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mittee that presented the resolutions complimentary to 

 Prof. A. Graham Bell on the occasion of the first public 

 exhibition of that wonderful invention, the telephone,* at 

 a lecture of the Institute course delivered Monday, Feb. 12, 

 1877. He was one of the most active members of the com- 

 mittee of arrangements for the celebi-ation of the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the Institute, Wednesday, March 5, 

 1873, f and on this occasion read a poem. 



He was also an active and interested member of the 

 committee on the commemoration by the Institute, Sept. 

 18, 1878, of the fifth half century of the landing of Gov- 

 ernor Endicott in Salem, | and he jDrepared an eloquent ad- 

 dress on this occasion. 



For many years he was chairman of the publication com- 

 mittee of the Institute, a position of much responsibility 

 and usefulness. One of the most important of Dr. At- 

 wood's later services was the preparation of a noble tribute 

 to the life and character of the late John Bertram. 



Dr. Atwood will long be cherished in grateful memory 

 by the members of the Essex Institute. 



Rev. Joseph Banvard, D.D., a well known Baptist 

 clergyman, died at Neponset on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 

 1887, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. He was born 

 in the city of New York, May 9, 1810. His father, David 

 Bonverd (the spelling of the name being changed to Ban- 

 vard in the course of a business life), was the son of a 

 Huguenot refugee who came from France about 1770 and 

 settled in the city of New York ; his mother was Elizabeth 

 Mead, of Stamford, Conn. His health was delicate dur- 

 ing his childhood and boyhood. He was a pupil at Joseph 



* See Bulletin of Essex Institute, vol. ix, pp. 21-31. 

 t See Bulletin of Essex Institute, vol. v, p. 66. 



t See Bulletin of Essex Institute, vol. X, p. 151; also Hist. Collections of Essex 

 Institute, vol. xv, pp. 101-332. 



