CALL FOR MEETING. NEW ENGLAND COTTON MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION, } BOSTON, October DEAR SIR: : - The stated semi-annual meeting of the Association will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boylston Street (between Berkeley and Clarendon Streets), Boston, on Wednesday, October 16, at 10 o'clock, A. M. After the transaction of the usual business of the meeting there will be presented the Report of the Committee appointed at the annual meeting, upon the subject of forming an AssoCIATION FOR INVESTIGATING PATENT CLAIMS, upon which a full expression of opinion is desired. In addition to the topics heretofore treated, and which will still be in order, the Board of Government propose for discussion the subject of THE BEST METHOD OF PREPARING COTTON FOR THE CARD. It is hoped that members will be prepared to give the results of their experience in this important part of their work. By invitation of the Board, Mr. CHARLES J. GOODWIN, of Indian Orchard, will present to the meeting two inventions of A. J. WOODMAN, viz.: First.-A Let-off and Take-up motion, combined with Thick and Thin-place preventive. Second. A Filling-stop motion, on the harnesses of a fancy Loom. A full attendance is invited. By order of the Board of Government. AMBROSE EASTMAN, Secretary. PROCEEDINGS. BOSTON, Wednesday, October 16, 1872. PURSUANT to the foregoing notice, the stated Semi-Annual Meeting of the Association was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at 10 o'clock, a. M. About ninety members were present. In the absence of the President, the meeting was called to order by the Vice-President, Mr. Burke. Upon nomination of the Board of Government, Messrs. BENJA MIN F. NOURSE, of Boston, Mass., and GEORGE ARMS, of Chicopee, Mass., were elected Honorary Members of the Association, under the newly adopted By-Law provided for such membership. Upon nomination by the members named below, the following gentlemen were elected to active membership: At their own request, the following gentlemen were, by vote, allowed to withdraw from active membership: Messrs. EDWARD KILBURN, Lonsdale, R. I.; GEO. T. HILL, Thorndike, Mass.; A. B. WATERMAN, Central Falls, R. I. General JOHN C. PALFREY, of Lowell, Mass., in behalf of the Committee appointed at the last meeting to take into considera |