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POPULAR MISCELLANY. 



Fifty Years of the Essex lustitnte. 



Professor E. S. Morse has published a re- 

 view of the condition of zoology fifty years 

 ago and to-day, in connection with the 

 growth of the Essex Institute, which has 

 just completed its first half-century. The 

 institute has always kept true to its name. 

 It has been wholly for the benefit and in 

 the interests of the county of Essex, in 

 every corporate town of which but one 

 public meetings have been held, to the num- 

 ber of two hundred in all ; while the enthu- 

 siasm of its members has often led it be- 

 yond the limits of the county and of the 

 State, into, in all, some sixty -eight "out-cf- 

 the-way places little villages, cross-roads, 

 and hamlets by the sea." To these places 

 the society has induced the celebrated natu- 

 ralists of the country to bring the results of 

 their researches, and the latest and freshest 

 fruits of science. Further evidence of its 

 county character is found in the facts that 

 its members are scattered over the county, 

 and that it has aimed especially at forming 

 a collection of the animals and plants of 

 the county, and has such a collection, which 

 is not excelled by any other of similar char- 

 acter. When the Institute was founded, 

 there was not a single text-book of zoology 

 in our schools ; now, every high and classi- 

 cal school has its classes in zoology and 

 botany, and every college its special pro- 

 fessor. Then there was not a single popu- 

 lar periodical devoted to those sciences ; 

 now there are a number of illustrated week- 

 lies and monthlies with a large circulation, 

 the earliest of them, the " American Natu- 

 ralist," having been founded under the au- 

 spices of the Institute ; and even the news- 

 papers keep pace with the progress of 

 science, and publish special articles on sci- 

 entific matters of interest. Then, the sci- 

 ence of archaeology was not born ; now it is 

 ' the most vigorous and aggressive of the 

 sciences," and one of the Institute's men, 

 Mr. Putnam, " is, for the first time, teach- 

 ing the country the proper and only way 

 of exploring the mysterious mounds of the 

 West." The little society of a few men 

 and a library of a hundred volumes has 

 grown to be a powerful body of three hun- 

 dred and forty members, with a library of 

 thirty-eight thousand volumes. 



