June 11, Sat.

ton, Secretary of June 13, Mon.

ton, Boston.

Received an official letter from Dr. Applethe Medical Society.

Wrote to the Governor, and to Dr. Apple

[This correspondence is here subjoined.]

BOSTON, 3d June, 1785.

Rev'd Sir:-It is with the greatest pleasure that I improve this first oppo. to forward you an extract from the Records of the Massa. Meda. Soc'y, together with a printed Copy of the Act of Incorporation.

Your answer of acceptance will give pleasure to the Soc'y, and in particular to,

Sir, your very humble serv.,

REV. M. CUTLER.

N. W. APPLETON,

South Latin School Street.

At a meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in Boston, 1st June, 1785.

Upon the ballots being taken, the Rev. Manasseh Cutler, of Ipswich, was declared duly elected an honorary Fellow.

A true copy from the Records.

Attest:

N. W. APPLETON, Rec'g Sec'y.

[To which Mr. Cutler replied:]

IPSWICH, June 13, 1785.

Sir-I have received your letter inclosing an extract from the Records of the Massa. Medical Society, by which I am informed that the Society has been pleased to elect me an honorary Fellow. I very sensibly feel the honor conferred upon me by so learned and respectable a Society. This mark of attention is the more flattering, as the Medical Art is not my profession. Please to express my acceptance and my warmest acknowledgments to the Society for the honor they have done me.

Should it be in my power to contribute in the smallest degree toward promoting so laudable an institution, it will give me the highest pleasure.

I am, with sentiments of esteem and respect,

Sir, your most humble serv't,

DOCT. N. W. APPLETON.

M. CUTLER.

June 14, Tues. Mr. Eliot here from Boston, and dined. He brought an extract of a letter from Dr. Stokes, in England, a famous botanist, requesting a correspondence with me. June 19, Lord's Day. My throat exceedingly sore. Preached, though with great difficulty.

June 23, Thurs. Count Castiglioni called upon me, a gentleman from Milan, in Italy. He had letters from Dr. Dexter,* Boston; Dr. Holyoke and Mr. Barnard, Salem. He is an accomplished botanist, and is traveling to examine the productions of America. He and his servant lodged with us.

June 24, Fri. We made a fine collection of vegetables. Received much advantage from his knowledge. At 4 o'clock P. M. he set out for Newbury.

July 24, Lord's Day. (At Killingly.) Preached for Mr. Atkins. Found myself much better. My old friend Mr. Samuel Danielson, at meeting.

July 25, Mon. Mr. Atkins rode with me over to Pomfret. Visited Mr. Putnam. Spent the afternoon very agreeably with Colonel Grosvenor, my old classmate, and with my kinsman, Colonel Clark.

July 27, Wed. (At Providence.) Waited on Mr. West, Mr. Brown, Mr. Oliver, and Mr. Manning. Visited College. Mr. Brown was very complaisant, and went with me. I dined with him, and was much pleased with his family.

July 30, Sat. Put my horse to pasture at Falmouth, and went over to the vineyard, at Holmes' Hole.

*The letter from Dr. Dexter is as follows:

BOSTON, June 20, 1785.

MR. CUTLER, Sir:-Permit me to introduce to your friendship and acquaintance the Bearer, Count Castiglioni. He is an Italian Gentleman from Milan. His object in this Country is to examine into the Natural History of it.

I have mentioned you as a gentleman better acquainted with Botany, etc., and can give him more information, than any other person in the Country. You will find him a true disciple of Linnæus. I must therefore beg leave to introduce him to your particular attention, as his stay must be short. And you will much oblige,

Your friend and humble servant,

AARON DEXTER,

July 31, Lord's Day. Preached for Mr. Thaxter, at Edgartown. Judge Hicks there.

Aug. 1, Mon. Visited my old acquaintances, and settled my old accounts.

Aug. 2, Tues. Mr. Thaxter went Mr. Morse, of Tisbury, joined us.

with me up the island.

Dined at Mr. Robert Al

len's. After dinner we, with Mr. Benja. Basset, went to Gay Head. Found the fossils very curious; collected some speci

mens.

