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Monday, November 3, 1879. 



Regular Meeting this evening at 7.30 p. m. Ad- 

 journed to the following day at 4 p. m. 



Horace C. Burnham, Willard H. Brown, Ellen Buffing- 

 ton Kehew, all of Salem, were elected members. 



Monday, November 17, 1879. 



Regular Meeting this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The 

 President in the chair. Records read. Donations and 

 correspondence announced. 



Mary H. Plummer of Salem was elected a member. 



Mr. J. H. Emerton read a very interesting paper on 

 The Animals of the Bottom of Salem Harbor. 



He showed a map of the neighborhood of Salem from 

 Swampscott to Manchester, and explained the character 

 of the shores and of the bottom in different parts of the 

 harbor, and then described some of the most common 

 animals living at various depths, beginning with those 

 between tides. Here are found many species which 

 prefer to be exposed to the air part of the time. The 

 barnacles swim about when they are young, and attach 

 themselves to everything up to high water mark. The 

 common clams live buried in mud, which is uncovered at 

 every tide. Several snails, although they crawl about 

 freel}^ live out of water part of the time, among stones 

 between tides. The mussels cover the posts of wharves 

 and bridges almost up to high tide, and cover the entire 

 bottom in some places, as Beverly bar. 



