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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1879. 



MEETING this day at noon. The PRESIDENT in the 

 chair. 



Rev. Albinus Finney Frost, of Salem, elected a resi- 

 dent member. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1879. 

 REGULAR MEETING this evening. 



Mr. THEODORE M. OSBORNE, of Peabody, read an in- 

 teresting and instructive paper "On Perfect Harmony in 

 Music, and the Enharmonic Keyboard of Prof. Henry 

 Ward Poole," including a sketch of the History of the 

 Musical Scale, and illustrating the subject by diagrams 

 and also by voices and piano. 



Abstract of the paper will be printed in the next num- 

 ber of the Bulletin. 



FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1879. 



MEETING this evening. HENRY L. WILLIAMS, Esq., 

 in the chair. 



Hon. NATHANIEL SILSBEE read an exceedingly interest- 

 ing paper, upon the Old Merchants of Salem, and their 

 ancient voyages to "the farthest point ef the rich east." 

 His paper was made up largely of extracts from the 

 autobiography of his father, the late U. S. Senator 

 Silsbee, interwoven with incidents and anecdotes in the 

 reader's own experience, and replete with valuable lessons 

 and precepts for the young men of the rising generation 

 to consider and copy. The author of the autobiography 

 (Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee) began his nautical education as 



