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genealogical writer, bat an accomplished botanist and well 

 acquainted with various branches of Natural History. 

 Many who listen to me will call to mind his fine garden 

 in Bridge street, which for years afforded so much pleas- 

 ure to his numerous friends. Whatever he undertook he 

 did well. We all remember him as a quiet, unassuming 

 and genial man. I feel that I knew him well, for I served 

 two years with him in the Salem Bank, and in those two 

 years, he taught me more than I had learned in all the 

 years I had been at school, so that I have felt that I was 

 under great obligations to him, and I am glad of the op- 

 portunity now ofiered, to pay my feeble tribute to his 

 worth. It is a singular fact that the*e two good men, 

 although differing somewhat theologically, had much in 

 common, and often conferred with each other on religious 

 matters and duties. This I know to be a fact, for Mr. 

 Phippen himself so informed me, and it shows that truly 

 religious people can differ in such matters, without being 

 offensively partisan. 



I trust I shall be pardoned for these few personal allu- 

 sions, for I could not otherwise do even imperfect justice 

 to those of whom I have been speaking. 



Since the last meeting one hundred and thirty persons 

 have become members of our Society, while eighteen have 

 died, and fourteen have withdrawn, leaving the member- 

 ship at the present time nine hundred and four. The 

 additional members include, as life members, Mrs. John 

 L. Gardner of Boston, Wm. D. Sohier of Boston, Amory 

 A. Lawrence of Boston. 



These are the members who have died during the year : 



Henry Blaney, Theodore Brown, Hubbard Breed, Thos. 

 J. Hutchinson, Wm. Mack, Amos H. Johnson, Edward 

 H. Payson, Geo. 1). Phippen, Wm. A. Bowditch, William 

 G. Webb and Edmund B. Willson of Salem, Mrs. Eliza 