Aug. 4, Thurs. Finished my business at Edgartown, and hired a boat to carry me to Falmouth. Got my horse, and rode to Fish's and lodged.

Aug. 5, Fri. Set out early and breakfasted with General Freeman, at Sandwich.

Aug. 6, Sat. Lodged at Hingham, and breakfasted at Dr. Tufts', at Weymouth. Called on Mr. Cranch, and examined the library of the Hon. John Adams, Esq., in order to find Linnæus, but could not. Rode to Mr. Everett's and put up, on account of the rain. Aug. 7, Lord's Day.

Preached for Mr. Everett.

Aug. 8, Mon. Came home and found all well. Made a large botanical collection in my journey.

Aug. 9-13. Preparing papers for the Volume of Transactions in the press. Examined plants. Aug. 24, Wed.

Went to Cambridge, and attended the meeting of the Academy. President Bowdoin absent. Dined at Mr. Wigglesworth's.

Aug. 26, 27. Busy preparing papers for the Volume of Memoirs.

Sept. 2, Fri. Went to Boston to meet with a Committee of the Academy for forming a plan for promoting agriculture. Delivered my Botanical Paper* to the printer. Dined with Mr. Guild, and came home.

Sept. 2, Tues. Association convened here. Present: Mr. Swain, Mr. Barnard, Mr. Prince, and Mr. Parsons, of the

*This paper was published in the Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It is entitled "An Account of some of the Vegetable Productions Naturally Growing in this Part of America, Botanically Arranged."

Association, and Mr. Forbes and Mr. Fuller, who joined the Association. Mr. Forbes preached. Also here: Mrs. Forbes, Mrs. Whitney, Mr. Sargent, Mr. Quarles, Dr. Whitney, and Dr. Fisher.

Sept. 28, Wed. Dr. Wales, Professor of Divinity at New Haven, and Mr. Chanick, a tutor of that college, here.

Oct. 3-15. Exceedingly engaged in transcribing my Botanical Paper for the press.

Oct. 18, Tues. Finished transcribing my Botanical Paper. Oct. 24, 25. Very busy in preparing my boys for an exhibition.

Oct. 26, Wed. This evening we had an exhibition. Mr. Grafton and Mr. Sasa dined with us. Considerable company in the evening from Salem, Cape Ann, and Newbury Port. The exhibition well received.

Oct. 27, Thurs. Boys went home. Went to Salem and carried Frank Lowell and Dick Derby. Dined at Mr. Derby's.

Nov. 9, Wed. Meeting of the Academy at Cambridge.

Nov. 10, Thurs. Went from Cambridge to Boston. Dined with his excellency, the Governor.

Nov. 11, Fri. In the evening attended Dr. Moyes'(?) Philosophical lecture at Faneuil Hall. Ticket, three shillings. His subject, the anatomy of plants, tolerably agreeable.

Nov. 15, Tues.

Nov. 18, Fri.

Dec. 6, Tues.

bounds, and paid

Wrote to Mr. Belknap.

Wrote to Dr. Dexter and Dr. Warren.

Bought five acres of woodland, marked the for it.

Dec. 8, Thurs. Preparing a table of errata for the Volume of Memoirs.

Dec. 9, Fri. Dr. Fisher here.

Finished the errata to send

to the printer. Sat up until 5 o'clock at night.

"My brother, the late Francis C. Lowell, who gave the first impulse to cotton mannfactures in this country, and of whose mathematical calculations whilst engaged in bringing to perfection the 'double speeder,' the late Mr. Bowditch said he did not suppose that there was any one in this country who could have made them but himself, for whom, too, I may add, the city of Lowell was named, spent several years of his early life, before he entered college, under the tuition of Dr. Cutler."-MS. Letter of Chas. Lowell.

Dec. 16, Fri. We went to Beverly and dined with Captain Brown. Received some gooseberry bushes from Mr. Manning, President of the College at Providence, and also from Captain Brown some pear, plum, cherry, and peach trees, which came from New York, and some foreign grapes.

[The interleaved Almanac for 1786 is lost. Two remarkable events occurred in Massachusetts this year. These were the formation of the Ohio Company, for the purpose of purchasing lands for a western colony, and the culmination of the financial distress of the people in Shay's Rebellion.]