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ton ; William Stearns ; Miss E. Wheatland ; R. H. Wheat- 

 land ; Edward D. Eopes ; William Briggs of Chicopee ; J. 

 Colburn of Boston ; Mrs. S. A. Abbott ; Joshua Cleaves : 



A. S. Packard, Jr. of Brunswick, Me.; B. E. Shaw ; Edwin 

 Upton ; D. A. Bulklej of Williamsto wn ; Mrs. J. L. Russell ; 



B. P. Browne ; E. A. King, of San Francisco, Cal.; Charles 

 H. Morse of Cambridge. 



Letters were read from J. G. Holland of Springfield ; 

 T. W. Higginson of Worcester; Samuel Swett of Boston; 

 Edward P. Crowell of Amherst ; Charles Baljbidge of Pep- 

 perell ; A. A. Low of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Charles T. Brooks 

 of Newport R.L; James F. Clark of Boston ; Jeremiah 

 Colburn of Boston ; Charles J. Bushnell of New York N. 

 Y.; Nchemiah Adams of Boston ; David King of Newport 

 R. I.; Thomas M. Brewer of Boston ; J. K. Wiggin of 

 Boston ; John L. Clarke of Chicago, 111.; J. K. TetFt of 

 Savannah Ga.; W. R. L. Ward of JNew York, N. Y.; James 

 S. Bryant of Hartford, Conn.; Spencer F. Baird of Wash- 

 ington D. C; Peabody Listitute, South Danvers ; Trustees 

 of Boston Public Library ; Ohio Historical and Philosophi- 

 cal Society ; A. S. Packard Jr. of Brunswick, Me.; C.W. 

 Peale of Shamokin, Northumberland County, Penn.; Rob- 

 ert Damon of Weymouth, England ; W. D. Hartman of West- 

 chester, Penn.; Samuel Colman of New York ; Edward D. 

 Ropes of Zanzibar ; D. T. Taylor of Worcester; D. A. Bulk- 

 ley of Williamsto wn, Mass.; Adams & Co. Baltimore, Md.; 

 C. B. Richardson of New York ; Jacob W. Reed of South 

 Groveland ; Emilien DeWael of Antwerp ; N. B. Benedict 

 of New Orleans, La. 



Dr. R. H. Wheatland particularized some of the most 

 important accessions which have recently been made to the 

 cabinets, and offered some remarks upon the same. He then 

 spoke of the habits of the Taylor Bee, — in continuation of 

 what he said on this subject at the Field meeting at Saugus, 

 in July last. 



