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donor, and further to report such plan as they deem proper for cele- 

 brating this epoch in the history of the Institute. 



Messrs. F. W. Putnam, G. B. Loring, Charles Mansfield, R. S. Ran- 

 toul, W. P. Upham, Henry M. Brooks, and Alpheus Hyatt were elected 

 as the Committee of conference. 



MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1867. Regular Meeting. 

 Vice President GOODELL in the chair. 



Letters were announced from, Rev. A. B'. Kendig, Davenport, 

 Iowa ; Benjamin W. Stone. New York ; Capt. N. E. Atwood, Province- 

 town ; Dr. James R. Nichols, Boston ; Major R. S. Williamson, U. S. A., 

 San Francisco, Cal. ; E. T. Cresson, Sec'y American Entomological 

 Society ; James M. Barnard, Boston ; W. A. Haines, New York ; Dr. 

 Samuel A. Green, Boston (March 8) ; Charles H. Higbee, Salem (Mar. 

 9) ; Dr. Daniel Clark, Flint, Mich. ; A. H. Curtiss, Liberty, Va. ; Surg. 

 Elliott Coues, U. S. A., Columbia, S. C. (March 10) ; John Bolton, 

 Portsmouth, Ohio ; John Jenkins, Monroe, N. Y. ; J. J. Babson, Glou- 

 cester ; L. Disturnell, New York (March 14) ; Dr. W. H. Gregg, Elmira, 

 N. Y. ; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College ; Samuel L. Boardman, Augus- 

 ta, Me. ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, Portland. Me. (March 16) ; S. Russell, Bos- 

 ton; T. Mcllwraith, Hamilton, C. W. ; W. H. Leggett, New York; Dr. 

 William Stimpson, Sec'y Chicago Acad. Sciences; S. S. Fowler, Dan- 

 vers (March 18). 



Mr. F. W. Putnam gave an account of the present state of know- 

 ledge regarding the Trichinae in pork, a piece of pork infested with 

 this worm having been presented to the Institute by Dr. J. W. Sawyer, 

 of the Butler Hospital. 



Mr. Goodell presented in the name of Joseph S. Leavitt, of Salem, 

 an Indenture on parchment, made the eleventh day of September, Anno 

 Domini one thousand seven hundred, and " in the twelfth yeare of the 

 reigne of our sovereigne Lord William the Third," between " Charles 

 Downing, of London, in the Kingdom of England, Esq., of the 

 one part, and Thorndike Proctor, of Salem, in the County of Essex 

 within his Majesties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng- 

 land in America, yeoman, on the other part, witnessing that the said 

 Charles Downing conveys land in Salem to said Thorndike Proctor." 

 Mr. Goodell gave a brief history of the Downing family. The Charles 

 above mentioned was son of Sir George, Bart, (son of Emanuel, of 

 Salem), who was partly prepared for college by Rev. John Fisk, and 

 graduated in the first class of Harvard College, 1642, went to England, 

 got in favor with Cromwell, and rose to high distinction. The land 

 conveyed by the above Indenture was the original grant from the town 

 to Robert Cole, and by him conveyed to Emmanuel Downing. It 

 was situated where Proctor's Crossing now is, in South Danvers. 



