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citizen of Beverly, in the last century ; and if the other 

 should be located in Ipswich, it might be designated 

 " Fort Dennison," in respect to the memory of Col. John 

 Dennison, formerly one of the most noted personages in 

 that section of the county. On Mr. Rantoul's motion a 

 committee, consisting of Messrs. Davis, Rich and Tuck, 

 all of Beverly, was appointed to confer with other parties 

 in relation to the naming of the proposed forts, should 

 they be erected. 



Mr. Rantoul called attention to the large number of val- 

 uable manuscripts that were daily sent to the paper mills, 

 and trusted that all present would endeavor to rescue as 

 many old papers as possible and have them placed on file 

 at the Institute. 



A. C. Goodell Jr., followed Mr. Rantoul, and hoped that 

 all the friends of antiquarian research would endeavor to 

 save the old manuscripts, books, papers, &c, especially 

 those of the Ante-Revolutionary period, from the collec- 

 tors of such articles for the paper manufactories. 



G. D. Phippen mentioned that during the past season 

 Mr. C. W. Felt had removed his establishment for the man- 

 ufacture of the Type-setting and Justifying machine to 

 this city. Much interest having been expressed in this 

 machine, which bids fair to change the present mode of 

 composition in the printing office, Mr. Phippen' moved 

 that a committee be appointed to invite Mr. Felt or his 

 associates to give an account of the machine at some fu- 

 ture meeting of the Institute ; Messrs. Huntington, Phip- 

 pen, Goodell and Kimball were appointed on said com- 

 mittee. 



James Talant of Concord, N. H., and James Hubbert 

 of Toronto, C. W., having been nominated by the Direc- 

 tors, were duly elected Corresponding Members. 



