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sioners met to define the boundary between New Hamp- 

 shire and Massachusetts. 



The President alluded to a singular coincidence that 

 had occurred during the past week : the remains of three 

 persons who had been in years past interested in the 

 objects of the Institute, have been consigned to the silent 

 tomb, and he offered the following tribute to their mem- 

 ories. 



1st. Rev. JOHN LEWIS RUSSELL, one of the founders 

 of the Natural History Society and, after 1848, the vice 

 president of the Natural History department of the Essex 

 Institute ; one of the earliest, most learned and most en- 

 thusiastic leaders in scientific study ; for many years filling 

 important offices in these institutions ; cabinet keeper, 

 curator, vice president and president. At all our early 

 field meetings he was a constant attendant and frequently 

 the presiding officer, devoting himself with an inspiring 

 zeal and energy to contribute to the interest and impor- 

 tance of these gatherings. He was the son of Col. John 

 and Eunice (Hunt) Russell, and was born at Salem, Dec. 

 2, 1808, and received the first rudiments of instruction 

 at her schools. When John was about the age of eleven 

 his father removed with his family to Amesbury and re- 

 sided several years in that place, having the charge of the 

 Amesbury Iron factory, and then returned to Salem ; dur- 

 ing this period John attended the Newburyport Academy, 

 under Masters Bailey and Pike, except the year immedi- 

 ately preceding his admission to Harvard College in 1824, 

 which was spent in the town where we are now assembled, 

 studying under the direction of Rev. Mr. Barnaby, the 

 Baptist clergyman probably well known to some now 

 present. After graduation he entered upon the study of 

 the ministry, and in clue course of time was licensed to 

 preach. He was settled over churches in Chelmsford, 



