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Remarks, relating to the various kinds of almanacs and their uses, 

 were made by Messrs. Kantoul, Upham, Wildes and Goodell. 



It having been stated that Mr. Lamson, of this city, had kept a record of 

 the weather for many years, it was voted that the Superintendent be re- 

 quested to ascertain if Mr Lamson would allow the Institute to publish such 

 parts of his record as might be of value to meteorological science. 



Mr. Wildes presented a request from Mr. Guild for a drawing of the 

 " First Church," for publication in his work on Koger Williams. Re- 

 ferred to the Curators of the Historical Department. 



Donations to the Museum and Library were announced. 



MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1866. Regular Meeting. 



Vice President GOODELL in the Chair. 



Letters were read from Prof. B. F. Mudge, Kansas State Agri. Col- 

 lege, Manhattan, Kansas ; Prof. Theo. Gill, Smithsonian Institution ; N. S. 

 Shaler, Museum Comp. Zoology, Cambridge ; Prof. James Bushee, Wor- 

 cester Society of Natural History ; Hiram A. Cutting, Lunenburgh, Vt. ; 

 Henry d'Aligny, Houghton, L. S., Mich. ; Edw. S. Morse, Portland, Me. ; 

 Prof. Wm. E. A. Aikin, Baltimore, Md. ; G. K. Gilbert, Rochester, N. Y. ; 

 E. Steiger, New York, N. Y. ; Prof. L. Harper, New York, N. Y. ; E. N. 

 Bartlett, Four Corners, Ohio; S. H. Scudder, Dresden, Saxony; Prof. P. 



D. Bradford, Northfield, Vt. ; G. C. Broadhead, Pleasant Hill, Mo. ; C. A. 

 Schott, Ass't U. S. Coast Survey; John C. Trautvine, Philadelphia, Pa.; 

 Benj. S. Lyinan, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Hon. Isaac Newton, Commissioner U. 

 S.' Agricultural Department; W. W. Dcnslow, Inwood, N. Y. ; O. M. 

 Holmes, Boston ; G. W. Pease & Co., Salem ; Charles Darwin, Bromley, 

 Eng. ; Horace P. Chandler, Chicago, 111.; J. Wingate Thornton, Boston; 



E. E. Barden, Rockport; Henry A. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio; A. Agassiz, 

 Cambridge; Joel Munsell, Albany, N. Y. ; Rev. T. W. Higginson, Newport, 

 R. I. , Royal Society, London; S. L. Boardman, Augusta, Me. 



Mr. Putnam exhibited several specimens of a species of Two-Spined 

 Stickleback, collected by the late Dr. Richard H. Whcatland at Nahant, 

 on April 15th, 1859. This species differs from Gasterosteus biaculeatus in 

 having the sides of the body posterior to the second dorsal spine free of plates 

 or scales, of which there are from six to eight on the anterior part. The tail 

 is not carinated as in Gasterosteus biaculeatus, neither has it the fleshy ridge 

 characteristic of Gasterosteus Cuvieri; but is smooth as in Gasterosteus 

 quadracus. The size of the fish is a little over one-half that of Gasterosteus 

 biaculeatus, and its general appearance is short and deep. For this species, 

 which he thought as yet undescribed, he proposed the name of Gasterosteus 

 Wheatlandi, in memory of its discoverer, and he would offer a description 

 and figure of it at a future meeting. 



Mr. Putnam also gave an account of the habits of the several species of 

 Sticklebacks found in our waters, and described the nests of G. biaculeatus 

 and G. quadracus. 



Donations to the Museum and Library were announced. 



