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To the Library — from the New York Lyceum of Natural 

 History; Peabody Institute of South Daiivers; Mrs. Marga- 

 ret Fairfield ; David Perkins ; 8. A. Green of Boston ; 

 Waldo Thompson of Swampscott. 



To the Cabinets — from Caleb Bulfum ; Joel Kimball of 

 Beverly; C.J.Lee; Charles H. Pinkham ; Georg-e Sibley; 

 ..James Perry. 



Mr. George D. Phippen i-.>ad a paper upori th;' old Plant- 

 ers of Salem, who were settled here prior to the arrival of 

 Governor Endicott in 1628 ; to be found in the Historical 

 Collection of ihe Essex Listitutc vol. 1, Pages '.'7, 145, 185. 

 This paper will be read with great interest by every one who 

 cares for the enterprise which planted the colony of Salem 

 upon the banks of Naumkeag River during the winters of 

 1627 and 1628. A. most interesting relic of the times was 

 the remnant of the bible of Roger Conant, printed in old 

 English type and of the Geneva version of 1560. 



The chair urged upon members present the impo-rtance of 

 collecting and preserving with scrupulous care everj^ fact, 

 memorial &c., that will in any way elucidate our civil as 

 well as Natural History. 



Mr. S. B. Buttrick and Mr. G. L. Streeter presented 

 through the chair a few early plants of this season, viz : the 

 Draba verna, Corylus Americana, a species of Salix and 

 Alnus serrulata gathered on the 20tli inst ; and the liver- 

 wort (^Hepatica triloba) in blossom on the 23d inst at Swamp- 

 .scott, was offered by W. A. Phillips of that town. 



A skin of an otter (^Lutra Canadensii) captured about ton 

 days ago near Cedar pond in South Dan vers, by Messrs. 

 Davis and others had been seen by Henry Wheatland. This 

 -animal is seldom to be found in this vicinity and its occur- 

 rence at this time is worthy of a record. 



xUlusion to the action of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 • Society relative to the distribution of Seeds by the Patent 



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