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BULLETIN

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ESSEX INSTITUTE,

VOLUME XXX.

1898.

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SALEM, MASS.

PRINTED BY THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

1898.

Salem press:
The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

The First Half Century of the Essex Institute ... 1

List of Present Members 78

Corresponding Members 99

The Retrospect of the Year 101

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MAY '■ 1898

BULLETIN

OF THE

IBSSIEIX: HTSTITTJTE.

Vol. 30. Salem: January, — June, 1898. Nos. 1-6.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.

At the Annual Meeting of the
Institute, May 17, 1897, it was, on
motion of Vice President, the Hon.
Alden Perley White, voted : "that,
in the judgment of this meeting,
the fiftieth anniversary of the found-
ing of the Essex Institute ous;ht
not to pass without a distinct and
emphatic recognition, and that the Council take steps to
carry this vote into effect."

Not long after, the Directors took measures to secure,
if possible, the presence of certain very desirable guests
whose time was preoccupied and whose interest in the
Institute made it proper to accommodate our arrange-
ments, so far as might be, to their convenience. The In-
stitute came into being on Wednesday, March 1, 1848.

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At its quarter-centennial, the first Wednesday was the
fifth day of March, and the first day of March was Sat-
urday. Accordingly Wednesday was chosen, and the
same course was followed now. This year, March came
in on Tuesday and the first Wednesday was the second
day of the month. It was determined to open our rooms
to the public on the evening of March 1 .

Later several distinct modes of celebrating the next
day were debated, depending to some extent on our success
in bringing home to Salem, for that day, the scattered sons
of Essex County. It was at last determined that, as
there was from the beginning an improbability that the
United States Senators, or either of them, could be
present, an uncertainty about the attendance of His Excel-
lency the Governor, and a contingency as to the accept-
ance of the Hon. Joseph Hodges Choate which time
only could remove, the commemoration should be planned
on a modest scale, and should consist of speaking in
Academy Hall, followed by a tea at Plummer Hall across
the way. Large committees were organized, and at once
undertook their several functions, and as soon as the
plans became known the demand for tickets became over-
whelming. It became evident at once that Academy Hall
would not contain the members of the Institute desiring
to be present, and generally they demanded that their
families be admitted also. A change of base to Cadet Ar-
mory was effected, where there was room for all, and the
question whether so large and undefined a number could
be entertained at tea, though grave at first, soon resolved
itself under the well-directed efforts of the ladies. It
was voted to provide each member of the Institute with a
ticket for himself and with one family ticket, and as many
more of the latter as he wished to buy at twenty-five cents
each. Every ticket bore a member's name. As the cost

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was to be increased by these changes, it was decided to
call on the friends of the Institute for a special fund to
meet it. The response was generous, and the celebration
made no inroad upon the limited income of the Institute.
The commemoration began at 7.30 o'clock on the even-
ing of Tuesday, March 1 . At that hour the Institute was at
home to its friends. A fine illumination of the exterior
made the building conspicuous and attractive. Under the
coving blazed, in white incandescents, the first creative fiat
let there be light. Below was displayed in high col-
ors the seal of the Institute, eight or ten feet in diameter.
From its Roman lamp burned an actual flame represented
by a white incandescent, and the wreath of laurel which
encircles it was studded with green incandescents. The
seal is the work of the late Dr. George A. Perkins, who
designed it and carved it in wood. This unique and novel
representation of it was produced by Mr. Ross Turner,
with the ready and enthusiastic cooperation of the Salem
Electric Lighting Company, who also traced out the lines
and angles of the building with incandescents in the nat-
ional colors, and placed, between the windows on each
side the entrance, large stars of white light which were
very effective. For the rest, the mural decorations in-
cluded the national flag, draped about the porch and main
entrance, which was ablaze with light, and three pairs of
well grown trunks of the native cedar of our hill-sides
stood upright, one pair in the corners of the iron fence
at the street entrance, one pair before the fine Corinthian
columns of the portico, and one pair in the corners of the
balustrade above. Fresh laurel in festoons was used with
freedom. The two dates, 1848-1898, were displayed on
appropriate escutcheons decorated with wreaths of actual
laurel, the first a vernal green, the latter golden-bronze,
each leaf of laurel in the wreath having been hand painted.

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Upon testing the completeness of the work, it was found
that the green incandescents in the laurel wreath encir-
cling the seal, while producing a beautiful effect, did not
properly light up the elaborate art-work of Mr. Turner,
but were unable to cope with the power of the white
flame issuing from the Roman lamp, before which they so
far paled their uneffectual fires, that it was thought best
to replace them with white, and this was successfully
done. The seal, as shown, was a very beautiful object,
and a very original design. Could we have thrown a
strong light from some outside source upon it, as it was
at first arranged, the effect would have been even finer.
Our neighbors caught the contagion of the moment, and
not only were the residence of David Pingree on the east
with Plummer Hall and the Cadet Armory on the west
generously lighted up with electricity and gas, and
decorated with bunting, but the quarters of the Father
Mathew Temperance Society, and the dwellings of Dr.
Morse and of Major Peck on the other side of Essex
street were equally so, and the whole block wore the gala
air of a night in Venice. The Cadet Headquarters displayed,
in front, a fine picture in colors of the original seal of
the ancient corps, dating back to the Revolution. The
weather throughout was perfect.

Between 7.30 and 10 o'clock, it appeared that 1734
persons passed through the rooms, in the first and second
stories of the body of Daland house. The fire-proofs and
all the third floor rooms were closed, though lighted. A
large committee of reception, numbering twenty-five or
thirty gentlemen, acted as guides and dispensed informa-
tion to the visitors, most of whom had never before
entered the building, and it is worthy of record that a
careful examination, the next day, failed to show a relic
broken, a glass cracked, a curiosity missing, a picture

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defaced or any of the little injuries done, which might, in
such a dense and pushing mass, have easily been excused.
Five pieces of music from Jean Missud's Cadet Band con-
tributed their cheerful strains : and pot-plants, flowers
and other tasteful decorations made the scene a rare one.
On Wednesday, Cadet Armory began to fill soon after
two o'clock and, at the opening of the exercises, contained
between twelve and thirteen hundred persons. Several
of the speakers and special guests from out of town had
lunched with President Rantoul, at the Salem Club, and
they reached the Armory at half-past two o'clock. A
larger number of invited guests had met in the reception
room of the Armory, — all the accommodations of the
elegant quarters having been courteously placed at the
service of the Institute, — and here strangers were made
acquainted with each other by members of the reception
committee who were in attendance. The stage was occu-
pied at half-past two, and the stated exercises of the day
began with the reading, by President Rantoul, of the
half-century address which was as follows :

THE COMMEMORATION ADDRESS.

Friends of the Essex Institute :

We are met to celebrate the golden wedding of the
Historical Society of Essex County, formed in 1821, with
the Natural History Society of Essex County, formed in
1833. These two kindred bodies came together on the
first Wednesday of March, 1848, and, for half a century,
have worked together harmoniously and well under the
joint title of the Essex Institute.

The story of the Institute is unique. Starting without
funds ; relying always on the zeal and enthusiasm of those

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who value culture for itself; growing up, with a sponta-
neous life, out of what seemed to be a recognized popular
demand ; the Institute has waxed sturdy and strong, and
now would seem to have reached a crisis in its career.

The people of Essex County — the people interested
in Essex County, living here or elsewhere — have come
to regard the Institute as a place of deposit where every-
thing typical of our heroic past, everything that can em-
balm the personality and keep alive the memory of actors
in the scenes of long ago, may well repose in consecrated
security forever. Not only valuable books and rare his-
torical papers — the natural accretions of a great library
— have been gathered here, but relics and manuscripts
and pictures and ancient records — a priceless legacy to the
antiquary and the student of local annals, rich material
ready to the hand of the historian — have poured in upon
us until our receptivity is overtaxed. Buried under the
indifference or lost sight of in the greed of the modern
Philistine, these relics spared by the tooth of time would
have no ministering value to the public; but when res-
cued for the cabinets and archives of a well arranged col-
lection, they become parts and most important parts of a
great representative exhibit, picturing as nothing else
can do — neither word nor pen nor brush — the actual
domestic life of the New England that is gone. To rear
and worthily to care for such a mausoleum to the past
requires labor and thought and funds. Especially does it
require ever-growing space. Thus far our collections have
increased unchecked. Still the monumental pile mounts
higher. Would we have it less? Does the pride of an-
cestry in Essex County — does the love of the heroic in
Essex County crave nothing further? Have we a surfeit
of hereditary honors? Shall we cry, hold ! enough! Only
ten years ago, the munificence of the late William Burley

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Howes made it possible, for the first time, to gather
the riches of the Institute under a roof-tree of its own.
At that time, we had increased the splendid accumula-
tions of the Historical and Natural History Societies by
large donations from the private libraries of our first
President Judge White, of Colonel Francis Peabody our
third President, and of our townsman Augustus Story,
as well as by an incomparable store of historic paintings,
ancient manuscripts, sea-journals and log-books, and of
specimens illustrating the Natural History of Essex
County, — curious reminders of the life and manners, the
traditions and scientific knowledge of our colonial and
commercial eras. For the first time in our history the
Institute was able, ten years ago, to display its wealth ;
and such was the stimulus imparted to public interest in
our pursuits, that our lectures and social evenings became
popular, our donations multiplied, and our rate of growth
became so great that, as a result, our wall-space and floor-
space and shelf-room are exhausted. What to do next is
the problem of the hour. Literally we know not whither
we should turn. We must have money, — money and a
good deal of it. The need is a present one and not a pro-
spective one. The practical question is this : Will the
friends of the Institute, who have means to spare for ob-
jects such as ours, give us a portion of it, or will they
see us succumb to plethora and congestion and so die?
No room to grow ! What will become then of the zeal
and enthusiasm of those friends of a lifetime who take a
daily pride in our success? No room to grow ! We have
in hand magnificent offers. One of them I am about to
read. It is one of four or five of scarcely less interest
and importance. It is one of the most splendid offers
a museum of history and art could wish to have, — a gift

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which naturally belongs to Essex County. There is no
gallery in the world but would be eager to secure it. Shall
we allow it to pass into alien hands because we have no
room to grow ? To say that such an enterprise as ours
must grow or die is something more than rhetoric. Either
we must provide ourselves at once with largely increased
facilities and means, or the character and general scope
of the Essex Institute must suffer a sea change.

The Institute has passed successfully its formative stage,
— its period of mere accretion. What it now craves is
the opportunity to unfold its treasures, to utilize its wealth,
to make available its vast assets. I cannot bring myself
to believe that, at this stage of its development, the Essex
Institute is to experience a check. I cannot suppose that
here in this birthplace of Massachusetts the people of this
ancient county — one of three Counties first set apart in
1643, — a people strong, numerous, wealthy and progres-
sive, have carried forward such an enterprise as this to its
present advancement, only to let it fail, — that we are
ripening only to decay. The devotion and self-sacrifice of
which it is the fruitage forbid the thought. The prayers
and blessings of those who have pushed on this under-
taking until it stands looking wistfully over the threshold
of the coming century, have consecrated us to their work
and we must not turn back. The past at least is secure.
The record of our achievement best vindicates our right
to be. It is not enough that we have striven to give form
and body to the aspirations of the times. Other activities
might claim as much. Not what we have essayed, but
what we have achieved ! Could some other agency do it
better? In the educational enginery of Massachusetts is
there no room for us? Are we not effecting something
worth effecting, which, if we forego our efforts, will not

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be done ? The eminent men who founded our school system
never meant it for a finality. They made it as far reach-
ing, as elastic and as comprehensive as they might, but
they meant to leave broad vistas open towards something
beyond. A voluntary association like this which trusts
so largely to personal initiative and leans so little upon
mechanical aids, — which avoids so well the Scylla of
sciolism whilst yet escaping the Charybdis of conventional
mannerisms and methods, — must be of all others the
accepted means to hold in check the school machinery of
the State, should it ever turn its energies to stamping the
dead-level impress of the numerical majority upon all
alike.

What we have accomplished may be briefly told. Our
published Historical Collections have reached their thirty-
fourth volume. Since 1859 we have published yearly,
besides occasional monographs, about three hundred pages.
These contain material of a character common to such
issues, except for this, that it is strictly local to Essex
County. These volumes are cited with respect, and their
high authority will be recognized when I say that they
are the work of such contributors, of more than local
fame, as Professors Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkins
and Emerton and Wendell of Harvard, of the Reverends
Jones Very and Charles T. Brooks, of the two Uphams,
father and son, of the Honorables Leverett Saltonstall
and Eben F. Stone, of Captain George H. Preble, of the
United States Navy, of Dr. Joseph B. Felt, of Henry
Wheatland, of Henry F. Waters, of Abner C. Goodell,
of Matthew A. Stickney, and of William G. Barton. The
temptation to recite the list of local authorities to whom
we owe so much of our success, is well-nigh overmaster-
ing, but I must refrain. A score or two of the most
approved writers this neighborhood has produced in our

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century, would be found to have furnished us with the

mass of our material and with much of our prestige.1
Since its establishment in 1848 the Institute has issued

six volumes of its Proceedings and twenty-eight volumes
# of its Bulletin, and these

contain, together with its
current transactions,
scientific papers of high
authority and value num-
bering two hundred and
ninety-six articles, besides
minor contributions,
covering an infinite variety

of topics of greater or less importance, for the most part

related to the Natural History of Essex County ; and

the work of one hundred

and forty-nine writers,

amongst whom I find such

names as Agassiz, Fitch

Poole, the Uphams, Alex-
ander Bell, Jones Very,

Russell, Silsbee, Wheatland,

John Robinson, Professors

Wright, Dorsey, Emerton,

Fewkes, Garman, Crosby,

Putnam, Hyatt, Morse. The

" American Naturalist," a scientific magazine in good

standing, was established by the Essex Institute in 1867.

1 To a little venture called the "Weal Heat" printed in 18(>0 at a fair for the
benefit of the Essex Institute, Nathaniel Hawthorne contributed a delightful
reminiscence of Browne's Folly. During the period when his genius was ma.
taring,— say from 1825 to 1845, — he spent much time in the Historical Society's
Rooms in Pickman Place, and filled his notebooks witli what he saw there. Many
of our treasures will be found described in the " American Note Books." Espe-
cially has he used a bit of rough-cast from the old Browne Mansion, built in 16*8,
which he found preserved there, for a mural decoration of the " House of
Seven Gables," where It will be recognized, twice described to the letter, in Chap-
ters One and Thirteen. We have it still.

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The Institute has for twenty-five years, succeeding the
Lyceum in the field of oral popular instruction, conducted
annual courses of free public lectures. It has always held
frequent evening meetings, and of late fortnightly meet-
ings throughout the winter, at which members and their
households have met to consider and discuss papers on
local topics of history and science. These papers have
furnished a large part of the material printed in our two
serial issues.

At its lectures the Institute has enjoyed the honorable
distinction to introduce Professor Bell and the Bell Tele-
phone to the notice of this utilitarian age,2 — and to pre-
sent to its members at different times such eminent
strangers as Dean Stanley, Dr. William B. Carpenter,
Canon Kings] ey, Wilkie Collins, and Matthew Arnold,
together with such local celebrities as Chief Justice Chase,
Professors Rogers and Gray, Agassiz and Dr. Holmes.
It has celebrated most impressively the 250th Anniver-
sary of the landing of Endecott, as the Historical Society,
its predecessor, had celebrated the 200th Anniversary of
that event ; it has commemorated the 250th Anniversary
of the landing of Winthrop, and the 200th Anniversary
of the witchcraft frenzy, and the 50th Anniversary of the
founding, at Topstield, of the Natural History Society,
and the 75th Anniversary of the Historical Society's
beginning, and the 100th Anniversary of the vote of
Massachusetts, passed by the Assembly at Salem, a year
before Bunker Hill, which Mr. Webster said made this
colony independent of Great Britain. Through its pic-
ture and flower and microscope shows, and concerts, and
entertainments, it has done its share towards bringing
high culture and sound learning and useful knowledge
within the reach of everybody.

* See Bulletin, Vol. ix, pp. 21-8.

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The ladies have formed, and have sustained with spirit
for several years, a Local History Class of from fifty to
sixty members, meeting every week, and investigating
topics of interest through special committees, whose re-
ports are read and placed on file and form a valuable
record.

For forty odd years the Institute has sustained a series
of field-meetings, modelled in some sort on those of the
Scottish Naturalists' Club of Berwick-upon-Tweed. At
these, we have held gatherings ranging in attendance
from one to four hundred persons, visiting seventy-three
localities in every one of the thirty-five towns and cities,
and in almost every parish, in the county, besides a dozen
spots beyond the county lines.

The mass of material piled up in Daland House and
Plummer Hall must speak for itself. Neither as to quality
nor as to quantity is it possible, in the moments allotted
me, to do it justice. I shall not attempt it. If our
friends will pay us the honor of a visit they will discover
not indeed all our wealth, because we have been obliged
to resort largely to warehousing, by the outside storage
of choice volumes not in constant use ; but they will find
Daland House packed from attic to basement, and Plum-
mer Hall, of which we occupy the basement, the first
floor and the attic, equally overfull. We suppose our-
selves to be in possession of between seventy-three and
seventy-four thousand bound volumes of books — our
collection of pamphlets and unbound volumes has reached
the very extraordinary figure of two hundred and sixty-one
thousand. The list of libraries in the country having
such a catalogue of books is not a long one. In the forty-
five States of the Union there may be thirty-eight libraries
containing upwards of seventy thousand bound volumes,
and there are but very few indeed containing one-half our

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quantity of unbound volumes. Of libraries in the United
States containing twice our number of bound volumes
there are but twelve.

Aside from the great aggregations of Harvard Univer-
sity, and of the Boston Public Library, Massachusetts
has but four collections of bound volumes larger than
ours, and all New England has but six. Scarcely wall
space remains to hang the valuable pictures constantly
committed to our care, and shelf room for new accessions
of books is only made by boxing and storing those which
fill our alcoves now. These accumulations have been
piling up since 1820, but mostly within the later years.
Many of these deposits are of a value not to be described.
If we got rid of all our duplicates by exchange or sale,
and gave to the flames such elements of the great mass as
might fairly be thought to be of doubtful worth, there would
then remain to us a collection quite beyond our present
means to utilize or display, and which, if classified and
catalogued and arranged, would prove to be, in its special
features, without a peer. No county in New England, —
no equal tract of densely peopled territory in America,
outside of the great cities, can make such an exhibit of
its historic past as this. Should we eliminate relentlessly
from our treasure-house all the costly and inestimable
art- works, and books of whatever value, helpful to gen-
eral culture, but not bearing exclusively upon Essex
County, we should then retain an exhibit of the local
history and tradition, the biography and natural history,
the genealogy and ancestral records, the literary, scien-
tific and artistic eminence of this county of ours which
would make it — 1 speak with a pretty thorough knowl-
edge of the subject, and a careful estimate of the value of
the words employed — which would make it the envy of
any equal population in the land.

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The Institute counts five presidents amongst its honored
dead. They are men whose names are in themselves a
legacy, — Daniel Appleton White, Asahel Huntington,
Francis Peabody, Henry Wheatland, Edmund B. Will-
son. Undoubtedly the Institute owes its origin to Henry
Wheatland, who was its organizer and its secretary for
twenty years, before his presidency of twenty-five years
began. He had been an honored member of the old
Historical Society, and was the creator of the Natural
History Society. He brought about the union of the two,
and, with untiring labor and unremitting thought, welded
their elements into the substantial structure which he left,
forty-five years later, ready to our hands.

The list of our contributors — the list of topics treated
in these seventy odd volumes of ours — is quite too long
for introduction here. Figures tell little except to those
who know their secrets. The best names in Essex County
will be found to grace our pages. Besides memoirs of
our leading men, prepared by Judge Lord, Dr. Briggs,
Charles W. Upham, the Kev. Mr. Willson ; besides com-
memorative addressei delivered by Judge Story on the
two hundredth, and by Judge Endicott on the two hun-
dred and fiftieth, anniversaries of the landing of Ende-
cott ; by Abner C. Goodell, jr., on the Historical Society's
half-century anniversary and on the centennial of the
meeting in Salem of the First Provincial Congress of
Massachusetts Bay ; by James Kimball, whose grand-
father was an actor in the scene, on the centennial of the
destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor ; besides com-
memorations of the fiftieth anniversary of the Natural
History Society, with a review by Professor Morse of the
progress of natural science during the last half-century ;
of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the land-
ing of Winthrop ; of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the

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Institute's founding and of the seventy-fifth anniversary of
the founding of the Essex Historical Society, — besides
all the contributions to local science already enumerated,
the Institute has received and printed contributions to its
Historical Collections from one hundred and seventeen
writers, on three hundred and eighty-two topics of local
history, biography and genealogy ; has contributed con-
spicuous features to both the World's Fairs at Philadelphia
and at Chicago ; has for thirty years past had on deposit
with the Peabody Academy of Science a collection of
specimens in natural history, covering every group of
the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms — in several
important features possessing exceptional value — and
together forminj; the basis of an exhibit of the natural
history of Essex County probably unequalled by any col-
lection drawing on so limited a population anywhere ; has
established, through its publications, an exchange list with
kindred bodies all over the world, numbering between
two hundred and sixty and two hundred and eighty ; has
accumulated on its shelves a library of the works of Essex
County authors now counting nearly seven hundred vol-
umes, an art library equal in numbers, a China library
nearly as large, the gift of Mr. Hunt, perhaps without a
rival in size and quality in the country, a rare collection
of log-books and sea-letters and ship's journals and owner's
instructions of privateersmen and merchantmen, detailing
the thrilling story of more than four hundred voyages,
during our romantic commercial era. It has set up and
preserved for all time what we believe to be the skeleton
of the earliest meeting-house, erected on this continent
for congregational worship, by an independent society
gathered on the spot.

For several seasons, gatherings were arranged which
brought together scores of microscopes, and led to a dis-

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cussion of their relative merits and characteristics, and to
an examination of the home-products of land and sea, by
such specialists as Dr. Holmes, Prof. Jeffries Wyman,
Dr. B. A. Gould, Eev. E. C. Bolles, Caleb Cooke, the
Messrs. Scudder, Morse, Hyatt, Tracy, Phippen and
Bicknell. Frequent exhibitions of art work have been
afforded the public under our auspices, but perhaps the
salient feature in the career of the Institute, after the field-
meetings, has been the series of famous fruit and flower
shows, sometimes held weekly, which for many years it was
enabled to sustain. No neighborhood had more reason
than this to boast of the affluence of its private gardens.
Native and exotic fruits and flowers loaded the Society's
tables in exquisite pi'ofusion, when our departments of
horticulture and of botany were under the patronage of
Francis Putnam, John C. Lee, Joseph S. Cabot, Stephen
C. Phillips, John Bertram, Charles Hoft'man, Ezekiel H.
Derby, Thomas Spencer, Robert Manning, John Fiske
Allen, George D. Phippen, and Ives and Ropes and Oliver
and Emerton and Rogers and Russell and Upton of Salem,
and Oakes of Ipswich, and Perry of Bradford and
Nichols and Fowler of Danvers, and Prescott of Lynn,
and Appleton of Gloucester. Just as the scientist ceases,
after a while, to be content with broad generalizations
which embrace a continent, and gives himself over to pursue
with microscopic scrutiny the problems of some section
nearer home, whose secrets are within his reach, — just
as the specialist, in despair of mastering the whole field
of human knowledge, applies himself with unimpaired
activity to some tempting nook which he can inaUe his
own, — just so the Institute has striven to stimulate in
Essex County a healthy appetite for local things, — to create
a literature having a strong local flavor, not without its
interest to the outside world — for the county is a rare

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one — but possessed of an absorbing and abiding charm
for every child of Essex County. That we have not
wholly succeeded is to say that we are human. That we
have not wholly failed is witnessed by no less than thirteen
historical and scientific societies of a local character, self-
sustained to-day in the various municipalities of the
county, working on our lines, and almost all of them
looking to the Institute as their fountain head.

This is the goal for which the founders strove. It is
the science of every-day life ; it is the tradition gathering
about these moss-grown roofs, these ancestral acres, these
familiar streets ; it is the home-bred heroisms, for which
they crave a thought. To the slight extent to which our
history and science impinge upon the history and science
of the world at large, they will be garnered for us out of
hand. But to the much greater extent to which our daily
lives are quickened by a knowledge of what is special to
our surroundings and common to no one else, — if we
would reap this harvest we must till it for ourselves.

Conscious that no history was more inspiring to them,
no experience more edifying, than such as their ancestors
had here wrought out ; feeling that the heroisms of the
past should be kept in perpetual remembrance by the
creation of bodies like this, which should cherish the gath-
ered relics and reminders, should accumulate books and
autographs and pictures, and should publish records, and
observe anniversaries, all to the end that the children may
remember what the fathers did ; persuaded that in the study
of nature, whether animate or inanimate, the mind rises to
one of its grandest functions, — they decreed that, so far
as in them lay, no child of Essex County, prompted by a
longing to come in closer touch with the wonders and the
beauties flung broadcast about us, — with the scenes
enacted on our soil, — should fail of its desire. Aware

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18 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

that local topics like our own history and traditions, like
our own botany and geology and mineralogy and ento-
mology, must be taught and mastered by ourselves, or else
lost sight of in the absorbing interests of the greater world
at large, they decreed that, so far as in them lay, no young
enthusiast should be without a Mentor if he had time and
thought and energy to devote to these pursuits in Essex
County. The numbers of scholars holding conspicuous
rank in natural science to-day, who gladly own a debt of
gratitude to the Essex Institute for their first glimpses into
the glories and the mysteries, — into the grand arcana of
this Universe of ours, furnish an ample vindication of our
right to be. No friendly soul who has taken any share in
the formative labors of our past, — no observer who has a
just perception of what we are doing to-day, is able to think
of this organization but as a vitalizing, an advancing, an
enduring force. It cannot be that all this enthusiasm and
devotion is to come to naught. It cannot be that the
people of this county, trained for two generations to look
to us as the custodians of their ancestral fame, are to be
bidden to seek out some other depository for their his-
toric wealth, — must find some other shrine whereon to lay
their offerings to the manes of their dead.

Would that there were time to recall the honored names
that grace our records, beginning with Holyoke and Bow-
ditch and Story and Pickering and Cutler and Dane and
White and Silsbee and Sal ton stall and Pea body and Ward
and Pickman and King and Merrill, who created the His-
torical Society, down through the younger generation of
scientists who sustained the Natural History Society and
the Institute, until we reach the workers of to-day. The
catalogue would be luminous with the brightest names.
I suppose those familiar with the inner workings of the
Institute in our generation will mostly agree that, next

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to Dr. Wheatland, the most valued patron we have had
iit the years just closed, was Mr. Hunt. His devotion to
our interests, in season and out of season, his promptness
to respond to every call, his judgment, his good taste,
his interest in art, his enjoyment of the beautiful and his
yearning that all should share that pleasure with him,
have taken form in a stream of costly and laborious ben-
efactions only checked by death. But the hour is too
short. I detain you no longer from the pleasure which
is in store for us, except to read the letter I have prom-
ised. It will be perceived by every well-wisher of the
Institute, to be a communication of capital importance ;
others, only less significant of what our future may be-
come, might be presented if the delicacy of our intended
benefactors would permit. I cannot suppose that the
people of the county will prove indifferent to such a
trust. I dare not but suppose that they will rise to an
appreciation of the forces that have sustained the Insti-
tute for fifty years, — that they will rise to the opportu-
nity which opens before them to put upon a stable footing
an enterprise so unique, so hopeful, and so competent to
correct the tendency towards machine methods which
threatens the educational systems of to-day.

Whatever the coming years may have in store for the
Essex Institute, it is certain that devotion and enthusiasm
such as have crowned the now-accomplished lustrum will
not be wanting, amongst our actual working force, to
achieve the next. Whether we shall be enabled, through
the generosity and high spirit of this ancient county, to
press on to higher aims, or whether we must be content
with what we have, and indulge no further outlook save
to hold our own, I can speak for those who have borne the
heat and burthen of the day for at least a generation, —
for at least that period I have known the Institute as a

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21

daily burthen and a daily incentive, — I speak for them
and all of them when I say that no effort of theirs will be
lacking to make the future worthy of the past.

The President then read two letters dated at Rome, the
first, as he said, to show the feeling entertained for us by
the Sculptor Story just before his death, as evinced by the
deposit, for perpetual preservation in the Institute, of a
cradle in which he and his distinguished father, Judge
Story, were rocked in infancy. This wTas as follows :

The

5tovy Cradle

Palazzo Barijerini.
My dear Mr. Kantoul and

Gentlemen of the Essex Institute:

I have just received your most kiud and flattering letter of Nov. 19,
and I beg to express my -warm thanks for the cordial terms with
which yon accept my little gift of tin'
old cradle.

It comforts my heart to hear that my
Father's memory is so warmly cherished
in Salem. He always had a deep feeling
for the town and, as I well remember,
quitted it with great regret and only be-
cause he deemed it his duty to do so in
order to secure for Harvard University
the Donation of Mr. Dane — as Mr. Dane
had made it a condition of his gift that
my Father should accept the Professor-
ship of Law and go to Cambridge to
reside.

