8 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



hands of our library assistants who are placing them in 

 scrap books for their better preservation. 



The donations to the Cabinets the past year have been 

 470, from 132 donors. Among these donations were an 

 ancient sword, silver case and hilt (marked 1319) from 

 Miss Mary Ellen Briggs ; a wooden l^ust of Hippocrates 

 which, in Oct., 1771, was a sign for Nathaniel Dabney of 

 Salem, a})othecary ; a cradle used by Judge Story and 

 afterwards by his son Wm. W. Story; and several very 

 finely carved tortoise shell combs from the Misses Cleve- 

 land. 



From the late Judge E. KockNvood Hoar, a gold watch, 

 key, seal and chain, which belonged to Major John 

 Clarke, who was at the capture of Quebec in 1759 ; and 

 an early Chickering piano from Mrs. W. A. Lander; 

 from the Salem Marine Society, miniatures on ivory, of 

 Capt. Jona. Lambert and Capt. Samuel Lambert, of Salem, 

 and from Prof. Alpheus Hyatt of Cambridge, a slave whip. 



We have also been presented with a Bull.* He is, 

 however, somewhat aged and infirm and will have to be 

 doctored l)efore he is ready for a bull light, or can be 

 exhibited. Besides this we have some of the bones of 

 Georo:e Jacobs, who was executed for witchcraft. 



An album of leaves and flowers gathered in Italy by 

 Una Ha^^horne in 1858-9, sent to us by Richard Garnett, 

 Esq., of the British Museum, London. 



These are a few of the most noted donations, for we 

 could not enumerate all in this report. 



The Society still wants room, money and nienil)ers — 

 the young and old of both sexes. 



Which is respectfully submitted, 



Henry M. Brooks, 



jSecretmy. 



*Made of wood, iisecl as a si<;n l)y Jona. Aiuhow in 17<'i9, near Williams Street. 



