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Thursday, Dec. Sth, 1859. 



Meeting this evening, at 7 1-2 o'clock, — Vice-President 

 Eev. John L. Russell in the chair. After the reading of 

 the records of the preceding meeting, the following dona- 

 tions were announced., received since the Field Meeting at 

 "Beverlj Farms" in Beverly, on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1859 : 



To the Libra?'// — from John L. Russell ; Boston Society 

 of Natural History ; Canadian Institute at Toronto ; Joseph 

 Cloutman; Stephen H. Phillips; John L. Sibley of Cam- 

 bridge ; Connecticut Historical Society ; ■ W. H. Kilby of 

 Eastport, Me.; Department of the Interior, Washington, B.C.; 

 Henry Clark of Poulteney, Vt.; Academy of Science, of 

 St Louis, Mo.; William 0. Potter; M. A. Stickney ; Ten- 

 nessee Historical Society : William Stone ; Alpheus Crosby ; 

 T. J. Hutchinson ; John Bartlett of Cincinnati, Ohio ; Mon- 

 treal Society of Natural History ; B. W. Stone ; Charles J. 

 Bushnell of New York City ; City of Boston ; Samuel A. 

 Green of Boston ; J. N. Mc'Jilton of Baltimore, Md.; Wil- 

 liam Brown ; Albert S. Bickmore of Dartmouth College ; 

 Edward P. Crowell, of Amherst College ; 0. C. Marsh, of 

 Yale College ; Jeremiah Colburn of Boston ; Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, at Philadelphia, Penn.; George F. Read ; 

 Charles A. Ropes ; Committee of Arrangements of Univer- 

 salist Church, Salem ; James S. Bryant of Hartford, Conn.; 

 N. J. Lord ; Trustees of Boston Public Library ; Smithso- 

 nian Institution, Washington, D. C. 



To the Cabinets — from James Dow of Beverly ; William 

 Downing of West Danvers ; John N. Martin ; Charles P. 

 Williams, Jr ; W. H. A. Putnam ; George Perkins ; Wm. 

 0. Potter ; A. B. Almon ; C. K. Hadley of North An- 

 dover ; John J. Averill ; Charles H. Norris ; B. Grover ; 

 S. H. Phillips ; F. W. Putnam ; James Parsons ; James 

 Bartlett of Wenham ; Mrs. W. 0. Potter ; C. H. Price ; 

 Amos Frost of Manchester ; James Upton ; George Harring- 



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