BULLETIN 



OF THE 



IZLsTSTITTJTIE]. 



VOL. 4. SALEM, MASS., JANUARY, 1872. No. 1. 



One Dollar a Year in Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, JANUARY 1st, 1872. 







THE PRESIDENT in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



The President mentioned a few of the associations that 

 cluster around this day ; a day when the mind naturally 

 reverts to the past, recalls the incidents of the year now 

 closed, and indulges in reveries upon their probable influ- 

 ence in the distant future. No one can foretell the re- 

 sults ; some of the most seemingly important will soon 

 pass away and be forgotten, whereas the most appar- 

 rently trivial, scarcely known beyond the threshold of the 

 humble cot of the occurrence, will, as years roll on, be- 

 come the centre of great interest and attraction, as the 

 birthplace and home of some of nature's noblemen. He 

 briefly alluded to the holidays that occur near the close of 

 the old and the beginning of the new year, and called 

 upon Mr. A. C. GOODELL, JR., who spoke of the esti- 

 mation in which these days were held in the early period 



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