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tions being the key-note of the new movement in education. 

 We can do all we set out to do, if we keep the object held 

 up to view ; for, by constantly living up to the ideal, every 

 obstacle clears before our pathway. 



Dr. Addison Davis of Gloucester spoke briefly. Mr. 

 Charles H. Sargent of Lanesville exhibited and re- 

 marked about an Indian stone pestle and other relics. 

 Hon. Wm. S. Messervy of Salem alluded briefly to 

 Judge Drake, and among other things said, that forty 

 years ago it took him four months to go from Salem to 

 Santa Fe in New Mexico, while now the distance could 

 be accomplished in about a week. 



N. A. HoRTON of the Salem Gazette being called upon, 

 gave a brief resume of the doings and objects of the 

 Essex Institute, and in conclusion said : Many years ago 

 enterprising men from Salem sailed over this broad ocean, 

 and brought home wealth from distant lauds. They used 

 this wealth in educating their children, and thus gave to 

 Salem no inconsiderable degree of culture. A taste for 

 knowledge and for Natural History grew out of this, and, 

 from small beginnings, this Essex Institute was formed. 

 Beyond the^circumstances of its early formation, it is not 

 a purely local Salem Society, but an Essex County Insti- 

 tution, seeking to preserve for the benefit of the people 

 all the facts pertaining to the civil and natural history of 

 the county, and to promote the difi*usion of knowledge 

 among the people. That is the object of the field meet- 

 ings. Of the many that have been held, it has, perhaps, 

 never been the fortune of the Society to receive such 

 hospitality as has been shown to-day by the proprieter of 

 this place. He ofi'ered a vote of thanks to Col. French 

 for these attentions, and also to those employed in difier- 



