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To the Cabinets — Fiom Joseph True ; Peter Conning ; 

 Wm. Welch ; W. xV. Phillips ; Henry M. Brooks ; Wm. Pres- 

 cot ; Charles Endicott ; Ripley Ropes ; H. F. Shepard ; 

 Charles H. Buxton ; James Bartlett ; R. H. Wheatland ; 

 C. Cooke ; J. L. Russell ; Miss M. G. Wheatland ; C. H. 

 Putnam; S. P. Pond; Joseph Osgood ; C. H. Price, J. 

 A. Manning ; George Pettingill ; B. F. Mudge ; George 

 Upton; Wilham Mack ; C. K. Stevens of Lawrence ; Thom- 

 as Bayley. 



Letters were announced from B. F. Mudge of Lynn, 

 N. Vickery of Lynn ; John L, Russell; Edwin Harrison of 

 Saint Louis, Missouri ; Edwin Van Cortlandt of Ottowa, Can- 

 ada West ; E. B. Willson ; Connecticut Historical Society. 



C. M. Tracy of Lynn took occasion to speak for a 

 few moments on the numerous objects of historical in- 

 terest A^sited by the Institute in the rambles of to-day. 

 The life of the early settlers is yet prolonged in a pleas- 

 ing form in the large number of interesting trees and 

 plants still lingering in these fields and woods, the relics of 

 their ancient cultivation. Not far from the cross-road lead- 

 ing east from Pranker's Mill the English Hawthorn, Crataegus 

 oxyacantha, grows perfectly wild in the thickets, though con- 

 sidered by our best botanists as nowise indigenous. The like 

 is true of the English walnut, (Juglaas regia') of which two 

 magnificent trees are waA-ing their spray within sight of the 

 Hall windows. Many specimens of the White Dead Nettle 

 (^Lamium rugosmn, var, ?') had been gathered to day very 

 near the " Cinder Banks " (which are admitted to be 

 the refuse slag and scoriae from the old Iron works) and 

 whether this plant, otherwise only known in the garden, 

 be a remnant of the civilization of that older day, — or 

 whether more recently established where it now grows so 

 wildly and freely are questions of much interest. As to 

 the floral collections of the day he would instance, besides 

 the above, those which follow : 



