16 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



thirty-one containing church records, family history, etc., 

 there have been printed and issued the following extras : 



1. A Partial Catalogue of Publications on sale. 



2. The Annual Report for 1894. 



3. Baptismal Records of the Church in Topsfield, 

 copied by Geo. Frs. Dow. 



4. A Geological Report by Mr. Sears to accompany 

 his map. 



5. Geological and Mineralogical Notes, parts 7 and 8, 

 by Mr. Sears. 



6. The Wheatland Memorial in pamphlet form. 



7. Salem and the Conkling Family, by Frank J. 

 Conkling, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



8. The Pepperrell Portraits, by Cecil Hampden Cutts 

 Howard, Beebe, Ark. 



In commemorating the founder of the Institute, as the 

 occasion was unique, so a course was followed not alto- 

 gether usual and, it was apprehended, open possibly to 

 adverse remark. Instead of presenting a carefully drawn 

 sketch, the work of a single hand, which must exhibit at 

 once the capabilities and the limitations of the limner, it 

 was thought the better plan to collate, in one volume, es- 

 timates and characterizations of the distinguished subject 

 from a multitude of appreciative sources, thus perpetuat- 

 ing, so to say, a rounded statue observable from many 

 points of view, rather than a canvas offering only one. 

 So far as your committee have been informed, the depart- 

 ture has not been considered an unwise one. 



The elaborate map exhibiting the surface geology of 

 the county, pre})ared by the curator of that branch in the 

 Peabody Academy of Science and promised us for publi- 

 cation last year, has been issued by the Institute and has 

 been received with favor. 



A trustworthy Guide to Salem and the adjoining region 



