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ten to twelve instructors, each instructor having charge of 

 a special department. He described the several buildings 

 and the method of instruction pursued. Text books are 

 abolished and the studies are directly from the specimens 

 by dissection and from life. A tug boat visits the island 

 from New Bedford three times a week. The expenses of 

 the students are about eight dollars per week. He antic- 

 ipated the best results from this school in the dissemina- 

 tion of scientific knowledge, and certainly hardly greater 

 facilities could be offered. 



Hon. A. "W. DODGE followed Mr. Putnam and quoted 

 Agassiz to the effect that a great error in our mode of 

 teaching is that we rely too much upon text books ; yet he 

 thought there was danger that those who made a specialty 

 of certain studies would attach too much value to their 

 particular study in comparison with others. He then 

 made some very important remarks upon horticultural 

 pursuits, and described the process of growth by which 

 certain common fruits are developed. 



Prof. ALBERT H. TUTTLE, of the Ohio Agricultural 

 and Mechanical College, Columbus, who has been visiting 

 in Salem for some weeks for the purpose of dredging on 

 the coast and collecting the marine fauna and flora, among 

 other remarks spoke of the great variety of marine plants 

 and animals found along the coast, and the opportunities 

 thus afforded to students in zoology and botany for inves- 

 tigation and research. 



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Rev. A. B. HERVEY, formerly of Peabody, now of Troy, 

 N. Y., who is spending his summer vacation near the 

 Clifton House, in Marblehead, gave a description of some 

 of the curiosities seen during his trip to the shore, with a 

 humorous narrative of his conveyance thither. 



