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tistic interest, have been placed in the rooms of Dalancl 

 House and have been received from tlie following con- 

 tributors : 



Lucy Hood, old baptismal blankets; Chas. O. aud Wm. L. Welch; 

 Joseph B. r. Osgood; L. E. Millea, ornamental Lantern for hall of In- 

 stitute Building; Jacob H. Medairy, Baltimore, Md. ; Chas. W. Pal- 

 fray, silhouette of Rev. Dr. Hopkins ; David G. Yates, Piiiladelphia, Pa. ; 

 John W. Hart; Joliu Robinson; Chas. E. Whittredge; J. Lintou 

 Waters; Edw. C. Browne; Mrs. Maria H. Bray, West Gloucester, an 

 old pewter Comrauuion Service; Wm. D. Dennis; Peabody Academy 

 of Science; Robt. S. Rantoul; Mrs. C. K. Ireson ; Geo. W. Pousland; 

 Geo. A. Carey; John H. Sears; Chas. E. Trow; Mrs. Carrie Burbank; 

 H.M.Brooks; Wm. J. Walton; Miss Mary R. Kimball; Mrs. Chas. 

 Osgood; Wm. L. Kinsman; Mrs. H. M. Brooks; T. F. Hunt; Char- 

 lotte A. L. Sibley, Gfoton; Miss Mary Otis Bailey, Dorchester, valu- 

 able old Hathorne deeds and other papers, etc. ; Frederick Lamson; 

 Chas. A. Ropes; Jos. L. Lougee, map of Salem, 1820; Miss E. M. R. 

 Brooks, old fashioned rubljer shoes; Ross Turner, ancient fire-dogs, 

 etc.; Miss Abby E. Cleveland, Poughkeepsle, N. Y., copy of Covenant 

 of Second Church iulpswicli; Jolui H. Nichols, sea journal of Sch. 

 Betsey, 1793; Co. F., 23 Regt. Mass. Volunteers, original Roll-book, 

 1861-4; A. Aug. Smith, seventy-tliree bills of school teachers in Salem, 

 1791 to 1830, etc. ; Frank V. Wriglit; Frederick P. Porter; Chas. Baker; 

 Mrs. Paul P. Patten; John T. Brown, Newl)uryport ; Rev. Tiios. R. 

 Pyuchou, Hartford, Conn. ; David Moore, Commission aud Seal of Nova 

 Scotia Justice Benijah Collins. 



A life-like portrait in oil of the Pi-esident of the Essex 

 Institute by Frederick P. Vinton, has been presented l)y 

 Messrs. Stephen G.Wheatland and George Wheatland, jr. 



An Exhibition of roses was held on June 23, 1887. 

 There were thirty contributors. Awards were made to 

 J. B. F. Osgood, T. D. Williams, and John M. W^ard, of 

 Peabody for exhii)its of special excellence. 



The collection included also other flowers ; a handsome 

 bank of pansies with a border of. ferns was shown by Jas. 

 F. Almy ; S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, exhibited an excep- 

 tionally fine spray of magnolias ; some particularly large 

 " Improved Nyin[)h{Ba" were from Mrs. Geo. li. Ennnerton, 



