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shore of the Lake, in the fine grove, where well spread tables and rustic seats 

 on the sloping hill side were arranged, and a bountiful collation was pre- 

 pared. At 2 P. M. the meeting was called to order with 



Vice President GOODELL in the Chair. 



The Chairman stated in brief the objects of the organization, and its 

 growth in membership, which has now readied to the number of 530 Resi- 

 dent members, and alluded to its Library, its publications, and its extensive 

 correspondence and system of exchanges with similar institutions in this 

 and foreign countries. 



The following letters were announced: from Henry A. Smith, Cleve- 

 land, Ohio ; William A. Williams, Salem ; W. H. Niles, New Haven, Conn. ; 

 A. C. Goodell, Jr., Salem (received May 9) ; A. M. Edwards, New York, 

 (May 10); Prof. E. D. Cope, Haverford College, Pa.; John R. Bartlett, 

 Secretary of State, Providence, R. I. (May 11 ); Prof. F. V. Hayden, Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania ; W. H. Pease, Honolulu, Sandwich Isles ; Prof. 

 A. E. Verrill, Yale College; J. Smith Futher, Westchester, Pa. (May 

 12); J. A. Allen, Springfield; J. K. Wiggin, Boston (May 14); New 

 Orleans Academy of Science ; G. W. Pease, Salem ; T. H. O. P. Burnham, 

 Boston ("May 15 ) ; Henry d'Aligny, Houghton, Mich. ; E. S. Morse, Port- 

 land Society of Natural History; F. Poole, South Danvers (May 16); 

 Prof. S. F. Baird, Smithsonian Institution ; J. Carson Brevoort, Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. ( May 18 ) ; Brevet Major Gen. C. S. N. Crawford, U. S. A. (May 

 19); G. A. Boardman, Milltown, Me.; Prof. Jeffries Wyman, Cambridge; 

 Prof. Francis S. Holmes, College of Charleston, S. C. ; Prof. A. E. Verrill, 

 Yale College ; Ass't Surg. Elliott Coues, U. S. A. ( May 22 ) ; Otto Kuntz, 

 Boston; Smithsonian Institution (May 23); Prof. S. F. Baird, Smithso- 

 nian Institution; W. Merritt, Sup't Boston & Me. R. R. (May 24 ); S. H. 

 Scudder, Annaberg, Saxony; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College ; A. S. Tay- 

 lor, Santa Barbara, Cal. ( May 25 ); E. T. Cox, New Harmony, Ind. ; G. 

 D. Phippen, Salem ; Dr. James R. Nichols, Haverhill (May 26 ) ; Otto Kuntz, 

 Boston, ( May 27 ) ; Alfred Stone, Providence, R. I. ; Ass't Surg. Elliott 

 Coues, U. S. A. ; R. C. Greenleaf, Boston ; Prof. O. W. Holmes, Boston ; 

 Prof. Francis S. Holmes, College of Charleston, S. C. ; John J. Babson, 

 Gloucester ( May 28 ); O. C. Marsh, Yale College ; George H. Moore, Libr. 

 N. Y. Hist. Society ( May 29 ) ; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College ; Prof. O. 

 W. Holmes, Boston ; Dr. James R. Nichols, Haverhill ; Prof. W. P. Blake, 

 San Francisco, Cal. ( May 30 ); J. A. Allen, Springfield ; E. N. Walton, 

 Salem ; Dr. S. A. Green, Boston ; Edwin Bicknell, Boston ; W. Merritt, Snp't 

 Boston & Me. R. R. (May 31 ); Dr. Benj. Pickman, Highgate Springs, 

 Vt. ( June 1 ) ; C. C. Beaman, Jr., Washington, D. C. ; Prof. F. S. Holmes, 

 College of Charleston, S. C. (June 2) ; Prof. A. E. Verrill, Yale College; 

 Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Sec't Chicago Academy of Science ( June 3 ) ; W. M. 

 Hunting, Fairfield, N. Y. ; Charles Nauman, Lancaster, Pa. ; W. Merritt, 

 Sup't B. & Me. R. R. ; John Ward Dean, N. E. Hist. Gen. Society (June 5 ) ; 

 A. C. Goodell, Jr., Salem (June 6 ). 



The Superintendent made a few remarks upon the singular habits of the 

 Spade-footed Toad, Scaphiopus soKtarius, and read a short communication 

 from Mr. J. A. Allen, of Springfield, Mass., as follows : 



Springfield, May 29, 1866. 



"I send you by to days express a living pair of what I take to be the 

 Spade-footed Toad (Scaphiopus), which 1 obtained yesterday, May 28. 



