BULLETIN 



OF THE 



VOL. 6. SALEM, MASS., JUNE, 1874. No. 6. 



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ANNUAL MEETING, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1874. 

 RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



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MEETINGS. During the summer and early autumn 

 Field Meetings and Horticultural Exhibitions occupied 

 the attention of the Institute. The meetings were four in 

 number, first at Amesbury, on Thursday, June 19, 1873, 

 by invitation of the Amesbury and Salisbury Natural 

 History Club, who were very courteous and attentive 

 during the visit. At the meeting in the Universalist 

 Church the recent decease of Messrs. R. S. Rogers, J. 

 L. Russell and W. O. Thayer was noticed. Mr. Allen 

 W. Dodge, after a few general remarks, alluded to some 

 of the habits and customs of our ancestors gleaned from 

 the records in the registers of probate and of deeds. Mr. 

 F. W. Putnam alluded to some Indian relics belonging 

 to the museum of the Natural History Club, particularly 

 specifying an interesting carved stone rudely representing 

 a porpoise, or better still, a white whale or Jjeluga. 



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