcock, of Sherborn, relating to exchange of specimens : Dr. A. S. Pack- 

 ard Jr., of Brunswick, Me.; John W. Young, of Worcester ; Miss Mary H. 

 Coffin, of Newburyport ; S. Lincoln, of Boston ; S. J. Young, Librarian of 

 Bowdoin College ; Joseph Willard, of Boston ; Wm. A. Smith, of Worcester, 

 on business matters : James C. Ward, of Northampton, in reply to a com- 

 munication containing the resolutions in memory of his father, the late 

 G. A. Ward, Esq. 



F. W. Putnam exhibited a skeleton of a Green Turtle, 

 which had been prepared from a specimen lately presented 

 by Francis Peabody, Esq., and explained the various parts 

 of the skeleton, comparing it with that of a bird. He also 

 spoke of the different sub-orders and families of Turtles as 



