THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 95 



Report of the Secretary. 



Since the last annual meeting there have been twenty- 

 three meetings of the Society and five meetings of the 

 Directors. 



Only one Field meeting was held during the last season, 

 and that was at Baker's Island in Salem Harbor on June 

 28, 1890, by invitation of Dr. N. R. Morse and the man- 

 agers of the Winne-egan House, who furnished the Institute 

 with a bountiful collation, and did all in their power to 

 make the gathering a pleasant one. A meeting was held 

 in the hall of the Winne-egan at 2.30, President Wheatland 

 in the chair. Capt. Geo. M. Whipple was elected Secre- 

 tary pro tern. The speakers on this occasion besides the 

 President who gave an historical sketch of the four early 

 migrations to Salem, were Mr. John H. Sears, who gave 

 some observations on the geological formations of the isl- 

 ands in the harbor, Mr. Cyrus M. Tracy of Lynn, who 

 spoke of their botanical features, and Dr. Geo. A. Bates 

 who spoke of the study of natural history especially in con- 

 nection with the sea. Brief remarks were also made by 

 Rev. James F. Brodie, Dr. N. R. Morse and Mr. W. S. 

 Nevins, the latter offering a vote of thanks to the proprietors 

 of the Winne-egan. The party numbered about seventy- 

 five, and went to the Island in a steamer from the Willows. 

 The meeting was considered a very successful one. 



During the year papers have been read before the So- 

 ciety, in Plummer Hall, by the following persons : 



Rev. G. T. Flanders, D.D., of New Bedford,i Prof. J. 

 W. Fewkes of Boston, 2 Dr. William Thornton Parker,* 

 Mr. Rosewell B. Lawrence of Med ford, 4 Mr. John T. Prince 

 of Newtonville, 5 Mr. Sylvester Baxter of Boston, 6 Col. 



»See p. 104. 2 See p. 105. 3 See p. 105. «See p. 106. 6 See p. 107. «See p. 108. 



