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Moiida//, December 14, 1803. 

 Meeting this evening, the President in tlie elinir. 



Records of preceding meeting read; and donations Avere 

 announced from tlie following ; 



To the Library — from Jonathan Tucker ; Miss E. S, 

 llotchkiss of New Haven, Conn.; N, J. Lord ; Society of 

 Arts, Manufactures &c., London ; John B. Alley IVI.C.; Red- 

 wood Library and Athenaeum ; J. L. Jenkins. 



To the Cabinets— rrom C. F. Nichols ; D. M. l^alch ; Ed- 

 ward H. Knight ; James H. Emerton ; Charles H. Higbee ; 

 H. P. Nichols ; J. C. Stimpson ; Miss Quiner of Beverly ; 

 Theodore F. Brown ; Frank P. Watson ; Daniel P. FItz ; 

 A. R. Russell ; John M. Ives ; George Abbot. 



A letter was read from Joseph A. Torrey of Providencey 

 in relation to printing. In this connection Mr. Goodell pre- 

 sented some remarks upon the combination types and other 

 improvements in type-setting as suggested by C. W. Pelt of 

 .Salem, with some allusion to Mr. F.'s type-setting and justi- 

 fying machine, now nearly finished, and in a condition to 

 test the merits of the invention, to a great extent. 



A letter was read from John A. Mc'Allister of Philadelphia, 

 accompanying an impression from an old plate in his posses- 

 sion, " a Caricature of the Congressional Pugilists in 1798." 

 A brief account of the scene to which this referred was 

 read from the Congressional Journal of that date, and a 

 brief sketch of Roger Griswold M.C. from Connecticut, and 

 Matthew Lyon M.C. from Yermont, the persons represented 

 tiierein, was given by tlie Secretary. 



Letters were also read from Chicago Historical Society ; 

 Directors of Providence Athenroum ; Pennsylvania Histori- 

 cal Society ; Trustees of New York State Library ; R. S. 



