BULLETIN 



OF THE 



UsTSTITTJTE. 



VOL. 4. SALEM, MASS., JUNE, 1872. No. 6. 



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



ANNUAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY STH, 1872. 

 RETROSPECT FOR THE YEAR. 



[ Continued.] 



Publications. The BULLETIN has been continued in 

 monthly numbers, giving full reports of the doings of the 

 Institute, and abstracts of papers read at the meetings ; 

 this, makes an annual volume of some one hundred and 

 sixty pages and a copy of each issue is sent gratuitously 

 to the members. Vol. xi, No. 1, of the "Historical Col- 

 lections "has been printed, and another part is nearly 

 ready for distribution. 



A fund, securely invested, the income of which to be 

 expended in printing the proceedings of the Institute, and 

 papers on scientific and historical subjects presented at 

 its meetings, also records, diaries, letters and other 

 material that will tend to elucidate our local history, is a 

 great desideratum, and would tend to rescue from oblivion 

 many interesting and valuable memorials of the olden 

 times. 

 ESFEX INST. BULLETIN. iv 10 



