CONTENTS. 



Page. 

 A Catalogue of the Fishes of Essex County, including the Fauna 



of Massachusetts Bay and the contiguous deep waters ; by G. 



Brown Goode and T. H. Bean, . ' . " ; ' .*: '-. . . 1 



Regular Meeting, Monday, January 6, 1879, .... 39 

 Ornithological Explorations of the Lesser Antilles ; by Frederick 



A. Ober, . .'".'.. . . . . ". . 39 



A List of the Birds of the Hudson Highlands, with annotations ; 



by Edgar A. Mearns (continued}, " ,' ; : 43 



The Solar Eclipse of 1878 ; a lecture before the Institute, by 



Winslow Upton, 53 



Notes on the native and extensively introduced woody Plants of 



Essex County, Massachusetts ; by John Robinson, . . , 72 



Meeting, Tuesday, January 21, 1879, 107 



Meeting, Monday, February 3, 1879, ...... 107 



Meeting, Friday, February 28, 1879, . '''&'- - . . . .107 



A Paper upon the Old Merchants of Salem; by Nath'l Silsbee, 



Notice of, . .' ..',.. . . ... .107 



The Enharmonic Key-board of Prof. Henry Ward Poole ; by Theo- 

 dore M. Osborne, . 109 



Meeting, Monday, April 7, 1879, 123 



Meeting, Thursday, April 24, 1879, . . ... . . 123 



Meeting, Monday, May 5, 1879, 123 



Annual Meeting, Monday, May 19, 1819, 124 



Retrospect ot the Ye;ir, 124; members. 124; meetings, ]26; lectures and 

 concerts, 127; excursions. 129; museum. 12!); horticultural exhibiton, 

 130; landing of John Endicott, 131; publications, 131; library, 132; 

 financial. 140; election of officers, 142. 



Meeting, Monday, June 1, 1879, . . . . . . .143 



Field Meeting at South Peabody, Friday, June 20, 1879, . . 143 



Remarks by the President. Uev. George F. Wright of Andover, James 

 H. Emerton, Rev. C. C. Carpenter, and others. 



Field Meeting at Andover, Friday, June 27, 1879, . . . 145 



The excursion, 145. Remarks of Uev. George F. Wright, Piof. W. H. 

 Niles; a chapter of the forthcoming history of Andover, by Miss 

 SaiMh L. Bailey, read by Rev. F. H. Johnson. 146. Remarks by Mr. 

 Goldsmith of Andover, j. 11. Emerton, Rev. Selah Merrill, Rev. E. S. 

 Atwood and G. W. W. Dove. 



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