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Pacific Telegraph Company at Salem, for her assistance 

 during the evening. The telephone was then taken apart 

 and explained to a few ladies and gentlemen, to their 

 great wonder and satisfaction. A report of the meeting 

 was transmitted to the "Boston Globe" by the telephone 

 in the presence of about twenty, who have thus been 

 witnesses to a feat never before attempted — that is, the 

 sending of a newspaper dispatch over the space of eigh- 

 teen miles by the human voice, and all this wonder being 

 accomplished in a time not much longer than would be 

 consumed in an ordinary conversation between two people 

 in the same room. 



The President appointed Rev. E. S. Atwood, Rev. E. 

 C. Bolles, A. C. Goodell, Jr., D. B. Hagar, and Wm. D. 

 Northend, as the comnnttee to draft and report a series 

 of resolutions as above. 



Monday, February 19, 1877. 



Regular meetini? this evenins:. The President in 

 the chair. Records read. Donations and correspon- 

 dence announced. 



Caroline Baldwin, of Salem, was elected a resident 

 member. 



Mr. John McNeil, of Winchester, formerly of Hillsbo- 

 rough, N. H., who has great interest in the restocking 

 of the rivers and ponds of New England with fish, gave 

 a familiar and instructive talk on artificial fish breeding 

 and collateral topics. The people of Salem, who have 

 an abundance of various excellent sea fishes at their very 

 doors, do not, perhaps, appreciate the importance of the 

 inland fisheries and the present efforts to restock with the 



