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ent positions by the Cape Ann Granite Company (Messrs. 

 Henry C. Bennett, George W. Quinn and Scott Webber), 

 as well as to the Gloucester Society for the courtesies 

 which had caused the day to pass so pleasantly. The 

 resolution was adopted and the meeting adjourned. After 

 the exercises at the tent, many of the party adjourned 

 to the house, where there was some fine singing and 

 piano playing by Miss Ita Welsh of Boston, Miss Cham- 

 berlain, daughter of warden Chamberlain of Concord and 

 Mr. Wm. Teel of Cambridge. 



REGULAR MEETING, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1879. 



MEETING this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The PRESIDENT 

 in the chair. Records read. Donations and correspon- 

 dence announced. 



Sidney Perley of Boxford was duly elected a member. 



Mr. JAMES SAMUELSON of Liverpool, England, occu- 

 pied the hour with an instructive lecture on 



Darwinism. 



He began by referring to the changes, which have 

 taken place, in the method of teaching natural science 

 during the last fifty years, and in speaking of the exten- 

 sion of nature-study, he drew the attention of his hearers 

 to the admirable arrangements for imparting such instruc- 

 tion in our common schools, some of which he has visited. 

 After touching upon the direct influences of natural study 

 on astronomy, geography and physics, he treated of the 

 beginning of life in the globe and the doctrine of spon- 

 taneous generation, which he said is abandoned by the 