For myself, Dear old Salem has my
stron irafl'ections. It was my birthplace —
the days of my boyhood were spent there
— and I retain for it only the most

affectionate associations and memories. Often in my dreaming and
musing hours I go back to it, and long again to see the streets and to
renew the old and vivid recollections which still are fresh and living
in my mind The boyish memories last forever, and have a charm
unsurpassed by those of a later age.

I wish my little gift were more worthy of your acceptance, and
small as it is, I am, I confess, deeply pleased tliat you have so kindly

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given it a place in the Institute, and that yon have also given my name
a place among the many far more distinguished ones of the dear old
City of Peace.

With best wishes I am,

Yours most faithfully,

W. W. Story.
Dec. 26, 1894.

The second letter read w;is this : —

Palazzo Barbkhini, Rome.
August 27, 1897.
To the Hon. President :
Robert S. Rantoul,
Essex Institute,

Salem, Mass.,
My dear Mr. Rantoul : —

**********

My father left to me all the original plaster casts of his statues in
his studio in Rome. It is my desire to present these works to the
Essex Institute at Salem, and I have much pleasure in offering, through
you, as a gift to the Institute, the only collection of original plaster
casts of Statues and Busts executed by my father, W. W. Story.

My father was born in Salem, and he always had the greatest affec-
tion and regard for the old Town. I therefore feel sure that in mak-
ing this offer I shall be carrying out his wishes, and I also feel certain
he would have been most gratified to know that these statues — his
life's work — had found a permanent and suitable resting-place in his
old home.

My desire is to present all his best works — there are some twelve
to fifteen or even more statues — some life-size — some even larger,
besides other small statuettes, — also many busts of distinguished men
and women. All these I would give, provided the space allotted were
sufficiently large properly to accommodate them. When I know what
room the Institute can dispose of, I shall be better able to judge what
number of casts could be becomingly exhibited. The only stipulation
I would ask to be allowed to make is, that this collection should be
properly and becomingly exhibited together in some permanent and
befitting building : and that no copies or reproductions of whatso-
ever size or description should be made of these works. If the
space were sulllcient I should have much pleasure in presenting the
entire collection.

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Permit me, in conclusion, Mr. President, to have the pleasure of
formally making this offer, through you, to the Essex Institute.
Hoping to hear from you at your convenience,

I have the honor to sign myself,

most cordially and respectfully yours,

Waldo Story.

What shall we say to that? asked the President. We
have no room ! The President then said : I promised
to read you a letter. I have done better. I have read
you two. I will do better still. I will read you two
more. I will read them in the order of their dates and
you shall judge for yourselves of their relative impor-
tance. The first calls upon us to give free lectures —
just what we are doing. The second calls for more room.
Here are the letters :

Salem, Feb. 26th, 1898.
Hon. Robert S. Rantoul,
President of the Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.
Dear Sir :—
At a meeting of the Salem Lyceum held January 24, 1898, the com-
mittee appointed at a previous meeting to consider the matter of
presenting to the Essex Institute the funds of the Salem Lyceum, re-
ported in favor of so transferring the funds, and, as part of their
report, submitted a petition and bill to be presented to the Legislature
of this Commonwealth, asking for a dissolution of the Salem Lyceum
corporation and authority to transfer its funds to the Essex Institute,
to be safely invested by said Institute, and the income thereof to be
expended each year in maintaining a course of lectures to be announced
by said Institute as being maintained by the " Salem Lyceum Fund."
On motion it was voted that the report of the committee be accepted
and adopted.

The petition and bill above referred to were presented to the Leg-
islature, and I am happy to inform you that the bill has been duly
enacted, and that under the authority thereof the funds of the Salem
Lyceum amounting to three thousand dollars ($8,000.00) will be paid
over to the Essex Institute, subject to the conditions of said act.

Very truly yours,

Edw'd C. Battis,

Secretary.

24 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

March 1st, 1898.
To thk Hon.
Robert S. Rantoul,
Prksident of the Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

My dear Sir: —

I avail myself of this half-century anniversary to say publicly to
the Institute what my friends have known before, that all the antique
furniture, portraits, old china and glass now in my house in Lynde
street will be ultimately deposited with the Essex Institute for per-
petual preservation.

The portraits which form a part of the gift are mostly in oils, and
these may perhaps derive an additional interest from the fact that
they include the likenesses of ten generations of my family, all Salem
people.

Trusting that the celebration will be all that the friends of the In-
stitute have hoped, and that my intentions may be consistent with the
purposes of your Board of Government,

I am very respect, yours,

Geo. R. Curwkn.

This offer, like the others, was loudly applauded. Mr.
Curweu sat upon the stage with two others of the charter
members of the Institute, iMessrs. Willard Peele Phillips
and Robert Manning.3

The President then said :

There are some friends of the Institute so conspicuous
that their absence needs to be accounted for. When we
celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of Endecott's
landing, Governor Lincoln was present, and when we cele-
brated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of that
event, Governor Rice was present, and when we observed
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Insti-
tute, Governor Washburn was present. We had hoped

s Six others of tbc original members are known to be living, and letters \v ere
received from live of them, viz: Charles W. Palfray, J. Hardy Phlppen, Henry
M. Brooks, Isaiah Nichols, E. S. L. Richardson.

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that His Excellency Governor Woleott4 would be with ns
to-day, but I have here a letter in which, after a most

cordial acknowledg-
ment, His Excellency

says :

The occasion, I am sure,
"will be an interesting one
and it would give me much
pleasure to be present, but
the date falls upon the reg-
ular day of meeting of the
Council and I have never
permitted any other engage-
ment to interfere with my
presence at these Council
meetings. Therefore you
will please accept my
regrets, and believe me
Very truly yours,
Roger Wolcott.

President Ran-
toul here present ed
General Appleton
\\ of the Governor's
staff', — a Vice
President of the
Eftdec oft institute ,-who
was in uniform, being detailed by His Excellency to
respond for the Commonwealth.

General Francis H. Appleton, of Governor Wolcott's
staff, being introduced, said that as His Excellency was
unable on account of important business at the State

■•Only two Governors of Massachusetts have ever lived in Salem. They were
Endecott and Bradstreet, and they happen to be the first and the last in the line
of colonial governors. The Cadet Armory and Plummer Hall stand on an estate
more or less identified with both of them. There i6 reason to think that it may

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House, before the Council, to be present, the Governor
had delegated him to represent the Commonwealth, and
to convey his regrets that he could not attend so notable
an occasion.

General Appleton expressed his own gratification at
being permitted to come back to his former home, Salem,

in this capacity, which he esteemed
a his;h honor.

He regretted that he must pre-
sent himself in a somewhat an-
tiquated, but so historic, form of
uniform, which he hoped he might
soon have an opportunity to pre-
sent to the Institute, not as a relic
of himself but as a reminder of
the many brave officers who have
fought for the Nation's unity in
this dress ; but General Miles has just proposed a dress of
new design far better adapted to the needs of the service.
General Appleton then said : — The value of institu-
tions, like this Institute, to a State and Nation cannot be
too highly spoken of; it advances the idea of value of
history and art, as a power in promoting cultivation in
man, and a more cultivated taste among people generally.

Jjradstreel".

have been assigned in the first instance to Governor Endecott. (Bulletin, Vol. i,
p. 79; Historical Collections, Vol. XXIV, p. 24t.) It certainly was the domicile of
Governor Hradstreet, for in 1676 he married the widow of Captain Joseph Gard-
ner, a niece of Governor Winthrop, who had it for a marriage portion, and here,
Bradstreet, who had landed in Salem with Winthrop in 16:50, came back to pass
the closing twenty years of his life, and to die and be entombed in 1697.

On this estate, from 1836 until 1867, lived Colonel Francis l'eabody with his wife
Martha, and she was an Endicott descended, in the eighth generation, from the
Governor.

Governor Wolcott married a granddaughter of William Hickliug Prescott.
Prescott was born on this estate. She was also a granddaughter of Joseph
Augustus Peabody, and for him the Pcabody mansion, now the Cadet Armory,
was built in 1819, and he lived in it until his death, when his brother Francis
took it. The Governor, had he been present, would have found himself ou
friendly soil.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 27

Such influence as emanates from an institution of the
character of yours promotes an instinctive desire for, and
a respect towards, law and order in any community.

The history and heredity of our people must be made
the most of; such characteristics as are found in the
history and historic things of Essex County, are truly
capital to any locality ; and are as essential to the best
results, as is a sound and golden rule of value.

The influence of such collections and library as you
have, and seek to accumulate, here in Salem, is by no
means confined to Essex County, nor to this historic State
of Massachusetts ; you have been leaders, in your line,
at the largest exhibition of this country at Chicago, in
the interest of both State and Nation, and thereby set a
standard before the public that carried your name and
fame beyond the bounds of this Nation.

Our eastern coast boasts of more accumulated history
than elsewhere in our Nation ; and the children, who have
gone from us, west and south, are proud of that history
because it is theirs also.

Besides collecting our relics in-doors, let us be the
medium of preserving relics out-of-doors.

So far as is possible, and besides some interesting houses
in old Salem Village, let spots in nature's landscape, that
mark the life of men and women who have lived to help
us by their wisdom and example, be preserved to continue
to help us by a bright remembrance of the lives there lived ;
as, Mr. Eliot, you have done in Cambridge at the Long-
fellow home, and are trying to do at the James Russell
Lowell estate. A like work has been accomplished at the
early home of Whittier, and in some other Essex County
spots.

May you also promote the preservation of spots now
beautiful from what nature has made of them ; and may

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your speakers and writers encourage richness in the ap-
pearances of our farms, so far as our rugged soil will
allow, in the hope that the dress of Mother Earth may he
of the best and what she well deserves.

President Rantoul, with the best wishes of the Com-
monwealth, may the Essex Institute, after this its fiftieth
birthday, continue, as now, always to deserve the confi-
dence of the people who have ties to Essex County, and
of all others ; may the help that comes to you from a large
membership with modest annual dues forever continue
and increase ; and may those who can give more largely
during life of money, relics, etc., or after death by will,
believe, as I do, that this Essex Institute, founded by men
to whose memory we can all bow in reverence, is always
to continue sound, as to its historical, and in its financial,
management, to the honor of Country, State and Nation.

The President then said : It may not be generally known
that we came very near having the Massachusetts Bay
College established in our neighborhood. We came just
as near having it named Scruggs College instead of Har-
vard College, and so we should all have been looking
forward to the degree of LL.D. of Scruggs, and not to
the degree of LL.D. of Harvard. The facts are these.
One Thomas Scruggs, as early as January, 1635-6, got
possession of a part of that beautiful meadow lying be-
tween Swampscott and Marblehead, and looking out on
the Bay, and now dotted over with summer villas. It
was a favorite resort with Hawthorne, and is often referred
to in the "American Note Books." Having got the
delightful tract into his hands, Scruggs negotiated in April
with Captain Trask, our Massachusetts Bay Miles Standish,
and received in its stead a farm ut Bass River near
Wenham Pond. His object in the transaction was to secure

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a site which was satisfactory to Rev. Hugh Peters of the
First Church, and to the other members of the first Board
of Education, who were "to take order for a colledge."
A long negotiation ensued, which resulted in the establish-
ment of the College at Newetowne, now Cambridge, in
November, 1637.

Mr. Scruggs was a man of substance, of influence, and
of public spirit. He was a man of independent judg-
ment also, for he was later disarmed for an opinionist.
And a good deal more might be said for Mr. Scruggs.5

I have the honor to present my schoolmate, my class-
mate, and, I think I may add, my life-long friend, the head

Note 5.

ii of tlie 11th monetli 1635

bvthe Granted by the ffreemen of Salem [*vnto*] the day and yeare

,'rant of an above written vnto mr Thomas Scrugs of the same his heires and
other farme assignees for ever a farme conteyning three hundreth acres of
m Leiwe land whereof thirty acres are fitt to be mowed scituate lying and
of this to being in the outmost bounds of Salem towards mr Humphries and
m Scrugs. jg from [Qe sea where the freshe water runs out, West and by
North is the fearme next to mr Humphryes bounded by the Comon by the North

west end & East end provided alwayes & in Case of Sale, the towne of

salem haue the first profer before any other.

John Endecott
Roger Connunght
John Holgkave
Thomas Gardner
Edm. Batter

At a gen'rall Court or towne meeting of Salem held the second of the third
moneth called May A0 1636.

Imprimis after the reading of former orders; In the reading of an order for
the division of Marble Head Neck; A motion was brought in by Cp. Endicot in
behalfe of mr John Humphries for some Land beyond Iforest River, moved by
tipetiall argumen [ts] one whereof was, Least yt should hinder the building of a
Colledge, wch would be manie [mens] losse, It was agreed vpon this motion that
six men should be nominated by the towne to view these Lands and to consider of
the premisses, and for that end was named

mr Thomas Scrugs Cp. Traske

mr Roger Conant mr Townsen Bisiior

John Woodbery Peter Paefrey

That these six or any foure of them are deputed for this business to Bpeake
or Item yt was ordered that whereas mr Scrugs had a farme of three hun-
dred acres beyond forest River, And that Cp. Traske had one of tooe hundr

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of the leading institution of learning in the land, President

Eliot of Harvard.

President Eliot, after a few complimentary phrases

and a word of pleasantry about the choice of names and

of locations as between Scruggs
and Harvard, spoke substan-
tially as follows :

It is fitting that a represen-
tative of Harvard University
should take part in this celebra-
tion. As I listened to the com-
memorative address of the
President of the Institute I
thought of the many Salem
families to which Harvard Uni-
versity and the Essex Institute
I recalled the names of Holyoke,

'BoQditch
nes/i and
Quadrant.

mm

had been alike indebted
Bowditch, Story, Wheatland,
Saltonstall, Pickering, Endicott
and White, all of which are
great Harvard names as well as
great Essex names. In succes-
sive generations Harvard and
Salem have both incurred a
great debt to these eminent and
durable families.

The working of the Essex Institute is extraordinarily
varied. By its collections it illustrates many widely

ThePicl\evir)g F

[ed] acres beyond Basse River, The — Cp. Traske frely relinquishing his farme of
tooe hundred acres, It was granted vnto mr Thomas Scrugs, and he there vpon
frely relinquished his farme of three hundred acres that soe mr Humphryes might
the better be accomodated.

See Records of Massachusetts, Vol. I, passim.

Felt's Annals of Salem, Vol. I, pp. 172, 427; Vol. II, pp. 661, 575; 1st edition,
pp. 98, 527.

Savage's New England Genealogical Dictionary, Vol. IV, p. 42.

Upham's Witchcraft, Vol. T, pp. 64-6, 130.

Salem Town Records; *ee Historical Collections, Vol. IX, passim.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 31

different fields of knowledge. Thus its collections in
natural history, already interesting and important, arc
likely to be of more and more service as time goes on.
Our fathers did not expect botany, zoology and geology
to be cultivated in the elementary schools ; but we have
come to believe that these subjects should be diligently
taught in all schools, and that local collections should be
generously provided to illustrate these sciences. We
believe that every primary school teacher and grammar
school teacher in Salem should have a good knowledge of
the natural history of the place, and should cultivate in
her pupils a taste for exploring the flora and fauna of the
county. Every year will increase the importance of the
natural history collections of the Institute.

The Essex Institute has also a unique collection to
illustrate the adventurous life of Salem men when com-
merce with the far East was a large element in Salem life.
Here is a unique collection of records of voyages, ship's
logs, and ship-letters covering one of the most interest-
ing and important periods in the commercial history of
our country. These are records of enterprise, adventure
and daring exploration ; they are records of the struggles
of Salem men with the dangers of unknown seas and
coasts, struggles which furnished to thousands of Essex
sailors an heroic discipline. It is in such struggles that
those constructive moral and physical qualities are de-
veloped which occasionally get opportunity of destructive
expression in war. The qualities of endurance, alertness,
and boldness which give victory during the destructions
of war have been developed in the struggle with adverse
nature during long periods of peace.

You citizens of Salem have the privilege of living in
one of the most historic towns of America. Ten years
ago I had the privilege of visiting, early in the delightful
month of May, the city of Athens. I soon came to the

32 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

conclusion that, apart from the Acropolis and its imme-
diate surroundings, the actual city of Athens was decid-
edly a less interesting place than this city of Salem. It
is also a much less comfortable and enjoyable place than
Salem.

But, good as the work of the Essex Institute has been,
you all long to make it better; and I, therefore, venture
to describe briefly the best means of enlarging the scope
and influence of the Institute, and of making valuable to
other parts of the country its precious collections. To
give the highest value to such collections as the Institute

© ©

maintains, it is necessary to have learned and skilful men
constantly engaged in re-arranging and enlarging the col-
lections, and making known their contents by descriptive
labels and published memoirs. The most instructive
arrangement and the most scientific development can be
secured only by the continuous service of experts ; and
the Essex Institute needs two such expert curators whose
whole time can be devoted to its service. To support
them an endowment of $200,000 would be needed.
There should also be a fund of at least $50,000 for publi-
cation purposes in order that the collections might be
made useful, not only to Salem and Essex County, but to
the whole country. Such publications would carry the
name of the Essex Institute far and wide. I sincerely
hope that the suggestion of these endowments on this
occasion may bear fruit.

Such an Institute as this helps to create and foster love
of home, of city, and of country. Out of a local affec-
tion grows the wider love of country, and out of the
early interest in such subjects as those to which the Essex
Institute is devoted, habitually fostered in the children of
a city like Salem, grows in after life a broad and fruitful
interest in intellectual pursuits. These loves and interests
are what make life worth living.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 33

President Rantoul then said : Our senior Senator writes
as follows : —

My deak Sir : —

I am sorry that my public engagements here will
deprive me of the pleasure qf accepting your invitation to attend the
fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute. I should like to see the
members of that famous society and to hear what they will tell of its
founders and the learned men who have given it such great distinc-
tion, of Dr. Wheatland, and of Mr. Hunt, the modest and faithful
officer you have so lately lost. But I suppose it will be impossible.
I am, with high regard, faithfully yours,

Geo. F. Hoar.

And our junior Senator, an Essex County man, sends
his regrets in these words :

U. S. Senate, Feb. 11, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

I am much obliged by your kind invitation to be
present at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex In-
stitute, and regret that it will not be possible for me to be present.

Very truly yours,

H. C. LODGK.

Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,
Secretary.

The President remarked that it was not every day that
we had a son of Salem at the head of one of the three
great professions of the country, but it was so to-day, and
he shared their regret in being obliged to read a letter
from Mr. Choate, when they had hoped to hear from him.

Mr. Choate writes :

50 West Forty-seventh Street,

Feb. 28, 1898.
My bear Kantoul : —

I regret very much that I cannot avail myself
of your kind invitation to be present and take part in the celebration
of the jubilee of the Essex Institute on the 2nd of March. It turns

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out just as I expected that an inevitable engagement in the Supreme
Court at Washington on that day will keep me away.

I well remember the foundation of the Essex Institute and its fee-
ble beginnings, and have watched with great pride and interest its
sure and steady progress to its present high position of influence for
good.

It is not only the pride of Salem and of Essex County, but is hon-
ored wherever its work is known. Its publications have been of
very great value, and I have particularly enjoyed its historical re-
searches which I hope may be continued with renewed vigor, for I am
satisfied that much remains yet unpublished of local history which
would he of great general interest.

Wishing you a most successful celebration, and prophesying a great
future for the Institute, I am

Most truly yours,

Joseph H. Choate.

President Rantoul alluded, to the Peabody Academy of
Science as "our neighbor across the way," and said that
the two societies lived on such terms of unbroken amity,
of undisturbed harmony and mutual helpfulness, as almost
to presage the millennial era. He asked Acting Presi-
dent S. Endicott Peabody, who sat behind him, to respond
for the Academy, but that gentleman excused himself, and
Professor Edward S. Morse, the Curator of the Museum,
was presented.

Professor Morse said :

The Peabody Academy of Science, as custodian of the
natural history collections of the Essex Institute, has en-
deavored to present to the public a well-arranged, well-
labelled and well-lighted museum. The Institution
founded by George Peabody of London was specially
organized to diffuse knowledge not only in Essex County
but, as Mr. Peabody expressed it in his letter of trust,
" our common country as well." It is believed that a
public museum, open every day in the week and free to

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all, furnishes intellectual pleasure and rational amusement
in a most graphic way.

Our museum is unique in that it combines not only a
collection of the animals and plants, rocks and minerals
and prehistoric relics of Essex County, hut an epitome-
collection of the animals of the world. These are exhib-
ited in one great hall. In another hall are displayed the
weapons, utensils and handiwork of the nations of the
world. Among these are many objects of great rarity.
Since the opening of the museum in 1868 over one mill-
ion two hundred and fifty thousand visitors have passed
through its halls. Salem does not realize the importance
of its ethnological collections, which stand third in rank
in the United States at the present time.

The President then said :

Thirteen towns and cities of the County, — a round
dozen, — are now supporting local historical and scientific
societies of their own, and almost all of them recognize
their obligations to the Essex Institute as the parent
society of them all. It is fitting that these kindred
bodies should be heard from here, and I call upon the
President of the Danvers Historical Society, one of the
most vigorous of the brood, to speak for the affiliated
bodies of the County.

Dr. Putnam said :
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :

Surely no one can catch sight of the stately and spa-
cious buildings of the Essex Institute so close at hand and
think of the vast and priceless collections which they hold
without a fresh feeling of gratitude and honor to the illus-
trious Dr. Wheatland for what he did to make the whole
the one crowning glory of the Salem of to-day; nor, let
me add, without rejoicing that, under the direction of

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his present very able, earnest and accomplished successor,
Mr. Rantoul, the work still goes on with unabated vigor,
and can hardly fail of the largest and most beneficent
results.

I have been asked to say a word for the numerous other
historical societies, which have been established from time
to time in as many of the towns of Essex Count}'. Could
I be permitted to speak in their behalf, it were but just
to say how much they feel indebted to the Institute and
its honored presidents for the service which they have
also rendered in this more extended scene by awakening
or intensifying in us all a love and zeal for such pursuits
as have engaged you here for these fifty years. Stimu-
lated by your noble example and realizing that they had,
immediately around them, promising fields which they
might glean for their own special advantage and for the
public good, your neighbors have organized these local
societies here and there and are glad to believe that they
are thus enlarging the work and widening the influence of
the mother of them all.

These organizations, generally, have each their own
rooms or head-quarters, and have courses of interesting
and instructive lectures. They celebrate historic events.
They erect monuments in honor of departed heroes and
benefactors. They seek and collect, from far and near,
for safe keeping and profitable use, such memorials of the
past or objects of nature, as shall be suitable for such
institutions and shall best illustrate the manners and cus-
toms, the arts and industries, the thought and life, of
generations gone, and the facts and lessons of science and
of the world around us in our own time; books and
pamphlets, diaries and journals, maps and charts, manu-
scripts and documents, autographs and letters ; coins,
scrip, seals, medals, badges and banners; military
weapons and insignia; paintings, engravings, etchings,

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silhouettes and photographs ; old-time articles of wear
and furniture ; relics and curios of great variety ; geolog-
ical, mineralogical, botanical and natural history speci-
mens, and whatever else may properly serve the end in
view.

And it were strange if some of these humbler local
societies were not able to gather, from the widely scattered
sons and daughters of their respective towns, many a
memento or prize of particular value to themselves, such
as the larger, central institution, in its vaster work, might
possibly miss. Treasures come back to us that might
else be lost. But whether they come from near or from
afar, all do good by kindling a new interest in the higher
things ; and it is especially gratifying and significant that
even the school children of the vicinity often come to see
and inquire, so that what they have learned in their regu-
lar daily studies may be made more vivid to their minds
by the object lessons they find. In numberless ways the
study of history is quickened and fostered, tastes are ele-
vated and ennobled, character is developed, and all are
somehow made to feel that man does not live by bread
alone, and that he does not bear the root, but the root him.

We congratulate the Essex Institute on the splendid
work it has done. There is no end to the good it may
yet do, — and with it, I would fain hope, the sister societies
of which I have spoken, — in restoring, as far as may be,
the picture of the New England of our fathers, and, in
adding, still, to the great sum of human knowledge. They
are all ornaments and blessings to the towns or cities
where they exist, promoting their intellectual, moral,
social and even business prosperity, by their presence,
activities and influence. You have heard of the excellent
and venerable Presbyterian clergyman, who, after a very
long pastorate, still held on to his thinning and wasting
congregation, until the price of real estate itself around

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him began perceptibly to decline. The good deacon* and
elders were at last prompted to action, explained to their
beloved minister the gloomy situation and could hut sug-
gest to him the inevitable remedy. Said the dear old
man, with becoming gravity and evident sincerity, ff I
came to you in the days of your prosperity, and I haven't
it in my heart to leave you in the time of your adversity."
Mr. Rantoul is not likely to be surprised with a visitation
like that, but will see to it well that the Institute shall in
more ways than one minister to the weal of the " City of
Peace " and the towns about it, and that the half-century
to come shall be still more glorious than that which we
commemorate to-day.

The President, in presenting the British Consul Gen-
eral, Sir Dominic E. Colnaghi, said :

Whatever differences of opinion or of feeling may
spring up, from time to time, between us and any given
administration of the British Government, and they are
wide and frequent, the ties that bind the British and
American peoples can never be broken. We are honored
to-day with the presence of Her Britannic Majesty's repre-
sentative at Boston and I take great pleasure in present-
ing to you the British Consul General, Sir Dominic Col-
naghi.

The British Consul said :
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : —

It has been a great pleasure to me to come here to-day,
and I would take this opportunity of thanking the Presi-
dent and members of the Essex Institute for their cour-
teous invitation and for the hospitality so kindly extended
to me.

I will not deny that I feel somewhat abashed in address-
ing, even with a few words, so large and distinguished an

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audience. Still, though I am personally unknown Ho
nearly all of you, and to most, indeed, the mere shadow
of a name, I cannot, as an Englishman, feel that I am a
stranger in New England.

With some new traits, brought about by change of cli-
mate, of association and of political conditions, 1 find here
that steady energy of character and devotion to duty, —
that love for home, for country and for freedom, — that
dignified calm in moments of acute political crisis, —
qualities which, I flatter myself, your ancestors brought as
their heritage from the old country, and which, I trust,
still flourish in their original home.

We are met together to celebrate the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the foundation of the Essex Institute, of whose
good work Salem is justly proud, but with regard to
which I can add nothing to what has been so eloquently
said by previous speakers ; I would only remark that
here again I find America vying with Great Britain in all
that relates to the advancement of science, of education, of
literature and art — of all, in short, that tends to promote
civilization in general and the welfare of our people in
particular.

And, it is gratifying that this movement is so strong in
Salem, which not only claims the interest of Englishmen
as the birthplace of Hawthorne, of Prescott and of other
distinguished men and women, but as the mother city of
Massachusetts with all her historic associations.

In England we have a County, not the only one, in
which the lasses are noted for their beauty and are called
the Lancashire witches. I had read, indeed, of Salem
witchcraft, but never came under its influence till to-day,
when the presence of her fair citizens, while enhancing
greatly the charm of the celebration, has contributed to
increase the confusion which a slow-tongued Englishman
has felt in venturing to address you.

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The Rev. William Orne White of Brookline was next
introduced as one who was here with a triple claim to be
heard, for he was not only the son of Judge Daniel
Appleton White, who was long the first President of the
Essex Institute and its greatest early promoter, but also
the son of that Judge Daniel Appleton White who was,
for as many years, the last President of the Essex His-
torical Society whose successor we are, and the first Pres-
ident of the Salem Lyceum, whose successor we are to be.

Mr. White replied :
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :

The mention of that name compels me, first, to say that
for me to lose such a friend and inspirer has been impossi-
ble. Not even death can rob us of those that every pass-
ing year does but bury deeper and deeper in the heart.

When I recur to my earliest recollections of my father,
I see bookshelves to left of him, bookshelves to right of
him, and bookshelves above him, and yet at evening
I find him down in the parlor eagerly cutting the leaves
of some new volume belonging to the Athenaeum.

Well might such a man love the Essex Institute, as he
did, indeed, the whole county of Essex. Before the rail-
road days, it was a joy of my childhood to sit by him in
the chaise which took him to Lynn or Andover or Haver-
hill or Newbury port or Gloucester or Ipswich, in his
capacity of Judge of Probate.

Mr. President : it is always a pleasure to read the story
of your delightful field meetings. One such occasion I
recall thirty-two years ago next summer, when, in the old
chinch at Manchester, Congressman Butler and Chief
Justice Chase enchained the attention of their listeners,
— the one speaking on aerial navigation and a projected
phonograph with forty strings ; the other discoursing

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about the then recent successful laying of the Atlantic
telegraph ; and it was interesting to find that both of
them, from research and professional experience, were
able to add much to the zest of the occasion.6

As you may all readily imagine, countless faces of the
venerable and the beloved are flitting across my mind
to-day. There is one scene that so persistently repeats
itself, that I must try to make you stand by the side of
the boy of seven, as it rivets itself upon his mind.

