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To the Library — from Joseph Cloutman ; B. Barstow ; 

 W. G. Webb ; F. Peabody ; Charles L. FHnt, Secretary of • 

 Mass. State Board of Agriculture ; Department of the Inte- 

 rior, Washington, D.C.; Estate of the late D. A. White ; 

 Montreal Society of Natural History ; Philadelphia Acade 

 my of the Natural Sciences ; Canadian Institute at Toronto ; 

 C. B. Richardson of New York ; Charles A. Ropes. 



Among the donations announced was a fine specimen of 

 Orthagoriscus mola, or sun-fish, which was taken in the Bay 

 a few weeks since by Capt. David Thomson of this city. 

 This specimen was smaller than the one described by Storer 

 in his Report on the Fishes of Massachusetts being forty 

 inches in length, breadth two feet, and from the tip of the 

 anal to that of the dorsal fin about four feet six inches. 



A specimen of Emys Meleagris of Agassiz, described by 

 others under the name of Cistuda Blandingii taken in North 

 Reading, was presented by Mr. George F. Flint. The 

 above facts are worthy of record, on account of the rarity 

 of these species in this vicinity. 



Letters were read from F. G. Sanborn ; Department of 

 the Interior ; J. L. Russell ; Smithsonian Institution ; C. 

 M. Tracy of Lynn ; S. Barden of Rockport ; Sidney Bar- 

 nett of Niagara Falls ; Carleton A. Shurtlefif of Brookline 

 B. R. Symonds. 



Rev. Stillman Barden of Rockport, our entertainer for 

 the day, then introduced to the meeting Newell Giles Esq., 

 President of the Rockport Branch Railroad, who said he 

 did not propose to make any speech, that would be done for 

 him by his friend who had introduced him. But he would 

 express the pleasure he felt in meeting the members of the 

 Institute to-day, and would assure them of the feeling of 



