BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX UsTSTITTJTIE!. 



VOL. 4. SALEM, MASS., SEPTEMBER, 1872. No. 9. 



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



FIELD MEETING AT ANNISQUAM, THURSDAY, 

 AUGUST 8, 1872. 



[ Continued.] 



THE PRESIDENT in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



The PRESIDENT in his opening remarks alluded briefly 

 to the objects of the Institute, the origin of the field 

 meetings, the opportunity offered thereby to gather infor- 

 mation, from every part of the county, of historical and 

 scientific value, and also to awaken an interest for these 

 pursuits in the several places visited. He mentioned that 

 two meetings the present season had previously been 

 held: one at Middleton, an inland town diversified with 

 hills and dales, with many by-paths skirted with shrub- 

 bery and flowering plants, with pleasant ponds and run- 

 ning streams ; on the shores of one of these ponds known 

 as Forest Lake was the rendezvous for the day ; the other 

 at Groveland, on the banks of the Merrimac, with the 

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