It is the procession of friends, who, two by two, are
following seventy years ago next August, the honored
centenarian Dr. Edward Augustus Holyoke, from his
home, about midway between the Market and Central
street to the hotel on the opposite side of Essex street,
where those professional companions and others, from
Boston and elsewhere, will sit down with their revered
guest at a banquet in honor of his one hundredth birth-
day. It is over a gulf of one hundred and seventy years
that we now glance backward to Dr. Holyoke's birth, a
date preceding by more than three years the birth of
Washington.7

My friends : as I listened to }rour President to-day, I
thought, "how interesting it is to note, as they move for-
ward, and all keep in line, the onward march of succes-
sive generations." The grandfather of your President,
Robert by name, I vividly recall ; a man of impressive
presence and of marked influence. Then came the son,
that second Robert, who counted not the cost, but threw
himself boldly, as a statesman, into the intellectual con-
flict which preceded, by long years, that national triumph
which he was not spared to see. And now, here is the
grandson keeping step in his turn, as he gives his mind to

• Soe Proceedings, Vol. v, pp. 60-61.

"See Historical Collections, Vol. xxxn, pp. 117-122.

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the public welfare ; and there are others of the race,
ready, we doubt not, to take up the line of march in a
kindred spirit.

Among the figures of the past that continue to rise
before me, I discern Jones Very, the modest, retiring
poet, who, as Greek tutor at Cambridge, in his walks with
one and another of us Freshmen, strengthened our best
aspirations, and drew, in later life, from such a man as the
late William Goodwin Russell, the leading advocate in
Boston, a heartfelt tribute to the value of a close personal

intercourse with such a man as
Jones Very at the forming period
of one's life.

Time and again have I heard
my father express, in glowing
terms, his sense of the inestimable
value to the Institute of the ser-
vices of the late Dr. Henry Wheat-
land.

And now let us hear Reverend
Charles T. Brooks (whose schol-
arly face always retained the sweet ingenuousness of
childhood).

I speak for himself in the closing lines of the Ode for
the Dedication of Plummer Hall, which (after alluding to
Salem as the " City of Peace") continues :

" God of Peace, the city keep !

Guarded well by watchmen three !
Sentinels that never sleep,

Learning, Faith, and Liberty.

ttolyol^e Chaw

The President here alluded to the ancient chair that he
was using, as associated with Dr. Ilolyoke. It was an
Elizabethan arm chair presented to the Historical Society
at its initial meeting in 1821, and then two centuries old,

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43

and used by Dr. Holyoke in presiding. It was brought
to Ipswich in 1(>34. There was also on the stage a finely
inlaid table brought from Japan in 171)9, in the ship
"Franklin," by Captain Devereux of Salem, who com-
manded her, — the first American vessel that traded with
Japan.8

The President then presented the Hon. Stephen Salis-
bury of Worcester as the President of a greater society
than ours, pursuing kindred aims, but which had a con-
tinent for its field instead of a county.

President Salisbury of the American Antiquarian Soci-
ety spoke as follows : —

Mr. President :

I bring cordial greetings and felicitations from the
American Antiquarian Society to its younger sister. The
Society that I represent has its
library of 100,000 volumes, its
collections of paintings, statuary,
manuscripts, coins, relics and In-
dian implements, in its Halls at
Worcester, and was founded by
Isaiah Thomas in 1812, thirty-six
years before your Society, and
yet we have every reason to be
grateful to Salem, for we possess
the major part of the Dr. William
Bentley Library.9 For this we

are indebted to his friendship for Dr. Thomas, and by his
bequest we have become possessed of Dr. Bentlev's Ger-
man library, pictures, manuscripts and books relating to

• For au account of the Holyoke Chair see Bulletin, Vol. iv, pp. 25-6 and 133-4.
Also Historical Collections, Vol. xxxu, p. 120, and Essex Register for Sept. 22,
1828, 1st pa^e, 2nd column.

» See Historical Collections, Vol. xxxu, pp. 101-2.

Berkley

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America. The books are now collected in an alcove,
which bears Dr. Bentley's name. We have the publica-
tions of the Essex Institute upon our shelves, another
cause of gratitude to Salem.

Our objects are in many respects similar to yours in the
collection and preservation of early Americana, of which
we have a large store, and in the promotion of historical
and literary enquiry, and in the investigation of archaeo-
logical questions relating especially to this Continent.
Our publications consist of the proceedings of stated
meetings and the editing of manuscripts of which we are
the custodians.

Among our local societies in Worcester we have two
to which I belong and both of them have received much
benefit from studying the system you have pursued and
I believe have copied some of your methods. The Wor-
cester Society of Antiquity has a building erected for its
purposes, containing a hall for its meetings seating three
hundred persons, a library of ten thousand volumes, and
a museum of local historical curiosities and paintings.
The building is open to the public every week day after-
noon, and stated meetings are held every month at which
essays are read and courses of lectures are given each
winter by eminent men. Once or twice each year the
Society visits localities of historic interest. The pro-
ceedings of the Society are issued in print and have now
readied their fourteenth volume.

The Worcester Natural History Society is another
organization which owns the building that it occupies
and has classes in the different departments of Natural
Science. In former years it has held field-meetings
following largely the plan you have so successfully inaug-
urated.

Not alone are societies benefited by the habit of inves-

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ligation, which they encourage by bringing students in
contact with objects to be studied, thus creating the
object-lesson system, but our higher institutions of learn-
ing are now adopting that method in teaching how to
pursue special investigations, which perhaps were first
suggested by laboratory work in Institutes like yours.

After seeing the great value of the library and collec-
tions you possess, which show the richness of the field
from which it has been drawn, that in early colonial times
was hardly second to any part of the seaboard of Massa-
chusetts and left the interior of the state entirely behind,
it cannot be doubted that the same protecting care of
interested co-laborers that has provided these collections
will secure ample quarters for future development.

The President then presented Rev. George Batchelor
of the Christian Register, as once of Salem, and the writer
of one of the best chapters of condensed Salem history
that has ever been printed.

Response of Rev. George Batchelor.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen :

I recognize the fact that not one-half of the gentlemen
upon this platform have yet spoken, and I know they
are all prepared to say something in honor of the Essex
Institute. There is only time, therefore, for me to bring
you my greeting and congratulation.

In regard to that historical sketch to which you have
so kindly referred, I said to a friend this morning that I
considered it my foremost literary achievement. It gave
me great pleasure to be asked by the sons of Salem to
contribute such an important chapter to the history of
this ancient town. I regarded it as an act giving me the
freedom of the city and making me an adopted son of
Salem. You do not allow strangers to deal with your

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antiquities and handle your precious heirlooms. When
my sketch was completed I sent it to the antiquarians of
Salem for criticism, to Dr. Wheatland, Messrs. Waters,
Rantoul and Upham. I expected to have it returned to me
in tatters. I was delighted to find it in such condition
that it could still be printed. Mr. Upham expressed his
surprise that I had been able to get so thoroughtyinto the
atmosphere of Salem. My reply was, that one who had
lived sixteen years in Salem, and loved it as I did, must
carry with him something of the atmosphere of the place.
As a reward of merit Mr. Upham presented to me for
my sketch one of his discoveries concerning the contro-
versy between the cottagers and commoners of Old Salem.
Probably he and I were the only two persons in the
United States who understood that question.

I most heartily second the appeal of your President and
the President of the University for a larger endowment
and a full display of the historical and literary treasures
in the Essex Institute. I do this partly for a personal
reason, namely, to vindicate my reputation as a truth
teller. I have travelled in all parts of the union ; I have
visited state universities, laboratories and museums, and
whenever, in answer to the boasting of some institution
which had nothing to show in comparison with your
treasures, I have begun to speak of these things in Salem,
a look of incredulity has stolen over the faces of my
hearers, and a polite but increasing reserve indicated the
belief that I was exaggerating. The presence of our
English friend, Sir Dominic Conaghi, suggests a similar
experience by way of illustration. I was travelling in
Switzerland with an Englishman who dilated upon the
habit of exaggeration common to Americans. I asked
for a sample. " Oh I" he said, " they tell big stories about
everything ; the size of their farms, for instance." "Well,"

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I replied, "there are some big farms in the United States.
For instance, on the Pacific coast there are wheat farms
that it would take a span of horses a week to draw a
furrow around." That is a simple fact, but the English-
man, greatly amused, threw himself back, saying "That
is the biggest lie yet." There is another reason. With-
in ten years half a million visitors have registered at the
Peabody Academy of Science. In the century to come
that number will be greatly increased. All over the
country new attention is being paid to the antiquities, to
the old families, the old names, the old relics, the old
historic spots, and whatever the newspapers may say to
the contrary, it is true that there are in all parts of the
country Americans who look with love and reverence
towards the homes of their ancestors, and what they con-
sider the shrines of the national life.

This celebration is unique. In no other city of this
size in the country could such an assemblage be gathered
with such a purpose, with such substantial reasons for
congratulation. But, Mr. President, you see I am tempted
to trespass beyond my limit. Were I to make an oration
instead of a speech, I should say that, in the forty years
before the building of our railroads, Salem was foremost
among the towns and cities of America in four different
ways (not to claim too much). She led in war, as the
records of her naval experience attest. She led in com-
merce, as all the world knows. She led also in literature
and in religion. Just one sample fact of the scores which
might be cited. Salem represented the two great divis-
ions of Congregationalism to such an extent that she
may fairly be credited with leadership. The Theological
School at Andover came out of Salem, as did also the
Plummer professorship of morals in Harvard University.
I have long wished that 1 might devote myself to the

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history of Salem, but I have been a busy man and many
other things have claimed my attention and made impos-
sible what would be for me a task of the most agreeable
description.

The President said :

You will all agree with me that this commemoration
would be incomplete without a word of respectful tribute
to the memory of Henry Wheatland, and I know of no
one better fitted, in his training and career, to pronounce
that word, than the President of the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science, a Salem boy, an
early associate of the Institute, grown up under the tute-
lage of Doctor Wheatland himself. May I ask Professor
Putnam to say a word in memory of Doctor Wheatland ?

Professor Frederick Ward Putnam spoke in substance as
follows :

He said he had attended the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the Essex Institute and had then promised himself that,
if he lived, he would attend the fiftieth.

He had been early on intimate terms with Doctor
Wheatland, who had for some reason taken a very special
and active interest in his development. He became when
a mere boy a member of the Institute. It was then but
seven or eight years old. Under its influence and guid-
ance he developed those tastes for natural science and for
critical observation which had shaped his life.

He could not fail to pay his tribute, humble though it
be, to Doctor Wheatland. The dear old Doctor, ever
busy for the good of others, had befriended and encour-
aged him in his special pursuit — the study of the bird,
fish and reptile life of Essex County — and it should be
especially known and remembered that Doctor Wheatland

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was the first person in America to dredge the sea and
study the sea-fauna of this region. Professor Putnam
described the rude appliances with which this result was
accomplished.

He said that the importance of such an institution as
Doctor Wheatland had created, to the country at large,
and especially to young naturalists, could not be over-
stated. Its plans and methods were widely copied, and he
watched the development of Doctor Wheatland's schemes
with as great enthusiasm, now that he was no longer
actively engaged in them, as he did in earlier years when
his own success in life almost depended upon them.

He gave several instances of the singular and character-
istic methods adopted by Doctor Wheatland, to procure
the funds required. Once the speaker was publishing a
work describing every species of bird in Essex County.
When the last bird was ready to be mounted for descrip-
tion, the money was lacking, and Professor Putnam com-
plained to the Doctor that the specimen would perish.
Ten dollars was the sum required at that crisis, and there
was no money for that or any other purpose. Doctor
Wheatland, after a moment's thought, said, "Fred, we
must secure more members, and stuff the specimen out
of their admittance fees." And out into the street he
went and secured enough members to meet the deficit.

It seems impossible, said the speaker, to be present
at a meeting of the Institute and not to believe that
Doctor Wheatland is with us still. And Mr. Hunt also,
who had in so great a measure taken up the self-imposed
task of the Doctor and carried it on until he too has left
to others the continuation of the work. I should indeed
be recreant, said Professor Putnam, if I were present at
the fiftieth anniversary of the Institute and failed to re-
spond to the call for a word of tribute to its noble dead.

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Three other gentlemen were present who had accepted
invitations to "contribute a few words to the speaking of the
afternoon," and it was an unpleasant necessity that deprived
the audience of an opportunity to hear them.

But the ladies had spread tables on each floor of Plum-
mer Hall and were awaiting their guests since half-past
four, and as it was considerably beyond that hour, the
large assembly adjourned to the next building, where a
social cup of tea was shared by the friends of the Institute,
amidst general congratulations upon the hopeful outlook
with which the Society enters upon its second fifty years.
The two floors of Plummer Hall were brilliantly illumi-
nated, for the first time, with powerful arc lights, and the
noble upper hall was festooned with greenery also. These
rooms, when filled with guests and set off with the ele-
gantly appointed tables and tastefully varied costumes of
the ladies, made a charming picture.

SOME LETTERS RECEIVED.

Mr. Robert D. Andrews begs to thank the Secretary of the Essex
Institute for the courtesy of his invitation to be present at its celebra-
tion on March 2d, and sincerely regrets his inability to be present at
that time.
Boston, Feb. 9, 1898.

16 Fairfield Street.
Boston.
Mr. John T. Morse, Jr., accepts with pleasure the polite invitation
to be present at the celebration of the Essex Institute on March 2, 1898.
Feb. 9, 1898.

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Dear Sir : —

It A\as very kind of the Essex Institute to invite me to
their celebration on March 2d. I regret that I am quite unable to avail
of the courtesy.

Yours truly,

Henry Lee.
Brookxine,
Fkb. 9, 1898.

Massachusetts Historical Society,
Feb. 10, 1898.
Dear Sir : —

I wish to acknowledge the receipt of your kind invi-
tation to attend the celebration of the Essex Institute at Salem, on
March 2, but other engagements will prevent my acceptance. Thank-
ing you for your courtesy in the matter, I am

Very truly yours,

Samuel A. Green.

The Librarian of the Boston Athemeum thanks the Essex Institute
for its invitation and hopes to be present at the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of its founding.

Boston Athenaeum,

Feb. 10, 1898.

Phillips Academy,

Andover, Mass.,

Feb. 10, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Secretary,
Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir : —

I have the polite invitation for your celebration,
2d March, and shall hope to be present, with Prof. Wm. B. Graves,
representing the Phillips Academy at Andover, and its library.

Very respectfully,

Cecil F. P. Bancroft,

Principal

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Benj. C. Clark,
55 Kilby Street,
P. 0. Box 2,682. Boston, Feb. 10, 1898.

Mk. Henry M. Brooks,

Secretary of thk Essex Institute, Salem.
My dear Sir : —

It gives me great pleasure to accept the courteous
invitation of the Essex Institute for March 2d, personally, as also that
addressed to the President of the Bostonian Society for the same
occasion.

Mr. Curtis Guild, the President of the Bostonian Society is, I regret
to say, confined at home by an illness which gives no hope that^he
will be able to attend your meeting, and I am endeavoring'to perform
his duties by the partiality of the Board of Directors.

Sincerely yours,

Benjamin C. Clark.

247 Commonwealth Avenue.
Mr. Uriel H. Crocker thanks the Essex Institute for its invitation
to be present at the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary but regrets
exceedingly that he shall be unable to attend on that occasion.

Feb. 10, 1898.

Charles Frederick Smith's thanks to the Essex Institute for its
invitation to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its" founding.

On account of illness, he will be compelled reluctantly to decline
the invitation.
Boston, Feb. 10, 1898.

Newbury, Feb. 10, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Secretary, E^sex Institute.

Dear Sir : —

Very sincere thanks for your kind invitation for
March 2d. We, Mrs. L. and myself (presuming she is included) , accept

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With pleasure, and doubt not that the occasion will be to us both a

pleasure and a profit.

Very respectfully,

William Little,
President of the'Old Newbury Historical Society.

28 East 36th Street.

New York.

Feb'y 10, 1898.
Mr. D. F. Applkton begs to acknowledge the honor of an invitation
to join in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding
of the Essex Institute, which he very much regrets that he is unable
to accept.

To Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,
Secretary.

Union Club.

Boston.

Feb'y 10, 1898.
Dear Sir: —

I regret that my immediate departure for Europe will
prevent my acceptance of the kind invitation to attend the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of the Essex Institute on March 2d.

I am very truly yours,

Henry K. Oliver, "M.D.

Florence, Feb. 10, 1898.
Hon. Robert S. Rantoul,

President of the Essex Institute.

Dear Sir : —

I am very glad to hear that the Essex Institute is to
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its organization.

We natives of Salem of course are deeply interested in the history
of the old town and its sons and daughters should help to make its
coming celebration an occasion of the greatest success.

I am in the habit of speaking of our County to strangers as the
Mother of Counties. We would not, in the least, detract from the
high regard in which Suffolk, Plymouth and Middlesex Counties are

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looked upon, but it seems to me that old Essex, when we consider its
early religious, commercial, manufacturing, agricultural and social
development, and also bear in mind that it was the birthplace of
Rufus Putnam, Nathan Dane and Manasseh Cutler, the pioneers in the
settlement of the great West, is well deserving of the title of the
Mother of Counties.

All the towns of the County should help each other in treasuring,
most carefully, everything related to their rich history of two cen-
turies and a half.

I was greatly grieved to hear of the sudden death of my friend Mr.
Hunt, who, next to Doctor Wheatland, it seems to me has done for
the Essex Institute more, in a disinterested way, than any other per-
son. Let us try to carry out some of the plans which we know he
had formulated for enlarging and extending its usefulness.

Many of the members of the Institute know that we are greatly in
need of more room to display our valuable collections, and it is to be
hoped we may be able to raise a sufficient fund to enable us to begin
soon to extend the building in the rear by erecting fireproof annexes.

I feel quite sure that many valuable treasures would be given to the
Institute, — valuable and of great interest not only to our own people
but to the many strangers constantly flocking to the rooms to acquaint
themselves with the many objects of unique historic interest, — if the
donors could feel sure that these things would be constantly on exhi-
bition and be entirely safe from loss by fire. Sooner or later I expect
to give my valuable collection of coins to the society and these, with
the considerable addition of our own accumulations, would make, at
the start, quite a respectable display in what might be called the coin
room. Then we need a room devoted entirely to old family portraits,
and Salem is very rich in this direction. Another room might be set-
apart to the exhibit of rare historical documents and autographs.
Another to old silver, jewelry, miniatures, seals, rings, etc. Still
another to old glass and china which has graced, in the olden time,
many of the houses of the colonial and commercial periods. I think
we should soon fill our newly built fire-proof extension with the con-
siderable collections which we have already, stored away and out of
sight for want of room, increased by the treasures which are sure to
come from many people, as soon as the beneficiaries can be shown that
they shall have a safe and fitting habitation.

Let a committee be appointed to prepare a circular, to be sent out
not only to all of the members but to many others, including natives of
the town scattered all over the country, who are rich In this world's
goods and would, I feel sure, in many cases contribute generously to
a fund to be devoted to enlarging our society's building.

Sincerely yours,

Francis II. Lee.

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Boston, Mass., Feb. 10, 1898.
Dkak Sir : —

I thank you for the compliment — but it will.be impos-
sible for me to attend at the Essex Institute Anniversary.

Resp. yrs.,

WM. I. BOWDITCH.

Gloucester, Mass., Feb. 10, 1898.
To the Sec'ry Essex Inst.
Sir:—

Your kind invitation to attend the fiftieth anniversary rec'd.
I shall try to do myself the honor of being present on that occasion,
although there is a possibility of my professional duties preventing
the fulfilment of my desires.

Yours very respt'y,

T. Conant.
Pres. Cape Ann Sci. & Lit. Ass'n.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,

Sec'y Essex Inst.

Dr. W. Z. Ripley regrets very much his inability to attend the
fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute. An engagement in New
York will preclude his acceptance of the kind hospitality extended.
Boston, Feb. 11, 1898.

House of Representativks, U. S.
Washington, D. C, Feb. 11, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

May I be permitted informally to reply to your
formal invitation to attend the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the Essex Institute? I wish very much that I could be present, but
my duties here will prevent it.

Yours very truly,

W. H. Moody.

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Cambridge, Feb. 11, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

I accept the very kind invitation of the Essex In-
stitute to be present at their fiftieth anniversary with great pleasure.

Very truly,

John Trowbridge.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,

Secretary.

Ames Building.

Boston, Mass., Feb. 11, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Secretary,
Salem, Mass.
Dear Sir : —

I thank you for your kind invitation to attend the
fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute, but I am afraid that it will
be impossible for me to be present. I am

Very truly yours,

T. Jeffkrsox Coolidge.

Brooklink, Mass.,

Feb. 11, 1898.
My dear Mr. Brooks : —

A septuagenarian cannot count very long ahead upon health and
strength for any hoped-for pleasure at a fixed date. But as you have
arranged for the afternoon of March 2d rather than the evening, I can
only hope that nothing unforeseen may deprive me of the pleasure,
upon the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute, of being present.

Most truly yours,

William Orne White.

299 Berkeley Street.

Mrs. John C. Phillips regrets extremely that she is unable to accept
the kind invitation of the Essex Institute for March second.
February eleventh.

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Washington, D. C, Feb. 11, 181)8.

Mr. Justice Gray regrets that official engagements put it out of his

power to accept the courteous invitation of the Essex Institute to

attend the fiftieth anniversary of its founding on the second of

March next.

Dear Sir : —

I am obliged for the very kind invitation to the fiftieth
anniversary of the Essex Institute March 2d, but I have an engage-
ment for that day that will prevent my acceptance.

Yours truly.

Arthur T. Lyman.
Fkb'y 11, 1898.

Tufts College, Mass., Feby. 11.
Dear Mr. Brooks : —

1 now expect to attend the exercises in cele-
bration of the semi-centennial of the Essex Institute on March 2.
Thanking you for the courtesy of the invitation

I am

Yours truly

J. S. Kingsley.

Dear Sir : —

I am in receipt of your kind invitation to be present
at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Institute.

It would give me great pleasure to attend but the increasing infirm-
ities of age compel me to decline.

With my best wishes that the second half-century of your society
may be as prosperous as the last, I remain,

Yours sincerely,

William Endicoit.
Beverly, Feb'y 11, 1898.

Tufts College, February 11, 1898.
An engagement to be at Cornell University on the 1st of March will
prevent me, very much to my regret, from joining you in the celebra-

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tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute. The high
character of the work it has done deserves commendation.

Very truly yours,

E. H. Capen.

Dr. Richard H. Derby has the honor of accepting the polite invi-
tation of the Essex Institute for March 2d, 1898.

New York, 9 West 35th St., Feb. 12, 1898.

Amos P. Tapley & Co.

Boston, Feb. 12, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq. , Secretary.

Dear Sir : —

Your favor regarding the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary is at hand; will you kindly favor me with everything in
the way of tickets or documents to which I am entitled, as I certainly
expect to use the same.

Yours truly,

Henry F. Tapley.

Feb. 12, '98.

13 Appian Way
Cambridge, Mass.
I should be glad to be present on March 2d, at the celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute which society has done so
much for the increase of knowledge and interest iu Natural History
in this state and done that so well too, but my regular school duties
will not allow it.

With many thanks for your polite invitation,

Truly yours,

Joshua Kendall.
To Henry M. Brooks,
Sec'v.

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Melrose, Mass.,

Feb. 13, 1898.
Dkak Henry : —

Many thanks for the card of invitation to the
fiftieth anniversary of the good old Institute. Be assured that, unless
prevented by some imperative professional duty, I shall attend.

Sincerely yours,

Edwin C. Boli.es.

9 Massachusetts Avenue.
Mrs. Clement Waters accepts her invitation to attend the anni-
versary of the founding of the Essex Institute, on March second, with
pleasure, and appreciates the courtesy thus shown her, and is much
interested in the occasion.
February 13, 1898.

Columbia University

In the City of New York.

President's Room, Feb. 14, 1898.
My dear Mr. Rantoul : —

I wish it were possible for me to attend the
semi-centennial of the Essex Institute on the 2nd of next month.
Unfortunately, my duties are such as to make it seem improbable that
I shall be able to be away from New York at that time.
Thanking you for your cordial tender of hospitality,
I am, with kind regards,

Yours sincerely,

Seth Low.
Hon. Robert S. Rantoul,

Essex Institute,

Salem, Mass.

The President and Librarian of Bradford Academy accept with
pleasure the kind invitation of the Essex Institute for March second.
With sincerest congratulations to the Institute upon its approach-
ing anniversary,

Very cordially,

Helen L. Cram.
Bradford Academy (Librarian).

February fifteenth.

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Boston, Tremont Building.
Feb. 15, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.

Secretary, Essex Institute.
My dear Sir : —

It gives to Mr. Bingham, the librarian of the Man-
chester Library, and myself much pleasure to accept the kind invita-
tion of the Essex Institute to be present at its fiftieth anniversary
exercises on March second.

With thanks from us both for the courtesy,

Very truly yours,

Roland C. Lincoln,
Chairman of Trustees of Manchester, Mass., Public Library.

Florence, Feb. 15th, 1898.
Honorable R. S. Uantoul,

President of the Essex Institute,
Salem,

Dear Sir,

I am glad to know that the Essex Institute is to
have a celebration of its 50th year.

Salem is the Mecca of the West. No town has such a varied
interest. No county has produced such men. The Past is as needful
to man as the Future. The Past refines. We go to Europe to see it.
The West comes here. Lying back on its fortunes & its history it
reproduces Europe in America.

Its repose, out of the vortex of materialism & recency which devours
& sterilizes the country, gives it Avhat Emerson called security of
manners & tastes invaluable to a new land. Where all is money let us
have some mind & memory & associations. Violently new as is the
interior let us show on the seacoast what we do, what we have done
with our opportunities. The world comes here, & will for endless
time where Hawthorne & the men who made Essex County lived. It
is a fortune to the town. It is an education to America.
I am with great respect, your friend,

Edward A. Silsbee.

Boston Public Library,
Librarian's Office, Feb'v 15, 1898.
Mr. Herbert Putnam, Librarian of the Boston Public Library, begs
to congratulate the Essex Institute on the achievement of its fiftieth

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anniversary, and regrets that it Is impossible for him to be present at
the celebration of that occasion.
Henry M. Bkooks, Esq.,

Secretary, Essex Institute,
Salkm, Mass.

Salem, Feb'y 15, '98.
Dear Sir : —

It is with sincere regret that I feel obliged to decline
the invitation your courtesy has extended to me to be present at the
attractive celebration of the Essex Institute's fiftieth anniversary.
It would be a rare treat to me. However I shall try to enjoy it in
imagination, and shall hope for the pleasure of seeing a good report
of it. May it be an occasion of great pleasure and interest to the
members and guests. With the best wishes for the Essex Institute
in all its objects, purposes and services, I beg you, Sir, to accept the
thanks of

Marguerite Dai.rymple.

131 Vernon Strekt,
Newton,
Feb. 15.
My dkak Mr. Brooks : —

I have received the " Post Card" in regard
to the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute and should be very
glad to have you save a ticket for Mrs. Stone and me. We are not
now members of the Institute, but we are still much interested in its
good work and we look back with much pleasure to the old Salem
days and the meetings, excursions and exhibitions in which we took a
more or less prominent part.
With kindest remembrances from both of us

I am

Very truly yours,

Lincoln R. Stone.

Henry M. Bkooks, Esq.

Skciietaky Essex Institute.

1113 Sixteenth Street

Washington. D. C.

February sixteenth.
Mrs. Spofford thanks the Essex Institute for the kind invitation for
March second, and regrets that absence from home makes it impossible
to accept.

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Naiiant, Mass.

February 16, 1898.
H. M. Brooks, Secretary,
The Essex Institute.

Dkar Sir: —

The Executive and Librarian of the Nahant Public
Library regret previous engagements for the afternoon of March 2,
18!)8. Possibly the Executive may be able to get in to the speaking at
2. 30 but "would have to take the 3.30 train (Boston at 3.30) East.
Thanking you, we are

Respectfully,

The Nahant Public Library.
Fked A. Wilson,

Executive.

Botanical Museum of Harvard University,

Feb. 17, 1898.
Dear Mr. Brooks : —

I have delayed answering the kind invitation to the Essex
Institute celebration on the 2nd of March, hoping that I might be
able to arrange matters here so that I could attend. It now seems
unlikely that I can get away from Cambridge on that date, but if I
can I shall go. Anyhow I send my best wishes.

Yours faithfully,

Geohge Lincoln Goodale.

Salem Normal School,

Salem, Massachusetts.
Mr. Walter P. Beckwith accepts with great pleasure the invitation
of the Essex Institute to the semi-centennial exercises at Academy
Hall and Plummer Hall on the afternoon of March 2<S.prox.
February the seventeenth 1898.

Harvard College Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass.
Mr. Edward C. Pickering regrets very much that he will be unable
to be present at the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute, on
account of official duties. Mr. Pickering sends his cordial congratu-
lations.

February 18.

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New England Historic-Genealogical Society,

18 Somerset Street, Boston, Feb. 18, 1898.
My dbab Sin ; —

I have been in the habit of following with large
interest, founded on a conception of mutual aims and objects, what-
ever your excellent society has done for the preservation of historic
record, family history and personal careers, honorable to Essex
County. You have accomplished great things; and every historical
student owes you a debt of gratitude.

