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Historical Society, J. Wjman of Harvard University, G. B. 

 Perrj of Groveland, and A. P. Chute of Lynnfield. 



Donations Avere announced to the Library — from G. F. 

 Chever, H. M. Bertram, C. L. Flint Sec'y. of Massachusetts 

 State Board of Agriculture. Miss Mary 0. Pickering, City of 

 Salem, S. C. Phillips, E. S. L. Richardson of Kendall 111., 

 N. B. Shurtleff of Boston, Jacob Batchelder, Boston Society 

 of Natural History, James Macauley of Frankfort, N. Y., 

 J. B Felt of Boston, Wm. J. Carlton, B. W. Stone, Emory 

 Washburn of Harvard University, James Kimball, Mrs. J. P. 

 Saunders, Massachusetts Legislature, C. Foote, C. W. Upham, 

 To the Cabinets — from H. F. Pratt, L. R. Stone, J. Tallant, 

 W. C. Alden, W. Ives, W. J. Chever, P. Davis, Charles Derby, 

 Charles Osgood, Henry F. Shepard, S. Jillson of Lynn, P. D. 

 Allen, A. J. Brooks, J. L. Russell, S. B. Buttrick, J. A. 

 Emmerton, Miss Howe of Marblehead, R. Brookhouse, jr., 

 E. L. Perkins, Joseph True, F. W. Putnam, N. E. Atwood of 

 Provincetown, R. H. Wheatland, Amory Holbrook of Oregon 

 City, L. Upton of Springfield, Miss S. L. Whittridge. 



On being called upon by the chair, Dr. George Osgood, 

 long a resident of the town, presented to the meeting some in- 

 teresting reminiscences of the lives and botanical pursuits of 

 Rev. Manassah Cutler of Hamilton, of Dr. Andrew Nichols, and 

 of William Oakes, His intimate acquaintance with these persons 

 gave a zest to his observations. He spoke of his own delight in 

 finding any new flower ; and of the great advantage such a taste 

 had been to him in adding or in furnishing employment and re- 

 lief amid the severer duties of his profession, when called to dis- 

 tant parts of the town or of the county. By this constant ob- 

 servation, from season to season, he could visit certain spots, 

 even after years intervening, confident of finding some particu- 

 lar species ; and had marked the spreading of other species over 

 areas as they had been more and more naturalized. Even at 

 his advanced period of life, a herborizing tour of a few miles 

 walk, or a ramble in the woods gave an elasticity to his step 

 and seemed to impart a new vigor to his sight, enabling him to 

 notice both the familiar and the unusual. 



Dr. 0. felt the importance of the study of Botany in the fam- 



