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 Wednesday, May 11, 1859. 



Annual meeting this day at 3 o'clock, P.M. Vice Pres- 

 ident Rev. J. L. Russell in the chair. 



Records of the preceding Annual Meeting were read. 



The donations since the meeting of the 24th of April, were 

 announced as follows, viz : — 



To the Library — From Henry M. Brooks ; American Ge- 

 ographical and Statistical Society ; Allen Jacobs of Danvers ; 

 Smithsonian Institution. 



To the Cabinets — From C. K. Stevens of Lawrence. 



Letters were received from the Trustees of the New York 

 State Library ; Maine Historical Society ; J. V. Hayden of 

 Washington D.C. ; E. Hervey Quimby ; J. L. Waters of 

 Chicago 111; R. P. Lowe, Gov. of Iowa; A. S. Packard of 

 Brunswick Me. ; B. F. Morrison of Nantucket. 



The Report of the Secretary was read aud accepted. 



The Report of the Treasurer was read and referred to the 

 Finance Committee. 



The Reports of the several Curators were read and ac- 

 cepted, viz : — on the Herbarium, by J. L. Russell ; on Mam- 

 malogy, by R. H. Wheatland ; on Ornithology, by F. W. 

 Putnam ; on Herpetology and Ichthyology, by R. H. Wheat- 

 land ; on Articulata and Radiata, by C. Cooke ; on Compar- 

 ative Anatomy, by H. Wheatland ; on Mineralogy, by B. F. 

 Mudge ; on the Historical Department, by L. R. Stone. 



By these Reports we are informed that a steady and uni- 

 form growth is perceptible in nearly all the departments of 



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