It is with sincere regret, therefore, that I find myself obliged to
decline your courteous invitation of the 10th instant, inasmuch as
the stated meeting, in March, of this society, occurs on the day se-
lected for your celebration.

With sentiments of respect, I have the honor to remain,

Your ob't servant,

George A. Gordon,
Recording Secretary.

Salem, Feb. 18, 189S.
Many thanks for remembering me with a ticket to your entertain-
ment. I regret my inability to attend but I wish you all success.

Yours, etc. etc.

Isaiah Nichols.

Mr. Henry Pickering thanks the Essex Institute for their kind
invitation and requests the favor of a ticket to the commemorative
exercises on March 2d.

1 Otis Place,
Feb. 18, 1898. Boston.

40 Wall Street, New York, Feb. 19, 1898.
Dear Mr. Brooks : —

I am afraid I shall be unable to attend the Essex Insti-
tute celebration on the 2d of March, and therefore in compliance with
the terms of your notice I return the ticket with regret.

I hope the occasion will be successful and add to the already great
distinction of that most worthy society.

Very truly yours,

Wm. G. Choate.

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13 Doane Street.

Boston,

February 19, 1898.
Essex Institute,

Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Skcretary,
Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir : —

I regret that it is not in my power to accept your
polite invitation for March 2d, and with grateful acknowledgments of
the honor you do me, I remain,

Most respectfully yours,

John C. Palfrey.

Mr. Henry M. Brooks :

Secretary of the Essex Institute.

Washington, Feb. 19, 1898.
Hear Sir : —

I much regret that it will not be possible for me to
participate in the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the foun-
dation of the Essex Institute.

I desire, however, to unite with others in expressing my profound
appreciation of the valuable services which the Institute has rendered
to science and letters, during the last half century, and to send you
my thanks for the honor it has conferred upon me in its invitation to
take part in the exercises.

Very respectfully yours,

J. Walter Fewkes.

5 E. 17th St., New York City,
19th Feb'y, 1898.
Mv dear Sir : —

I am very sorry that it will be impossible to attend
the anniversary meeting of the Essex Institute, owing to my duties
here, and I should be very glad if some other officer of the Beverly
Historical Society were invited to represent us in my stead.
I remain, with best wishes for the good of the Institute,

Very truly yours,

G. E. WOODBERRY.

President, Beverly Historical Society.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.

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Plymouth,
20 February.
My drar Sib : —

I beg to acknowledge the receipt of the courteous
invitation of the Essex Institute to the President of the Pilgrim
Society to be present at the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
the Institute on March 2d, 1898. It will give me great pleasure to ac-
cept that invitation, and with thanks for the courtesy extended to the
Pilgrim Society and myself, I am

Very truly yours,
Henry M. Brooks, Es^., Arthur Lord.

Secretarv.

Hotel Biscayne,

Miami, Biscayne Bay,

Florida, Feb'y 20, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

Indeed I would like to be with you on your fiftieth
anniversary of the Essex Institute, and to compliment that body on
the success that has attended their intelligent and untiring labors in
the development of the history of Essex County. No County in this
or any other state can parallel the efforts of this Institute in its
chosen walks, and in no scant measure should gratitude be felt towards
its successive boards of able and faithful officers. Your library will
remain a monument, and your historical collections a golden mine for
historians, antiquarians and genealogists. One cannot realize by
mere verbal phrases the excellence of your collections ; one must have
gleaned and mined in them for facts, to realize the rich results of
your fifty years of labor.

I regret that my physician does not confirm the wish of my heart
to join in the feast of reason and flow of soul that will be opened at
your meeting, but my sympathies and the cooperation of the heart
are with you.

Very truly yours,

Ciias. Levi Woodbury.
Hon. Robert S. Rantoul,
President Essex Institute,
Salkm, Mass.

Dear Mr. Brooks : —

Thank you for your invitation to the Essex
Institute anniversary celebration. If here, I shall be glad to come.

Yours truly,
Feb. 20, 1898. H. L. Higginson.

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220 Fenn'a Ave., Aurora, III.,

Monday, Feb. 21, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,

Secretary, Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.
Dear Sir : —

The card of invitation to be present on March 2d was
received on Saturday p. M. 19th. I should like to be there, but it will
not be convenient, so I return the card as requested.

Next Monday, 28th inst., will be my birthday, and I shall then be
eighty-two years old.

Yours truly,

Edward S. L. Richardson.

John Noble accepts with great pleasure the invitation of the Essex
Institute for March 2d.

Boston, Feb. 21, 1898.
Court House,

Pemberton Square.

Bradford Library,
Feb. 22, 1898.
Mr. Henry M. Brooks.

Dear Sir :

I wish to thank you most cordially for your
kind invitation to be present at the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex
Institute and regret that it is impossible for me to accept it. I know
I should enjoy it very much.

Yours respectfully,

Kate E. Johnson,
Librarian.

The President of the Faculty of Andover Theological Seminary re-
grets that he is unable to accept the invitation of the Essex Institute
to be present at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary, on March
the second.
Andover, February the twenty-third.

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Newton Centre,

Feb. 23, 1898.
Mr. Henry M. Brooks,

Secretary.
Dear Sih : —

I thank you for your courteous invitation to the
half-century commemoration of the Essex Institute. But at this season
of the year my regular duties demand what time and strength are
at my command. Hoping the occasion will be full of interest to all
concerned, I am, dear sir,

Yours very sincerely,

Alvah Hovey.

Homestead,

No. Andover, Mass.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq.,

Secretary of the Essex Institute,

Salem.
Dear Sir : —

I duly received, through you, the courteous invitation
of the Essex Institute to attend the ceremonies of the fiftieth anni-
versary of its foundation. Circumstances beyond my control compel
me to decline the invitation so pleasantly tendered. With thanks and
kindest good wishes,

Very sincerely yours,

Wm. J. Dale.

Massachusetts Horticultural Society,

No. 101 Tremont Street,

Boston, Feb. 23, 1898.
Dear Sir : —

Your card of invitation to attend the celebration of
the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute was duly received, as
was also a ticket of admission to Academy Hall and Plummer Hall.
The occasion will be of much interest to me, not only as the Secretary
of a Society kindred to one of the departments of the Institute, but
as even present at the meeting when the Institute was organized.
I thank you for the invitation and, health and strength permitting,
hope to attend.

Yours truly,

Robert Manning,

Secretary M.H.S.

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1 University Place.
New York,

Feb. 23, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Secretary.
My dear Sir : —

I regret extremely that business engagements pre-
vent my accepting the very courteous invitation of the Essex Institute
for March 2d, for which I tender hearty thanks.

Yours very truly,

Edward King.

Trinity College,

Hartford, Conn., Feb. 24, 1898.
Dear Sir : —

I regret that my engagements will not permit me to
be present at the half-century commemoration of the founding of
the Essex Institute on the second of March.

I beg you to accept my thanks for the invitation, as it would have
oeen a great pleasure to me to be there on such a memorable occasion.

Faithfully yours,
Secretary, Geo. Williamson Smith.

Henry M. Brooks,
Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

Speakek'8 Room, State House, Boston,

Fkb. 24, 1898.
Hknry M. Brooks, Esq.,

Secretary Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir : —

I thank you for the invitation to be present at the
half-century commemoration of the founding of the Essex Insti-
tute at Salem, March 2, 1898, and regret that my prior engagements
do not permit of my acceptance.

Congratulating the Institute on its past and with best wishes for
its future, I remain,

Yours very truly,

John L. Bates.

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Tiik Phillips Exetek Academy,

Exeter, N. II., Feb. 24, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Secretary,
Salkm, Mass.
Dear Sir : —

Your kind invitation for the exercises in commemora-
tion of the Essex Institute is just received. I thank you for this
attention. If my duties will alloAv me to leave Exeter on March second,
I shall be very glad to be present at the exercises.
Thanking you for the attention shown me, I am

Yours very truly,

Harlan P. Amen,

Principal.

Dear Mr. Rantoul: —

I shall be glad to use the ticket so kindly sent for the fiftieth anni-
versary of the Essex Institute.

My connection with the Institute antedates its incorporation, as I
presented to the Legislature, during my first year in the House of
Representatives, as a member from Salem, the petition of -which the
incorporation was the sequel.

I hope everything will go off well, and am

Yours faithfully,

Willaro P. Phillips.
Feb. 24, 1898.

President's Room,

Brown University,

Providence, Feb. 24, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

I feel highly complimented by the receipt of this

ticket; but, as I am so situated that I cannot use it, beg to return it.

Sincerely,

E. Benj. Andrews.

Francis A. Osuorn presents his thanks to the Essex Institute for
the courtesy of its invitation to attend the fiftieth anniversary of its
founding on March 2 next, and regrets that imperative business en-
gagements on that day deprive him of the pleasure of accepting it.
Boston, Feb. 25, 1898.

70 BULLETIN OF THE E8SEX INSTITUTE.

Salem, Massachusetts,
Feb. 25, 1898.
H. M. Brooks, Sec'y E. I.

My dear Sir: —

Please extend to the officers and members of the Institute
my grateful thanks for their invitation to attend the celebration of its
golden anniversary, and my deep regret that I find myself unable to
join them on that notable occasion, much as I should be delighted
to do so. One of the severest deprivations incident to my prolonged
stay within the domain of Old Time is my inability to visit the at-
tractive halls of the Institute, delve among its historic treasures and
enjoy the congenial companionship always sure to be found there, as
it was for years my privilege to experience. But we all find, sooner
or later, that this Potentate is an absolute despot, and is not accus-
tomed to wield his hour glass and scythe in accordance with the con-
venience, desires or caprices of auy mortal, and Ave must perforce
submit to his decrees .

So, being in my 85th year, and much the worse for wear, I am com-
pelled to acknowledge :

" It if, time to be old

To take in sail : —

******
As the bird trims his to the gale,

I trim myself to the storm of time;
[ man the rudder, reef the sail,

Obey the voice at eve obeyed at prime."

The most I can hope for is to read the record of proceedings which
are sure to be of absorbing interest, and to revive and live over again,
in my seclusion, the vivid memories of the past,
Subscribing myself your fellow member and friend,

Charles W. Palfray.

per P.

Providence, Feb. 25, 1898.
Mr. Henry M. Brooks,

Secretary Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir: —

It is a matter of great regret to me that I shall not be
able to be present at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Essex Institute, to show my respects for its founders
and present efficient workers who have built up an institution that
not only reflects credit upon the City of Salem but also upon the State
of Massachusetts and the Nation.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY <>F THE INSTITUTK. 71

It would be invidious to name individuals to whom honor is due,
except for oue name, and that is Dr. Henry Wheatland to whom the
Institute is the most fittiug memorial. Please accept my thanks for
the honor conferred in inviting me, and convey my regrets to your
committee.

Sincerely yours,

Alfred Stonk.

Mr. A.RLO Batks regrets that he is unable to accept the courteous
invitation to the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex
Institute, and seuds his heartiest good wishes and congratulations.
Boston. Fkb'y 25th, 189S.

Trinity College Library,

Hartford, Conn. Feb. 26, 1898.

My dear Sir : —

I regret that I am unable to attend the interesting
commemoration on the 2d of March. The Essex Institute has had
a successful half century of work and service, and I wish it prosper-
ity for the time to come.

Truly yours,

Samuel Hart.

Cambridge, Feb. 26, 1898.
President of thk Essex Institute:

Dear Sir: —

Your personal invitation to be present at the celebra-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Insti-
tute and to take part in the speaking has just reached me. I had
previously received a general invitation from the Secretary, but had
not replied, in the hope that I might be able to arrange my engage-
ments so that I could accept.

I regret exceedingly that urgent business matters will not allow me
to be absent from Boston on the second of March.

Although it is now over twenty years since I moved away from
Salem, I have not forgotten the seven years that I lived in that city,

72 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

partly under the hospitable shelter of the Essex Institute and partly
under that of its sister institution, the Peabody Academy.

It would have been a real pleasure to me to take part in a celebra-
tion in honor of an institution to which I have been so deeply in-
debted for sympathy and encouragement at a time in my life when
these were most needed. Your institution and personal association
Avith Dr. Wheatland helped me and others to encounter the difficulties
that beset the teaching and investigation of science.

You have set before us as well as the community at large brilliant
examples of unselfish devotion to the highest purposes, that have had
predominant influence for good, not only upon the institutions with
which we have been connected, but upon all similar undertakings
throughout this country. The Essex Institute can consequently not
only congratulate its members upon the record of the past fifty years,
but most confidently look forward to the future in the hope that,
with larger means and greater opportunity, it may make the history
of the next fifty years even fuller and richer than that of the last
half-century of its existence.

Thanking you for the honor conferred by your invitation and again

expressing my sincere regret that I shall uot be able to give personal

and fuller evidence of my obligations aud interest in the work of the

Institute, I remain

Very respectfully yours,

Alpheus Hyatt.

Massachusetts Senate,
President's Room, State House, Boston,

Feb. 26, 1898.
Mn. Henry M. Brooks,

Secretary Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir : —

I thank you for the ticket of admission to your exor-
cises in commemoration of the founding of the Essex Institute at
Salem on March 2, 1898. I should be very much pleased to attend,
but the Senate will be in Session at that time and there is consider-
able business in prospect for next week and, therefore, I think I
shall have to decline your kind invitation.

Yours truly,

George E. Smith.

THK FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 73

Swami'SCott, Mass.
Feb. 27, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Sec'y.

Dear Sib : —

I regret that other important engagements will pre-
vent my being present at the fiftieth anniversary exercises of the
Essex Institute. Trusting the occasion will be a memorable one,

I am very truly yours,

Elihu Thomson.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute,
Office of the Presidknt,

Worcestkr, Mass., Feb. 27, 1898.
Mr. Henry. M. Brooks,
Secretary Essex Institute,
Salem, Mass.

Dear Mr. Brooks: —

I regret very much that another engagement

will prevent my accepting your kind invitation to join in celebrating

the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Institute, on

Wednesday next.

Thanking you very much for your courtesy in sending it, I am

Yours faithfully,

T. C. Mendenhall.

Lynn, Feb. 28, 1898.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Secretary,

The Essex Institute,

Salem, Mass.

Dear Sir : —

In reply to your kind invitation to be present at the

fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Essex Institute, permit me to

say that it would have afforded me great pleasure to be present, but I

regret exceedingly that unavoidable circumstances have arisen which

will prevent my attendance. With sincere thanks, I remain

Respectfully yours,

C. A. Ahearne, M.D.,

President Essex South District Medical Society.

ESSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XXX 5*

74 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Public Library,

Kockport, Mass., Feb'y 28, 1898.

Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Secretary.
My dear Sir : —

I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, your polite in-
vitation for the librarian and myself to be present at the celebration
of your fiftieth anniversary on March 2d, and regret to say that neither
of us will be able to be present.

Trusting you may have the abundant success that your Institute so
much deserves, I am

Very truly yours,

J. Loring Woodfall, Pres't Trustees.

Boston and Maine Railroad,
President's Office,

Boston, February 28, 1898.
Mr. Henry M. Brooks,
Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
Dear Sir : —

I thank you for your invitation to be present at the
fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Essex Institute, on the
2d prox., but regret that an important engagement will keep me in
Boston that day and will prevent me from being present.

Yours truly,

Lucius Tuttle,

President.

New England Magazine.

Boston, Mass ,
Hon. Robert S. Rantoul, Pues't. &c. Feb. 28, 1898.

Dear Sir : —

I am sincerely sorry that the pressure of many duties
will prevent my being present at your interesting meeting on Wednes-
day. It would give me great pleasure to be present at your celebra-
tion. The Essex Institute has done a unique and splendid service in
historical scholarship and study in Massachusetts, and we are all your

debtors.

Yours truly,

Edwin D. Mead.

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE [NSTITUTE. 75

Topsfiki.d Historical Society,

Topsfield, Mass., Feb. 28th, 189S.
Henry M. Brooks, Esq., Sec'y.
Deak Sir : —

Thanks for your kind invitation to attend the semi-
centennial of the founding of the Essex Institute.

I very much regret my inability to be present on the interesting
occasion. Wishing every success to the meeting, I am

Yours, very truly,

Justin Allen,
Pres't Topsfield Hist. Soc'y.

Feb. 28, '98.
Am very sorry that I cannot be present.

Augustus Hemenway.

City of Newburyport,

Office of City Clerk.
March 1st, 1898.
Mr. Henry M. Brooks, Secy.

Salem, Mass.
Dear Sir : —

It is with regret that I am obliged to return the en-
closed ticket, but at this time my official duties are such that I am
obliged to take this course.
Thanking you for the courtesy extended I am,

Very rsp'y yours,

George h. Plumer,
Mayor.

No. Andover,

March 1, 1898.
Mr. Moses T. Stevens accepts with pleasure the invitation of the
Essex Institute to attend the celebration of their fiftieth anniversary
on March 2, 1898.

76 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Amherst College Library,
W. I. Fletcher, Librarian.

Amherst, Mass., Mar. 1, 1898.

H. M. Brooks, Esq.,

Secretary Essex Institute.

Dear Sir : —

According to your request I return the enclosed card.
Up to to-day I have hoped to use it myself, but am now obliged to
give up the pleasure of beiug with you to-morrow.

Very truly yours,

W. I. Fletcher.

Cambridge, March 1, 1898.
Dear Mr. Rantoul,

It is a source of regret to me that I am prevented by
other engagements from being present at to-morrow's celebration in
Salem. I always feel a real affection for the home of my ancestors
and for the institution which has so well preserved the history of
past centuries.

Cordially yours,

Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

63 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston.

March 1, 1898.

The President of the Historic-Genealogical Society is unable, owiug

to illness, to visit the Essex Institute on the celebration of its fiftieth

anniversary, much to his regret. Representatives of the Society will

be present.

The President congratulates the Society upon its success and use-
fulness to the community.

Salem, March 2, 1898.
Dear Mr. Rantoul : —

I had hoped until a few days that I should
be able to attend the exercises of the'tlftiethauuiversary of the found-

THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 77

ing of the Essex Institute, but I find the state of my health will not
permit me to be present, which I deeply regret.

Hoping that the occasion will be enjoyed by all who take part.
I am

Sincerely yours,

Henry M. Brooks,

Secretary Essex Institute.
To

Hon. Robert S. Rantoul.

Providence, R. I.
March 3, '98.
My dear Mr. Brooks :

I am very much mortified to find that the 2d
of March has passed, and your kind invitation to attend the celebra-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Essex Institute not answered.
I hoped to be able to attend, and meant to write you to that effect, but
your invitation came while I was unwell, and finally got overlooked.
I have the warmest attachment to the Institute, and remember
with gratitude all it has done for me, and wish it every prosperity and
success.

Yours sincerely,

A. S. Packard.
Henry M. Brooks, Sec'y.

Williams College,

Williamstown, Mass., March 14, 1898.
My dear Sir : —

Only yesterday I noticed ou the ticket which you
so kindly sent me for your commemoration the request to return the
ticket if I could not use it. I regarded it as a great compliment that
you sent me such a ticket but found it impossible to attend your exer-
cises. Will you please accept my most humble apology for having
failed to acknowledge so marked a courtesy, and especially for
neglecting to return the ticket.

Very respectfully yours,

Franklin Carter.
To IT. M. Brooks, Sec'v, &c.

LIST OF THE PRESENT MEMBERS

OF THE
ESSEX INSTITUTE.

The names of life members are marked thus

NAME.

Abbot, Edwin H.,
Abbot, Dr. Francis E.,
Abbot, Walter L.,
Abbott, Joseph C,
Abbott, Nathaniel,
Adam, William L.,
Albree, Edward C,
Albree, John, jr.,
Allen, Charles F.,
Allen, Miss Elizabeth C,
Allen, George H.,
Allen, George L.,
Almy, James F.,
Almy, Mrs. James F.,
Anderson, John M.,
Andrews, Clement W.,
Andrews, William P.,
Annable, E. Augustus,
Appleton, Daniel,
Appleton, Francis H.,
Appleton, William S., jr.,
Archer, Miss Kebecca,
Arey, Reuben,
Arey, William R.,
(78)

RESIDENCE.

Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Pittsfield, Mass.
Swampscott, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Marblehead, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

Aug. 17, 1896.
Dec. 2, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
June 4, 1894.
Jan. 16, 1888.
Aug. 3, 1896.
March 21, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
June 18, 1894.
July 2, 1894.
Jan. 16, 1888.
July 2, 1894.
July 6, 1864.
March 19, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
June 3, 1895.
July 22, 1870.
Aug. 6, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
Aug. 10, 1870.
Aug. 17, 1896.
July 7, 1879.
Dec. 16, 1867.
March 21, ,1898.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

79

NAMK.

Arrington, Pliilip P. P.,
Arvedson, George,
Ashton, Joseph N.,
Austin, Arthur S.,
Averill, Arthur L.,
Averill, James W.,
Averille, Arthur A.,
Aylward, George A.,

Bachelder, Nathan A.,
Baker, Henry A.,
Balcomb, James W.,
Bancroft, Robert H.,
Barker, Benjamin,
Barker, William G.,
Barnes, Mrs. Carrie E.,
Barnes, Mrs. Clara L.,
Barrett, Henry H.,
Bartlett, Albert L.,
Bartol, Miss Elizabeth H.
Batchelder, Miss Alice S.,
Batchelder, George E.,
Batchelder, Henry M.,
Battis, Edward C,
Battis, Mrs. Marie A.,
Beaman, Charles C.
Beckwith, Walter P.,
Bell, John H.,
Bell, Rev. S. Linton,
Bennett, Josiah C,
Benson, Arthur F.,
Benson. Frank W.,
Berry, Francis T.,
Bigelow, Walter K.,
Hillings, Robert C,
Bixby, Henry M.,
Bixby, S. Arthur,
Blaisdell, Dr. George W.,
Blake, Mrs. S. Parkman,
Blake, Mrs. Sarah P. L.,
Blaney, 1) wight,
Blaney, Mrs. Edith H..
Blodgette, Georse B.,
Boardman, T. Dennie,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.
Montville, Ct.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

II a

Methuen, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
Maiden, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass.
Manchester, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Amesbury, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

New York City.
Salem, Mass.

Marblehead, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Manchester, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Rowley, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

DATE OK ELECTION.

Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Aug. 17, 1896.
Sept. 17, 1894.
June 1, 1896.
Dec. 23, 1867.
Aug. 6, 1894.
Feb. 18, 1895.

April 16, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
Sept. 18, 1893.
Sept. 4, 1894.
June 18, 1895.
April 30, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Nov. 2, 1896.
July 20, 1896.
Aug. 5, 1895.
May 20, 1895.
Aug. 10, 1894.
April 7, 1879.
Nov. 2, 1885.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Oct. 19, 1896.
July 2, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
June 4, 1894.
Dec. 21, 1891.
May 7, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
April 5, 1869.
July 15, 1895.
May 7, 1894.
June 18, 1894.
Feb. 17, 1896.
Aug. 5, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
June 4, 1890.
Oct. 1, 1894.
July 2, 1894.
Aug. 5, 1895.

80

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Bond, Henry R.,
Bosson, Mrs. Jennie H.,
Bowditch, Miss Charlotte,
Bowditch, Charles P.,
Bowditch, Dr. Henry P.,
Bowditch, William I.,
Bowditch, Dr. Vincent Y.,
Bowdoin, Mrs. Lucy H.,
Bowker, Charles,
Bowker, George,
Boyd, Ernest,
Braden, Mrs. James,
Bradlee, Mrs. Josiah,
Breed, Amos F.,
Bridgman, Lewis J.,
Briggs, Miss Mary E.,
Brigham, Clifford,
Brodie, Rev. James F.,
Brooks, John F.,
Brooks, Henry M. ,
Brooks, Lyman B.,
Brooks, Miss Margarette W.
Brooks, Peter C,
Brooks, Dr. Stephen D.,
Brown, A. Percy,
Brown, Alfred B.,
Brown, Arthur II.,
Brown, Charles D.,
Brown, Edward F.,
Brown, Frank A.,
Brown, Miss Mary G.,
Brown, Mrs. Willard H.,
Browne, A. Parker,
Browne, Mrs. Charlotte C,
Browne, Edward C,
Browne, Josiah H.,
Browning, John F.,
Buckham, Rev. John W.,
Buffum, Charles,
Buffum, Edgar S.,
Bullock, Mrs. Mary C,
Burchmore, Stephen W.,
Bushby, Nathan A.,

RESIDENCE.

New London, Ct.
Reading, Mass.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Medford, Mass.
Port Townsend, Wash
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Maiden, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Worcester, Mass.
Hartford, Ct.
Peabody, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

May 6, 1895.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Nov. 19, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
Jan. 7, 1895.
Jan. 3, 1876.
July 6, 1864.
July 0, 1864.
June 4, 1894.
Jan. 19, 1880.
May 4, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Aug. 21, 1893.
Feb. 6, 1888.
Aug. 15, 1892.
Jan. 20, 1890.
Dec. 12, 1856.
May 3, 1848.
Oct. 21, 1895.
Feb. 7, 1898.
Oct. 1, 1894.
May3, 1897.
Feb. 21, 1898.
July 5, 1887.
July 19, 1886.
May 3, 1897.
June 4, 1894.
June 30, 1882.
May 6, 1895.
Oct. 15, 1896.
Sept. 17, 1894.
March 4, 1895.
March 21, 1892.
July 2, 1894.
March 6, 1893.
July 3, 1893.
Sept. 3, 1895.
Sept. 18, 1893.
.Inn. 21, 1895.
July 1, 1895.
March 21, 1898.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

81

NAMK.

Butler, James S.,
Buxton, Charles A.,
Buxton, Mrs. Ellen M.,

Capen, Edward,
Carey, Arthur A.,
Carey, J. Henry,
Carleton, Joseph G. S.,
Carlton, Samuel A.,
Carroll, Thomas,
Case, William S.,
Casey, James C,
Cass, William F.,
Cate, Frederick,
Chadwick, Joseph H.,
Chamberlain, Edward W.,
Chamberlain, James A.,
Chamberlain, Mrs. Mary E.
Chamberlain, Miss Sarah P.
Chapman, Frank N.,
Chapman, William 0.,
Chappie, William D.,
Chase, Miss Ellen,
Chase, George,
Chase, Philip A.,
Chase, R. Stuart,
Cherrington, Dr. Leroy J.
Chever, Charles G.,
Chever, William J.,
Chisholm, Wallace A.,
Choate, Charles F.,
Choate, Miss Hannah E.,
Choate, John H.,
Choate, Joseph H.,
Choate, William G.,
Clark, Clarence S.,
Clark, Rev. DeWitt S.,
Clark, Miss E. Dora,
Clark, Miss Elizabeth H.,
Clarke, Dr. Maurice D.,
Cleveland, Dr. Clement,
Cleveland, Miss Mary S.,
Cleveland, Treadwell,

ESSEX INST. BULLETIN,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Peabody, Mass.

Haverhill, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Hartford, Ct.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Louisville, Ky.
Boston. Mass.
Birmingham, Eng.
Salem, Mass.

Brookline, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

North Andover, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

New York City.

Salem, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.
New York City.
vol. xxx 6

DATE OK ELECTION.
Oct. 1, 1894.
June 20, 1882.
May 3, 1897.

July 20, 1896.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
March 1G, 1896,
July 15, 1895.
May 21, 1894.
Dec. 2, 1895.
Feb. 21, 1898.
March 19, 1894,
May 6, 1895.
Jan. 21, 1895.
July 1, 1895.
May 10, 1865.
March 4, 1895.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Jan. 19, 1874.
April 6, 1885.
June 4, 1894.
Feb. 3, 1896.
Nov. 21, 1887.
June 4, 1894.
July 20, 1896.
March 20, 1893.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Sept. 17, 1894.
May 19, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
July 2, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
March 19, 1894-
March 3, 1879.
March 16, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
May 6, 1895.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Sept. 20, 1887.
Sept. 16, 189S.

82

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Cleveland, William A.,
Coburn, Charles H.,
Codman, Mrs. Martha P. R.,
Coggin, Dr. David,
Cogswell, George,
Colby, Henry L.,
Colby, William R.,
Cole, Albert E.,
Cole, Miss Caroline J.,
Cole, Leland H.,
Collester, Frank M.,
Collier, Perry,
Collins, George A.,
Converse, Elisha S.,
Conway, John H.,
Cook, Henry A.,
Cook, Howard H.,
Coolidge, T. Jefferson, jr.,
Coolidge, William W.,
Corliss, Benjamin H.,
Cotting, Charles E.,
Cousins, Frank,
Cox, Francis,
Creesy, George W.,
Crowninshield, Mrs. Benj.W.
Cummins, Miss Martha,
Cunningham, Henry W.,
Cunningham, Lawrence,
Currier, Benjamin W.,
Currier, John J. ,
Curtis, Charles E.,
Curtis, Heman F.,
Curwen, Miss Bessie H.,
Curwen, Charles F.,
Curwen, George R.,
Cushman, Miss Alice,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.
Lowell, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Bradford, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Beverly, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Maiden, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Gloucester, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Philadelphia, Pa.

DATE OF ELECTION.

