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iiaclian Institute ; Montreal Society of Natural Historv ; 

 Editors of Round Tabic, New York ; S. H. Scudder of 1 Jus- 

 ton ; R H. Wheatland. 



To the Cabinets — from Joseph A. Goldthwaite : C. H. 

 Higbee; E. Q. Puinain. 



Letters were read from Pennsylvania Historical Society : 

 Long Island Historical Society ; J. A. Goldthwaite ; N. E. 

 Atwood of Provincetown ; W. B. Rogers of Boston. 



F. W. Putnam announced the decease of the Cabinet 

 Keeper, R. H. Wheatland, with appropriate remarks. 

 Messrs. J. A. Gillis and F. W. Putnam were requested to 

 prepare a biographical notice to be presented at the an- 

 nual meeting. 



W. P. Upham announced the decease of the following 

 members of recent occurrence — Charles M. Endicott, Gil- 

 bert G. Newhall, Thomas Trask, John B. Peabody. Messrs. 

 G. D. Phippen and the Secretary were requested to prepare 

 obituary notices for the annual meeting. 



Rev. George D. Wildes read a letter fron\ B. Hale of 

 Newburyport, respecting the materials for a memoir of Capt. 

 William Nichols of Newburyport, recently deceased. 



F. W. Putnam offered some remarks upon the habits of 

 the Grisly Bear — suggested by a skull, a recent contribution 

 to the Cabinets from the late Capt. Wm. 0. Potter. 



George A. Ward stated that measures wei-e in progress 

 to obtain possession of the frame of the old building on the 

 land of David Nichols in the rear of Boston Street, and to 

 place the same in rear of Plummer Hall. 



George A. Ward was placed on the Committee of enquiry 

 as to the authenticity of the tradition that the frame of the 

 above mentioned building is that of the first meeting-house 

 in Salem, in place of Charles M. Endicott, deceased. Adj. 



