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in about an hour ; some members went in a later car. 

 During the forenoon a portion of the party visited the 

 " wolf pits " and other places of interest, under the guid- 

 ance of Nathan M. Hawkes, Esq. Lunch was eaten at 

 1 o'clock near the summit of Mount Gilead. At 2 o'clock 

 the meeting was opened by President Willson with some 

 interesting remarks explaining the objects of field-meet- 

 ings, that for many years had been pursued by this so- 

 ciety : — the study of history, botany, geology, etc., by 

 visits to fields and woods, more especially in the county 

 of Essex. The speaker wished it understood that this 

 was a county society and not merely a Salem institution . 

 Mr. Willson referred to the beautiful park in which we 

 were holding our meeting and wished Salem could boast 

 of something of the sort. Mr. Hawkes gave a full ac- 

 count of the establishing of the park and told how the 

 property was acquired. Professor Morse spoke in his 

 usual entertaining manner of the value and importance of 

 out-door education. Alderman Gove hoped Salem would 

 do something to get possession of the territory between 

 Lynn and Salem for a park — that part between the rail- 

 road and the turnpike. In the same line were the re- 

 marks of AV. S. Nevins, Dr. H. C. Merriam, Dr. Jesse 

 Robbins, Captain Whipple and C. H. Preston of Danvers. 

 A vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hawkes and others for 

 courtesies extended. Meeting adjourned at 4 p. m. 



Thursday ^ Aug mt 2, 1894. — About sixty members of 

 tlie Amcriciui Society of University Teaching, under the 

 direction of Prof. Lytnan T. Powell, visited Salem this day 

 and were entertained l)y the Institute and Peal)ody Acad- 

 emy of Science. They arrived in town at 9.30, and were 

 met at the railway station l)y a eommitte of the Institute, 

 with barges, and taken to our rooms, where they examined 

 our collections ; they then took the barges again and were 



