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that had been collected, and also on the unwelcome class 

 fonnd in our gardens, known as weeds ; Mv. John Rob- 

 inson spoke of the ferns ; Messrs. D. B. Hagar of the 

 State Normal School in Salem, Abner G. Phipps, agent 

 of the State Board of Education, J. Spoflbrd of Grove- 

 land, Haydn Brown of West Newbury, Stephen ]M. Allen 

 of Boston, and W. H. H. Marsh of Salem, were among 

 the speakers. Fourth^ at Rockport, Thursday Angust 

 6, 1874. Afternoon session in the Town Hall, Alfred 

 Osgood of Newburyport, F. W. Putnam of Salem, A. W. 

 Dodge of Hamilton, Albert H. Tuttle of the Ohio Agri- 

 cultural and Mechanical College, Columbus, Rev. A. B. 

 Hervey of Troy, N. Y., James Kimball of Salem, and 

 others, addressed the meeting. Fifth, at Manchester, 

 Friday October 2, 1874, by invitation of Mr. Lewis Tap- 

 pan and other citizens of that town ; the afternoon session 

 at the Town Hall ; among the speakers were F. AV. 

 Putnam, E. S. Morse, John Robinson and Rev. E. C. 

 Bolles, all of Salem. 



Evening Meetings have been held at the rooms, usually 

 on the first and third Monday evenings of each month. 

 At these meetings an increasing interest was manifested, 

 and several valuable communications were presented, ab- 

 stracts of which have been printed in the Bulletin, or 

 reserved for the Historical Collections. The follow- 

 ing may be specified : "A talk upon Art," by Charles C. 

 Perkins, of Boston ; " Observations among the various 

 Scientific Collections of London," by E. C. Bolles ; "A 

 List of Birds observed at various localities contiguous to 

 the Central Pacific Railroad, from Sacramento Citv, Cal., 

 to Salt Lake City, Utah," by Robert Ridgway ; "Fishes 

 and Crayfishes from Mammoth Cave," by F. W. Putnam ; 

 "An account of the process in the manufacture of glass," 



