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garden and surrounded his mansion which stood close by 

 this spot. The site of the garden had been shoAvn him, but 

 the pride of the grounds had, alas ! vanished, and no loved 

 and cherished tree lingered to tell of the curious hand, who 

 planted it. Still the village of Hamilton is the Mecca of 

 the botanists of Essex County, who will never cease to won- 

 der at the patience of the country clergyman, with only a 

 scanty library and Linnaeus' Genera Plantarum and similar 

 early European Works, who worked out the " Account of 

 indigenous vegetables, botanically arranged, growing in this 

 Part of America^ to be found in the first volume of the 

 Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 

 the year ending in M,DCC,LXXXIII. The botanical books 

 of that precious library can be now only here and there seen, 

 as they were accidentally deposited in some public collection, 

 of which the Essex Institute owns one, through the liberali- 

 ty of Francis Peabody, Esq., and that, Lightfoot's Flora 

 Scotica, a work of much merit, published in London in 1771. 

 The Chair also alluded to a herbarium-ticket in the hand- 

 writing of Dr. Cutler presented to him by an eminent bota- 

 nist of his acquaintance, as a precious memento, in his 

 estimation, of Dr. C's memory and early labors in natural 

 science. Very pleasant anecdotes were also kindly commu- 

 nicated to him by residents of Hamilton, which helped ma- 

 terially to make this occasion, one, which he should mark 

 with a red letter as peculiarly, felicitous. 



At the close of the introductory remarks from the Chair, 

 the proceedings of the last meeting were read by the Secre- 

 tary, and the donations were announced as follows, viz : 



To the Library — from N. J. Lord ; Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion ; William M. Scribner, of Boston ; A. F. deLacerda, of 

 Bahia, Brazils ; T. P. Shepard, of Providence, R. I. ; Elliott 

 Society of Natural History, of Charleston, S. C. ; Miss Mary 

 C. iVnderson ; Charles W. Felt. 



