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Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to place these 

 resolutions on the records, and to transmit a copy to 

 President Eliot and his associates in the administration 

 of the University. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



Monday, June 20, 1881. 



Meeting of the Institute this evening. Adjourned to 

 Tuesday, June 21. The President in the chair. 



Messrs. George E. Sperry and Frederick P. Richardson, 

 both of Salem, were elected resident members. 

 The meeting then adjourned. 



Thursday, July 7, 1881. 



Field meeting in Rowley this day, the party leaving 

 in the 8.10 a. m. train from Salem on the Eastern rail- 

 road. At Rowley proceeded, in carriages, to the Town 

 Hall, where the afternoon session was held and where the 

 baskets were deposited. From thence, under the guid- 

 ance of Mr. John H. Sears, the botanical section strolled 

 into the woods in search of plants and flowers, while 

 others went in different directions as inclination dictated. 



This is an old and interesting town and was incorporated 

 in 1639. It was named by Ezekiel Rogers, its early settler, 

 for a Parish in York County, England. It had a fulling 

 mill, owned by John Pearson, as early as 1643, and its 

 first grist-mill was erected on Mill river, two years later, 

 by Thomas Nelson. At the earliest period it was quite 



