THE KETKOSPECT OF THE YEAK. Gl 



THE KETKOSPECT OF THE YEAK 



compiled from the scveial reports read at the meeting 

 and remarks of the members in relation thereto, presents 

 the work of tiie Institute in the various departments since 

 the last annual meeting. 



Members. — Changes occur in the list of our associates 

 by the addition of new names and the withdrawal of some 

 by resignation, removal from the county or vicinity, or by 

 death. We have received notice of the decease of nine- 

 teen, during the year, who have been enrolled on our list 

 of members. 



Francis Gregory Sanborn, son of Eastman and ISIary 

 Call Lawrence (Gregory) Sanborn, born in Andover, 

 Mass., Jan. 18, 1838, a graduate of Phillips Academy, 

 Andover, in 1858 ; he early turned his attention to out- 

 door studies, becoming especially proficient in entomology 

 and conchology ; he had been connected with the jNIassa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture, the Bussey Institution, 

 the Geological Survey of Kentucky, the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, and had been a Curator of the Worcester Natural 

 History Society ; died in Providence June 5, 1884. Ad- 

 mitted a member January 15, 1866. 



James B. Batcheller, for many years a teacher in the 

 public schools of Salem and Marblehead, and for eighteen 

 years a member of the School Committee in his native 

 town. He was son of Kev. David Batcheller of Worces- 

 ter, a methodist clergyman, and Elizabeth C. Bowler, of 

 Marblehead, in which town he was born June 25, 1814; 

 a graduate of Weslcyan University in 1845 ; professor of 

 mathematics in Burlingt<m, N. J. ; died in jNlarblehcad, 

 July 1, 1884. Admitted a member Sept. 8, 18G8. 



