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from tip to tip as they grew from the animal's head. 

 They measured forty-seven inches in length and twelve 

 and one-half inches in circumference. 



Lunch was served in the church chapel, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Brown and others being lavish in their hospitality and 

 generous attention. 



At 2.45, P. M., the afternoon session was held. The 

 PRESIDENT in the chair. Records of last meeting read. 

 Donations and correspondence announced, after which 

 HORACE BROWN, Esq., welcomed the society to West 

 Newbury, being fittingly responded to by the PRESIDENT, 

 who spoke of the previous field day at West Newbury, 

 referred to the various educational associations of the 

 vicinity, and explained the objects and work of the In- 

 stitute. 



Hon. HAYDN BROWN gave an interesting and instructive 

 account of the comb factory of which he is one of the pro- 

 prietors ; exhibited the original kit of tools used by Mr. 

 Enoch Noyes, the first manufacturer in Newbury, in 1774 ; 

 and described the various modifications in machinery from 

 the simple forms at that early period to the improved and 

 complicated constructions of the present time. 



JAMES PARTON, Esq., of Newburyport, said that in 

 visiting the comb factory in the morning he had recalled 

 a memorandum of John Quincy Adams. After making a 

 visit to a factory in St. Petersburg, wrote Mr. Adams, 

 "I must go visit a factory every week in order to learn 

 humility." The speaker thought that all his hearers had 

 learned a lesson in humility that day. Mr. Brown had 

 spoken of the progress of mechanical invention within the 

 last quarter of a century, but this progress of invention 



