iv CONTENTS. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, May 3, . . 



R. S. Rantoul's Historical Reminiscences connected with U 



Custom House, 81. 



Annual Meeting, Wednesday, May 12, . . . f ', 81 

 Report of Secretary, 81. Report of Superintendent, 83. Report of 



Librarian, 84. Report of Treasurer, 85. Officers elected, 87. 

 Regular Meeting, Monday, May 17, .. 

 Field Meeting at Wakefleld, Thursday, June. 10, . ' ' 88 

 Notice of the Excursions, 88. Historical Sketch of Naturalists' Field 

 Clubs, 89. Putnam's Notices of Zoological Specimens found, 90. 

 Morse on the Mollusks, 89. Eaton's Historical Sketch of the Town, 

 89. Allen's and Loring's remarks, 93. 



Field Meeting at VVenham, Friday, July 18, 97 



Notice of Excursions, 97. -- Loring's Historical Reminiscences, 98. 

 Morse on the Glacier System, 99. Putnam on Fishes, 99. Dall on 

 Alaska, 99 Remarks by Allen W. Dodge, N. Paine, and W. B. 

 Trask, 99. 



Field Meeting at Middleton, Thursday, Aug. 5, . . . . 100 

 Notice of the Excursions, 100. President's Historical notice, 100. 

 Morse's Remarks on Paper Making, 102. Putnam on Reptiles, 102. 

 Remarks by.F. Bocher, E. W. Buswell, and G. A. Pollard, 103. 



Field Meeting at Rockport, Thursday, August 26, ... 103 

 Notice of the Excursions, 103. President's remarks on Field Meet- 



England Granite Formation, 106. B. Pierce, Early Reminiscen- 

 ces, 107. 



Notice of the Temperance Organizations in Salem, by David R. 

 Peabody. 113 



Fire Clubs in Salem, 119 



Field Meeting at Lynn, Thursday, Sept. 23, ... . 121 

 Notice of the Excursions, 121. Remarks on Dungeon Rock, byA.C. 

 Goodell, jr., S. D. Poole, and Jacob Batchelder, 121, 122. F. W. Put- 

 nam, on Shollheaps in Rocks Pasture, 122. Jacob Batchelder's Sketch 

 of the OM Lynn Academy, 124. C. M. Tracy on the Disappearance 

 of the Old and Favorite Flowers from the Gardens and the Introduc- 

 tion of New Varieties, 125. Tracy's Remarks upon the Local Antiq- 

 uities, 12(5. Miss Grace Anna Lewis upon the Fluids Contained 

 in the Bulbs of Feathers of Living Birds, 126. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, October 5, 137 



Regular Meeting, Monday, November 1, 137 



S. Lincoln, Donation of a Pew Door, First Church in Hingham, 137. 

 A. S. Packard, jr.. Notice of the Occurrence of the Walrus m Labrador, 

 &c., 137. F. W. Putnam and A. S. Packard, Jr., on the Polar and 

 other Species of Bears, 138. 



Quarterly Meeting, Wednesday, November 10, .... 139 

 C. W. Upham's Resolu&ons on the Death of Geo. Peabody, 139. 



Quarterly Meeting, adj., Monday, November 15, .... 140 

 Resolves in relation to the Essex Institute Musical Library Associa- 

 tion, 140. Programme 1st Musical Entertainment, 140. Programme 

 2nd Musical Entertainment, 141. E. Bicknell, on Eozoon Cana- 

 dense, 141, A. Hyatt's remarks on Mr. Bicknell's Paper, 142. W.D. 

 Northend's Notice of some Old Papers of Gen. Titcomb of Newbury- 

 port, 142. 



Third Musical Entertainment, 143 



Regular Meeting, Monday, December 20, 150 



Letter from Thomas Spencer of Bransby, near Lincoln, Eng., giving 

 an Account of two Visits to Scrooby, the Home of the Pilgrims, 150. 



Fourth Musical Entertainment 154 