April 1, 1895.
Nov. 4, 1895.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Jan. 8, 1874.
1870.
April 21, 1884.
April 1, 1895.
May 7, 1894.
Dec. 17, 1894.
March 19, 1894.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Sept. 4, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
Dec. 17, 1894.
Nov. 5, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
Feb. 7, 1898.
Oct. 1, 1894.
April 16, 1894.
Nov. 4, 1895.
Feb. 3, 1896.
Sept. 8, 1886.
March 10, 1853.
Oct. 4, 1886.
Oct. 15, 1894.
Aug. 5, 1895.
Oct. 15, 1894.
Feb. 19, 1883.
April 16, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
Jan. 21, 1895.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 14, 1849.
April 21, 1896.

Dabney, Lewis S.,
Daland, John,
Dalton, J. Frank,
Dalton, Larkin A.,
Damon, Frank C,
Damon, Robin,

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Jan. 6, 1896.
April 1, 1895.
March 19, 1894.
Nov. 19, 1894.
May 21, 1895.
Jan. 16, 1888.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

83

NAME.

Dane, Joseph F.,
Danforth, Charles H.,
Danforth, JohnM.,
Davis, Andrew McF.,
Davis, Charles S.,
Davison, Herbert N.,
Dean, James F.,
Dennis, Albert W. ,
Dennis, William D.,
Derby, Dr. Haskett,
Derby, Dr. Richard H.
Derby, Willard F.,
Derby, William H.,
D'Este, Julian,
Devereux, Miss Marianne S.
Devlin, John H.,
Dexter, Mrs. Sarah R.,
Dickson, Walter S.,
Doane, Miss May B.,
Dodd, Andrew W.,
Dodge, Elisha P.,
Dodge, Miss Ellen M. ,
Dodge, Rev. John W.,
Dodge, Robert F.,
Dorr, George B.,
Dow, George Francis,
Dowbridge, Henry F.,
Downing, John P.,
Draper, Miss Annie C,
Driver, Edward A.,
Driver, Dr. Stephen W.,
Driver, William R.,
Dubois, Mrs. Clara P.,
Dudley, Dr. Albion M.,
Dwight, Mrs. Theodore F.,
Dyer, Charles G.,

RESIDENCE. DATE OF ELECTION.

Salem, Mass. Sept. 16, 1857.

June 4, 1894.
Lynnfleld Center, Mass. Feb. 4, 1895.

Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Newburyport, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass.
Wenham, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Topsfleld, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Chicago, 111.
Cambridge, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Aug. 20, 1894.
June 18, 1895.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Feb. 1, 1897.
May 3, 1880.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Jan. 7, 1895.
June 4, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
July 2, 1894.
Feb. 15, 1897.
Sept. 16. 1895.
Sept. 17, 1894.
March 20, 1893.
Sept. 16, 1895.
Feb. 21, 1898.
July 2, 1894.
Nov. 14, 1866.
March 16, 1896.
Aug. 20, 1894.
April 1, 1895.
Aug. 15, 1892.
Nov. 5, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
July 1, 1895.
Sept. 16, 1895.
March 5, 1888.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Jan. 13, 1868.
Nov. 19, 1894.
Aug. 19, 1895.

* Eaton, John D.,
*Edes, Henry H.,
Edwards, Henry W.,
Emerton, Prof. Ephraim,
Emilio, Luis F.,

Salem, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
New York City.

Emmerton, Miss Caroline O., Salem, Mass.

July 22, 1876.
March 17, 1886.
Aug. 26, 1885.
Nov. 5, 1894.
Oct. 15, 1894.
March 19, 1894.

84

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Emmerton, Charles S.,
Emmerton, E. Augustus,
Emmertou, Frederick A.,
Emmerton, Mrs. Jennie M.,
Endicott, Henry,
Endicott, Mrs. Louise,
Endicott, William, jr.,
Endicott, William C,
Endicott, William C, jr.,
Endicott, William, 3d,
Entwisle, J. Clifford,
Evans, Forrest L.,
Everett, Mrs. Katherine,

RESIDENCE.

West Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Cleveland, 0.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
it (i

Washington, D. C.

DATE OF ELECTION.

Feb. 7, 1898.
Jan. 16, 1888.
June 1, 1896.
March 19, 1894.
Sept. 16, 1895.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
May 31, 1854.
Oct. 1, 1894.
April 1, 1895.
March 6, 1893.
Aug. 6, 1894.
Feb. 4, 1895.

Fabens, B. Louis,
Fabens, Frank P.,
Fabens, Mrs. William C,
Fanning, James,
Farley, Charles B.,
Farnham, Rev. Edwin P.,
Farnham, Frank E.,
Farnham, Mrs. Stephen H.,
Farrell, Hugh F. E.,
Farrington, Mrs. Susan B.,
Felt, John P.,
Fettyplace, Miss Sarah B.,
Fifleld, Charles H.,
Files, Miss Lucy W.,
Fiske, John,
Fitz, Andrew,
Flagg, Augustus,
Fleming, Charles H.,
♦Fletcher, Horace,
Fogg, Francis A.,
Foote, Arthur,
Forness, Arthur A.,
Foster, Charles H. W.,
Foster, James M.,
Foster, John M.,
Fowler, Harriet P.,
Fox, Charles W.,
Frankle, Jones,
Franks, Rev. James P.,

Salem, Mass.

Marblehead, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Salem, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Manchester, Mass.
New Orleans, La.
New York City.
Boston, Mass.
Beverly, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Danvers, Mass.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Haverhill, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Oct. 15, 1894.
June 4, 1894.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Feb. 1, 1897.
Sept. 4, 1894.
July 3, 1893.
Feb. 4, 1895.
March 4, 1895.
Oct. 18, 1897.
March 21, 1892.
July 16, 1894.
June 18, 1894.
June 18, 1894.
May 15, 1893.
Aug. 20, 1894.
March 19, 1894.
Aug. 5, 1895.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Oct. 16, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
April 6, 1896.
April 1, 1895.
April 1, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1889.
April 1, 1895.
May 6, 1895.
Nov. 17, 1873.

LIST OF IMiESENT MEMBERS.

85

NAME.

Frost, Miss Mary F.,
Fuller, George W.,
Fuller, Henry 0.,
Fuller, Mrs. Lucy 1)..
Furness, George A.,

*Galloupe, Charles W.,
Gallup, Z. Augustus,
Gardner, Mrs. Daniel B.,
Gardner, Dr. Frank A.,
♦Gardner, Mrs. Isabellas..
Gardner, John L.,
Gaston, Mrs. Louisa B.,
Gauss, John D. H.,
Gavet, Louis F.,
Geary, John E.,
George, Edward B.,
Gifford, Josiah H.,
Gifford, Nathan P.,
Gilbert, Mrs. Clara L..
Gilbert, Shepartl D.,
Gillis, James A.,
Glover, Miss Grace A.,
Godden, Miss Mary E.,
Goldthwaite, Mrs. Eliza H.,
Gooch, Frank A.,
*Goodell, Abner C,
Goodell, Zina,
Goodhue, Mrs. Albert P.,
Goodhue, George C,
Goodhne, Mrs. George C,
Goodhue, Miss Margaret,
Goodhue, Samuel V.,
Gove, William H.,
Grant, Miss Beatrice,
Grant, George W.,
Gray, John C,
Gray, Reginald,
Greenlaw, Mrs. Lucy H.,
Greenlaw, William P.,
Green ough, Mrs. Charles E.
* Gregory, James J. H.,
Groves, Mrs. Henry B.,

UKSIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Swampscott, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Bostou, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Haverhill, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Winchendon, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Now Haven, Ct.
Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Cambridgeport, Mass.

Beverly, Mass.
Marblehead, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

June 4, 1894.
July 1G, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
Jan. 7, 1895.
June 18, 1894.

Dec. 2, 1894.
Sept. 18, 1893.
March 21, 1898.
Feb. 18, 1898.
Aug. 22, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Oct. 18, 1897.
Aug. 6, 1889.
May 7, 1894.
July 5, 1887.
Jan. 17, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 7, 1898.
Feb. 21, 1898.
April 30, 1894.
Jan. 4, 1854.
Feb. 6, 1888.
Feb. 16, 1891.
Feb. 21, 1898.
March 18, 1895.
Nov. 18, 1857.
April 30, 1894.
March 21, 1898.
July 16, 1894.
March 21, 1898.
July 2, 1894.
April 16, 1894.
Sept. 5, 1882.
Aug. 20, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
Jan. 21, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Dec. 16, 1895.
May 4, 1896.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1868.
July 18, 1887.

«6

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Haddock, Dr. Charles W.,
Hale, Henry A.,
Hale, Mrs. Henry A.,
Hale, Miss Mary S.,
Hale, Willard J.,
Harlow, Arthur F.,
Harrington, Francis,
Harrington, Henry,
Harrington, Mrs. Henry,
Harrington, Richard,
Harris, George M.,
Harris, George R.,
Harris, Howard P.,
Hart, John W.,
Harwood, Herbert J.,
Haskell, Mark H.,
Haskins, Leander M.,
Havemeyer, William F.,
Hawkes, Nathan M.,
Hayden, Mrs. Harriet P.,
Hayden, Dr. William R.,
Hay ward, William P.,
*Hemenway, Augustus,
Henderson, Daniel,
Henderson, Joseph,
Higginson, Miss Annie S.,
Higginson, Francis L.,
♦Higginson, James J.,
Hill, B. Frank,
Hill, Rev. James L. ,
Hill, William M.,
Hines, Ezra D.,
Hitchings, A. Frank,
Hodgdon, Samuel,
Hodges, Miss Mary O.,
Hoffman, Mrs. Eliza A.,
Holmes, Oliver W.,
Hood, Martin H.,
Horner, Mrs. Charlotte N. S.
Horton, William A.,
How, George C,
Howe, Joseph S.,
Hubon, William P.,

RESIDENCE. DATE OF ELECTION.

Beverly, Mass. March 5, 1883.

Salem, Mass. Feb. 2, 1891.

Feb. 21, 1898.

June 18. 189-1.
Newburyport, Mass. Feb. 7, 1898.
Salem, Mass. Oct. 5, 1896.

Boston, Mass. Nov. 18, 1857.

Salem, Mass. Jan. 16, 1888.

Jan. 16, 1888.

July 16, 1894.

Aug. 4, 1879.
Brookline, Mass. Nov. 9, 1870.

Salem, Mass. July 2, 1894.

April 30, 1894.
Littleton, Mass. March 4, 1895.

Salem, Mass. March 4, 1895.

Boston, Mass. Dec. 16, 1895.

New York City. Sept. 16, 1895.

Lynn, Mass. April 30, 1894.

New York City. April 15, 1895.

Bedford Springs, Mass. Sept. 3, 1895.
Salem, Mass. Sept. 6, 1854.

Boston, Mass. Aug. 6, 1894.

Salem, Mass. May 8, 1867.

July 15, 1895.
Magnolia, Mass. Feb. 3, 1896.

Boston, Mass. Aug. 20, 1894.

New York City. Sept. 17, 1894.

Salem, Mass. Feb. 4, 1895.

July 2, 1894.

Aug. 20, 1894.
Danvers, Mass. June 4, 1874.

Salem, Mass. April 2, 1894.

Everett, Mass. April 6, 1896.

Topsfield, Mass. Dec. 19, 1870.

Salem, Mass. Jan. 21, 1889.

Boston, Mass. Oct. 1, 1894.

Lynn, Mass. Sept. 3, 1895.

Georgetown, Mass. March 18, 1895.
Salem, Mass. Oct. 27, 1893.

Haverhill, Mass. May 6, 1895.

Methuen, Mass. Aug. 20, 1894.

Salem, Mass. March 15, 1897.

LIST OF I'KESENT MEMBERS.

87

NAME.

Hunnewell, James F.,
Hunt, Miss Sarah E.,
Huntington, Arthur L.,
Huntington, Miss S. Louisa,
Hussey, William G.,
Hutchinson, John I.,
Hyde, William L.,

Jelly, Dr. George F.,
Jolly, William H.,
Jelly, William M.,
Jenks, Rev. Henry F. ,
Jenkins, Lawrence W.,
Jewett, Daniel L.,
Jewett, George R.,
Johnson. E. Walter,
Johnson, Enoch S.,
Johnson, Henry D.,
Johnson, Mrs. Mary C,
Johnson, Samuel,
Johnson, Thomas H.,
Jones, Gardner M.,
Jones, Mrs. Gardner M.,
Jordan, Cyrus A.,

RESIDENCE.

Charlestown, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Canton, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

Aug. 19, 1895.
May 1, 1865.
April 19, 1875.
Dec. 19, 1881.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Feb. 1, 1897.
March 19, 1894

Jan. 6, 1896.
July 6, 1864.
July 16, 1894.
Nov. 16,1891.
Dec. 2, 1895.
Sept. 17, 1894.
June 4, 1874.
March 4, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
May 21, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Dec. 2, 1894.
Jan. 3, 1876.
April 8, 1889.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Apr. 16, 1894.

Kemble, Dr. Arthur,
Kemble, Laurence G.,
Kemble, H. Parker,
Kimball, David P.,
Kimball, Miss Elizabeth C,
Kimball, Frank R. ,
Kimball, Mrs. Harriet K.,
Kimball, Miss Hattie L.,
Kimball, Mrs. Sarah A.,
Kimball, Miss Sarah S.,
King, Miss Annie F.,
King, Miss Caroline H.,
King, D. Webster,
King, Miss Harriet M.,
King, Mrs. Sarah G.,
King, Miss Susan G.,
King, Warren D.,
Kinsman, Mrs. S. Augusta,

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Methuen, Mass.
Salem. Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Jan. 13, 1864.
Sept. 17, 1894.
April 21, 1896.
Oct. 1, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
April 16, 1894.
June 20, 1882.
June 20, 1882.
July 16, 1889.
Nov. 16, 1891.
June 21, 1897.
May 4, 1896.
April 15, 1895.
July 27, 1893.
April 1, 1895.
May 4, 1896.
Feb. 21, 1898.
April 30, 1894.

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE

NAME.

Kittredge, Dr. Thomas,
Knight, Edward H.,

*Larnson, Frederick,
Lander, Miss Helen D.,
Lane, Edward,
Lane, George W.,
Lang, Benjamin J.,
Langmaid, John H.,
Latimer, Rev. George D.,
*Lawrence, Amory A.,
Lawrence, Samuel C,
Leach, Henry C,
Leach, J. Granville,
Leavitt, James A.,
Lee, Francis H.,
Lee, Mrs. Francis H.,
Lee, George C,
Lee, Miss Harriet R.,
Lemon, William H.,
Leonard, William,
Liebert, Miss Katherine S.
Lincoln, Solomon,
Little, Arthur,
Little, Mrs. Clara B.,
Little, David M.,
Little, James L.,
Little, John M.,
Locke, Frank E.,
Lord, Miss Mary H.,
Lord, George E.,
Lord, George R.,
Loring, Augustus P.,
Loud, George B.,
Low, David W.,
Low, Dr. Harry C,
Low, Seth,
Low, S. Fred,
Lowell, Francis C,
Lowell, Miss Georgina,
Lyman, Miss Florence,

McCusker, Patrick J.,
Machado, Ernest M. A.,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Medford, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Washington, D. C.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.

CC it

Salem, Mass.

Brookline, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
New York City.
Gloucester, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

April 16, 1894.
March 6, 1865.

Feb. 8, 1865.
April 30, 1894.
Jan. 6, 1896.
March 19, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
April I, 1878.
July 3, 1893.
Sept. 16, 1895.
April 1, 1895.
April 16, 1894.
Sept. 16, 1895.
Jan. 15, 1894.
Nov. 8, 1855.
Jan. 17, 1876.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Nov. 19, 1894.
April 15, 1895.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Feb. 4, 1895.
Nov. 9, 1864.
Nov. 5, 1894.
June 8, 1886.
June 8, 1886.
Jan. 16, 1888.
Dec. 21, 1891.
Aug. 6, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
April 16, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Nov. 18, 1895.
April 2, 1894.
Feb. 2, 1891.
June 4, 1894.
June 4, 1894.
Dec. 2, 1894.
March 4, 1895.
Feb. 4, 1895.

Sept. 5, 1882.
Feb. 15, 1892.

LIST OF PRKSKNT MEMBERS.

89

NAME.

Mclutire, William S.,
Mack, Thomas F.,
Mackintire, E. Augustus,
Mackintosh, Richards B.,
McMulhm. William P.,
Macnair, John,
Mahoney, Jeremiah T.,
Maloon, Edward A.,
Manchester, Kev. Alfred,
Mann, George S.,
Manning, Mrs. Louisa,
Manning, Richard C,
Manning, Robert,
Manning, Richard H.,
Mansfield, Miss Harriet E.,
Mansfield, Miss Helen,
Mansfield, Henry K.,
Matsuki. Bunkio,
Meek, Henry M.,
Meriam, Dr. Horatio C,
Merrill. Eugene H.,
Merrill, Henry W.,
Merrill, Samuel S.,
Merrill, W. Harvey,
Merrill, William,
Messervy, Mrs. Lucy J.,
Meyer, George von L.,
Millea, Lawrence E.,
Miller, Henry P.,
Miller, Lewis F.,
Millet, Edward L.,
Millett, Nathan H.,
Millett, Mrs. Needham C,
Mills, Mrs. Ellen L.,
Missud, Jeau M.,
Monroe, Alexander,
Moody, William H.,
Moore, David,
Morse, Edward S.,
Morse, Henry W.,
Morse. John G.,
Morse, John T., jr.,
Morse, Mrs. Leopold,

ESSEX INST. BULLETIN,

KKSIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Beverly, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Kansas City, Mo.
Salem, Mass.
Gloucester, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

West Newbury, Mass
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Beverly, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Salem, Mass.
Lawrence, Kan.
Haverhill, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.

VOL. XXX

HATK OF ELECTION.

Oct. 1, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1889.
April 3, 1882.
Feb. 21, 1898.
April 16, 1894.
Feb. 4, 1895.
June 4, 1874.
Feb. 21, 1898.
July 3, 1893.
Jan. 7, 1895.
May 5, 1879.
March 26, 1851.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Jan. 4, 1897.
June 18, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
June 4, 1894.
July 2, 1894.
April 16, 1883.
Feb. 5, 1872.
June 18, 1894.
Jan. 4, 1892.
April 30, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
Sept. 20, 1887.
Dec. 3, 1894.
Feb. 6, 1882.
May 4, 1896.
Dec. 20, 1875.
June 4, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 4, 1895.
March 4, 1895.
June 20, 1882.
Sept. 16, 1895.
March 4, 1895.
Feb. 22, 1854.
Nov. 9, 1864.
March 21, 1898.
Feb. 2, 1891.
March 18, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1894.

90

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Morse, Robert M.,
Moseley, Charles W.,
Moulton, John S.,
Moulton, Henry P.,
Mudge, Dr. Kate G.,
Mullen, Thomas A.,
Mulligan, Bernard J.,
Munroe, Willard E.,
Munroe, William F.,

Neal, Peter M. ,
Neal, William S.,
Nevins, Mrs. Mary E.,
Nevins, Winfleld S.,
Newcomb, George,
Newell, Francis A.,
Newell, Frank F.,
Newhall, Charles H.,
Newhall, Howard M.,
Nichols, Miss Abby F.,
Nichols, Mrs. James B.
Nichols, William S.,
Niles, William H ,
Noble, Edward H.,
Norcross, Orlando W.,
Norris, Charles H.,
Northey, William,
Nourse, John W.,

RE8IDENCE.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Peabody, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.
Beverly, Mass.
Worcester, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Ipswich, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

May 6, 1895.
Aug. 19, 1895.
Nov. 16, 1891.
April 16, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
Dec. 7, 1896.
June 4, 1894.
March 21, 1898.
Feb. 18, 1895.

May 6, 1895.
April 30, 1894.
Feb. 7, 1898-
Oct. 5, 1877.
Dec. 11, 1875.
March 19, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 4, 1895.
July 2, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
July 2, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
Feb. 4, 1895.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Feb. 17, 1896.
May 17, 1897.
Nov. 5, 1866.
May 21, 1894.

O'Keefe, John A.,
Oliver, Mrs. Grace A.,
Oliver, Miss Grace L.,
Oliver, Miss Sarah E. C.,
Oliver, Mrs. Susan L.,
Orne, Joel S.,
Osborn, Franklin,
Osborn, Lyman P.,
Osborne, Aaron,
Osborne, Miss Elizabeth B.,
Osborne, Dr. George S.,
Osborne, Rev. Louis S.,
Osborne, Theodore M.,
Osgood, Alfred,

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
ii (i

Cambridge, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Newark, N. J.
Salem, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass.

July 5, 1887.
Nov. 20, 1876.
Jan. 7, 1895.
Nov. 21, 1887.
March 18, 1895.
Nov. 18, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Feb. 17, 1896.
Feb. 4, 1895.
July 2, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Jan. 6, 1896.
Oct. 21, 1879.
May 3, 1869.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

91

NAME.

Osgood, Joseph B. P.,
Osgood, Nathan C,
Osgood, Robert,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

March 6, 1865.
June 4, 1894.
Jan. 22, 1863.

Packard, Walter C,
Page, Miss Anne L.,
Page, Dr. Charles W. ,
Page, T. Nichols,
Paine, Everett,
Paine, Rev. George S.,
Paine, Mrs. Ida U.,
Paine, Robert T.,
Palfray, Charles W.,
Palmer, William H. H.,
Parker, Charles H.,
Parker, Charles W.,
Parker, William P.,
Parsons, Joseph M.,
Parsons, William M.,
Patten, Paul B.,
Pay son, William E.,
Peabody, Edwin N.,
Peabody, Rev. Endicott,
Peabody, Francis,
Peabody, George A.,
Peabody, George L.,
Peabody, Henry W.,
♦Peabody, John E.,
Peabody, S. Endicott,
Peach, Dr. Harry R.,
Peach, Dr. Philip H.,
Pearl, Joseph H.,
Peck, Walter F.,
Peirce, Miss Annie S.,
Peirce, James M.,
Peirson, Miss Abbie L.,
Peirson, Charles L.,
Peirson, Dr. Edward L.,
Peirson, Mrs. Horatio P..
Pendar, Oliver S.,
Pendar, Samuel D.,
Percy, Dr. George E.,
Perkins, Miss Anna F.,

Salem, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Asylum Station, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Marblehead, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

C< CI

Gloucester, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.
Groton, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Bradford, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Sioux Falls, S. D.
Salem, Mass.

April 16, 1894.
Aug. 2, 1886.
Nov. 13, 1896.
June 18, 1894.
April 15, 1895.
Jan. 21, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Oct. 1, 1894.
June 11, 1851.
March 19, 1894.
April 3, 1893.
March 17, 1896.
Jan. 17, 1876.
April 30, 1894.
Nov. 4, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Oct. 19, 1896.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Oct. 21, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
May 20, 1895.
Aug. 25, 1864.
June 6, 1881.
April 8, 1857.
June 4, 1894.
Jan. 16, 1888.
May 6, 1895.
July 2, 1894.
June 18, 1895.
Jan. 21, 1895.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
April 16, 1894.
Oct. 1, 1894.
Oct. 21, 1895.
Jan. 4, 1892.
June 21, 1881.
July 16, 1894.

92

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Perkins, Charles C,
Perkins, Charles W.,
Perkins, Frank S.,
Perkins, Harry S.,
Perkins, John W.,
Perkins, Nathaniel F.,
Perkins, Thomas,
Perley, Edward L.,
Perley, Sidney,
Perry, Miss Lncy VV.,
Peterson, Joseph N.,
Pettengill, John W.,
Pevear, Henry A.,
Pew, William A., jr.,
Phelps, James F.,
Philbrick, Miss Eliza,
Philbrick, Miss Helen,
Philbrick, Leroy B.,
Phillips, Mrs. John C,
Phippen, Arthur H.,
Phippen, Mrs. Arthur H.,
Phippen, Charles E.,
Phippen, Dr. Hardy,
Phippen, J. Hardy,
Phippen, Joshua,
Pickering, George W.,
Pickering, Henry,
Pickering, John,
Pickman, Dudley L.,
Pingree, David,
Pingree, Mrs. Harriet E.,
Pinnock, Thomas G.,
Poirier, Dr. Emile,
Pomeroy, Miss Persis M.,
Pool, Wellington,
Poole, Edmund A.,
*Poor, Alfred,
Poor, Joseph II.,
Pope, Ira P.,
Porter, Alexander S.,
Porter, Charles C,
Porter, Frederick,
Pousland, Mrs. Helen L.,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Maiden, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Wenham, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

New York City.
Wenham, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Dauvers, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

March 15, 1897.
Aug. 19, 1895.
April 30, 1894.
June 4, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
April 18, 1898.
July 19, 1886.
June 4, 1894.
Sept. 15, 1879.
July 2, 1894.
Nov. 16, 1891.
May 4, 1896.
April 15, 1895.
May 7, 1894.
Sept. 26, 1896.
March 21, 1886.
March 21, 1886.
Aug. 21, 1893.
March 18, 1895.
June 4, 1894.
Feb, 21, 1895.
June 18, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
May 3, 1848.
May 21, 1877.
Feb. 17, 1890.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Jan. 16, 1888.
July 16, 1894.
Aug. 10, 1870.
March 18, 1895."
June 18, 1894.
Nov. 14, 1894.
June 16, 1890.
July 2, 1894.
July 1, 1895.
Jan. 15, 1866.
July 16, 1894.
Nov. 5, 1894.
Dec. 3, 1894.
March 21, 1898.
Aug. 17, 1874.
March 18, 1895.

LI8T OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

H3

NAME.

Prang, Louis,
Pratt, Henry J.,
Preston, Charles H.,
Preston, Frederick G.,
Price, Charles H.,
Price, Joseph,
Prince, Edward,
Prince, John,
Proctor, Abel H.,
♦Proctor, James H.,
Puffer, Rev. Charles H.,
Pulsifer, William H.,
Putnam, Charles A.,
Putnam, Earl B.,
Putnam, Eben,
Putnam, Frederick W.,
Putnam, George,
Putnam, George F.,
Putnam, George G.,
Putnam, Mrs. M. Lowell,
Putnam, Webster F.,
Pynchon, Rev. Thomas R.,

Quinn, Joseph F.,

Randall, Edward H.,
Rantoul, Augustus N.,
Rantoul, Neal,
Rantoul, Robert S.,
Rantoul, William G.,
Rea, Charles S.,
Read, Miss Abby L.,
Read, Charles W.,
Reith, William,
Rernick, John A.,
Remick, Timothy,
Reynolds, John P.,
Reynolds, Mrs. John P.,
Rhoades, Charles C,
Rice, Henry G.,
Rice, N. W.,

Richardson, Frederick P.,
Richardson, Dr. Maurice H.
Ricker, Guy W.,

RESIDENCE.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Quincy, 111.
Essex, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Newton Center, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Danvers, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Hartford, Ct.

Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

HATE OK ELECTION.

July 15, 1895.
Feb. 27, 1874.
April 15, 1889.
April 1, 1895.
June 11, 1866.
May 7, 1894.
Jan. 7, 1895.
March 4, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Feb. 1, 1897.
April 2, 1894.
Dec. 2, 1895.
Nov. 8, 1855.
Jan. 21, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1889.
Nov. 8, 1855.
March 18, 1895.
April 30, 1894.
Aug. 17. 1874.
Oct. 7, 1895.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Dec. 2, 1895.

Aug. 20, 1894.

Sept. 17, 1894.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Sept. 17, 1894.
Dec. 9, 1863.
Sept. 17, 1894.
July 6, 1864.
May 20, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
May 1, 1893.
Sept. 2, 1895.
Jan. 6, 1896.
Oct. 2, 1876.
Feb. 7, 1898.
Sept. 17, 1894.
April 4, 1892.
June 18, 1895.
June 21, 1881.
Sept. 4, 1894.
July 2, 1894.

94

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Robb, Mrs. Russell,
Robbins, Dr. Jesse,
Roberts, Miss Martha L.,
Robinson, Edward,
Robinson, John,
Robson, Matthew,
Rogers, Charles S.,
Rogers, Jacob C,
Rogers, Jacob C, 2d,
Ropes, Albeit G.,
Ropes, Charles F.,
Ropes, Edward D.,
Ropes, Miss Emilie,
Ropes, Miss Eliza O.,
Ropes, George F.,
Ropes, John B.,
Ropes, Miss Mary P.,
Ropes, Walter P.,
Ropes, William,
Ropes, William H.,
Ropes, Rev. William L.,
*Ropes, Willis H.,
Ruggles, Henry S.,
Rnssell, Albert B.,
Russell, Mrs. Clara L.,
Russell, Mrs. George G.,
Ryder, J. Orne,

RESIDENCE.

Concord, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

it (i

Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
New York City.
Salem, Mass.

Brooklyn, N. Y.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Andover, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Wakefield, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

July 2, 1894.
June 17, 1867.
Oct. 3, 1887.
July 6, 189G.
Dec. 18, 1861.
April 14, 1873.
July 16, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Feb. 7, 1898.
April 19, 1897.
Feb. 7, 1898.
March 21, 1898.
Feb. 7, 1898.
July 3, 1893.
June 9, 1887.
April 6, 1896.
July 3, 1893.
April 19, 1897.
Dec. 3, 1894.
April 19, 1897.
March 18, 1895
March 26, 1894.
Nov. 4, 1895.
April 30, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
March 18, 1895.
April 15, 1895.

