120 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE. 



Lectures and Meetings. 



Monday Evening, August 16, 1897. — A meeting of 

 the Directors was held at the rooms this evening at 8 

 o'clock. It was voted ttlat the Institute invite the Ameri- 

 can Association for the Advancement of Science to visit 

 Salem for a day, during its next meeting, which is to be 

 held in Boston. 



Monday Evening, Sept. 20, 1897. — A meeting of the 

 Directors was held at the rooms this evening at 8 o'clock. 

 The President stated that the President of the Topsfield 

 Historical Society had proposed that the Institute join 

 with them in a field meeting at Topsfield to which all the 

 Historical Societies of the County be invited. On mo- 

 tion of General Appleton it was voted that the Institute 

 take active measures to cooperate with the Topsfield 

 Society. 



Monday Evening, Oct. 4, 1897. — Attention was called 

 to the death since the last yearly meeting of Charles S. 

 Osgood, Librarian of the Institute from 1888 to 1897, 

 and a tribute was offered by the President which will be 

 found in the Historical Collections, Vol. xxxiii, p. 185. 



Monday Evening, Jan. 3, 1898. — Regular meeting in 

 the Library room. Mr. Gardner M. Jones, Librarian of 

 the Salem Public Library, read a very interesting paper 

 describing a recent tour among foreign libraries. Mr. 

 Jones was a delegate to the international librarian's con- 

 vention held in London, in June, 1897, and as such had 

 special opportunities to study the methods of manage- 

 ment in the large libraries of Europe. He spoke of the 

 great libraries of Paris and London, and said that the 

 rules governing them were more cumbersome than in this 



