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Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqneville. 2 vols. 12mo. 

 Boston, 1862. 



Twenty Years around the World. By John Guy Vassar. 8vo. New York, 

 1861. 



The Constitutional History of England, 1760 to 1860. By Thomas Erskine 

 May, C. B. Vol. i. 8vo. Boston, 1862. Deposited by the •Republican Institvr 

 tion. 



May 7, 1862. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



The President in the chair. 



The Treasurer presented a Report, in full, of the iinancial 

 condition of the Society ; also, the Annual Report of the 

 Trustees of the Courtis Fund. 



The Auditing Committee stated that they had examined 

 the accounts, and had found them correctly cast and prop- 

 erly vouched. 



The Librarian reported that three hundred and thirteen 

 volumes and parts of volumes, and one hundred and twenty 

 pamphlets, had been received during the past year, mainly 

 through exchange with foreign societies. He suggested the 

 expediency of re-printing missing signatures of the Pro- 

 ceedings, in order that our exchanges might be extended. 



The Curator of Geology and Palaeontology stated that the 

 most valuable additions to his department consisted of speci- 

 mens of tracks of animals upon the Connecticut River 

 sandstone, purchased from Mr. Field, of Greenfield. 



The Curator of Comparative Anatomy announced that 

 the additions to the cabinet during the past year have been 

 numerous and highly valuable, consisting in all of one hun- 

 dred and thirty-eight specimens, among which may be par- 

 ticularly mentioned, — 



1. The osteological collection of the late Dr. Lane, of this 

 city. 



2. A series of crania from Dr. Bryant. 