Sabine, Mrs. Caroline R.,
Safford, Daniel E.,
Safford, William O.,
Saltonstall, Philip L.,
Sanborn, Nathan P.,
Sanders, Nathaniel S. H.,
Sanders, Thomas,
Sargeant, Cyrus,
Sargeant, Mrs. Cyrus,
Sargent, Franklin H.,
Saunders, Miss Mary T.,
Savory, Tristram T.,
Say ward, Charles A.,
Sears, John H.,
Sears, Mrs. Lucinda C,

Brookline, Mass.
Hamilton, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Milton, Mass.
Marblehead, Mass.
Danvers, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass.
Plymouth, N. H.
Plymouth, N. H.
Salem, Mass.

Ipswich, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

July 15, 1895.
Dec. 8, 1858.
Jan. 21, 1891.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Sept. 4, 1894.
July 20, 1896.
July 2, 1894.
May 17, 1897.
Feb. 21, 1898.
March 21, 1898.
Jan. 21, 1878.
July 6, 1864.
Aug. 20, 1894.
July 16, 1866.
June 21, 1897.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

95

NAME.

Shattuck, George H.,
Shattuck, Mrs. George H.,
Shaw, Edward P.,
Shaw, Francis,
Shaw, Mrs. G. Howland,
Shepard, George A..
Shepard, Miss Sally W.,
Sherman, Edgar J.,
Sherman, Dr. Sarah E.,
Sibley, George,
Silsbee, George S.,
Silver, William,
Sim, Arthur W.,
Sim, Francis D.,
Simonds, Nathaniel G.,
Sistare, Mrs. Margaret G.,
Skinner, Mrs. Francis,
Sluman, Benjamin W.,
Small, Herbert,
Smith, Alonzo H.,
Smith, A. Augustus,
Smith, Charles F.,
Smith, Edward A.,
Smith, Henry P.,
Smith, Horace N.,
Smith, J. Foster,
Smith, S. Frederick,
Smith, William M. ,
Smith, Winchester,
Sohier, William D.,
Sowdon, Arthur J. C.,
Spencer, John E.,
Spinney, Benjamin F.,
Spofford, Miss Aphia T.,
Spofford, PaulN.,
Sprague, Mrs. Elizabeth R.,
Stanley, John W.,
Stanwood, James R.,
Starr, Miss Maria G.,
Stearns, Henry S.,
Stearns, Richard H.,
Stearns, Richard S.,
Stearns, William S.,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Newbury port, Mass.
Wayland, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Lawrence, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.

Salem, Mass.
New York City.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
t < (i

Salem, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Groveland, Mass.
New York City.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Portsmouth, N. H.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

March 21, 1898.
March 19, 1894.
March 18, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
June 9, 1887.
July 2, 1894.
Nov. 5, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
Aug. 16, 1881.
Sept. 17, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
Dec. 3, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
April 16, 1866.
June 3, 1895.
March 4, 1895.
May 6, 1895.
Aug. 20, 1894.
Sept. 4, 1894.
Jan. 31, 1855.
May 4, 1896.
June 19, 1893.
Feb. 21, 1898.
July 18, 1887.
Nov. 16, 1891.
July 2, 1894.
Jan. 7, 1895.
April 16, 1894.
April 21, 1896.
Jan. 6, 1896.
July 16, 1894.
April 15, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Aug. 20, 1894.
March 4, 1895.
Jan. 9, 1857.
Sept. 16, 1895.
Aug. 20, 1894.
March 18, 1895.
Jan. 7, 1895.
July 15, 1895.
Jan. 16, 1888.

96

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Stickney, Miss Cornelia A.
Stickney, George A. D.,
Stimpson, Thomas M.,
Stone, Arthur R.,
Stone, Owen B.,
Stone, Mrs. Richard,
Storey, Moorfield,
Streeter, Gilbert L.,
Sutton, William,
Swan, Dr. William D.,
Swasey, William H.,
Symonds, Ernest F.,
Symonds, Stillman G. ,
Symonds, Walter E.,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Peabody, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Cambridge, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass
Salem, Mass.

Lynn, Mass.

DATE OF ELECTION.

July 1. 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Feb. 1, 1854.
June 8, 1885.
Jan. 16, 1888.
March 17, 1896.
May 6, 1895.
July 18, 1849.
March 21, 1898.
Jan. 4, 1897.
July 16, 1894.
June 18, 1894.
March 19, 1894.
Feb. 18, 1895.

Tapley, Henry F.,
Temple, Arthur S.,
Tenney, Miss Martha J.,
Thayer, Edward S.,
Thayer, J. Heni'y,
Thayer, Oliver,
Thompson, Elihu,
Thorndike, John L.,
Thorndike, S. Lothrop,
Tibbetts, Miss Emma A.,
Tierney. Patrick F.,
Tilestou, Mrs. Mary W.,
Titus, Alonzo F.,
Todd, William C,
Touret, Benjamin A.,
Towle, Rev. Edward D.,
Tracy, Miss Louise,
Treat, John IL,
Trefry, William D. T.,
Trumbull, Edward B.,
Trumbull, Walter H.,
Tuck, Joseph D.,
Tucker, Richard D.,
Tuckerman, Charles S.,
Turner, James H.,
Turner, Ross,
Tuttle, Charles II.,
Tyler, Loren S.,

Lynn, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Haverhill, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Swampscott, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Cambridge, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Mattapan, Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Atkinson, N. H.
Salem, Mass.
Brookline, Mass.
New Haven, Ct.
Lawrence, Mass.
Marblehead, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Beverly, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Feb. 4, 1895.
May 7, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
April 3, 1865.
June 18, 1895.
Oct. 1, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
Feb. 17, 1896.
Sept. 14, 1894.
April 1, 1895.
May 7, 1894.
Dec. 17, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
Dec. 17, 1894.
April 30, 1894..
Sept. 18. 1893.
Oct. 18, 1897.
Dec. 21, 1891.
May 21,1894.
July 16, 1894.
May 7. 1894.
Dec. 18, 1861.
July 2, 1894.
April 30, 1894.
May 7, 1894.
Oct. 18, 1886.
May 6, 1895.
Oct. 5. 1896.

LIST OF PRESENT MEMBERS.

97

NAME.

Upham, William P.,
Upton, Mrs. Annie M.
Upton, King,

Vaughn, George C,
Vaughn, Ira,
Very, George F.,
Very, Nathaniel A.,
Very, Nathaniel T.,
Vickery, George A.,

RESIDENCE.

Newtonville, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Salem, Mass.

DATE OK ELECTION.

Jan. 22, 1863.
May 20, 1895.
May 7, 1894.

Oct. 1. 1894.
Dec. 16, 1895.
Aug. 6, 1894.
June 12, 1867.
July 16, 1894.
June 18, 1894.

Waldo, Miss Phebe M., Salem, Mass. Jan. 15, 1893.

Walton, Eben N., <* << Feb 28, 1898.

Ward, Miss Elizabeth C, Boston, Mass. Nov. 8, 1897.

Ward, Frederick A., Salem. Mass. April 30, 1894.

Ward, J. Langdon, New York City. April 30, 1894.

Ward, Samuel G., Washington, D. C. March 4, 1895.

Wardwell, Henry, Salem, Mass. April 30, 1894.

Ward well, Linville H., Beverly, Mass. April 30, 1894.

Warner, Miss Annie L., Salem, Mass. March 21, 1898.

Warner. Caleb II., Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 17, 1894.

Washburn, Calvin R., Salem. Mass. May 7, 1894.

Washburn, Dr. George H., Boston, Mass. Feb. 17. 1896.

Waters, David P., Salem, Mass. May 23, 1868.

WTaters, Edward S., Holyoke. Mass. Feb. 3, 1896

Waters, Henry F , London, Eng. May 4, 1870.

Waters, Rev. T Frank, Ipswich, Mass. April 16, 1894.

Waters, William C, jr., Salem, .Mass. Jan. 16, 1893.

Webb, Arthur N., " " April 30, 1894.

Webb, Dr. Benjamin, " " April 21, 1852.

Webb, Mrs. William G., " " March 19, 1894.

Webber, William G., " " Oct. 18, 1886.

Welch, Charles 0., " " July 3, 1893.

Welch, William L., " " July 5, 1887.

West, Arthur W., " " Jan. 19, 1880.

West, Miss Emma C, " " Jan 17, 1898.

West, Miss Mary E., " " March 2. 1S74.

West, Mrs. William C, " " July 16, 18J»4.

Westcott, Mrs. Stephen E., Boston. Mass. Nov. 18, L895.

Weston, Mrs. Charles H., Salem, Mass. June 4. 1894.

*Wei more, George P., Newport, R. I. Oct. 15, 1894.

Wheatland, Mrs. Ann Maria, Salem, Mass. Oct 4, 1H86.

Wheatland, Miss Elizabeth, " " March 15, 1869.

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98

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

NAME.

Wheatland, George, jr.,
Wheatland, Richard,
Whipple, Albert I.,
Whipple, Everett,
* Whipple, George M.,
Whipple, Mrs. George M.,
Whipple, George N.,
Whipple, William H.,
White, Alden P.,
White, George M.,
White, McDonald E.,
Whitehead, Harry A.,
Whitehouse, Francis M.,
Whitney, Mrs. Mary W.,
Whitwell, Mrs. Mary C,
Wilkins, S. Herbert,
Williams, George W.,
Williams, John S.,
Williams, Tucker D.,
Willson, Miss Alice B.,
Willson, Miss Lucy B.,
Willson, Robert W.,
Wilson, Andrew J.,
Winchester, Frank,
Wingate, Joseph C. A.,
Winn, John K.,
*Winthrop, Robert C, jr.,
Witliington, Lothrop,
Wolcott, Roger,
Woodbury, Charles J. H.,
Woodbury, Chas. Levi,
Woodbury, Mrs. David E.,
Woodbury, Dr. George E ,
Woodbury, Mrs. Harriette E.
Woodbury, James A.,
Woodbury, John,
Woodbury, John P.,
Woodbury. Dr. Louis A.,
Wright, Carroll D.,

RESIDENCE.

Salem, Mass.

Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Chicago, 111.,
Lawrence, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Salem, Mass.

Cambridge. Mass.
Salem, Mass.
Peabody, Mass.
Stratham, N. H.
Key West, Fla.
Boston, Mass.
Newburyport, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Gloucester, Mass.
Methuen, Mass.

Winchester, Mass.
Lynn, Mass.
Boston, Mass.
Grovelaud, Mass.
Washington, D. C.

DATE OF ELECTION.

Feb. 7, 1898.
July 3. 1893.
April 30, 1894.
May 6, 1895.
June 7, 1854.
July 15, 1878.
July 6, 1896.
Nov. 14, 1856.
March 17, 1884.
Dec. 15, 1873.
June 18, 1895.
July 16, 1894.
Jan. 6, 1896.
Dec. 19, 1870.
Nov. 19, 1894.
Feb. 21, 1898.
April 30. 1894.
July 2, 1894.
Nov. 19, 1894.
April 6, 1896.
Jan. 21, 1895.
Aug. 20, 1894.
July 16, 1894.
April 15, 1895.
Feb. 18, 1895.
Jan. 6, 1896.
Sept. 15, 1894.
Nov. 18, 1895.
Dec. 3, 1894.
April 15, 1895.
April 15, 1895.
July 2. 1894.
Aug. 6, 1894.
March 21, 1898.
Dec. 2, 1895.
April 15, 1895.
Dec. 1, 1890.
Aug. 19, 1895.
Jan. 21, 1895.

Young, Charles L.,

Boston, Mass.

July 15, 1895.

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

Abbott, TIenry Larcom, Xew York.
Adains.Herb't Baxter,Ba]tiinore,Md.
Agassiz, Alexander, Cambridge.
Applet on, William Sumner, Boston.

Babbidge, Charles, Pepperell.
Battle, Rev. Kemp P.,Chapel Hill.X.C.
Bean, Tarleton H., Washington, D.C.
Bell, Alexander Graham,

Washington, D. C.
Bourse, Peter. Geneva, X. Y.
Brackett, C. F., Princeton, N. J.
Brewer, W. H., New Haven, Conn.
Brush, George J., Xew Haven, Conn.

Caldwell, Samuel L., Providence, R.I.
Cembrano, F. M., Manilla.
Chever, Sarah Ann. Melrose.
Chew, Samuel, Germantown, Pa.
Clark, Thomas M., Providence, R. I.
Collett, John, Iudianapolis, Ind.
Couch, Elliott, Washington, D. C.
Cox, E. T., New Harmony, Ind.
Cresson, Ezra T., Philadelphia, Pa.
Crowell, E. Payson, Amherst.
Cummiugs, John, jr., Woburn.
Cutting, Hiram A., Lunenburg, Vt.

Dall, Wm. H., Washington, D. C.
Damon, Robert, Weymouth, Eng.
Davis, Henry, McGregor, la.
De Roax, William, Panama.
Downs, Andrew, Dutch Village.
Diaper, Lyman C, Ma Hson, Wis.

Edwards, Arthur M., Xew York.
Edwards, Richard.

Fewkes, J. Walter, Boston.

Gill, Theodore, Washington, D. C.
Goodale, George L., Cambridge.
Green, Samuel A., Boston.
Grriscom, John, Xew York.
Guild, Reuben A., Providence, R. I.

Hall, Elihu, Athens, 111.
Banaford, Jeremiah L., Watertown.
Mart, Charles H., Philadelphia, Pa.
Hickox, John H., Washington, D. C.
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth,

Cambridge.
Hoffman, W. J., Washington, D. C.
Hollenbush, H. W., Reading, Pa.
Holmes, Francis S., Charleston, S. C.
Huntington, Geo. C, Kelley's Id., O.
Hyatt, A lpheus, Cambridge.

Johnstone, Christoph., Baltimore, M i.

Kellogg, A., San Francisco, Cal.
Kilby, Wm. H., Boston.
Kilham, Rodney A., Temple, X. H.
Kimball, James P., Washington,!). C.
Kingman, Bradford, Bridgewater.

Latour, L. A. H., Montreal, Can.
Lea, Thomas G., Cincinnati, O.
Levette, George M., Indianapolis, Ind.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, Boston.
Lovett, Thomas D., Maiden.

Marsh, O. C, Xew Haven, Conn.
Marshall, George W., London, Kug.
Minot, Charles Sedgwick, Boston.

Xewberry, J. S., Xew York.
Nibs, W. II., Cambridge.
Xorwood, J. G., Columbia, Mo.

Oliver, James Edward, Ithaca, X. Y.
Ordway, Albert, Washington, D. C.
Osten-Sacken, R., St. Petersburg, R.

Packard, A. S., Providence, R. I.
Perkins, Augustine T., Boston.
Perkins, Charles P., Annapolis, Md.
Pickering, Edward Charles,

Cambridge.
Play fair, Lyon, London, Eng.
Poey, P., Havana, Cuba.

(99)

100

CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.

Porter, Edward Griffin, Lexington.
Pumpelly, Raphael, Newport, R. I.

Richardson, E. S. L., Chicago, HI.
Rockwood, < >tis, Lynn.

Samuelson, James, Liverpool, Eng.
Shaler, Nath'l S., Cambridge.
Sloan, John, New Albany, Ind.
Smith, J. Challenor, London, Eng.
Smith, S. I., New Haven, Conn.
Soares, John Da Costa, Mozambique.
Stone, Alfred, Providence, R. I.
Swallow, G. C, Columbia, Mo.

Talant, James, Concord, N. H.

Uhler, P. R., Baltimore, Md.
Upton, Winslow, Providence, R. I.

Verrill, Addison E., New Haven, Ct.

Wael, Emilien de, Antwerp.
Weinland, D. F., Frankfurt - a- Main.
White, C. A., Washington, D C.
White, William Ome, Brookline.
Whitmore, Win. H., Boston.
Wilder, Burt G., Ithaca, N. T.
Wildes, J. H., San Francisco, Cal.
Wright, Geo. Frederick, Oberlin, O.

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Vol. 30. Salem: July, — December, 1898. Nos. 7-12.

ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 16, 1898.

The annual meeting was held in Plummer Hall, this
evening, at eight o'clock ; the President in the chair.

In the absence of the Secretary, Mr. John Robinson
was chosen Secretary pro tempore. The record of the
last annual meeting was read and approved.

The President read a report of the work of the Insti-
tute for the previous year which follows in full. On
motion of Mr. George M. Whipple, seconded by Vice-
President Edward S. Morse, this report was accepted and
ordered to be placed on file.

A report on the condition of the library from the
Assistant Librarian, Miss Alice G. Waters, was read by
Mr. Whipple and accepted and ordered to be placed
on file.

The Treasurer read a report of the financial condition
of the Institute, embodying suggestions of exceptional
value. This, as well as the report of the Auditor which
followed, was accepted and ordered to be placed on file.

It was voted to proceed to the election of officers for
the ensuing year. Alderman Charles H. Danforth, Mr.

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William Silver and Mr. Joseph Henderson, were ap-
pointed by the chair a committee to distribute ballots and
to receive, sort and count votes.

This committee reported that eighty-three votes had
been cast, all of which were for the following named
persons :

PRESIDENT.
EOBERT S. RANTOUL.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

Francis H. Appleton, Edward S. Morse,

Abner C. Goodell, Alden P. White.

SECRETARY. TREASURER.

Henry M. Brooks. William O. Chapman.

AUDITOR. LIBRARIAN.

Henry M. Batchelder. Miss Alice G. Waters.

COUNCIL.

George H. Allen, Richard C. Manning,

John W. Buckham, S. Endicott Pkabody,

William H. Gove, David Pingree,

Ezra D. Hines, Charles S. Rea,

Francis H. Lee, George M. Whipple.

FINANCE COMMITTEE.

The President, Chairman ex officio,
George H. Allen, H. W. Peabody,

H. M. Batchelder, David Pingree,

S. E. Peabody, The Treasurer, ex off.

Upon which the President declared the above named
persons to be elected and to be the officers of the Insti-
tute for the ensuing year.

Treasurer William O. Chapman offered the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted, and the Sec-
retary pro tempore was directed to send a copy of it to
the Secretary elect.

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"At the annual meeting of the Essex Institute, May
16, 1898,

Resolved: That owing to the long-continued and pain-
ful illness of the Secretary, Mr. Henry M. Brooks, the
Institute misses the presence of a faithful officer, and its
members the company of a delightful friend.

It is therefore

Voted: That the sympathy of the members present be
extended to Mr. Brooks, together with the sincere wish
that the coming season will bring to him renewed health
and strength."

President's Report, May 16, 1898.

This report should naturally begin with some notice of
the irreparable loss we lnive sustained in the death of Mr.
Hunt. The last meeting at which he was present was
that of Monday, January 17, addressed by Captain John
P. Reynolds. He wrote me next day regretting that, on
account of a family engagement which he named, he had
arrived at the meeting only in time to hear the general
commendation the paper elicited. The last time we met
was on Wednesday at dusk. It was a warm, damp night.
His overcoat was flung lightly over his shoulders, the
sleeves hanging loose, as was his wont. After talking in
the street about Institute matters for a while we parted,
and I saw him disappear up the broad, marble stairs of
the Holyoke Building. He seemed well. That night he
was stricken and he died on Friday. On Monday follow-
ing, January 24, Professor Mendenhall was to address
the Institute at Plummer Hall, and it was thought tittinsr
that the occasion should be availed of to put on record
and oiler to the public some recognition of our loss as a
Society and to provide for a memorial service which should
give expression of our share in a grief felt to be spon-

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taneous, profound and universal. Such action was taken
and was generally noticed by the press. Measures were
entered upon at once to this end, when it was found that
other friends of Mr. Hunt, who felt that so well known a
citizen should be commemorated by no one body, had
already arranged a memorial service for the whole public
at an early day and had secured so competent a eulogist
as Dr. E. C. Bolles. Under these circumstances it
seemed indelicate for the Institute to intervene. Dr.
Bolles' address was delivered on April 14, and left noth-
ing to be desired, and arrangements were at once made
by the Institute to give it the first place in the forthcom-
ing volume of our Historical Collections. It is now in
print. The propriety of doing something more exclu-
sively betokening the Institute's share in the general loss
is under consideration, and it is contemplated to bring
together into a chamber by themselves, so far as this can
be done without unduly disturbing the natural classifica-
tion of our books, Mr. Hunt's numerous and often costly
gifts to our art and other collections, together with the
unique and invaluable China Library collected by him
and presented to the Institute; to call the room by the
cherished name of the donor; to distinguish it with a
tablet, and to dedicate it with some simple ceremonial
in the coming autumn.

The year has been as disastrous in respect of our
losses from sickness and death as it has been fortunate in
other ways. Our admirable Librarian of the past twelve
years is no longer here to read his yearly report, and out-
Secretary, who has served since the occupancy of the
present rooms, has been unable from protracted illness to
discharge his duties for many months.

Mr. Arthur Stone, the great value of whose varied
services can be estimated only by those actively employed

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at the Institute, lias been disabled by illness throughout
the year: Miss Arvedsoii, our experienced Assistant
Librarian, was obliged from ill health to resign ; and the
able services of the Treasurer were interrupted by severe
illness for several months. I am glad to be able to say
that, with the addition of one new assistant and the very
generous cooperation in office-work of the Treasurer
since his recovery, and of Mr. George L. Peabody
throughout the winter, a partial return to the old-time
order of things has been reached ; but it is seen by every
active worker in the Society to be very far from what we
desire or what our contributors and the public have a
right to demand. Every day shows more plainly how far
the Institute has outgrown its early methods.

The year has been fairly prolific of literary work. A
new and much improved edition of the little hand-book
to the first Meeting House was issued in the spring, and
this was followed by an edition, the sixth or seventh I
think, and the fortieth thousand, of the Visitor's Guide to
Salem. This work has profited by the assiduous labors
of at least ten devoted friends of the Institute, counting
only writers and omitting artists, to several of whom
credit is due for the copious illustration of the book.
And while it has long compared well with the local guide-
books of this section, it may at last be claimed to be in
as good a condition as to accuracy and comprehensive-
ness and conciseness as we are likely at present to arrive
at. It has been printed on 215 thin, flexible pages which,
by adding four lines to each pane, are made to contain
some twenty-two pages more of matter than the preceding
edition of 1895, although that edition numbered more
pages, weighed more and was less flexible for pocket use.
A good deal of new matter and several new illustrations
were added, some errors corrected, and there would seem

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to be little remaining to he <lone, aside from changes
made necessary Uy current events, save to correct re-
maining errors of fact as they may come to light and to
renew some of the cuts which are a good deal worn.
Copies of both these guide books have been presented to
the High and Grammar Schools of the city.

The regular publications of the Institute are well ad-
vanced. The Bulletin for 1895 has been completed,
closing Volume xxvii and besides this we have added
Volume xxviii, to the Bulletin, completing the year
1896, which contains some scientific communications of
exceptional value and a paper on Roger Williams in
Salem, by the late Mrs. Henry M. Brooks, while the
first half of the year 1897 containing the report of the
yearly meeting, and the first half of the year 1898 con-
taining the report of the Fiftieth Anniversary, are both
printed and sent out. It remains to finish the year 1897
as soon as scientific material for the purpose shall come
to hand, and the year 1898 as soon as the report of this
present annual meeting can be sent to press. Thus we
have done the work of two and one-half years since the
last annual meeting in bringing the Bulletin so nearly up
to date.

Pursuant to a vote passed at the last yearly meeting,
the half-century anniversary of the Society was made the
occasion of ceremonies which were exceptionally impress-
ive, and of a gathering, from far and near, of persons
interested in the Institute which, from its spirit and qual-
ity and size, gave the highest hope to those who see the
great possibilities of our future and are willing to make
sacrifices to secure it. The presence of the President of
our leading University and of representatives of a large
part of the kindred societies of this county and vicinity ;
of the official representatives of His Excellency, the

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Governor of Massachusetts and of Her Majesty, the
Queen of England, — contributed to make the gathering
a memorable one, and the very cordial cooperation of
our Salem community was not the least hopeful feature of
the occasion.

It has been thought well to print in the current Bulletin
for 1898 a full report of the Commemoration, together
with a list of the present membership of the Institute,
and to send this number out pretty freely to all who wish
us well. Several magnificent offers of gifts to our col-
lections were made on this occasion, which, if accepted,
will mark a newT departure in the career of the Institute.

Of the Historical Collections it is enough to say that a
new volume has come out since the last meeting, which
is, with the other issues alluded to, on the table for in-
spection, and which compares favorably with its prede-
cessors. It brings the publication up to date. It
contains, with other matters, a valuable contribution to
the local history of Ipswich ; some original Topsfield
records of the 17th and the early 18th centuries ; a sketch
of our late Librarian ; two accounts of Salem Neck and
Winter Island, with a map; a statement of the grounds
upon which rests the Essex County claim to the earliest
attempt at cotton spinning and weaving, — an article repro-
duced with an illustration in the half-yearly issue of the
New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association of April
last ; the story of Arnold's march through this County
to Quebec ; an unpublished letter of Col. Timothy Pick-
ering and a list of shipping owned in Salem in 1826,
with owners' names and other data, attributed to the late
Joseph Augustus Peabody. In connection with the last
it may be mentioned that several old hand-painted charts
of the ships' signals used here toward the end of our
romantic commercial era have been framed for better

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preservation and display, and are a good deal consulted
by descendants of the famous merchants whose signals
they depict. The first half of the next volume for 1898,
numbered Volume xxxiv, is in the hands of the printer
and is nearly ready.

Two courses of lectures have been sustained through-
out the winter, of the quality of which I need say noth-
ing. Every Monday evening, from January third to
April twenty-fifth inclusive, has been profitably and agree-
ably employed in listening to these varied productions,
some of which have been printed. To the lecturers and
speakers, as well as to the Peabody Academy of Science
which has generously placed its hall at our service on
several occasions, no well wisher of the Institute can fail
to feel a sense of profound obligation. The Salem
Lyceum pays a graceful tribute to the value of this work
by making us its heir.

In August next, at the Institute's invitation, the Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement of Science will
visit Salem. It h;is done so twice before. Like the
Institute it has lived fifty years and the golden jubilee
has been marked by its choice for president this year of
one of the most distinguished sons of Salem, a protege
of Dr. Wheatland and long-time officer of the Institute.
Great expectations are indulged as to this visit. A large
local committee has been named and every Institute mem-
ber will feel personally pledged for the success of the
occasion.

Finally, it is worthy of note that two wills have been
offered for probate this year in which the Institute has
an interest. The first is that of George Plumer Smith,
of Philadelphia, a member since 1882, when the Institute
had no home but Plumtner Hall, a constant visitor and
correspondent, and a very active contributor in a variety

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of ways. Ho has left a Legacy of $10,000 to " Ihe Plum-
mer Hall in the City of Salem." This language does not
describe with accuracy either of the corporate bodies
which have from the outset enjoyed the joint occupancy
of the building and for whose accommodation it seems to
have been designed. It designates in terms by their cor-
porate name neither the " Essex Institute " nor the " Pro-
prietors of the Salem Athenaeum," and we are advised
that the case is one of those in which the courts, rather
than allow the legacy to lapse for uncertainty and fall to
a Pennsylvania Hospital, which is the residuary legatee,
will hear evidence of a certain well-defined sort tending
to show the purpose the testator had in view. Such evi-
dence is in course of preparation — proper legal steps
have been taken — and already more than one hundred
and forty letters from the testator have come to light, all

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of them expressing the warmest interest in the Institute
and its work, of which Mr. Smith was constantly avail-
ing himself for fourteen years. It is impossible to sup-
pose that we siml 1 not profit by the bounty of our friend.

The will of Mr. George L. Ames has also been tiled,
and while probate has not been finally allowed, and the
condition of his estate is yet to be disclosed, it can hardly
be that the Institute among other beneficiaries will not
ultimately derive a very considerable advantage from the
generous remembrance of Mr. Ames.

But the need of the Institute, as of most societies of
the kind, is ready money rather than the expectation of
future riches. The possibility of seeming the Story, ihe
Curwen, and other noble contributions, — of housing,
cataloguing, arranging and utilizing the collections already
ours, — of conducting our large correspondence, our
prudential and other business affairs with reasonable vigor
and efficiency, — depends on ready money; depends on

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our receiving pretty promptly a considerable amount of
pecuniary help. Future administrations of the Institute
will he prepared to put the legacies which are to enrich
them to the best of uses ; but the present administration
is wholly unable to see how the future which should be
ours can be secured except through efforts made at once
to increase our means, and to enlarge our space, and to
add to our corps of paid assistants. Its present officers
are ready to bear the burthen so far as they can, but
what they can do is a fraction of what ought to be done.
The work keeps steadily growing, and at times they find
themselves so unequal to the demand that the day cannot
be distant when they must be largely reinforced or the
Institute must be content to accomplish less. If such a
grand activity as ours is to be longer crippled for want of
funds, let it not be said that this is because its officers
have failed to make known their needs. It is fair to say
that well-wishers of the Institute must not expect to see
it thrive much longer as now equipped. It is fair to say
that the amount of volunteer effort expended in the past
two years in keeping the Institute up to its present stan-
dard cannot be relied upon much further unless there is a
speedy prospect of substantial relief. Contributors who
entrust us with valuable manuscripts and relics will not long
be satisfied, when they ask to see their treasures, to be
told that we have them safe somewhere but they cannot
be found. The theological student, attracted to us by
our rare collection of books of interest and value to the
ministry, will not long be satisfied, when he demands
the daily u.«e of them, as did my late predecessor in the
Chair, the Rev. Mr. Willson, to be told that they are
amongst the numerous volumes boxed up and stored in
a warehouse for utter lack of room. The Smithsonian
Institution at Washington, for years of incalculable value

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to us in spreading our publications by exchange about the
world — making the name of Essex County almost as
well known to-day as the commerce of our five good sea-
ports did in earlier years — will not long be satisfied, when
asking for a detailed report of our condition to be printed
with the annals of the great societies of the country, to
be told, as it was last year, that our clerical force is une-
qual to the task. The people of the County must either
come promptly to the rescue or be content with a large
curtailment of our working plans.

