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a seaside resort, whilst its location within easy reach of a 

 vigorous and growing city would give to the reservation 

 a practical value for the health-dispensing uses of a public 

 park. 



Rev. E. D. Towle, of the East Church, Salem, read a 

 paper on Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and his spirited 

 recitation of some of the poet's best work, interspersed in 

 the hour's reading, added greatly to the enjoyment of the 

 evening. 



Monday Evening, March 29, 1897. — Professor Ripley, 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, lectured in 

 Plummer Hall, on " Some Peculiar People of the South of 

 France," illustrating his remarks with maps and a large 

 number of drawings of heads taken from life, showing the 

 typical features and formations. He had discovered, in 

 southern France, a little isolated population which seemed 

 to have remained pure and unmixed almost from prehis- 

 toric times. 



Monday Evening, April 5, 1897. — Regular meeting in 

 the Library room. Miss Warner, of the Low School, 

 gave one of her delightful bird-talks on the early comers 

 which appear in April in our fields and hedges. The ad- 

 dress was illustrated with stuffed specimens from the col- 

 lections of the Peabody Academy of Science and was very 

 fully reported in the Salem Gazette for April 6, 1897. 



Monday Evening , April 12, 1897. — Louis Prang, the 

 creator of chromo-lithography in America, lectured in 

 Plummer Hall, giving an exposition of his process, illus- 

 trated with numerous products of his popular art. Mr. 

 Prang prefaced his paper with a somewhat detailed and 

 very interesting account of his personal experiences and 

 struggles in building up the great business which has 



