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The working corps of the Natural History Department has been 

 most satisfactorily increased by the addition of Messrs. Morse, Pack- 

 ard, and Hyatt as offlcers of the Institute, and we thus have been ena- 

 bled, by a division of labor, to greatly enlarge our sphere of operations 

 and usefulness. 



The munificent donation by Mr. Peabody for the advancement of 

 science in our county will undoubtedly be the means of placing the sci- 

 entific department on a permanent footing, and will prove an addi- 

 tional laurel to one whose name almost seems to be the talisman that 

 creates Museums, Libraries, Schools, and other aids for the promo- 

 tion of education and morality, and encourages them in their noble 

 work. 



The following Officers were elected for the year ending May, 1868 : 



President. 



ERANCIS PEABODY. 



Vice Presidents. 



Natural History — Samuel P. Fowler. History — A. C. Goodell, jr. 



Horticulture — Andrew Lackey. 



Secretary and Treasurer. 



Henry Wheatland. 



Librarian. 



Charles Davis. 



Superintendent of the Iluseum. 



P. "W. Putnam. 



Finance Committee. 



J. C. Lee, R. S. Rogers, H. M. Brooks, G. D. Phippen, J. Chamberlain. 



Library Committee. 

 J. G. Waters, A. Crosby, H. J. Cross, G. D. Wildes, William Sutton. 



Puhlication Committee. 



A. C. Goodell, jr., G. D. Phippen, C. M. Tracy, Wm. P. Upham, R. S. 



Rantoul, F. W. Putnam, A. S. Packard. 



Lecture Committee. 



Francis Peabody, A. C. Goodell, jr., G. D. Phippen, George Perkins, 



James Kimball, F. W. Putnam, A. Hyatt. 



Field Ileeting Committee. 



Francis Peabody, G. B. Loring, C. M. Tracy, S. P. Fowler, J. M. Ives, 



G. D. Wildes, E. N. Walton, Charles Davis, E. S. Morse. 



