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MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1867. Regular Meeting. 

 Vice President GOODELL in the chair. 



Letters were announced from, John C. Wetmore, Essex, Mass. 

 (Dec. 10) ; Prof. S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution (Dec. 16) ; Dr. 

 T. A. Tellkampf, New York (Dec. 17) ; M. C. Cooke, London (Dec. 19) ; 

 Dr. Harrison Allen, Philadelphia ; A. M. Martin, Jamestown, N. Y. ; 

 J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Mass. ; Dr. Elliott Coues, U. S. A., Columbia, 

 S. C. ; Rev. E. C. Bolles, Portland, Me. (Dec. 20) ; Messrs. Triibner 

 & Co., London ; Chas. G. Atkins, New England Commissioner of River 

 Fisheries, Augusta, Me. ; W. E. Bridges, Beverly, Mass. (Dec. 23). 



Donations to the Museum were announced. 



Charles K. Stevens presented some Arrow-heads and Chips found 

 near the site of the Atlantic Mills in Lawrence, and made some obser- 

 vations on the Indian relics found in that region. He also presented 

 some Red Coral from the Island of Goro, one of the Malta islands, 

 and gave a brief account of the mode of procuring and preparing the 

 same for commercial uses. 



Edward S. Morse described the anatomical structure of this coral, 

 and proceeded thence to speak of some of the naked mollusks as 

 the Eolis, Doris, Elyria, and other genera, concluding with a succinct 

 notice of the different forms of respiration among this class of the 

 animal kingdom. >. 



F. W. Putnam, in connection, alluded to the circulation and respira- 

 tion of fishes and reptiles. 



C. W. Felt read a letter from John J. Gould, of Wenham, asking 

 information respecting the injury done to fruit by the puncture of 

 bees, and a discussion followed on the question whether the abstrac- 

 tion of honey from the blossoms of our fruit trees by the bees effect 

 in any manner the maturing of the fruit. Mr. Putnam expressed him- 

 self decidedly in favor of the bees, and thought that without the aid 

 of the bees we should often be without fruit on some of our trees. 



James W. Averill, of Salem, was elected a Resident Member. 



MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1867. Regular Meeting. 

 Vice President GOODELL in the chair. 



Letters were announced from, Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid 

 (Nov. 12) ; British Archa3ological Association, London (Dec. 3) ; A. 

 G. Browne, Salem (Dec. 18) ; H. B. Dawson, Morrisauia, N. Y. ; R. M. 

 Chipmau, East Granby, Conn. (Dec. 19) ; Edmund F. Slafter, Boston 

 (Dec. 20) ; Prof. W. B. Rogers, Boston ; James R. Newhall, Lynn 

 (Dec. 22) ; I. T. Langworthy, Boston (Dec. 23). 



Donations to the Library were announced. 



James Kimball read a paper consisting of extracts from a journal 



