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William R. L. Ward of New York ; John M. Ivcs ; Ma^ 

 thew A. Stickiiey; Charles W. Upham ; Timothy Davis, 

 M. C; Hemy Wilson, U. S. Senate; St. Louis Acad- 

 emy of Science ; Minnesota Historical Society ; New York 

 State Library ; Montreal Society of Natural History. 



To the Cabinets— from Charles A. Putnam; W. A. 

 Phillips of Swampscott ; John S. Ives ; W. P. Wheatland ; 

 John M. Ives ; F. W. Putnam ; Richard H. Wheatland ; 

 M. A. Stickney ; William Silver ; N. C. Robbins; George 

 Upton ; James B. King ; George W. Keene, of Lynn ; 

 Francis Brown ; E. C. Webster ; F. H. Lee, 



The correspondence with the Institute by letters was as 

 follows: from L. C. Dodge ; Wisconsin Historical Society; 

 New York State Library ; Charles B. Norton, of New York, 

 N. Y.; B. L. C. Wailes of Washington, Miss.; Chicago, 

 Historical Society. 



The Chair congratulated the company upon the success 

 - of the excursion and the courteous reception it had received 

 m this pleasant city of* fine residences, elegant gardens and 

 sylvan surroundings. The places it had visited to day were 

 long ago familiar to him, and many an afternoon had he 

 spent at the " Den," " The Laurels," and on the banks of 

 the Merrimac. Scarcely a spot so famed for flowers, or 

 never so sacred to the memory of those, who had loved and 

 admired Nature hereabouts, but he well knew and was ac- 

 quainted with. The earliest buds of the pale Epigcea, and 

 the flaunting and glorious spikes of the Cardinal flower, the 

 blue-eyed grass in the meadows and the witch hazel in the 

 copses were familiar friends of his youth, in the days he had 

 passed here. Here he had made the acquaintance too with 

 many of the most beautiful blossoms of the garden, the 

 choicest and mossiest of moss roses bloomed still in his mem- 

 ory, though the real plant had long since perished. To 

 come to such a place and see about him a few familiar faces 

 yet, was the return to one's old home. He trusted that Sa- 



