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beauty kindled in many a desire for closer acquaintance 

 with nature, and discovered to them a new and pure joy 

 in the pursuit of that knowledge, through her boundless 

 realms of order and ever unfolding life. 



Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be entered 

 upon the records of the Institute ; and that a copy of 

 them be sent to the family of Mr. Russell, with an ex- 

 pression of the sincere sympathy felt by the members of 

 the Institute for them in their bereavement. 



A committee consisting of G. D. Phippen, S. P. Fowler 

 and F. Putnam was requested to take such further notice 

 of the deceased as may be deemed appropriate. 



FIELD MEETING AT AMESBURY, THURSDAY, 

 JUNE 19, 1873. 



THE leafy month of June, with the fields and landscape 

 clothed in their richest verdure, and dotted with the 

 varied hues of many flowers, invites the Institute to 

 commence the series of field meetings, the succession of 

 which during the season exhibits the different phases 

 which nature assumes, from the opening of the bud to the 

 ripening of the golden fruits of autumn. This county, 

 located in the northeastern corner of the Old Bay State, 

 and having one side washed by the waters of the ocean, 

 offers to the student of nature an opportunity to investi- 

 gate the marine fauna and flora, in addition to those usu- 

 ally found in our excursions to the inland towns, where 

 an entirely different class of objects, peculiar to such 

 localities, grow in their wild luxuriousness. 



The attendance at this field meeting was larger than 

 usual for the opening meeting, and, although the weather 

 was uncomfortably warm, the occasion was one of great 



