PROCEEDING-S 



lESSIEX II>rSTITTJTE. 



MoNDAT, January 1, 1866. Regular Meeting. 



Rev. G, D. "Wildes in the Chair. 



Letters were read from E. Suffert, Havana, Cuba; Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jr., Boston Soc. of ISTat. Hist.; E. S. Morse, Porthind, Me.; Prof. Theo. 

 Gill, Smithsonian Institution ; Henry A. Smith, Cleveland, Ohio ; George 

 li. Bartlett, Providence, R. I. ; Samuel L. Boardman, Augusta, Me. ; Wm. 

 N. Canby, Wilmington, Del. ; Prof G. C. Swallow, Columbia, Mo.; Rev. 

 A. B. Kendig, Marshalltowu, Iowa; Prof E. D. Cope, Haverford College, 

 Penn. ; Dr. J. H. Slack, Philadelphia; W. H. Dall, of the Russian- 

 American Telegraph Co. ; R. E. C. Stearns, San Francisco, Cal. ; Prof. 

 Theo. Gill, Washington, D. C. ; Rt. Rev. Thomas M.Clark, Providence, 

 R. I. ; John Russell Bartlett, Providence, R. I. ; Joseph Peabody, Salem ; 

 American Philosophical Society ; Pennsylvania Historical Society. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



Mr. W. P. Uphaffl read a letter from Major Benham of the U. S. Ordi- 

 nance Department, requesting that an interesting and curious shot found in 

 the bank on the shore of Winter Island, near Fort Pickering, and presented 

 to the Institute by Mr. "Williams, be deposited in the Museum of the U. S . 

 Ordinance Department at "Washington. Referred to the Board of Directors. 



Mr. Putnam exhibited a collection of Fossils, made at Kelly's Island, 

 Lake Erie, and gave an account of the Island ; alluding to the kind atten- 

 tion he had received from Geo. C. Huntington, Esq., and other residents, 

 during his recent visit to the Island. 



The thanks of the Institute were voted to Mr. Huntington for the kind 

 attentions and facilities for collecting afforded to the Superintendent during 

 his visit. 



PKOCEEDINUS B. I. VOL. V. 1. APRIL, 1866. 



