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to tlie sea coasts hi winter, which ehcitcd some conversation ; 

 and reference was made to the correctness of some of 

 Audubon's statements in liis descriptions of birds, which 

 was treated in conversation by Messrs. R. H. Wheatland, 

 S. P. Fowler and John L. Russell, after which the Institute 

 adjourned. 



TJiursdaij^ January 27, 1859. 



Evening Meeting. At the meeting this evening commen- 

 cing at 7 1-2 o'clock, in absence of the usual presiding 

 officers, David Roberts Esq., was called to the chair. The 

 records of the preceding evening meeting were read. 



Donations since that meeting were thus announced. 



To the Library — from Moses G. Farmer ; Henry L. Lam- 

 bert ; George Andrews ; Ohio Mechanics Institute at Cin- 

 cinnati ; Caleb Foote ; Montreal Society of Natural History ; 

 Essex Agricultural Society ; Allen W. Dodge of Hamilton ; 

 William Stimpson of Washington, D. C. ; Lucius M. Bolt- 

 wood of Amherst ; M. A. Stickney ; Miss S. Xichols ; N. J. 

 Lord. 



To the Cabinets — from Joel Kimball ; Moses G. Farmer ; 

 Mrs. Sarah Burnham of Ipswich ; Joseph True ; Caleb 

 Cooke ; Joseph Cheever ; R. W. Ropes & Co. ; Charles Law- 

 rence ; William Brown. 



Letters Averc read from the Trustees of the Boston Public 

 Library ; Xew Orleans Academy of Science; and Charles B. 

 Norton of New York, N. Y. 



Moses G. Farmer read an interesting and valuable paper, 

 containing the results of his observations respecting the 

 product of a field of corn at Boscawen N. H., as follows : 



While husking corn, one day last October, at my brother's 

 farm in the town of Boscawen, Merrimac County, N. H., the 

 uniformity in the size of the ears, and their general sound- 



