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In commemoration of Forefathers' Day|Dec. 19, 1887, 

 Mr. Rantoul read an interesting letter from Mr.;Thomas 

 Spencer of England, for some years a resident of Salem 

 and one of the original members of the NatnraF History 

 Society, 1834-8, addressed to the President'in 1869, de- 

 scribing two visits he had made to Scrooby, the home of the 

 Pilgrims ; conversation followed by Messrs. T. F. Hunt, 

 John Robinson, George D. Phippen, Fielder) Israel and 

 Henry M. Brooks (see Bulletin, Vol. xx, p. 55). 



Prof. F. W. Putnam^ of Cambridge, lectured on " The 

 Serpent Mounds of the Ohio Valley." 



Mr. 8hebnah Rich, of Salem, read an essay " On Wen- 

 dell Phillips." 



Dr. David Ooggin read a paper entitled " Nine Hun- 

 dred Leagues West of Cape Malabar." 



Rev. H. W. Peri'is, of Hull, Eng., discoursed on "Some 

 Eminent Englishmen." 



Gen. William Cogsioell discussed " The Fishery Ques- 

 tion." 



Robert Rayner followed on " The Fishery Question." 



Robert S. Rantoul contributed " Negro Slavery in Mas- 

 sachusetts." Portion of a paper read before the Beverly 

 Lyceum, April, 1833, by Robert Rantoul, sr."^ 



Wellington Pool, of Wenham, furnished "Inscriptions 

 from the old Burying-ground in Dodge's Row (North 

 Beverly). "2 



Cecil Hampden Cutts Hoivard, of New York, sent a 

 "Sketch of Mrs. William Jarvis of Weathersfield, Ver- 

 mont, by Mrs. Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis Cutts. "^ 



Rev. E. P. Croivell, of Amherst, contributed " An Epi- 



>See Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, Vol. xxiv, ^See Hist. Coll., Vol. xxiv, pp. 123, 



p. 81. 206. 



2See Hist. Coll., Vol. xxiv, p. 109. 



