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Messrs. Ticknor and Fields on business matters ; from David 

 Choate in reply to queries proposed ; from Miss M. B. Derby 

 accompanying a donation of a Burmese Idol sent from India in 

 1825, by her brother the late Capt. Alfred F. Derby ; from 

 James T. Tucker, of the staff of General Banks, relating to a 

 donation to the Historical Department, of the envelope, franked 

 by President Lincoln which enclosed his recognition of the 

 election of Governer Hahn of Louisiana. 



Rev G. D, Wildes exhibited a piece of stone taken from a 

 window sill in Kenilworth Castle, and made some interesting 

 remarks about that celebrated place. Mr. W. also exhibited 

 several views of the house in which Shakespeare was born and 

 of other interesting localities in the vicinity of Stratford upon 

 Avon, and gave a description of the same. 



The remarks of Mr. Wildes called forth a general discussion 

 upon the life and writings of Shakespeare. 



F. W. Putnam mentioned that Mr. James H. Emerton had 

 found'a female Lump Fish Cyclopterus lumpus, having ma- 

 tured eggs, just on the point of being laid, and had made an 

 estimate of their number, which amounted to 258,872. Five 

 hundred eggs weighed 43 grains. 



Col. J. H. Wildes, Asst. Surveyor General of California was 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



Voted to adjourn to Monday evening, the 25th inst. 



Monday, April 25. Evening meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Donations were announced to the Library and Cabinets. 

 Letters were read, from Newburyport Public Library and 

 Pennsylvania Historical Society, acknowledging the receipt of 

 publications ; from Messrs. Crosby & Nichols of Boston, and 

 Henry A. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio, on business matters ; 

 from Mrs. P. A. Hanaford in relation to holding a Field 

 Meeting in Reading. 



F. W. Putnam, from the Committee on the Constitution and 



