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a clerk with Nathaniel Bowditch and Richard Cleveland. 

 He passed twenty years of his life in the councils of the 

 State and Nation, ten of which were in the IT. S. Congress. 

 Born in Salem, January 14, 1773, he w\as educated under 

 the charge of Rev. Dr. Manasseh Cutler, — died at Salem, 

 14 July, 1850. The hall was filled with a large audience, 

 whose interest the speaker held from the beginning to 

 the end of his communication. 



Monday, March, 3, 1879. 



Meeting this evening, and the Rev. De Witt S. Clarke 

 and Mr. H. Bissell both of Salem were elected resident 

 members. 



Monday, March 17, 1879. 



At the meeting this evening, Mr. J. H. Emerton, of 

 Salem, gave an account of the artificial hatching of cod 

 fish, and, by drawings on the black board, explained the 

 various apparatus used for this purpose, l)y the U. S. 

 Fish Commission at their station in Gloucester the past 

 summer. 



Mr. Raymond L. Newcomb, of Salem, read a paper on 

 Halibut fishing on the Banks of Newfoundland. The 

 method of fishing, making of trawls, kinds of bait used, 

 the perils of the fishermen, and other matters pertaining 

 to the subject were fully explained and discussed. 



