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receiving on deposit by the Institute, Historical Specimens, Books, 

 Pamplilets, etc , in tlie custody' of the Peabody Academy of Science. 



Wednesday, November 11, 1SG8. — Quarterly Meeting. 

 The Pkesidext in the chair. 



Voted, That a committee often persons, consisting of the President, 

 1st Vice President and Secretary, together with Messrs. F. W. Putnam, 

 R. S. Kantoul, W. P. Upham, E. H. Quiinby, A. Hyatt, G. D. Phippen, 

 and James Kimball, be hereby appointed to publish a Guide to Salem 

 if they may deem it expedient, with full powers to add to their num- 

 bers as may seem to them necessary. 



Dr. A. S. Packard, jr., in compliance with a request made at a pre- 

 vious committee meeting, proposed a plan for an Annual Report on 

 the Progress of Entomology in America. 



On motion of Mr. Putxam :— Voted, to recommend the substitution 

 of tlie word three, or the word five, before the word dollars, for the 

 word two, in article seven of the Constitution. 



The following Amendment to the Constitution was adopted : — 



Article II. Substitute for the word "Secretary" the following 

 words, — A Recording and Home Secretary and a Foreign Secretary. 



James T. Hewes of Salem, was elected a Resident Member. 



Monday, November 16, 1868. — Regular Evening Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Records of last meeting read ; correspondence and donations an- 

 nounced. 



The President announced that tidings had been received of the 

 death of Mr. Horace Mann of Cambridge, a gentleman well known 

 to many of the members of the Institute as the acceptable and instruc- 

 tive lecturer on Botany before the Institute during the past spring. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam stated that Mr. Maun died on Wednesday last. 

 He was an accomplished and rising botanist. He was appointed as 

 the substitute of Prof. Gi'aj', in Harvard University, during the Pro- 

 fessor's absence in Europe. About two years since he visited the 

 Hawaiian Islands and collected a vast amount of material, illustrative 

 of the Flora of those Islands, which he was preparing for publica- 

 tion, a portion having already appeared in the Proceedings of the 

 Institute. 



Mr. Putnam read the following resolutions, which were adopted : 



Mesolvrd, That the members of the Essex Institute most deeply 

 sympathize with the family and friends of their late associate, Horace 

 Mann, whose sudden death not only casts a deep soitow on the hearts 

 of those who were near and dear to him, but also into the scientific 



