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specially, as he did almost every other place along the coast. 

 John Winthrop, son of the Governor, commenced a settle- 

 ment here m 1633, and the next year " Agawam" was incor- 

 porated as " Ipswich," to bear the name with honor for more 

 than two centuries. 



Three o'clock, P.M. The formal meeting was called to order 

 in the Town Hall, by Vice President Russell, who explained 

 the objects and plan of the Institute, as usual. Donations 

 were then announced, as follows : — 



To the Library — from Henry M. Brooks ; Zoologischen 

 Gesellschaft, Frankfurt, a. m. ; S. A. Green of Boston ; 

 Boston Society of Natural History ; Philadelphia Academy 

 of Natural Science ; C. B. Richardson of New York; J. W. 

 Stone ; A. H. Sanger of South Danvers : John Andrew. 



To the Cabinets — from J. M. Ives ; Miss M. G. Wheat- 

 land ; Henry Perkins ; Edward Andrew; G. F. H. Markoe; 

 A. H. Sanger of South Danvers. 



Letters were read from the Department of the Interior ; 

 Smithsonian Institution; C. M. Endicott; S. P. Fowler of 

 Danvers ; and Dr. C. Johnstone of Baltimore, Md. The last 

 named accompanying two small parcels of the "Nottingham 

 Earth." 



The following communication from Henry F. King was 

 then read : — 



The two small packets received from Doct. C. Johnstone of 

 Baltimore, each containing a portion of earth from the same 

 stratum, but from different situations above and below Not- 

 tingham, Gal vert County, Md., have been submitted to 

 microscopical examination. They belong, geologically, to 

 the Miocene Tertiary; formation of the United States, 

 and in general characters agree with the infusorial earths 

 from*the Rappahannock River, Ya. 



