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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



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MARINE MUSEUM. 



Salem, Mass. Peabody Academy of Science: Museum of the 

 Salem East India Marine Society. [By W. T. B.] 



Founded in 1867 by George Peabody. It occupies the build- 

 ing of the Marine Society (founded in 1799), and has the museum 

 founded by the East India merchants who made Salem one of the 

 richest of the Massachusetts towns. Their ships brought in from 

 the Pacific in the early years of the nineteenth century much choice 

 material. Some of the kapa specimens have already been illustrated 

 in the Museum Memoirs (Vol. III). The natural history collec- 



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