IV CONTENTS. 



Eegular Meeting, Monday, May 3, . . . . • .81 



E. S. Rantoul's Historical Reminiscences connected "with the Salem 

 Custom House, 81. 



Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 12, 81 



Report of .secretary, 81. — Report of Superintendent, 83. — Report of 

 Librarian, 84. — Report of Treasurer, 85. Officers elected, 87. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, May 17, .,•... 88 



Field Meeting at Wakefield, Thursday, June 10, . . . .88 



Notice of the Excursions, 88. — Historical Sketch of Naturalists' Field 



Clubs, 89. — Putnam's Notices of Zoological Specimens found, 'JO. — 



Morse on the Mollusks. 8!i. — Eaton's Historical Sketch of the Town, 



89. — Allen's and Loring's remarks, 93. 



Field Meeting at Weuhain, Friday, July 18, 97 



Notice of Excursions, 97. — Lormg's Historical Reminiscences, 98. — 

 Morse on the Glacier System, 99. — Putnam on Fishes, 99. — Ballon 

 Alaska. 99 — Remarks by Allen W. Dodge, N. Paine, and W. B. 

 Trask, 99. 



Field Meeting at Middleton, Tlnirsday, Aug. 5, . . . . 100 

 Notice of the Excursions, 100. — President's Historical notice, 100. — 

 Morse's Remarks on Paper .Making, 102. — Putnam on Reptiles, 102. — 

 Remarks by.F. Bocher, E. W. Buswell, and G. A. Pollard, 103. 



Field Meeting at Rockport, Thursday, August 26, ... 103 



Notice of the Excursions, lO.'J. — President's i-emarks on Field Meet- 

 ings, 104. — Loring's Historical Sketches, 104. — Morse on the Objects 

 of Field Meetings, 10.i. — J. W. Foster, the Geology of the East and 

 West Contrasted, 106. — T. S. Hunt, Geological Descripti(m of New 

 England Granite Formation, 106. — B. Pierce, Early Reminiscen- 

 ces, 107. 



Notice of the Temperance Organizations in Salem, by David R. 



Peabody 113 



Fire Clubs in Salem, 119 



Field Meeting at Lynn, Thursday, Sept. 23, . . . .121 



Notice of the Excursions, 121. — Remarks on Dungeon Rock, by A.C. 

 Goodell, jr., S. D. J'oole. and -Jacob Batcheldcr. 121, 122. — F. W. Put- 

 nam, on .S'helllieaps iu Rocks Pasture, 122. — .Jacob Batcheldcr's Sket('h 

 of the Old Lynn Academy, 124. — C. M. Tracy on the Di.sapiiearaiice 

 of the Old and Favorite Flowers from the Gardens and tlir Introduc- 

 tion of New Varieties, 12.i. — Tracy's Remarks upon the Loral .Auliq- 

 iiities, 121). — Miss Grace Anna Lewis upon the Fluids Contained 

 in the Bulbs of Feathers of Living Birds, 12t). 



Regular Meeting, Monday, October 5, 137 



Regular Meeting, Monday, November 1, 137 



S. Lincoln, Donation of a Pew Door, First Church in |Hingham, 137. — 

 A. S. Packard, jr.. Notice of the Occurrence of the Walrus in Labi-ador, 

 &c., 137. — F. W. Putnam and A. S. Packard, Jr., on the Polar and 

 other Species of Bears, 138. 



Quarterh' Meeting, Wednesday, November 10, ... . 139 



C. W. Upham's Resolutions on the Death of Geo. Peabody, 1-39. 

 Quarterly Meeting, adj., Monday, November 15, . . . . HO 

 Resolves in relation to the Essex Institute Musical Library Associa- 

 tion, 140. — Programme 1st Musical Entertainment, 140. — Programme 

 2nd Musical Entertainment, 141. — E. Bicknell, on Eozoon Cana- 

 dense, 141. — A. Hyatt's remarks on Mr. Bicknell's Paper, 142. — W. D. 

 Northend's Notice of some Old Papers of Gen. Titcomb of Newbury- 

 port, 142. 



Third Musical Entertainment, 143 



Regular Meeting, Monday, December 20, 150 



Letter fi'om Thomas Spencer of Bransby, near Lincoln, Eng., giving 

 an Account of two Visits to Scrooby, the Home of the Pilgrims, 150. 



Fourth Musical Entertainment, 154 



