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Regular Meeting, Monday, August 20, 1877. 



Meeting this evening, the President in the chair. 

 Rccoitls read. Correspondence and donations annonnced. 



Dr. J. W. Goodell and Mr. E. L. Sargent, both of 

 Lynn, and Mr. George C. Poirce, of* Pcabody, were 

 elected resident members. 



Field Meeting at Marblehead Neck, Wednesday, 

 August 22, 1«77. 



The field meeting this day was very largel}' attended 

 by members and friends. It is ahnost twenty years since 

 the Institute held a meeting in this locality, and during 

 tbis interval many changes have taken place, the most 

 inii)ortant of which is the building of a veiy fine road 

 around tbis beautiful [)eninsula and the lading out of 

 the grounds ft)r sea-side residences, several having been 

 erected. 



Mr. J. J. II. GiiEGORY took some of the part}' to visit 

 the most interesting of the liistoric localities of the town. 

 Undoubtedly every one of the party had heard more or 

 less of Marblehead, her hills, streets and ancient build- 

 ings, but very lew had probably before lealizcd the ex- 

 tent of the town's resmirces in that direction. The fol- 

 lowing may be specilied : the place where "Find" Iresoii 

 lived, his true character and mode of life ; where Moll 

 IMlcher was born ; the beach upon which the British sol- 

 diers landed from the Frolic when coming to Salem to be 

 rei)ulsed at the North Bridge ; where lived Vice President 

 Gerry, Gen. Glover, Col. Lee, and a host ot other celeb- 

 rities ; where the first house in town stood, and the beauty 



