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seven concerts have been given. 1st, on Monday, Nov. 

 27, 1876, by the Mendelssohn Quintette Chib. 2d, on 

 Monday, Dec. 18, 1876, the Csecilia Quartette of Boston. 

 3d, Monday, Jan. 8, 1877, by Mr. B. J. Lang and Miss 

 Grace Sampson and Mrs. C. H. Goss. 4th, Monday, Jan. 

 22, 1877, by Miss Clara L. Emilio, Messrs. George W. 

 Sumner, August Fries, and Wulf Fries. 5th, Monday, 

 Mch. 12, 1877, by Miss Ita Welsh and others. 6th, 

 Wednesday, Mch. 21, 1877, by Mr. H. G. Tucker and 

 others. 7th, Wednesday, Mch. 28, 1877, by Miss Lilian 

 Bailey and Messrs. Wulf Fries and Arthur W. Foote. 



The lectures proved exceedingly instructive and com- 

 pared favorably with the courses of previous years. The 

 concerts were a very creditable series of musical enter- 

 tainments of a high order of merit. 



Centennial Exhibition. — By a vote of the directors, 

 and in response to an invitation from a committee of the 

 Historical Department of the Centennial Exhibition, an 

 historical exhibit of the settlement of Salem was made in 

 June last in Philadelphia, six portraits and many other 

 articles of historical interest were sent. In the commis- 

 sioners' report of the Historical Exhibit, the Institute is 

 credited with having made one of the best and most care- 

 fully arranged collections in the Exhibition. The col- 

 lection remained in Philadelphia, at the urgent request of 

 the gentlemen interested, until March, when it was safely 

 returned to Salem. 



Four excursions to the Centennial Exhibition were made 

 under the auspices of the Institute, during the months of 

 June, September and October, and over two hundred of 

 our citizens, including many members and friends of the 

 Society were enabled to visit the Exhibition under fiivor- 

 able conditions, and at a comparatively small expense. 



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