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N. Y. ; F. W. Putnam ; A. Huiitiiigtou ; A. E. Verrill of 

 Norway, Me. ; W. C. H. Waddell, Secretary of American 

 Geographical and Statistical Society, N. Y. 



Donations were announced from the following sources : — 

 To the Library — From Rev. Ray Palmer of Albany, N. Y. ; 

 Chicago Historical Society ; W. P. Upham ; Trustees of 

 New York State Library ; James S. Bryant of Hartford, 

 Conn. ; Canadian Institute of Toronto ; Philadelphia Acad- 

 emy of Natural Science ; Miss A. M. Hemmenway of Lud- 

 low, Yt. ; C. B. Richardson of New York ; George R. 

 Curwen ; J. Linton Waters of Chicago, 111. ; Boston Society 

 of Natural History ; C. W. Upham. 



To the Cabinets — From Capt. Geo. W. Gardner, 24th 

 Reg't Massachusetts Volunteers ; Estate of B. Pickman ; 

 0. W. H. Upham ; Miss Anna Porter ; X. H. Shaw ; James 

 W. Thompson of Jamaica Plain ; George A. Perkins ; Lin- 

 coln R. Stone, Surgeon 55tli Mass. Vols. 



Mr. W. P. Upham, read a report up on six orderly- 

 books and a letter book, formerly belonging to Gen. John 

 Glover of Marblehead, recently presented to the Essex Insti- 

 tute, by Hon. Robert Hooper of Bostorf — with the exception, 

 of one volume of the Orderly Books, which was in the pos- 

 session of W. R. L. Ward, Esq., of New York, and for- 

 warded by him a donation to the Library. 



The following is a brief abstract of the report : — 



These books are in manuscript, the Letter Book, contain- 

 ing copies of letters written by Glover, and the Orderly 

 Books containing the General Orders issued each day from 

 Headquarters during the following periods of the Revolution: 

 from June 29th 1775 to July 26th, 1776, from October 19tk 



