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bodies with which he was connected, and deprives his loved science 

 of botany of one of its most devoted and conscientious investigators, 

 and of one, who, had it been permitted, would, from his purity and 

 depth of thought, undoubtedly have made one of the leading botan- 

 ists of his generation. 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to transmit a copy of 

 these resolutions to the family of our late associate, and to tender to 

 them our condolence and sympathy in this bereavement. 



Mr. ALPHEUS HYATT feelingly alluded to the great loss which had 

 been sustained in the death of Mr. Mann and proposed the following 

 resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That Dr. A. S. Packard, jr.,* be requested to prepare a 

 memoir of Mr. Mann to be inserted in the Proceedings of the Insti- 

 tute. ;~ 



Dr. GEORGE B. LORING stated that he had known Mr. Mann as a 

 boy. We are apt to pass boys, but this boy arrested his attention. 

 When lecturing in Salem last winter Mr. Mann had been the speaker's 

 guest. He was theft struck with his accuracy of information ; his 

 wisdom of thought and propriety of expression. He partook emi- 

 nently of the nature of a scholar. He had come to us as the result of 

 the training of his father and the educational institutions of this Com- 

 monwealth. 



Mr. PUTNAM announced the recent decease of two other botanists, 

 corresponding members of the Institute, W. W. DEXSLOW of New 

 York, better known as a collector than as an investigator; and the 

 Rev. JAMES HUBBERT of St. Francis College, Canada, who prepared a 

 " Catalogue of Canadian plants." Both were enthusiastic workers for, 

 and correspondents of the Institute. 



The PRESIDENT exhibited a blotter, a donation from Dr. Samuel A. 

 Green of Boston, and read an extract from the "Boston Traveller," 

 which gave an account of a tornado by which this book with other 

 articles were carried many miles through the air. 



Mr. A. HYATT gave an interesting account of his observation of the 

 Meteoric Shower of Nov. 13, and mentioned many interesting specu- 

 lations to which the Meteoric Phenomena had given rise in the ancient 

 and modern efforts to explain the nature and course of their bodies. 



A discussion followed, participated in by Mr. G" D. PHIPPEN, Dr. G. 

 B. LORING and others. 



MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1868. Regular Evening Meeting. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



Records of last meeting read ; correspondence and donations an- 

 nounced. [The violence of a storm had so interfered with the as- 



*Another friend of Mr. Mann's has prepared a memoir, in place of Dr. Pack- 

 ard, which has been printed in the "Bulletin of the Essex Institute," Vol. i, Nos. 

 2 and 3. 



