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THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



compiled from the several reports read at the meeting and 

 remarks of the members in relation thereto, presents the 

 work of the Institute in the various departments since the 

 last annual meeting. 



MEETINGS. Regular meetings occur on the first and third 

 Monday evenings of each month ; adjourned aiid special 

 meetings have been occasionally held. At these the fol- 

 lowing communications were received and lectures deliv- 

 ered. 



William P. Andrews, " A talk with Goethe about 

 Faust." 



3. M. Allis of Maiden, " Arizona and its Mines." 



Sylvester Baxter f Boston, "Berlin : a Study of Munic- 

 ipal Government in Germany." 1 



Henry P. Bowditch of Boston, " Composite Photog- 

 raphy." 



Benjamin W. Crowninshield of Boston, "An Account 

 of the yacht ' Cleopatra's Barge of Salem.'" 2 



Edward Bangs Drew of Chelsea, " Chinese Customs 

 and Home Life." 



William Ralpli Emerson of Concord, and Ross Tur- 

 ner of Salem, " Art and Architecture as applied to New 

 England Houses." 



G. T. Flanders of New Bedford, "On the Moorish 

 Dominion in Spain." 



Samuel Garmanof Cambridge, " On the age of the An- 

 dean Medal ;" "The Batrachia of Kalm's f En Resa til Norm 

 America ;' " " Reptiles and Batrachians from the Caymans 

 and from the Bahamas ;" " On an Eel from the Marshall 

 Islands." 3 



1 See Bulletin, Vol. xxi, p. 53. * See Hist. Coll., Vol. xxv, p. 81. 



3 See Bulletin, Vol. xx, pp. 57, 90, 101, 114. 