Library Report, May 16, 1898.

The additions to the Library for the year (May 1897
to May 1898) have been as follows :

By Donation.

Folios, 32

Quartos, 173

Octavos, 850

Twelvemos, 243

Sixteenmos, 152

Twenty-fourmos, 55

Total of bound volumes, 1,505

Pamphlets and serials, 4,119

Total of donations, 5,624

By Exchange.

Folios, 2

Quartos, 7

Octavos, 51

Twelvemos, 2

Total of bound volumes, G2

Pamphlets and serials 1,367

Total of exchanges, 1,429

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By Purchase.

Folios, 9

Quartos, 4

Octavos, 23

Total of bound volumes, 36

Pamphlets and serials, 34

Total of purchases, 70

Total of donations, 5,624

Total of exchanges, . . 1,429

Total of purchases, 70

Total of additions, 7,123

Of the total number of pamphlets unci serials, 1,734
were pamphlets, and 3,752 were serials.

The donations to the library for the year have been
received from 149 individuals and 112 societies and gov-
ernmental departments.

The exchanges, from 14 individuals and 244 societies of
which 121 are foreign; also from editors and publishers.

There is little to be said except to repeat that which the
late librarian, Mr. Charles S. Osgood, has so well said in
the years past, but in accordance with the usual custom
the Assistant Librarian would, in addition to the statistics
just read, respectfully submit the following:

The library would be greatly improved by the addition
of a tire proof stack, for the better accommodation of the
books, including those now stored outside of the building
or piled up in out-of-the-way corners of Plummer Hall
and the Institute Building.

A catalogue of the library is very much needed, not
only to facilitate the work in the library, but also to fur-
nish knowledge of the many rare and valuable books here
collected for study and reference.

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A hook fund would be of the greatest assistance, to
allow the purchase of new hooks and the rchinding of old
hooks of value which are becoming damaged hy constant
usage.

A thorough examination of the library has been made,
and but very few hooks are missing. Of those reported
missing last year, five volumes and two pamphlets have
been found and returned to their places.

Owing to the constant increase of the number of vol-
umes of town histories and genealogies, and the general
interest recently awakened in them, it has become neces-
sary to remove the genealogies to the eastern reading
room, where they have been arranged and labelled that
they may readily be found by those not familiar with
them.

This leaves shelf room in the western reading room for
a better arrangement of the town histories, and for the
completion of broken sets of the historical magazines.

The large number of those seeking reference to the
directories, shows that this unique collection has a value
not realized when Dr. Wheatland gathered them together
and it is desirable that it should he made as complete as
possible. Members are reminded that old directories of
any city or town in the country are desired to increase
this collection.

It is noticeable that many donations are received from
persons in no way identified with the Institute, showing
the extended and increasing interest in the Society and
its work.

Respectfully submitted,

Alice Gr. Waters,
Ass istant L ib rarian .

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Treasurer's Report.

Condensed from Treasurer's Report presented May 16,
1898.

RECEIPTS.

Balance from last year's report, $149 10

Received from invested funds, $3,343 04

Assessment of members, .... 2,463 00

Publications 919 05

Contributions and sale of tickets for the cel-
ebration of fiftieth anniversary, . . 606 00

Money borrowed, 500 00

Mrs. Henry Saltonstall, contribution for

framing Scagliola, 31 17

From other sources, 177 99 $8,040 79

$8,189 89

EXPENDITURES.

Salaries of secretary, assistants and janitor, . . . $2,259 05

Shrubs, extra labor on grounds and building, ... 81 33

Fuel, 206 75

Light and water 86 68

Our proportion of the Athenaeum expenses, .... 22077

Storage warehouse, 37 80

Repairs on building, etc., 177 78

Postage and express, 135 45

Supplies and miscellaneous 99 10

Lecture expenses, 70 00

Reception expenses, 35 00

Typewriter 120 50

Interest on loan 224 43

Insurance, 429 75

Framing Scagliola, 31 17

Annuities paid 610 00

Books, periodicals and binding, 394 44

Publications and printing 2,274 59

Expenses incurred in celebration of fiftieth anniversary, . 476 17

$7,970 76

Balance of cash on hand, 219 13

$8,189 88

Respectfully submitted,

William O. Chapman, Treasurer.

An analysis of the figures shows that the expenses have
exceeded the income by about $700, which does not differ
materially from the average of the past eight years.

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This is accounted for this year by the item of insurance,
the large increase in the cost of printing caused by the
bringing of the publications up to date and the issuing of
new editions of the " Visitors' Guide to Salem "and "The
Story of the First Meeting House." The cost of the lat-
ter two will however be returned to us in small amounts
during the next few years. Now that the publications
are up to date and the insurance has been distributed over
a series of years, it seems as if we might run along with-
in our income, if nothing beyond the usual routine work
is attempted ; such, for instance, as the much needed over-
hauling to make accessible the great mass of valuable
manuscripts and papers of all kinds, which as yet remain
almost an untilled Held, doubtless containing material of
untold value to the student of our earlier ways of life
and people.

It has always been the policy of the Institute to take
the broadest view of the situation and to do those things
which seemed to be ultimately best for its interest, even
at the cost of a present embarrassment for funds. This,
the Treasurer believes, is the only way that the work
should be continued and expects to see its brilliant past
eclipsed by a more brilliant future.

We all realize of course that it takes money to run an
institution of this kind, in such a manner; but let its
present condition and prospects be a justification of this
policy, and may they furnish encouragement to those who
follow, to continue on the same broad lines mapped out
by one lately lost who has done so much towards shaping
its aims and purpose in years gone by.

This is not the place nor am I the person to pronounce
any eulogy on the Institute's late friend and worker, Mr.
Thomas F. Hunt; we all knew in a general way his deep
interest in the affairs of this institution ; some of us, who

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were thrown in with him most, had the privilege of know-
ing more intimately his invaluable aid and counsel, and I
desire to express in these few words, however inadequate
they may seem, a deep sense of regret and a realization
as time goes on of the irretrievable loss which the Insti-
tute has sustained in his decease.

There seems to he a feeling expressed by some that,
while they continue to pay their dues regularly, they do
not receive anything in return. This is a feeling that
should not be allowed to exist and every member should
be if possible made to feel that it is his Essex Institute
whenever he wants to use it. They should be cordially
received and courteously treated whenever their investi-
gations bring them within the reach of our help and every
effort should be made to assist them in obtaining any
desired information.

It is the expressed wish and purpose of those who have
the honor to be in charge of the Institute to extend its
facilities to all members at all times. The interests of
the Institute demand that this course be studiously
pursued.

In view of the fact that members having friends visit-
ing them have often asked if they might be allowed the
privileges of the library, it has seemed best to have cards
of invitation, for thirty days or less, issued to any friend
introduced by a member; accordingly a circular was sent
out May 2, over the Secretary's signature giving notice
that the facilities of the Institute would be so extended.

In the absence of the Secretary, I take occasion to re-
port that the responses to that notice already received
seem to indicate the wisdom of the step. Even in the
short time which has elapsed since May 2 the Assistant
Librarian has issued enough cards to show that it is a
privilege that will be used, and I am happy to say that

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the applications are coming not only from Salem but from
other parts of the County, thus showing that the Insti-
tute is in reality what it was chartered to be, a County
Institution. Another matter which would claim the Sec-
retary's attention, were he here, is the statistical showing
for the past year. There have been 185 donations to the
Cabinets from 83 donors, many of which are of rare and
exceptional value.

Depending as we do largely on the assessment of the
members and the contributions of our friends to defray the
running expensos, it has seemed best to make some
changes in the method of collecting the annual dues, and
the very cordial response to the notification issued this
year calling attention to the date on which the assessment
is payable, seems to show that the new method is wel-
comed. While the assessment is a small amount for each
member to contribute, it is the aggregate of the whole
which pays the bills ; and we have reason to think that,
when each member realizes that the Institute needs his
three dollars, we shall no longer have to borrow money
temporarily to pay the running expenses. The more
thoroughly business methods can be applied to the finan-
cial operations of the Institute the more satisfactory the
results must prove to be.

Desiring to place the aims and purposes of the Society
before those of the members not able for various reasons
to visit the rooms frequently, we have mailed with the
receipt for annual dues various circulars of information,
hoping thus to keep up a feeling of personal interest.
Earlier in the year the school teachers were supplied with
copies of the " Visitors' Guide to Salem " and " The Story
of the First Meeting House." That the\rhave been read
is proved by the extraordinarily large number of school
children visiting the rooms and applying for the key to

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the First Meeting House. As children under twelve are
not admitted unless accompanied by an adult, it became
necessary to call attention to that fact and we hope to see
the teachers all come at the head of battalions of children
interested to learn of Salem and its grand record. This
is part of the liberal education, the great object lesson,
which the Institute extends to all through its museum of
historical relics and curiosities.

The attendance at the rooms during the past year has
been as usual, large, and the Treasurer expresses his hope
that in the near future an increase of income will warrant
the opening of the building on Sunday afternoons. On
the few occasions when the Institute has been open in the
evening it has been thronged and we have been asked by
strangers present if they could not be allowed to come in
at some other time, thus showing a disposition to take
advantage of the opportunities offered. This leads us to
suppose that the opening of the rooms in the evening also
might be of advantage to us and to the public. What the
Institute needs besides more money, more room and
more members, is the active interest and cooperation of
the young people who would, we know, be attracted by
the large, cheerful, airy rooms, quiet corners for work or
study, valuable collection of relics, extensive library for
reference or circulation, and the large supply of current
magazine literature of the day.

There is one more thing which occurs to me to speak
of, and that is the social side of the Institute in distinction
from its scientific, historical, and literary features. We
all perhaps agree, that in college life the social element is
of great importance, even when the main object pursued
is an education. So with this institution ; while it fur-
nishes a liberal education and object lesson, it seems to
me that the social side should not be lost sight of. That
this view appeals to others is shown by the increasing

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attendance at the annual meetings, an occasion which
might rightly be considered a purely business affair but
which has become, for a Society of this kind, unique in
its character through the efforts made to awaken an inter-
est in the Institute's affairs. Tln# this interest should be
encouraged I have no doubt; but as to the way it should
be done, and the extent to which it should be carried,
there is considerable doubt. Personally, I should like to
see the field meetings revived, beginning in a modest,
informal sort of way to test the present feelings of the
members on that subject, before launching out into the
greater field which was formerly so well covered. I have
in mind a most interesting visit to Bradford Academy
some years ago, one of the last meetings, I think, ever
held. A delightful afternoon spent at Hamilton last
summer, although at a gathering of a different organiza-
tion, emphasizes the fact that it is not necessary to go far
from home for these meetings. Further than that, it is
not even necessary to go off of the Institute's own grounds
to seek enjoyment. What could be more enjoyable than
a garden party right here under our own vine?

These are offered as suggestions, hoping that something
will be developed from them, and that the Institute will
once more be a recognized promoter of these meetings
throughout the county.

Let us see to it that this interest is not allowed to
flag or grow cool from any Avant of effort on our part.
Though sadly crippled by what seems to be more than our
share of the disabilities resulting from ill health, the work
of the Institute has not been and must not be suffered to
abate. Such troubles are but incidents in its career, —
the gaps close up and the forward movement never falters.

William O. Chapman,

Treasure!'.

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Lectures and Meetings.

Monday Evening, August 16, 1897. — A meeting of
the Directors was held at the rooms this evening at 8
o'clock. It was voted ttlat the Institute invite the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science to visit
Salem for a day, during its next meeting, which is to be
held in Boston.

Monday Evening, Sept. 20, 1897. — A meeting of the
Directors was held at the rooms this evening at 8 o'clock.
The President stated that the President of the Topsfield
Historical Society had proposed that the Institute join
with them in a field meeting at Topsfield to which all the
Historical Societies of the County be invited. On mo-
tion of General Appleton it was voted that the Institute
take active measures to cooperate with the Topsfield
Society.

Monday Evening, Oct. 4, 1897. — Attention was called
to the death since the last yearly meeting of Charles S.
Osgood, Librarian of the Institute from 1888 to 1897,
and a tribute was offered by the President which will be
found in the Historical Collections, Vol. xxxiii, p. 185.

Monday Evening, Jan. 3, 1898. — Regular meeting in
the Library room. Mr. Gardner M. Jones, Librarian of
the Salem Public Library, read a very interesting paper
describing a recent tour among foreign libraries. Mr.
Jones was a delegate to the international librarian's con-
vention held in London, in June, 1897, and as such had
special opportunities to study the methods of manage-
ment in the large libraries of Europe. He spoke of the
great libraries of Paris and London, and said that the
rules governing them were more cumbersome than in this

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country. After the lecture President Rantoul related
some of his experiences while studying in European
libraries. Professor .Morse also made some interesting
remarks on his visits to the great libraries of Europe.
Both gentlemen agreed that, in the matter of privacy
and the sense of seclusion while studying and making
notes, the European system was superior to our own.

Monday Evening, Jan. 10, 1898. — The first lecture
in the "free course" was given this evening, in Academy
Hall, by Ernest A. Codman, M.D., of Boston. His sub-
ject was "the X-ray in Surgery and Medicine," illustrated
by lantern views by George Newcomb. The President
occupied the chair and said that electricity and lectures
upon the subject were by no means new in Salem. As
far back as 1771, Capt. David Mason, an ancestor of
Alderman David Mason Little, at his home on North
street, delivered lectures upon that newly discovered
force, and when the Salem Lyceum commenced its course
of lectures in 1828-9, Professor Page, a native of Salem,
used in his lectures there what was then an elaborate and
costly apparatus owned by Col. Francis Peabody. After
the President's introductory remarks, he presented Dr.
Codman, who spoke for an hour, showing and explaining
the X-ray apparatus and the pictures upon the screen.
The pictures showed plainly needles and bullets imbedded
in the flesh, and fractures of the bones. A horseless car-
riage, propelled by an electric motor, brought a party with
apparatus from the Thomson-Houston works at Lynn,
and returned after the lecture.

Monday Evening, Jan. 17, 1898. — Regular meeting
in the Library room. Capt. John P. Reynolds read a
paper on the career of the Frigate Constitution. He said
that Salem men had always been identified with the ship

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and it devolved upon the Salem Light Infantry, some-
times called the Salem Zouaves, of the 8th Massachusetts
Regiment in Major General Butler's command, to guard
and defend the ship while grounded in the harbor of
Annapolis, in 1861. He also stated that the ship was so
well built and her timber so well seasoned, owing to
delays in her construction, that some of the shots in her
early contests failed to make any impression upon her
sides, and for that reason she was afterwards known as
" Old Ironsides." He gave her full history from the time
of her launching in Boston, in October, 1797, down to
the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary in Bos-
ton, in October, 1897. At the close of the talk the Pres-
ident upon request told the story of the time when she
was chased into Marblehead Harbor on a Sunday after-
noon, by a couple of English frigates during the war of
1812. He also told of the dinner tendered to Captain
Bainbridge in Hamilton Hall by the Salem Light Infantry.
A commodore's salute was fired from the miniature ship
which was borrowed for the occasion from the East India
Marine Society. Mr. John Robinson then said that it was
presented by Commodore Hull and that there was among
the old bills of the Academy one for twelve dollars tor
repairs on the model of the Constitution about that date.
It is presumed the model was injured by the salute. The
bill read :

East India Marine Society ) 0 , ,, _

* 17 r u r. • e w C Salem> M;,y Dl"

to English Prisoners ot War )

1814 To repairing &c &c the Constitution $12.00.

Received payment for the above Prisoners.

June. Thomas Webb.

The Prison Ship then lay in the North river, oft* where
the Universalist church now stands, then the site of the

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sugar refinery of Mr. Brackley Rose. So the British
prisoners of war repaired the damage and the model is
still preserved at the Museum. The following letter is
from the Museum riles :

Portsmouth 5th. August 1813
Sir.

I have the honour to receive your letter of the 3d instaut,
covering a vote of thauks passed by the Salem East India Marine
Society at a meeting held by them on the 7th July last, for a model
of the Frigate Constitution which I had the pleasure of presenting
them.

I beg leave, Sir, through you to return my thanks to the Society
for this mark of their attention and for their polite invitation to visit
the museum, -which I shall with pleasure do when a convenient oppor-
tunity otters.

I am

With very great respect

Sir, Your Obt. Servant,
Isaac Hull
William Lander Esqr.

Secretary of the Salkm

East India Marine Society.

Monday Evening, Jan. 24, 1898. — Prof. T. C. Men-
denhall of Worcester, a member of the Highway Com-
mission, lectured in Plummer Hall on the work being done
by the Massachusetts Highway Commission. The Presi-
dent called the meeting to order and spoke feelingly of
the great loss the Institute had sustained in the recent
death of Mr. Thomas F. Hunt, one of its most valued and
active members. Mr. Rantoul presented the following
resolutions, prefaced with these remarks : It is impossible
to go on with the work of the Institute to-night without
a thought of Mr. Hunt. This is the first meeting since
his death. No one, not cognizant of the inner workings
of this organization, has an idea of the extent to which
his spirit permeated everything. Early and late, the In-
stitute was close to his «Teat heart. In his death we have

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suffered the most serious bereavement it was possible to
sustain. Dr. Wheatland's withdrawal is the only occur-
rence in the past with which this disastrous event can be
compared. It seems fit that some expression should be
made, however inadequate, of our share in a grief that is
spontaneous, profound and universal. The light and life
that have gone out of this community leave an especial
shadow on the Essex Institute. I ask }'ou to consider
this resolve.

Resolved: That the Essex Institute has no brighter
page in her history than that just closed by the distress-
ing loss of Thomas F. Hunt, and that the Board of
Directors be and they are hereby requested to prepare for
our records and to offer to the public, at a future day,
some due memorial of a career so high, so honorable, and
so distinguished.

The President then asked those present if they would
indicate their approval of the resolution by a rising vote.
Every person in the large audience arose.

Mr. Rantoul then introduced the speaker of the even-
ing, Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, a member of the Massachu-
setts Highway Commission, who told of the work being
done in Massachusetts and showed the various stages of
road building with lantern views. He traced the develop-
ment of roads from the narrow foot path when pack ani-
mals were used, and the wider path and rude bridges
when the two-wheeled cart was invented, to the better
roads required by the four-wheeled wagon carrying heavy
freight. He spoke of the turnpikes owned by corpora-
tions, when a fixed rate was charged for a given number
of miles. It is only a few years since the toll gate about
a mile from this city was abolished. With the introduc-
tion of railroads, turnpikes fell into disuse and until a
comparatively few years no effort was made to promote

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good roads. The roads lmilt by the Romans about 2000
years ago, some of which are in good condition yet, were
built with a rock bed many feet deep, the surface perfectly
flat, with no idea of drainage. Road makers of our day
build high in the center, sloping both ways to carry off
the water. The speaker said the best roads of modern
times are those of France. They are well taken care of,
the law requiring heavy wagons to have a six-inch tire
and the hinder wheels running outside the track made by
the forward wheels, so that a two foot strip of the road is
rolled everv time the wagon passes over it instead of being
cut up by the narrow tires as is the case in our neighbor-
hood. The Massachusetts highways are being constructed
after the methods of Telford, an Englishman, and Mac-
adam, a Scotchman, the former but little known, while
macadamized roads are known everywhere. Telford used
a substratum of broken stones of about four inches in di-
ameter, while Macadam used only a two and a half inch
diameter. A bed of six or eight inches of rock was laid
after the ground had been prepared, then smaller stone
with a layer almost like dust on top, which, when wet,
cemented the whole into a compact bod}r, being rolled by
a steam roller weighing some ten or twelve tons. $500,000
are being expended by the State each year and bonds
issued in payment. The speaker said issuing bonds has
been stigmatized as feloniously putting the hand into the
pocket of posterity, but that the State is building these
roads to last fifty years or more so that posterity will have
something for its money.

Monday Evening, Jan. 31, 1898. — The third lecture
in the course was given this evening in Academy Hall by
Miss Helen A. Brooks, a native of Salem, assisted by
Miss Edith E. Tprrey of the King's Chapel Choir, Boston.

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Her subject was English and French Dance Music. She
regretted that there was no means by which she could
give us a sample of the music played by Orpheus, Apollo
and others that we read of in mythology. It was at a
considerably later date that the art of printing music upon
paper and parchment was invented. She said that there
had been found in London upon the cover of an old law
book, printed at a time when paper and parchment were
scarce and costly, and they had evidently destroyed one
book in making another, the music of some dance then in
fashion, and this she played showing the difference be-
tween the slow music of those days and the lively airs of
the present time. About the year 1640 the minuet was
introduced in France, and kings and queens, the courts
and nobility of Europe were all obliged to study it. It
was a very complicated measure involving some two hun-
dred and twenty steps and every dancer must be perfect.
In a dance called the Cushion Dance, the following dia-
logue was suno; : —

The leader of the dance addressing the band master :

" This dance it can no farther go."

Whereupon the band master replied also in tune :

" I pray you, good sir, why say you so?"

" Because Joan Sanderson will not come too."

" She must come too and she shall come too."

" And she must come whether she will or no."

" Prinkum-Pranlvum is a tine dance,"

" And shall we go dance it once again,"

" And once again, and once again,"

" And shall we go dance it once again?"

and then the gallant knelt upon his cushion and the
obdurate beauty was fain to yield.

The minuet was so fashionable, she said, that once the
great Cardinal Richelieu, then the master intellect of

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Europe, wishing to gain the favor of the young Empress
Ann of Austria, was induced to don green doublet and
crimson sash, decked out with bows and bells, and dance
the minuet. When he discovered that the young Queen
was making game of him, he was greatly enraged and
never forgave the insult to his dignity. And many years
later, when the Queen was no longer young, she felt his
power when he laid a heavy hand upon her, thus avenging
himself for the indignity of earlier years.

Saturday, Feb. 5, 1898. — A special meeting of the
Directors and other members of the Institute was called
this day to discuss plans for the coming fiftieth anniver-
sary.

Monday Evening, Feb. 7, 1898. — Regular meeting in
the Library room. Mr. Ross Turner spoke at length on
" Mural Decoration." He had made a study of such work
in most of the large cities of Europe and the result of his
observations was clearly stated with blackboard illustra-
tions. He said he hoped and believed that in the next
half century America would witness the building of bet-
ter public and private structures and a great development
of art. At the conclusion Professor Morse spoke upon
tile decorations and, with interesting drawings on the
blackboard, described the art as known to the Moors and
Italians.

Monday Evening, Feb. 14, 1898. — Rev. John W.
Buckham of the Crombie Street Church, read a discrimi-
nating paper entitled " Some Famous Clergymen of old
Salem." His list was quite a long one including some who
were familiar figures on our streets within the recollection
of many of his hearers. Among those mentioned were
Brown Emerson, whose long pastorate of sixty-seven years

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at the South Congregational Church, stands almost with-
out parallel in parochial history ; Dr. Samuel Worcester
of the Tabernacle; Lucius Bolles of the First Baptist;
Hosea Ballon of the Universalist Church, one of the fore-
most pulpit orators of the time; Dr. George B. Cheever
of the Howard Street, or Branch Church, and Joseph Ban-
vard of the Second Baptist, now called the Central Bap-
tist. John Higginson, Hugh Peters, Nathaniel Fisher
and William Bentley, were the four selected for special
mention by Mr. Buckham. All of these men were dis-
tinguished, each in his own way; Dr. Bentley, perhaps,
being the most unique figure of the four. Master of twenty
languages, he was often called upon by the Government
as an interpreter. He loved the sea and his favorite walk
was down the Neck to Juniper Point and the Willows.

Saturday, Feb. 19, 1898. — An adjourned meeting of
the Jubilee Committee was held this afternoon to make
further arrangements for the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary.

Monday Evening, Feb. 21, 1898. — Regular meeting in
the Library room. Edward C. Battis, Esq., read a care-
fully prepared and exhaustive record of the " Piracy of the
Brig Mexican," of Salem, Captain Butman, owned by Mr.
Joseph Peabody. This paper is in print in the Historical
Collections, Vol. xxxiv, page 41.

The father of the lecturer, our venerable and respected
townsman, Mr. John Battis, now eighty-four years of age,
was an able seaman on board the Mexican and, after the
lecture, gave a few personal reminiscences. Besides Mr.
Battis, there are three other members of the crew still
living. They are Capt. John R. Nichols of Salem, born
Feb. 19, 1809 ; Capt. Thomas Fuller of Salem, born
March 25, 1813, and John Larcom of Beverl}r, born Jan.

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30, 1814. Mr. Battis completed his sea life upon the ar-
rival of the Mexican home in 1832. A very severe rain
prevented the attendance of Captain Fuller, Captain Nich-
ols and Mr. Larcom, who were expected.

Monday Evening, Feb. 28, 1898.— Rev. George D.
Latimer, of the North Unitarian Church, delivered an illus-
trated lecture on " Salem and the Salem Witchcraft." He
gave an account of the settling of the town of Salem and
traced the story of its growth to the time of the witchcraft
delusion in 1692, in which the people of Boston and other
places in the vicinity were involved. This ended with the
execution in Salem of twenty victims. Mr. Latimer said
that belief in witchcraft still exists in some parts of the
world, mentioning the voodoo doctors among the negroes
of the South, and the superstitions among the Bushmen,
Zulus and Kaffirs.

Tuesday, March 1, 1898. — The Jubilee Celebration
of the Essex Institute commenced this evening. A full
account of it is printed in this volume of the Bulletin.

Wednesday , March 2, 1898. — The Jubilee Celebration
was continued to-day with exercises in Cadet Armory
which are fully reported in this volume.

Monday Evening, March 7, 1898. — Regular meeting
in the Library room. Rev. Alfred P. Putnam of Salem
spoke on the life and characteristics of Abiel Abbot Low.

Monday Evening, March 14, 1898. — Prof. C. How-
ard Walker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
lectured on the " Evolution of the House." He spoke of
the hut made of branches or built up of clay by primitive
man and described the gradual change from the house
built for defence to the beautiful residences of the present

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time. He said that the round towers and conical roofs
and the Boston bay windows seen to-day are patterned
after the ancient Roman house. The round towers were
so built as a means of better resisting the battering rams,
and the projecting windows for hurling missiles at the
besiegers.

Monday Evening, March 21, 1898. — Regular meeting
in the Library room. Mr. C. J. H. Woodbury of Lynn
spoke on the " Floating Bridge on Salem Turnpike." This
paper is printed, with illustrations, in the Historical Col-
lections, Vol. xxxiv, page 67.

Monday Evening, March 28, 1898. — Professor
Edward S. Morse, Director of the Peabcdy Academy
of Science, lectured this evening in Plummer Hall, on
the question "Are there evidences of Asiatic contact with
Central America ? " The speaker has examined the mounds
and shell-heaps both in Japan and in this country, and he
has occasionally found in these remote regions two pieces
of pottery resembling each other in perhaps one very
slight particular, but entirely different in every other
way. It is claimed that a small colony of Buddhist
monks came from China to Central America, but none of
the implements used by the Mongolians, such as chop
sticks, thumb rings, roofing tiles, wheeled vehicles,
ploughs, potter's wheels or stringed instruments of music
were found : no graves bearing any characteristic evi-
dence that any such emigration had ever taken place.
He said that the strong ocean currents running; from the
coast of Japan to the coast of North America had brought
Japanese junks to these shores (but no Chinese) as traces
of the wrecks had been found in ancient and modern
times. He also said that there were traces of resemblance
between the Japanese and the North American Indian

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and he thought that, if we went far enough back, we should
find that the Indian was, as the high cheek hone and other
characteristics seemed to indicate, of the Mongolian race,
as it is certain he belongs neither to the White, the Xegro
nor the Malay.

Monday Evening, April 4, 1898. — Regular meeting
in the Library room. Mr. John Robinson read a paper
on coins and coinage. He spoke of the use in early days
of shells and skins of animals for money, and later of the
use of flocks and herds as a standard of value. The first
coinage of New England was the Pine Tree Shilling in
1652, coined in Boston on the Gardner Green estate, now
the site of the new Court House in Pemberton Square.
He said that the Institute collection is a large and valuable
one and submitted a catalogue of it which he had recently
made. Discussion hy the President and Professor Morse
followed.

