BULLETIN 



E1SSE2^ IlsrSTITTJTE. 



Vol. 4. Salem, Mass., Jdne, 1872. No. 6. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 8th, 1872. 



RETROSPECT FOR THE YEAR. 



[ Continued.] 



Puhlications. The BAletin has been continued in 

 monthly numbers, giving full reports of the doings of the 

 Institute, and abstracts of papers read at the meetings ; 

 this makes an annual volume of some one hundred and 

 sixty pages and a copy of each issue is sent gratuitously 

 to the members. Vol. xi, No. 1, of the "Historical Col- 

 lections " has been printed, and another part is nearly 

 ready for distribution. 



A fund, securely invested, the income of which to be 

 expended in printin"^the proceedings of the Institute, and 

 papers on scientific^nd historical subjects presented at 

 its meetings, also records, diaries, letters and other 

 material that will tend to elucidate our local history, is a 

 great desideratum, and would tend to rescue from oblivion 

 many interesting and valuable memorials of the olden 

 times. 

 Essex Inst. Bulletin. iv 10 



