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Eegular Meeting, Monday, July 15, 1878. 

 Meeting this evening. The President in the chair. 

 Records read. Donations and correspondence announced. 



Mrs. George M. Whipple was elected a resident mem- 

 ber. 



Prof. F. V. Hay den, of Washington, D. C, and Dr. 

 W. J. Hoffman, of Washington, D. C, were elected cor- 

 responding members. 



The President alluded to the recent decease of Hon. 

 Joseph G. Waters, for twenty-one years the recording 

 secretary of the Essex Historical Society, one of the pred- 

 ecessors of the Institute, and spoke of his great interest 

 in the literary and scientific institutions of this county, 

 his versatile and extensive knowledge of general literature 

 and history, his genial disposition, and his personal worth 

 as a citizen and a scholar. 



Judge Waters died at his residence, Pleasant street, 

 Salem, on the 12th instant. He was the son of Capt. 

 Joseph and Mrs. Mary (Dean) Waters of Salem, where 

 he was born July 5, 1796. He graduated at Harvard 

 College in the class of 1816 and studied law with Hon. 

 John Pickering, the well known scholar and lexicographer 

 (Harvard, 1796). He afterwards went to Mississippi, 

 where he resided in the practice of his profession for 

 several years, holding at the same time the office of mag- 

 istrate, and then returned to Salem. He was a member 

 of the Common Council of Salem in 1836 and 1837, a 

 State Senator in 1835, and a Judge of the Police Court 

 for nearly forty years, until 1875, when he resigned. At 

 one time he conducted the editorial department of the 

 "Salem Observer," always taking much interest in his- 

 torical studies and literary pursuits. In addition to his 



