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To the Cabinets — from Mrs. H. Brown ; Amos Stillman ; 

 C. H. Norris ; S. Barden of Rockport ; E. Peabody ; Ed- 

 mund Lovett ol Kinsemby, W. C. A. ; H. Brown ; Edward 

 J. Porter ; Daniel Cudner ; James It. Emerton ; John 

 Saul ; J. Choate ; John H. Towne, Sierra Leone ; Edmund 

 Larcom, Beverly. 



The Chair presented in th« name of Hon. Allen W. 

 Dodge, of Hamilton, three rolames : — 1st, by William Hol- 

 loway, " The Peasant's Fate," pubhshed in 1803 ; 2d, by 

 John Searson, published in 1798, " Art of Contentment" ; 

 3d, a volume by Rev. Samuel Willard, containing 1st, 

 " The Fountain Opened," and 2d, a Sermon on Christian 

 perfection, from the text, '•'■Be ye Perfect,''' &c. Mr. G-. 

 gave a short biographical sketch of Rev. Mr. Willard and 

 brief notices of the other publications. 



A letter was read from Hon. Robert Hooper of Boston, 

 presenting to the Institute, six MS. volumes, consisting of 

 five camp journals and one letter book, which were the 

 property of the late Brigadier General John Glover, of 

 Marblehead, a distinguished officer in the army of the Rev- 

 olution, in the name of his descendants. Also a letter from 

 W. R. L. Ward, Esq., of New York, announcing the trans- 

 mission to the Institute of a volume originally belonging to 

 the same set which was in his possession. These valuable 

 and highly interesting records were referred to by W. P. 

 Upham, to prepare a report in relation thereto, to be read at 

 some future meeting. 



A letter from Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, tendering to the 

 Institute a donation of two paintings, by the late George 

 Ropes, of this city, — one a view of Crowninshield's wharf, 

 (now Phillips') as it was some fifty years since — the other, 

 the launching of the ship Fame. 



