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the funds of the Institute, the annual interest thereof to 

 be considered as the paj 7 ment of the annual assessment 

 of said member." 



Chapter IV. Lines 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th to be changed 

 so as to read ; " No specimen shall be taken from the rooms 

 except by permission of the Committee of the Department 

 to which it belongs, upon a written application made to 

 the Secretary or Superintendent." 



Amos Noyes of Newburyport, John Kinsman, Freder- 

 ick Lamson of Salem, were elected Resident Members. 

 James C. Ward of Northampton, was elected a Corres- 

 ponding Member. 



Monday, Ferruary 20. Regular meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 

 Letters Avere read from : 



Prof. F. Poey of Havana ; Messrs. Triibner& Co. of London ; Prof. A. 

 E. Verrill of Yale College ; J. A. Allen of Cambridge, relating to the 

 publications : R. Kennicott, Curator, Chicago Acad. Nat. Science ; Lt. 

 Col. Ordway, Bermuda Hundred, Va. ; A. L. Babcock of Sherborn, notice 

 of the transmission of specimens : Prof. Poey of Havana ; Dr. Winslow 

 Lewis of Boston ; F. C. Webster, accepting membership : Lyceum of 

 Natural History of New York ; Mass. Historical Society; Boston Society 

 of Natural History, acknowledging the receipt of publications : New 

 York Chamber of Commerce, giving notice of the transmission of books : 

 N. Bouton of Concord, N. H., in reply to questions respecting the Re- 

 cords of the Conventions, at Exeter, 1774 — '75: Dr. S. A. Green of Boston, 

 J. S. Appleton of Boston, on business : H. G. Jones, Corresp. Sec't. 

 Penn. Historical Society," relating to the exchange of publications of the 

 State of Pennsylvania. 



Mr. Putnam read a communication from J. A. Allen, 

 entitled, " Notice of a Foray of a colony of Formica san- 

 guined Latr, upon a colony of a black species of Formica 

 for the purpose of making slaves of the latter." Referred 

 to the Publication Committee. 



F. W. Putnam made a few remarks upon the develop- 

 ment of the fins of fishes, and the subsequent absorption 

 of certain fins in some species. 



