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The PRESIDENT in his opening remarks alluded to the 

 pleasure that he had always derived, even in childhood 

 from rambling over these hills, fishing in the pond near by 

 and collecting flowers from the meadows and fields. Since 

 the organization of the Institute, four meetings have been 

 held in this place and vicinity. The second field meeting 

 took place in this town, July 24, 1840 (the first paving 

 been held in Danvers in the same year). Among the 

 noticeable productions were the locust trees (Robinia 

 pseudacacia) , large and vigorous, and free from the 

 borer. The serpentine ledges were also duly investigated 

 and discussed at the afternoon session, in the house of 

 the late Asa T. Newhall, Esq. On October 15, 1856, 

 another meeting was held at the house of Rev. A. P. 

 Chute, who had a fine collection of shells and minerals, 

 a meeting having been attempted one day in the August 

 previous, that failed on account of a drenching rain. On 

 June 20, 1861, another meeting took place, at which 

 Rev. E. B. Willson presided; and this was the last that 

 had occurred in the town previous to the one this day, 

 except the meeting at Lynnfield Centre, in August, 1858. 



The President alluded to the recent death of a corres- 

 ponding member, Col. JOHN WELLS FOSTER, who died 

 at his residence in Hyde Park, Chicago, on Sunday, June 

 29, 1873, aged fifty-eight, one of the most eminent per- 

 sons of the city of his adoption. He was born at Brim- 

 field, Mass., in 1815 ; his profession was civil engineering 

 and at an early period of his career he began to follow the 

 bent of his genius. He was prominent in Massachusetts 



