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Wheatland and Dr. G. A. Perkins gave their personal 

 experience of travel on the White Mountain routes in the 

 years 1832 and 1834. These excursions were all enjoy- 

 able and successful socially. 



The coming year will probably be an active one in the 

 annals of the Institute. It is proposed to celebrate in an 

 appropriate manner the 250th anniversary of the landing 

 of Gov. John Endicott at Salem. The anniversary occurs 

 on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1878, and an efficient committee 

 has already been chosen and are making arrangements for 

 a celebration which, it is hoped, may be worthy of the 

 occasion commemorated. 



Mr. JOHN ROBINSON reported the following resolutions 

 on the death of Mr. FRANCIS PUTNAM : 



Whereas, The members of the Essex Institute have 

 learned with profound regret of the decease of Francis 

 Putnam, a valued member from its organization, and for 

 many years one of its most active and faithful officers ; 

 and, desiring to place upon record its appreciation of his 

 character, do hereby submit the following resolutions: 



Resolved, That the Institute has long recognized with 

 pleasure the merited distinction which Mr. Putnam had 

 attained by his acquiantaiice with and skill in the cultiva- 

 tion of rare and choice flowers ; a distinction which is 

 widely spread, and will always enroll his name among the 

 most successful laborers in floriculture. 



Resolved, That the Institute remembers with cordial 

 appreciation his large and generous contributions, for a 

 period of more than forty years, to its Horticultural Ex- 

 hibitions, tending, thereby, largely to foster and elevate 

 the refining taste of horticulture in this country. 



Revolved, That his decease must be regarded as a great 

 loss to horticulture, and will serve to remind the Institute 

 of the gradual disappearance from its roll of membership, 

 the names of those early pioneers who initiated the move- 



