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Regular Meeting, Mondaij, Dec. 17, 1894, in Library 

 room. — Papers were read I)}' meinhers of the Local 

 History Class connected with the society : Mrs. H. W. 

 Edwards on "Lady Deborah Moody ;" Mrs. E. A. Kilham 

 of Beverly on "Anne Hutchinson;" and Miss Helen D. 

 Lander read a paper on " Hugh Peters," written by Miss 

 Lucy W. Perry. These papers were well written and 

 highly appreciated by the audience. 



Remarks were made by the President and Hon. R. S. 

 Rantoul in praise of what had been said. 



Regular Meeting, Monday Evening , Jan. 7, 1895, in 

 Library room. — Mr. John Robinson gave an account of the 

 stone implements and other relics of the early native In- 

 dians of Essex County, with suggestions as to their age, 

 origin and mode of manufacture. Specimens of stone im- 

 plements, [)()ttery, etc., from the Peabody Academy of 

 Science were exhibited. Mr. Robinson was of the opin- 

 ion, which he substantiated in some interesting remarks, 

 that the stone relics must have been made not later than 

 1550, for the Indians would not have been likely to have 

 made such articles after contact with Europeans, who vis- 

 ited these parts in the sixteenth century and could furnish 

 them with iron or c(jppcr utensils and tools. Some of the 

 implements may of course be much older. 



Monday Evening, Jan. 14, 1895. — The first lecture 

 in the "free course" was delivered this evening, in Plum- 

 merHall, by Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, President of the 

 Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; subject, "The Seal Is- 

 lands and the Bering Sea Controversy," illustrated with 

 lantern views. The lecturer gave a brief account of the 

 origin and present condition of the Bering Sea Contro- 

 versy, mentioning incidentally that Bering, the discov- 

 erer of the straits, invariably spelt his name without the 

 h. The gazetteers and geographies all spell the word 



