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sites. He alluded to Boston's City Hall, on a street 

 thirty six feet wide and the Court House up a lane ; but 

 improvement will come in time. 



Monday, March 4, 1895. — Regular meeting this 

 evening at the Library room. Professors E. S. Morse and 

 Jolm H. Sears spoke of Indian implements, pottery, shell 

 heaps, etc. The former mentioned the measuring of a 

 great number of clams from different shell heaps of Japan 

 and America and of diflerent periods, as showing age, etc. 

 Mr. Sears thought the stones used by the Indians here 

 for implements were of Essex County origin. 



Monday, March 11, 1895. — Gamaliel Bradford, Esq., 

 lectured this evening in Pluramer Hall, on "Responsi- 

 l)ility in Municipal Government." The lecturer had 

 made a life-long study of the problems of government, 

 and was therefore w'ell qualified to speak on the subject. 

 He favored the giving of more power to the executive 

 and holding him strictly accountable for the proper con- 

 duct of city afi'airs, and he also favored single-headed 

 commissions for the same purpose. All power to appro- 

 priate money should be vested in the aldermen, and 

 should depend upon the advice of the city treasurer as to 

 the disposal of the funds of a city. 



Monday, March 18, 1895. — Regular meeting of the 

 society this evening in the Library room. Miss Irene 

 Weir, of Boston, read an exceedingly interesting paper 

 on artistic "Posters." The fine collection, of Mr. Charles 

 K. Bolton of the Brookline Public Library, was used for 

 illustration. Miss Weir pointed out the many details 

 which make a poster at once attractive and i)leasing, and 

 s])oke of the various styles of French and American de- 

 signers. A copy was shown of an early American printed 



