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Horn." A brief stay was made about the crumbling ruins 

 of the old Nahant Hotel, whose scorched and shivered 

 stones yet bear up against the elements. Some pursued 

 their walk to the "Maolis Gardens," so fancifully laid out 

 and bedecked by the late Frederick Tudor, and puzzled 

 themselves with his unexplained devices. On returning, 

 and after a plentiful repast, the party assembled in the 

 Chapel for the formal exercises of the afternoon, when the 

 meeting was called to order by A. C. Goodell, Historical 

 Vice President. 



Letters were read from : 



Rev. E. C. Bolles, Portland, Me. ; TrUbner & Co., London, Eng. : 

 Mrs. B. E. Mudge, Quindaro, Kansas ; E. L. Layard, Director of the 

 South African Museum, Cape Town; Elihu Hall, Athens, 111.; C. M. 

 Tracy, Lynn; Smithsonian Institution ; J. J. Babson, Gloucester; G. 

 B. Loring; A. Lackey, Marblehead; John Howarth, Boston; H. R. 

 Stiles, New York ; David Choate. Essex ; Dr. Wm. Prescott, Concord, N. 

 II. ; Dr. T. M. Brewer, Boston; Chas. M. Wheatley, Phcenixville, Pa. ; 

 Prof. Richard Owen, Indiana State University; B. O. Peirce, Beverly; 

 A. S. Peabody, Cape Town, Africa; Geo. C. Hunting-ton, Kelley's Isl., 

 Ohio; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College; Prof. James Hall, Albany, N. 

 Y. ; W. W. Denslow, Inwood, N. Y. ; W. W. Stewart, Custodian, Buf- 

 falo Soc. of Nat. Sciences; Brown, Brothers & Co,, Boston, on various 

 business matters : Sidney S. Lyon, Jeffersonville, Ind. ; Rev. Samuel 

 Lockwoocl, Keyport, N. J. ; Dr. T. M. Logan, Sacramento, Cal. ; Thure 

 Kumlien, Busseyville, Wis. ; D. G. Tornpson, Montpelier, Vt. ; Prof. S. 

 F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution ; Prof. C. C. Hamlin, Waterville Col- 

 lege; H. B. Lord, Ludlowville, N. Y. ; Codman & Shurtleft', Boston; 

 W. A. Haines, New York; E. S. Morse, Gorham, Me.; W. J. Beal, 

 Cambridge ; Dr. Frederick Brendel, Peoria, 111. ; Prof. S. N. Norwood, 

 Columbia, Mo. ; Rev. E. B. Eddy, Waltham ; Dr. John G. Thomas, 

 Riviere-du-Loup-en-bas, Canada; Prof. Alex. Winchell, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich. ; G. A. Boardman, Milltown, Me. ; A. L. Russell, Quebec, Canada ; 

 Henry Bannister, Evanston, 111., relating to the Publications : Maine 

 Historical Society, acknowledging receipt of Publications ; Albert G. 

 Browne ; J. Vincent Browne ; F. Cox ; transmission of Specimens : Prof. 

 James Hall, Albany; Henry R. Gardner; accepting Membership: F. 

 Peabody, accepting the office of President : G. B. Loring, accepting the 

 office of Chairman of Field Meeting Committee. 