Monday Evening, April 11, 1898. — Dr. George A.
Bates, of the Tufts College Medical School, lectured on
" A chapter from the evolution of man." He showed by
diagrams the development of the teeth from the reptiles
and the lower animals to the teeth of man in the present
time. He explained how the environment causes the
teeth to assume new shapes, from the single, double or
tri-cone teeth for holding and cutting the prey, to the
broad, flat tooth for crushing and grinding the food. He
said that these theories were brought to the notice of
scientists from the fact that the tooth was the hardest bone
in the human or animal body, and was always found in a
good state of preservation after all the other bones were
destroyed or softened by decay.

Saturday, April 16, 1898. — A meeting of the
Board of Directors was held at the rooms this morn-

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ing. A committee, consisting of the President, Vice-
President White and the Treasurer, was appointed to
report at an adjourned meeting of the Directors a ticket
for officers to be voted on at the annual meeting.

The President and the Treasurer were made a commit-
tee to look after the interests of the Institute under the
will of the late George Plumer Smith of Philadelphia.

The President, Vice-President White and Mr. Hines
were constituted a committee to consider what action, if
any, should be taken under the vote of the Institute on
January 24, 1898, calling for a fit memorial of the late
Mr. Hunt, to be spread upon the records of the Society,
said committee to report at an adjourned meeting.

The thanks of the Institute were voted, and the Presi-
dent was requested to communicate them to Miss Eliza-
beth C. Osgood, and also to Miss Mary S. Cleveland,
the Chairman of the Auxiliary Committee, and to the
ladies of that committee, for their aid at the Jubilee.

Monday Evening ', April 18, 1898. — Regular meet-
ing in the Library rooms. Mr. Arthur H. Chase of
Salem read a paper on the theme " Did Shakespeare write
Shakespeare?" He said that it has been stated that
Shakespeare was an illiterate man, and that although, in
his day, a noted actor and theatrical manager, acting these
plays in his own theatre, he could neither read nor write.
Mr. Chase then asked why Bacon, if he were the author
of these plays and sonnets, chose such an ignorant man to
father them. Or why he should not give to the public
under his own name the sonnets at least, if not the whole,
as their merit was then recognized, and nothing like them
has been written before or since. The paper was elabo-
rate and scholarly. When Mr. Chase had concluded,
Professor Morse took issue with the speaker and made a

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strong argument in favor of Bacon, making the point that
it was natural to suppose that the man who wrote Shakes-
peare's plays would have a very large correspondence ,
but it was a fact that no letter had ever been found
addressed to William Shakespeare, nor any scrap of paper,
save a signature or two, bearing his handwriting. Dr.
Merriam also made some remarks in support of Mr. Chase's
position.

April 23, 1898. — An adjourned meeting of the
Board of Directors was held at the Institute rooms to-
day. The committee, to whom was referred the matter
of a memorial service to the memory of Mr. T. F. Hunt,
reported that they were considering the setting apart of a
room in the building to contain the books given by Mr.
Hunt, and to be known as the "Hunt Room," and suggested
the autumn as a suitable time for the dedicatory services.
Mr. Morse suggested that a tablet to the memory of Mr.
Hunt be placed in the room.

The committee on nominations reported that, owing to
the serious illness of the Secretary, it was not deemed
advisable to consider any nomination to fill the position.
That Miss Alice G. Waters be nominated Librarian to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Librarian Charles S.
Osgood. The finance committee was proposed to be the
same as last year. The nominating committee was given
further time at its request.

Monday Evening, April 25, 1898. — The last lecture
of the free course was given in Academy Hall this even-
ing by John Woodbury, Esq., of Boston, Secretary of the
Massachusetts Park Commission. His subject was " The
Metropolitan Park System." In introducing the speaker
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John Woodbury, one of the first band of settlers of this
part of the country, who came from Gloucester in 1626.
Mr. Woodbury prefaced his remarks by a brief history
of the work in the legislature of 1893, resulting in the
passage of a law incorporating the Metropolitan Park
Commission. The lecture was illustrated by Mr. George
Newcomb with lantern slides, the first of which was a
circular map with the State House as the centre, and the
various roads radiating out, or, as the speaker expressed
it, "The Hub of the Universe." The arc of the circle
was twelve miles from its centre, and embraced the Stony
Brook Reservation, the Blue Hill District, Middlesex
Fells, Lynn Woods and Revere Beach.

Necrology of Members.

George L., son of C. Martin and Mary (Smith) Ames,
was born in Salem, Nov. 26, 1829 ; elected a member
of the Essex Institute, Dec. 2, 1857 and died in Salem,
March 28, 1898.

Frances E. (Mrs. John J.) Bagley, daughter of Sam-
uel and Mary A. (Sergeant) Newbury, was born in Rut-
land, Ohio, March 4, 1833; elected a member of the
Essex Institute, April 1, 1895 and died at Colorado
Springs, Feb. 7, 1898.

George W., son of Samuel and Sarah M. (Prentiss)
Benson, was born in Salem, Sept. 25, 1835 ; elected a
member of the Essex Institute, Dec. 20, 1875 and died
in Salem, March 4, 1898.

Israel Putnam, son of Daniel and Elizabeth (Dodge)
Harris, was born in Danvers, Feb. 26, 1825 ; elected a
member of the Essex Institute, May 23, 1860 and died
in Hamilton, Sept. 9, 1897.

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Thomas Franklin, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cook
(Keen) Hunt, was horn in Salem, July 15, 1841 ; elected
a member of the Essex Institute, May 1, 1865 and died in
Salem, Jan. 21, 1898.

John A., son of Bailey and Sally P. (Osgood) Loi-
ing, was born in North Andover, Aug. 16, 1824; elected
a member of the Essex Institute, Jan. 21, 1895 and died
in Boston, Feb. 11, 1898.

Nathan R., son of Nathaniel and Jane (Robb) Morse,
was born in Stoddard, N. H., Jan. 5, 1831 ; elected a
member of the Essex Institute, Oct. 15, 1866 and died
in Salem, Aug. 5, 1897.

Charles S., son of Charles and Susan (Ward) Osgood,
was born in Salem, March 13, 1839 ; elected a member
of the Essex Institute, July 1, 1863 and died in Salem,
Aug. 20, 1897.

Caroline (Mrs. William D.) Pickman, daughter of
Zachariah F. and Sarah (Boardman) Silsbee, was born in
Salem, Aug. 24, 1819 ; elected a member of the Essex
Institute, Sept. 4, 1894 and died in Boston, Feb. 22,
1898.

Charles C, son of Frederick and Augusta M. (Bray)
Porter, was born in Salem, March 13, 1868 ; elected a
member of the Essex Institute, March 21, 1898 and died
in Salem, May 9, 1898.

J. Augusta (Mrs. William G.) Prescott, daughter of
Joseph A. and Louisa (Putnam) Peabody, was born in
Salem, June 12, 1828 ; elected a member of the Essex
Institute, Feb. 4, 1895 and died at Colorado Springs,
Nov. 29, 1897.

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Joseph, son of Timothy and Sarah (Holmes) Ropes,
was born in Salem, Nov. 11, 1812 ; elected a member of
the Essex Institute, Feb. 6, 1888 and died in Salem,
March 21, 1898.

George Plumer, son of James and Mary (Plumer)
Smith, was born in Robbstown (now West Newton),
Penn., May 22, 1815 ; elected a member of the Essex
Institute, Feb. 6, 1882 and died in Philadelphia, Feb.
13, 1898.

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Boston, Society of Natural History,
Boston, Winchester Home for Aged Women,

Bostonian Society,

Bowditch, Charles P., Boston,

Bowers, Dwight E., New Haven, Ct.,

Bowker, R. It., New York City,

Bradlee, Family of Rev. Caleb D., Brookline,

Braunschweig, D. Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic

nologie und Urgeschichte,
Braunschweig, Verein fiir Naturwissenschaft,
Bray, Mrs. M. H., West Gloucester,
Bremen, Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein,
Brigg, William, Harpenden, Herts, Eng. ,
Brigham, Willard I. T., Chicago, 111.
Brinton, Daniel G., M.D., Philadelphia, Pa.,
Brisbane, Queensland Branch of Royal Geographical

Society of Australia,
Bristol Naturalists' Society,
Brooklyn (N. Y.) Library,
Brooklyn, N. Y., New England Society, .
Brooks, James L., New York City,
Brooks, John F., Boston,

Brown, Alfred,

Browne, George W., Manchester, N. H.,

Briinn, Naturforschender Verein, .

Brunswick, Me., Bowdoin College, .

Bruxelles, Academie Royale des Sciences, Belles-Lettres

et Beaux-Arts,

Bruxelles, Societe Beige de Microscopie,

Bruxelles, Societe Entomologique de Belgique,

Bruxelles, Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique,

Buenos Aires, Sociedad Cientifica Argentina,

Buffalo (N. Y.) Historical Society, .

Buffalo (N. Y.) Public Library,

Burlington, University of Vermont,

Butler, James P., Madison, Wis., .

Caen, Academie Nationale des Sciences, Arts

Lettres,

Calcutta, Geological Survey of India,
Cambridge (Eng.) Philosophical Society,
Cambridge, Harvard University,
Cambridge, Librarian of Harvard University,
Cambridge, Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge, Peabody Museum of Archaeology
nology

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THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

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Circulars

Carr, John, Boston, ....

Carroll, Thomas, Peabody,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa Masonic Library,

Chamberlain, James A., Boston,

Chamberlain, W. B., Worcester, ....

Champaign, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History

Chapel Hill, N. C, Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society,

Chapman, William O.,

Charleston, S. C, Mayor of,

Chase, George,

Chemnitz, Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft,
Chever, E. E., San Francisco, Cal., . Newspapers
Chicago (111) Academy of Sciences,
Chicago (111.) Board of Trade, ....

Chicago, 111., Crerar Library,

Chicago, 111., Field Columbian Museum,

Chicago (111.) Historical Society, ....

Chicago, 111., University of,

Christiania, Norwegischen Meteorologischeu Iustituto
Christiania, Videnskabs-Selskabet,
Cilley, J. P., Rockland, Me.,
Cincinnati, Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio
Cincinnati (0.; Public Library, ....

Cincinnati (0.) Society of Natural History,
Cleveland (O.) Public Library, ....

Cleveland, O., Western Reserve Historical Society,
Cobb, N. A., Sydney, N. S. W.,

College Hill, Tufts College

Collier, Perry, Beverly,

Columbus, O., Landon Printing and Publishing Co

Concord, New Hampshire Historical Society,

Concord, New Hampshire, Secretary of State,

Cresskill, N. J., Manhattan Optical Co.,

Currier, John J., Newburyport,

Danvers, Peabody Institute,

Danzig, Naturforschende Gesellschaft,

Darmstadt, Verein fur Erdkunde,

Davis, Andrew McF., Cambridge,

Dayton, W. Hardy,

Dedham Historical Society,

Dedham Town Clerk,

Denissen, Christian, Detroit. Mich.,

Des Moines, Historical Department of Iowa,

Des Moines, Iowa Academy of Sciences,

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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Chart

Des Moines, Iowa Geological Survey,

Detroit (Mich.) Museum of Art,

Detroit (Mich.) Public Library,

Dexter, George T., Boston,

Dike, Rev. Samuel W., Auburndale,

Dimock, Mrs. Sarah W., South Coventry, Ct.,

Dodge, George B., Hamilton, ....

Dresden, Naturvvissenschaftliche Gesellschaft "Isis,"

Dow, George Francis, Topsfleld, ....

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, ....

Dublin, Royal Society,

Dudley, Miss Jennie B., .... Newspapers
Durkheim, Pollichia, NaturwissenschaftlicherVereinder

Rheinpfalz,

Edes, Henry H., Cambridge, ....
Eliot (Me.) Historical Society,
Emden, Naturforschende Gesellschaft, .
Erlangen, Physikalisch-Medicinische Gesellschaft,

Evans, Fred,

Exeter, N. H., Phillips Exeter Academy,
Fairchild, Mrs. Salome C, Albany, N. Y.,
Falmouth, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society,
Firenze, R. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale,
Firenze, R. Instituto di Studi Superiori,
Firenze, Societa Entomologica Italiana,

Fitchburg City Clerk,

Fitzpatrick, T. J., Lamoni, Iowa, ....

Folsom, A. A., Brookline,

Frankfurt-a-M., Senckenbergische Naturforschende Ges

ellschaft,

Fribourg, Societe Fribourgeoise des Sciences Natur

elles,

Galllnger, Joseph H., Washington, D. C,

Geneve, Institut National Genevois,

Geneve, Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle,

Gilbert, Shepard D.,

Gillis, James A., Winchendon, ....

Glasgow, Archaeological Society

Glasgow, Baillies' Institution, ....

Glasgow, Natural History Society,

Gloucester, City of,

Goldthwaite, Mrs. Joseph A.,

Goodell, Abner C,

Gottingen, K. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, .

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THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

141

Grand Rapids, Iowa Masonic Library,

Grand Rapids (Mich.) Public Library,

Granville, O., Denison University,

Green, Andrew IL, New York City,

Green, Samuel A., Boston, ....

Greenlaw, Mrs. Lucy H., Cambridgeport,

Greenwood, Isaac J., New York City,

Grinnell, William M., New York City,

Giistrow, Verein der Freunde der Naturgesckichte

Halifax, Nova Scotian Institute,

Halle, Naturwissenchaftlicher Verein fiir Sachse

Thiiriugen,

Hamburg, Naturwissenchaftlicher Verein,
Hannover, Deutscher Seeflscherei-Verein,
Harlem, Musee Teyler, ....
Harlem, Societe Hollandaise des Sciences,
Harris, Miss Nancy, ....

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library,

Hart, Charles H

Hartford, Connecticut Historical Society,

Hartford, Connecticut Quarterly Company,

Hartford, Ct., Trinity College,

Harwood, Herbert J., Littleton,

Haskell, Ulysses G., Beverly,

Haverhill, City of,

Herrick, C. L., Granville, O.,

Hicks, Benjamin D., Old Westbury, N. Y

Hinchman, Mrs. Lydia S., Philadelphia,

Hitt, Miss Agnes, Indianapolis, Ind.,

Hoar, George F., Washington, D. C,

Hodgson, Richard, Boston,

Holden, Nathaniel J.,

Hollis, Benjamin P., Medford,

Hotchkiss, Miss Susan V., New Haven, Ct.,

Newspap

n nnd

Pa.,

Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston,
Houghton, Michigan Mining School,
Hucke, Julius, Berlin,

Hunt, T. F.,

Huntington, Arthur L.,
Iowa City, Iowa State Historical Society
,Iowa City, State University of Iowa,
Ithaca, N. Y., Cornell University,
Jersey City (N. J.) Free Public Library,

ESSKX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XXX

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142

BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Johnson, Edward F., Woburn,
Johnson, Thomas H.,

Joy, N. T.,

Kassel, Verein fiir Naturkunde,

Kenyon, F. C, Washington, D. C, . Circulars

Kimball, Mrs. Sarah A., Methuen,

King, Miss Annie F., Map

Kinsman, Mrs. S. Augusta,

Kjobenhavn, K. D. Videnskab-Selskabs,

Kjobenhavn, Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie,

Knoxville, University of Tennessee,

Konigsberg, Physikalisch-Okonomische Gesellschaft,

Lamson, Frederick, . . Circulars, Newspapers

Langdon, Palmer H., New York City,

Lansing, Michigan State Library,

Lausanne, Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles,

Lawrence, Kansas University,

Lawrence Free Public Library,

Lee, Francis H.,

Leipzig, K. S. Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften,

LeMans, Societe d'Agriculture, Sciences et Arts,

Lincoln, Francis H., Boston,

Liverpool, Literary and Philosophical Society,

London Geological Society, ....

London, Royal Geographical Society,

Loudon, Royal Society, ....

London, Zoological Society of, ...

Ludlam, Miss Julia P., New York City,

Lund, Kongliga Universitetet,

Luxembourg, L'Institut Grand-Ducal,

Luxembourg, Societe Botanique,

Lyon, Societe d'Agriculture, Science et Industrie,

Lyon, Societe Linneenne, ....

McCormiek, Cyrus H., Chicago, 111.,
McGlenen, Edward W., Boston,

Mclntire, Charles J.,

Madison, N. J., Drew Theological Seminary,
Madison, Wisconsin State Historical Society,
Madrid, Sociedad Espanola de Historia Natural,
Manchester, Rev. Alfred, ....

Manchester (Eng.) Literary and Philosophical Society
Manchester (Eng,) Museum, Owens College,
Manchester (N. H.) City Library,
Manning, Richard C,

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THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

143

Marburg, Gesellschaft zur Beforderung des Gesammten
Naturwisseuschaften, .....

Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth,

Circulars

Med ford Historical Society,

Medford Public Library, ....

Meek, Henry M.,

Merriam, Otis, Chelsea, ....

Methuen Town Clerk, ....

Michigan Agricultural College,

Michigan Board of Agriculture,

Michigan Central Railroad,

Milwaukee (Wis.) Public Museum,

Minot, Joseph G., Mayfleld, Eng., .

Montana Historical Society,

Montevideo, Museo Nacional de Mexico,

Montpelier, Vermont State Library,

Moore, Clarence B., Philadelphia, Pa., .

Morse, Edward S.,

Moscou, Societe Imperiale dcs Naturalistes,

Mowry, William A., Boston, .

Miinchen, Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft,

Miinchen, I). Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologic, Ethnolo
gie und Urgeschichte,

Miinchen, K. B. Akademie der Wissenschaften,

Nahant Town Clerk,

Napoli, Accademia delle Scieuze Fisiche e Matematiche,

Nashville, Tennessee State Board of Health,

New Brighton, N. Y., Natural Science Association of
Staten Island, Circular,

New Haven, Ct., Yale University,

New York (N. Y.) Academy of Sciences,

New York, N. Y., American Bank Note Co., .

New York, N. Y., American Geographical Society,

New York, N. Y., American Museum of Natural History,

New York, N. Y., American Numismatic and Archaeolog-
ical Society,

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad,

New York (N. Y.) Chamber of Commerce, .

New York (N. Y.) Free Circulating Library,

New York (N. Y.) Genealogical and Biographical Society,

New York, N. Y., Harvard Club,

New York (N. Y.) Historical Society, . . . .

New York, N. Y., Linnean Society, .

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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

New York, N. Y., Macmillan Company,

New York, N. Y. , Mercantile Library, .

New York (N. Y.) Microscopical Society,

New York (N. Y.) Public Library,

New York, N. Y., Scientific Alliance of,

New York, N. Y., Society of Colonial Wars,

New York (N. Y.) Yacht Club,

Newark, New Jersey Historical Society,

Newport, R. I., Redwood Library and Athenajum,

Nichols, Miss Abby,

Nichols, H. S., London, .

Noble, John, Boston,

North Andover Town Clerk, .

Northampton, Smith College, .

Northend, William D.,

Nourse, Henry S., Lancaster,

Niirnberg, Naturhistorische Gesellschaft

Oberlin (O.) College,

Oliver, Mrs. Grace A.,

Ottawa, Royal Society of Canada, .

Palermo, R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Belle Arti

Palo Alto, Cal., Leland Stanford Junior University,

Paris, Academie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts

Paris, Journal de Conchyliologie, .

Paris. Museum d'Historie Naturelle,

Paris, 'Societe dAnthropologie,

Paris, Societe Entomologique de France,

Paris, Societe Nationale dAcclimatation,

Parsons. J. Russell, Chicago, 111., .

Peabody, George L.,

Peabody Historical Society,

Peabody, Peabody Institute,

Peet, Rev. S. D., Good Hope, 111., .

Perkins, Thomas,

Perley, Sidney,

Perry, William S., Davenport, Iowa,
Philadelphia, Pa., Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia, Pa., American Academy of Political and

Social Science,

Philadelphia, Pa., American Catholic Historical Society
Philadelphia, Pa., American Philosophical Society,
Philadelphia, Pa., Fairmount Park Art Association,
Philadelphia, Pa., Free Museum of Science and Art,
Philadelphia, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,

Circular

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THE PETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

145

Philadelphia, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, .

Philadelphia, l'a., Indian Rights Association, Circular,

Philadelphia (Pa.) Library Company,

Philadelphia, Pa., National Municipal League,

Philadelphia (Pa.) Public Ledger, .

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, Pa., Wagner Free Institute of Science,

Philadelphia, Pa., Zoological Society of,

Phillips, Mary E., Chicago, 111 ,

Phillips, Mrs. Stephen H.,

Pickering, Estate of John,

Pickering, John, ....

Pool, Wellington, Wenham,

Portland, Maine Genealogical Society,

Portland, Maine Historical Society,

Portland, Me., Recorder Publishing Company

Portland (Me.) Society of Natural History,

Pratt, Franklin S. and Charles H., .

Princeton (N. J.) University,.

Providence, R. I., Brown University,

Providence, R. L, Narragansett Historical Publishing

Company,

Providence (R. I.) Public Library, .
Providence (R. I.) Record Commissioners,
Providence, Rhode Island Historical Society,
Putnam, Eben, Danvers, ....
Putnam, Rev. John J., Worcester, .
Quebec, Can., L'Universite Laval, .

Rantoul, Robert S.,

Regensburg, K. B. Botanische Gesellschaft,

Reynolds, Osborne, Manchester, Eng., .

Richmond, Joshua B., Boston,

Richmond, Virginia Historical Society, .

Riga, Naturforschende Verein,

Rogers, Mrs. William B., Boston, .

Roma, R. Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale,

Ropes, Edward E., Astor, Fla.,

Ropes, William H., Brooklyn, N. Y., Newspaper

St. John, Natural History Society of New Brunswick

St. Gallen, Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft,

St. Louis (Mo.) Academy of Science,

St. Louis, Missouri Botanical Garden, .

St. Louis, Missouri Historical Society, .

St. Louis (Mo.) Museum of Fine Arts,

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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

St. Paul, Minnesota Historical Society, .

St. Petersbourg, Academie Imperiale des Sciences,

St. Petersbourg, Societatis Entomologica,

Salem, Associated Charities of,

Salem Board of Health, ....

Salem Fraternity,

Salem Gazette,

Salem, North Bridge Chapter D. A. R., .

Salem, Peabody Academy of Science,

Salem Public Library, ....

Salem Young Men's Christian Association,

Salisbury, Edward E., New Haven, Ct., .

Salisbury Town Clerk, ....

Saltonstall, Richard M., Boston,

San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences,

San Francisco, Cal., Technical Society of the Pacific

Coast,

Santiago, Societe Scientiflque du Chili, .

Sargent, Epes, Essex,

Savory, Tristram T.,

Scott, Leonard, Publishing Company, New York City

Sellers, Edwin J., Philadelphia, Pa.,

Shaw, Dr. Henry, Boston,

Sheppard & St. John, London, Eng.,

Sherwood, George F. T., London, Eng.,

South Boston, Church Home for Orphan and Destitute

Children, ....

South Boston, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts

School for the Blind,
Spofford, Paul N., New York City, .
Springfield City Library Association,
Staveuger Museum, ....
Sternwarte, K. K., Prague,
Stevens, Benjamin F., . . .
Stimpson, Thomas M., Peabody,
Stockholm, Entomologiska Foreningen, .
Stockholm, K. Svenska Vetenskaps Akademien,
Stone, Carpenter & Wilson, Providence, R. I.,

Stone, Dr. Lincoln R.,

Stone, William, jr.,

Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales,

Syracuse (N. Y.) Central Library,

Taunton, Eng., Somersetshire Archaeological and Nat

ural History Society,

Newspapers

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THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

147

Thayer, Rev. George A., Cincinnati, O.,

The Hague, Nederlandsche Entomologische Vereenig-

ing,
Throndhjem, K. Norske Videnskal)erues-Selskab,
Tileston, Mrs. Mary, Mattapan,
Tilton, George P., Newburyport,
Tokio, Imperial University,
Topeka, Kansas Academy of Science,
Topeka, Kansas State Historical Society,
Toronto, Canadian Institute,
Toronto, University of,
Tromso Museum,
Truro Town Clerk,
Unknown,

Urbana, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History,
U. S. Boundary Commission,
U. S. Bureau of Education,
U. S. Bureau of Ethnology,
U. S. Bureau of the Mint,
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
U. S. Department of Interior,
U. S. Department of Labor,
U. S. Department of State,
U. S. Fish Commission,
U. S. Geological Survey,
U. S. Life-Saving Service,
U. S. National Museum,
U. S. Patent Office,
U. S. Secretary of Interior,
U. S. Superintendent of Documents,
U. S. War Department,
Upsal, K. Vetenskaps-Societeten,
Warren, Henry D., Boston,

Washington, D. C, American Forestry Association,
Washington, D. C, American Monthly Microscopical

Journal,

Washington, D. C, Anthropological Society,

Washington, D. C, Microscopical Publishing Company

Washington, D. C, National Society D. A. R.,

Washington, D. C, Smithsonian Institution, ,

Washington, D. C, Volta Bureau,

Waterville, Me., Colby University,

Welch, William L.,

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BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.

Newspapers,
Circulars,

Newspapers

Wellesley College, ....
Wheatland, Miss Elizabeth,
Whipple, George M.,
White, Miss Myra L., Haverhill,
Whitney, Mrs. Henry M., No. Andover,

Whymper, Edward,

Wien, K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt,
Wien, K. K. Naturhistorische Hofmuseums,
Wien, K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft,
Wien, Verein zur Verbreitung Naturwissenchaftlicher

Kenntuisse, ....
Wiesbaden, Verein fur Naturkunde,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Wyoming Historical and Geological

Society,

WiUiamsburg, Va., William and Mary College,

Willis, Dr. J. L. M., Eliot, Me.,

Winnipeg, Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba,

Winsor, Justin, Cambridge,

Winthrop, Robert C, jr., Boston,

Woodbury, C. J. H., Boston, ....

Woods, Mrs. Kate T.,

Worcester, American Antiquarian Society,
Worcester Society of Antiquity, ....
Wiirzburg, Physikalisch-Medicinische Gesellschaft,
Zurich, Naturforschende Gesellschaft, .

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The following have been received from editors and pub-
lishers :

American Journal of Science.

American Naturalist.

Andover Townsman.

Beverly Citizen.

Cape Ann Advertiser.

Chicago Journal of Commerce.

Danvers Mirror.

Forester.

Georgetown Advocate.

Groton Landmark.

Home Market Bulletin.

Iowa Churchman.

Iron and Steel.

Ipswich Independent.

Le Naturaliste Canadien.

Lynn Item.

Marblehead Messenger.
Musical Record.
Nation.
Nature.
Open Court.
Popular Science.
Salem Gazette.
Salem News.
Salem Observer.
Salem Register.
The Citizen.
Topsfield Townsman.
Traveller's Record.
Zoologischer Anzeiger.

THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR.

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The donations to the cabinet during the year number
one hundred and eighty-five from the following eighty-
three donors :

Adams, Mrs. Elizabeth P.
Allen, George H.
Appleton, Francis H.
Arey, S. R.
Averille, Arthur A.
Benson, Arthur F.
Brooks, Henry M.
Casey, James.
Chamberlain, James R.
Crowninshield, John C.
Currier, Mrs. Susan D.
Dayton, W. Hardy.
Dodge, Charles R.
Dudley, Dr. Albion M.
Elwell, Newton W.
Goldthwaite, Miss C.
Goldthwaite, Mrs. E. H.
Goldthwaite, Joseph.
Harlow, Arthur F.
Hart, John W.
Hill, William M.
Hitchings, A. F.
Hotchkiss, Miss Susan V.
Jeffs, Charles M.
Johnson, Daniel H.
Johnson, Thomas H.
Jones, Miss Sarah W.
Joy, N. T.
King, Miss Annie F.
Kinsman, Mrs. Frances J.
Lamsou. Frederick.
Lee, Francis H.
Little, Philip.
Low, Mrs. Daniel.
Lyford, Mrs. Eunice Cass.
Mackintire, Albert C.
Manchester, Rev. Alfred.
Mansfield, Miss Helen.
Massachusetts Record Commis-
sioner.
Millett, Joseph D.
Morgan, Miss Lucy P.

Morse, Prof. Edward S.
Nichols, Mrs. Joseph F.
Norris, Miss Mary H.
Nourse, Miss Dorcas.
Oliver, Mrs. Grace A.
Oliver, Miss Grace L.
Palfray, Charles W.
Peabody Academy of Science.
Peabody, George L.
Peterson, Joseph N.
Pierce, George C.
Potter, Mrs. Benjamin.
Rantoul, Robert S.
Rea, Estate of Charles E.
Richardson, Frederick P.
Richardson and Northey.
Robinson, John.
Saltonstall, Mrs. Henry.
Savage, M. F.
Savory, Tristram T.
Shaw, Samuel S.
Silsbee, Mrs. .William.
Smith, Miss Sarah Eden.
State Normal School.
Stone, Miss Mary E.
Streeter, Gilbert L., for John

Lowry.
Walker, Benjamin H.
Warner, Fred E.
Welch, William L.
West, Mrs. William C.
Wheatland, Miss Elizabeth.
Whipple, Miss Alice C.
Whipple, Miss E. K.
Whipple, George M.
Whipple, Mrs. George M.
Whipple, Henry G.
Whipple, L. W.
Whitehead, Harry A.
Whitney, Mrs. Henry M.
Whitney, Mrs. M. W.
Woods, Mrs. Kate Tannatt.

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