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Curators of Historical Department. 



W. P. Upham, Henry M. Brooks, M. A. Stickney, John Eobinson, 

 R. S. Rantoul, W. S. Messervy, James A. Gillis. 



Curators of Natural History Department. 



H. F. King, G. A. Perkins, C. M. Tracy, James H. Emerton, Caleb 

 Cooke, G. Peabody Russell, Edwin Bicknell, E. S. Morse, Alpheus 

 Hyatt, A. S. Packard, jr., Benjamin Webb, jr. 



Curators of Department of Horticulture. 



John M. Ives, J. S. Cabot, R. S. Rogers, G. B. Loring, John Bertram, 

 S. A. Merrill, Wm. Maloon, Andrew Lackey, G. F. Brown, C. H. Hig- 

 bee, E. S. Rogers, John F. Allen, Francis Putnam, Wm. Mack, B. A. 

 West, G. D. Glover, A. W. Dodge. 



Voted, That the election of Treasurer be deferred, and that the 

 Treasurer of the preceding year be requested to act until a successor 

 shall be chosen. 



The following amendments to the By-laws were adopted : 



Chapter II. To be added to first paragraph (of President) "He 

 shall be ex-officio a member of all Standing Committees." 



Third paragraph, before the word "Secretary" insert "Recording 

 and Home." 



The following to be added as a new paragraph : 



"The Foreign Secretary shall have charge of the Foreign Corre- 

 spondence and Foreign Exchanges of the Publications of the Insti- 

 tute." 



Chapter III. The three first sections to be expunged. 



George Wheatland, jr., of Salem, and Mary E. Breed of Lynn, were 

 elected Resident Members. 



Monday, June 1, 1868. — Adjournment of Annual Meeting. 

 President in the chair. 



Records of last Meeting read. 



Donations and correspondence announced. 



Mr. W. P. Upham presented a coin, in the name of Mr. E. G. 

 Johnson, and read the following account of the same prepared by 

 Mr. M. A. Stickney. 



"It is a double Tournois of Louis XIII, 1639, found near the Salem 

 Horse Railroad Oflice, near the tunnel, in excavating for the new 

 aqueduct in 1868. This piece was coined at Tournage, France, and 

 was, at that time (1639), of double the value of one of the earliest 

 French coins called the Denier, from the Latin Denarius, a silver piece 

 of the value of a penny and which at that time had decreased so 

 much as to be i-epresented in copper." 



Mr. Upham stated that the coin was probably used and lost near the 

 time of the coinage by one of the early French settlers. 



After the transaction of some general business the meeting ad- 

 journed. 



