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New York (son of the above named Benjamin,) giving the 

 particulars of the same, addressed to Ichabod Tucker, of Sa- 

 lem, and dated August 19, 1814. 



A conversation then ensued on the subject of witchcraft^ 

 the trials, &c., which took place at Salem in 1692. 



Adjourned. 



Monday^ February 18, 1861. 



Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock, A. C. Goodell Jr., in 

 the chair. 



Records of the preceding meeting read. 



Donations were announced from the following : 



To the Library — from Henry B. Hooker of Boston ; Sam- 

 uel G. Drake of Boston ; Samuel A. Green of Boston ; Sec- 

 retary of State Mass. ; Canadian Institute ; C. B. Richardson 

 of New York ; Boston Society of Natural History ; E. M. 

 Stone of Providence, R. I. ; N. J. Lord ; J. B. Alley, M. C. ;- 

 Elliott Society of Natural History, Charleston, S. C. ; Dor- 

 chester Antiquarian and Historical Society ; W. D. Pickman; 

 G. C. Chase ; W. Brown. 



To the Cabinets — from James B. King ; H. M. Brooks ; 

 Miss R. E. Stickney ; "W. S. Roberts. 



Letters were read from Massachusetts Historical Society ; 

 Wisconsin State Historical Society ; Trustees of Boston Public 

 Library ; Young Men's Mercantile Library Association of 

 Cincinnati ; Franklin Bacheller of Lynn ; H. R. Stiles of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y. ; A. S. Packard, jr., of Brunswick, Me. 



Jacob Batchelder read a translation of a paper by M. 

 Louis Vilmorin. It consisted of a detail of the author's 

 experiments, undertaken for the purpose of improving tho 



