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Thursday^ Febrvary 2d, 1860. 



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

 Rev. John L. Russell in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



Donations were announced from the following : 

 To the Cabinets — from R. Brookhouse ; Joseph Clout- 

 man ; N. B. Mansfield ; Samuel Carlin ; James M. Bar- 

 nard of Boston ; Charles Millett, 2d ; Zoological Museum, 

 Cambridge, (in exchange) ; E. A. Upton ; Derby Pick- 

 man ; James Bartlett of Hamilton ; Charles Creesey ; S. B. 

 Buttrick. 



To the Library — from the American Antiquarian Socie- 

 ty ; Congregational Library Association, Boston ; Emilien 

 de Wael of Antwerp ; Miss S. Nichols ; Joseph Cloutman ; 

 S. A. Green of Boston ; James S. Bryant of Hartford, 

 Conn.; Alpheus Crosby ; William Brown ; M. A. Stickney ; 

 Josiah Hay ward; Philadelj^hia Academy of Natural Sciences ; 

 Mrs. L. P. Johnson; Canadian Institute at Toronto; D. 

 P. Weinland. 



Letters were read from R. Damon of Weymouth Eng.; 

 Emilien De Wael of Antwerp, Belgium ; Henry P. Daw- 

 son of Morrisiana, Westchester Co., N. Y.; Fredrick S. 

 Pease of Albany, N.Y.; C, B.Richardson of New York; 

 Trustees of Boston Public Library ; Peabody Institute of 

 South Danvers ; William Brown ; A. P. Gage of Williams 

 College. 



R. H. Wheatland offered some remarks upon the dona- 

 tions recently made to the department of fishes by Caleb 

 Cooke from Para, S.A.; Charles Millett 2d. from Muscat, 

 and proposed a vote of thanks for this valuable and highly 

 interesting collection, which was adopted. 



After transacting some private business, adjourned. 



