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The PRESIDENT in his opening remarks alluded briefly 

 to two ranges of territory located in the southern part of 

 Essex County, favorable for the pursuit of the naturalist, 

 and more especially of the botanist. One is a tract extend- 

 ing inland from the shores of Swampscott and Marblehead, 

 and lying within the limits of Marblehead, Swampscott, 

 Lynn, Salem, Peabody and Lynnfield, very diversified 

 with rough and craggy hills, bowlders, beautiful ponds, 

 woods and meadows, the habitat of many rare floral gems ; 

 with this tract is associated the name of Dr.. Andrew 

 Nichols, who was one of our most noted local botanists. 

 He delivered a course of lectures on botany as early as 

 1816, and was the first President of the Natural History 

 Society. He died in the spring of 1853, as the little 

 .Draba verna, a plant he took delight in finding, was ex- 

 panding its tiny petals to another vernal season. The 

 other is the range of woods in which we are now assem- 

 bled, extending from Beverly to Gloucester and lying 

 within the limits of these and the intermediate towns. 

 Here are found many rare plants, as the Magnolia, Kalmia, 

 Linnea, Cornels, etc. These woods may be considered, to 

 an Essex County botanist, hallowed ground : here Dr. 

 Cutler, some ninety years since botanized, and prepared 

 in 1784 "An account of some of the vegetable produc- 

 tions naturally growing in this part of America, botani- 

 cally arranged," which was printed in the first volume of 



