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29, and the first part of Vol. 30; six parts of the Bulle- 

 tin, completing Vols. 24 and 25. It is hoped that part tvvo 

 of the Hlstorical Collections, Vol. 30, and part two of the 

 Bulletin, Vol. 26, will be ready for distribution immediately 

 after the present meeting. Besides the regulär exchanges 

 with home and foreign societies there have been additions 

 to the library by exchange of publications of the Institute 

 to the amount in value of $150. The amount received by 

 subscription is very little if any in excess of one hundred 

 dollars. The reprints published this year are : 



Salem at the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Annual Eeport for 1893. 



Dwellings of Boxford, b}' Sidney Perley. 



Vertebrates of Kentucky, by H. Garman. 



Tusayan Foot JRace, by J. Walter Fewkes. 



Geological Notes, No. 6, by J. H. Sears. 



Pipa Americana, by G. A. Arnold. 



List of Essex Cotvnty Soldiers in the French War, 

 etc., by Eben Putnam. 



New Edition of First Church pamphlet. 



The Building of Essex Bridge. 



Biographical Sketch of James R. Newhall, by N. M. 

 Hawkes. 

 Probably one ofthe most important works of alocal na- 

 ture, published by the Essex Institute, is now in the hands 

 of the Heliotype Pi'inting Company, and will come from 

 the press by June Ist. It is the first of a series of Ge- 

 ological Charts of Essex County from the field work of 

 John H. Sears, Curator of Geology in the Peabody Acad- 

 emy of Science. 



The lines on which the publications of the Essex Insti- 

 tute shonld conti nue are now pretty clearly marked out. 

 It is only a question of financial ability to carry out the 

 work properly . Societies of like character to the Institute 



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