BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX I3STSTITTJTEI 



VOL. 5. SALEM, MASS., MAY^ 1873. No. 5. 



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



ANNUAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1873, 



According to the notification, the meeting was held at 

 3 P. M. The PRESIDENT in the chair. Kecords read. 



The annual reports of the officers and of the curators 

 were read and accepted, and from them the accompanying 



RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR y 



exhibiting a satisfactory condition of affairs and the prog- 

 gress made, during the interval, in the promotion of the 

 objects of the institution, has been compiled. 



MEMBERS. Changes occur in the list of associates by 

 the addition of new names, and the withdrawal of some 

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

 In this connection, notices of nine of the resident mem- 

 bers, who have deceased within the year, are inserted. 



B. R. Allen. Scarcely had two or three weeks elapsed, 



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