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Herring by Dr. Gilpin, published in the Transactions of 

 the Nova Scotian Institute of Natural Science. 



Eev. G. D. Wildes presented, in the name of Mrs. John 

 Forrester, a Chinese visiting card of the late D. Fletcher 

 Webster Esq., used while Secretary of the American Em- 

 bassy at China. Also a Hindostanee Poem, written on 

 Palm leaves and supposed to be five hundred years old. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



Daniel H. Mansfield, Charles Odell, and Charles B. Fow- 

 ler, of Salem, were elected Resident Members. 



Monday, January 23. Regular meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



Letters were read from : 



E. S. Morse of Gorham, Me., accepting Membership; Hiram A. 

 Cutting of Limenberg, Vt. ; William "Wood & Co. of New York; A. 

 Mather of Philadelphia, in relation to the publications : J. A. Allen of 

 Cambridge; R. Kennicott, Curator, Chicago Acad, of Sciences ; E. T. 

 Cresson, Sec'y, Entomological Society of Philadelphia ; C. W. Eelt ; 

 C. P. Preston of Danvers; Wm. Prescott of Concord, N. H.,. on 

 business. 



Rev. G. D. Wildes presented, in the name of Elijah 

 Haskell, an old Spanish spear head and a gun lock, which 

 were found in the Castle of San Juan d' Ulloa, Mexico : 

 also the eggs of Pyrula from the Delaware Breakwater. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



The President, after some appropriate remarks on the 

 life, character and public services of the late Edward Ev- 

 erett, submitted the following resolutions : 



Resolved. That we desire to express, and to place upon 

 "our records, in perpetual remembrance, our profound ad- 

 miration and respect for the life and character of the 

 Honorable Edward Everett, a Corresponding Member 

 of the Essex Institute, and to join in the tributes, every- 

 where so justly and in such large measure paid to his 

 memory, his worth, and his deeds, as the great American 

 Scholar, Orator, Statesman and Patriot, and our most 

 illustrious citizen. 



