BULLETIN 



essex: htstitutb. 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., September, 1871. No. 9. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Field Meeting at East Gloucester, Thursday, 

 June 29th, 1871. 



[Continued.'] 



Rev. Mr. Bolles of Salem said he supposed all had 

 heard of ministers who went to church, leaving their ser- 

 mons at home, and had to send for them, sometimes get- 

 ting the last Sunday's sermon from the messenger. In 

 the same way he had lost his text, and a boy of sixty- 

 years who volunteered to go for it had not returned. 

 In other words he had left his box of specimens upon a 

 rock near the ice houses. 



Mr. Bolles spoke of two specimens of considerable im- 

 portance. He had found near the water side two speci- 

 mens of a land shell, one of the largest in Massachusetts, 

 about the size of a walnut, of a yellow color, banded by 

 about six or eight bands of dark brown. Their interest 

 does not lie in their color or size, but depends upon the 

 fact that this is an English shell, supposed by some to 



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