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In our next issue we hope to give more accurate and complete 
accounts, together with original reports. G. 
IV. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
Advancement of Science, held in Salem, Massachusetts, Aug. 18- 
26, 1869.—The Salem meeting of the American Association, under 
over one hundre fty new members were electe - 
ber of communications entered upon the daily pro mes of the 
8 Committe s about one hundred and fifty, a full list of 
the titles of which is append e range of these papers w 
considerable, and it was found expedient to have sub-sections on 
Archeology and Microscopy, to facilitate the disposal of papers 
which could not be reached in the other sections 
icence of George Peabody, with the design of promoting the 
study of eee in his haiiee county of Essex. The first Annual 
Report of the Trustees of this Academy, made in January, 1869, 
shows that it is already fully organized, with an able corps of offi- 
Corr, Esq., gave the history of the Museum from its foundation, in 
1801, as the East India Marine Hall, to its purchase and reorgani- 
zation in its present form. The Essex Institute, which is well 
