BULLETIN 



ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., May, 1871. No. 5. 



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



Regular Meeting, Monday, May 1, 1871. 

 The President in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



ON THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ESSEX COUNTY. 



Prof. Alpheus Hyatt showed a series of specimens 

 illustrating, in part, the geology of this county, also a 

 geological map of Marblehead Neck, and offered some 

 interesting remarks in relation thereto, of which the fol- 

 lowing is an abstract. 



This society has had in view for many years past the 

 thorough exposition of the history of this county, both 

 political and physical. 



The political history has been well advanced by the 

 numerous papers and essays of prominent members ; so 

 also has the Natural History. No attempt could be made 

 however to organize a survey which would strike directly 

 at the accomplishment of this object until funds were 

 provided for the employment of a corps of men and the 

 publication of the results in a systematic manner. 



When the Peabody Academy was founded and the col- 

 lections of this society handed over to its keeping, the 



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