tHR IlEtROSt*ECT OF THE YEAU. 149 



THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



compiled from the scveml reports read at the mccting and 

 remarks of the niembers in relation thereto, presents the 

 work of the Institute in the varioiis departments since the 

 last annual meeting. 



Meetings. Re«:ular meetinofs occur on the firstand third 

 Monday evenings of each month ; adjourned and special 

 meetings have been occasionally held. At these the fol- 

 lovving Communications were received and lectures deliv- 

 ered . 



William P. Anch^ews, " A talk with Goethe about 

 Faust." 



S. M. Allis of Maiden, " Arizona and its Mines." 



Sylvester Baxter of Boston, "Berlin : a Study of Munic- 

 ipal Government in Germany."^ 



Henry P. Bowditch of Boston, " Composite Photog- 

 raphy." 



Benjamin W. Croitminshield of Boston, "An Account 

 of the yacht ' Cleopatra's Bärge of Salem. '"^ 



Edward Bangs Dreiv of Chelsea, " Chinese Customs 

 and Home Life." 



William RalpJt Emerson of Concord, and Boss Tur- 

 ner of Salem, " Art and Architecture as applied to New 

 England Houses." 



G. T. Flanders of New Bedford, "On the Moorish 

 Dominion in Spain." 



Samuel Garman of Cambridge, " On the age of the An- 

 dean Medal ;" "The Batrachia of Kalm's 'En Resa til Norra 

 America ;' " " Reptiles and Batrachians from the Caymans 

 and from the Bahamas ;" " On an Eel from the Mjirshall 

 Islands."^ 



» See Bulletin, Vol. xxi, p. 53. 2 gee Ilist. Coli., Vol. xxv, p. 81. 



3 See Bulletin, Vol. xx, pp, 57, 90, 101, 114. 



