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of "Waltham ; Maine Historical Society ; James E. King ; 

 Boston Society of Natnral History ; New York Mercantile 

 Library Association ; Piiiladelpliia Academy of Natural Sci- 

 ences ; John L. Sibley ot Harvard College ; David N. 

 Camp of New Britain. Conn.; J. M. McJilton of Baltimore, 

 Md.; Miss Lydia Pope ; William Fabens of Marblehead ; E. 

 M. Stone of Providence, R.I.; George A. Perkins ; Joseph 

 Cloutman ; Nathan Lord of Dartmouth College ; Miss M. J. 

 Howard ; George H. Smith. 



To the OrtZ^W-e^fs— from Henry Bryant of Boston ; Daniel 

 Frye ; Charles A. Putnam ; John Stone ; Charles H. Price ; 

 Miss M. G. Wheatland ; James B. King ; S. P. Fowler of 

 Danvers ; John M. Ives ; Henry Robinson ; B. F. Mudge of 

 Lynn ; Francis B. Jacques ; N. Vickery of Lynn ; 0. H. 

 Saunders ; L. Agassiz of Cambridge ; James M. Barnard of 

 Boston ; J. H. Mellichamp of Blufflon, S. C. ; Henry F. 

 Shepard ; Gardner Chandler ; Miss Mary W. Nichols ; John 

 Felt ; Henry M. Brooks ; James M. Chamberlain ; Charles 

 Ward ; Samuel V. Shrove ; W. A. Phillips of Swampscott ; 

 Derby Pickman ; P. W. Putnam ; A. M. Ordway of Boston ; 

 0. C. Marsh of Lockport, N.Y ; Charles H. Norris ; Joseph 

 Short of Philadelphia ; F. W. Tuttle. 



Letters were received from Corporation of Harvard Col- 

 lege ; New York Mercantile Library Association ; Trustees 

 of New York State Library ; Iowa State Historical Society ; 

 New England Historic Genealogical Society ; N. Vickery of 

 Lynn ; Samuel Blake of Dorchester ; James Richardson Jr. 

 of Groveland; Benj. Poole of Topsfield ; C. M. Tracy of 

 Lynn. 



The letter from Mr. C. M. Tracy of Lynn was, on be- 

 half of the Exploring Circle of that city, calling the atten- 

 tion of the Institute to a very remarkable bowlder dis- 

 covered by them on Prospect Hill near the line of Lynn 

 and South Danvers, and named Phaeton Rock. He request- 

 ed that a committee of the Institute be appointed to visit 



