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ANNUAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8TH, 1872. 



ACCOKDING to the notification, the meeting was held at 

 3 P. M. The President in the chair. Records read. 



The annual reports of the officers and of the curators 

 were read and. accepted, and from them the accompanying 



RETROSPECT FOR THE YEAR, 



exhibiting a satisfactory condition of affairs and a gradual 

 development of the plans and objects of the Institute, 

 has been compiled. 



Members. Changes occur in the list of members by 

 the addition of new names and the withdrawal of some 

 by resignation, removal from the county, or by death. 

 In'thig connection, notices of three of our associates, who 

 have deceased within the year, are inserted. 



W. H. A. Putnam, son of Eben and Elizabeth (Apple- 

 ton) Putnam, died at Salem, Aug. 30th, 1871, in the 

 thirty-ninth year of his age. From the age of fourteen 

 until the year preceding his death he had led a sailor's 

 life, making many voyages to the East Indies, Europe, 

 Australia, and the Pacific coast of America, as master 

 or factor. During these voyages he collected, very 

 extensively, specimens in all departments of zoology, 

 which have greatly enriched the museums at Salem and 

 Cambridge. 



J. Willard Peele, son of Willard and Margaret (Apple- 

 ton) Peele, died at his seaside residence in Beverly, Sept. 

 29th, 1871, aged sixty-seven years. In early life he went 

 to Manila and established the house of Peele, Hubbell & 

 Co., where he resided many years. He returned to this 

 country about 1845, and has since re'sided in Salem, 

 except during the last three or four years in Boston. 



