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amount of time in exploration and research. A general re- 

 turn oi these wanderers having been affected, the formal 

 meeting was opened in the Town Hall, at 3 P.M., Vice Pres- 

 ident A. C. Goodell, presiding. 



Eecords of the preceding meeting read. 



Donations were announced — 

 To the Library — from L. Peirson Ward ; M. Savory of 

 Georgetown ; Zaccheus Gould of Topsfield ; Canadian In- 

 stitute at Toronto; Henry Barnard of Hartford, Conn.; 

 Jonathan Perley, Jr.; C. B. Richardson of New York ; Mrs. 

 E. Putnam ; Boston Society of Natural History ; Philadel- 

 phia Academy of Natural Science. 



To the Cabinets — from William Mack ; L. Peirson Ward; 

 Miss Rebecca Johnson of Cohasset ; Benjamin Felt ; James 

 B. Curwen ; Charles A. Putnam ; S. B. Buttrick ; Alfred 

 Stone ; Rufus Wendell ; W. L. Leach ; J. Wingate Thorn- 

 ton of Boston ; Reuben W. Ropes of New York. 



Letters were read from Trustees of New York State Library; 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society ; Trustees of Boston Public 

 Library ; S. Barden of Rockport ; A. E. Verrill of Cam- 

 bridge ; William Barry of Chicago ; R. H. Bacon ; A. W. 

 Dodge of Hamilton. 



A circular was read from the American Pomological 

 Society, requesting a delegation from the Institute to the 

 Convention in Boston. Referred to the President of the 

 Horticultural department, with authority to act. 



Rev. C. C. Beaman of Salem, gave a summary of the 

 historical work of the company about the place. This was 

 the town where Rev. Mr. Bradford established a Divinity 

 School, seventy or eighty years ago, having for one of his 



