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MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1879. 



MEETING this evening adjourned to the following day, 

 Tuesday, at noon. 



Moses W. Putnam of Dauvers was elected a member. 



MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1879. 



REGULAR MEETING this evening. The PRESIDENT in 

 the chair. Records read. Donations and correspondence 

 announced. 



Ellen Osborne Proctor of Peabody was elected a mem- 

 ber. 



WINFIELD S. NEVINS occupied the evening in giving 

 An Account of a Visit to Pompeii. 



The speaker, in opening, referred briefly to the natural 

 beauties of the vicinity of Vesuvius and Pompeii ; also 

 to the Museo Borbonico in Naples, where are stored so 

 many of the relics of ruined Pompeii and Herculaneum. 

 The journey to the former city was described and then 

 the ruins themselves. The city was spoken of as being 

 somewhat larger than the settled portion of Salem, less 

 than one-half of which has yet been unearthed ; with 

 narrow streets, low houses, the ceilings fallen in, and the 

 upper stories gone. The Forum, Temple of Jupiter and 

 other monuments of Pompeian glory were described. 

 The widest streets of the city are scarcely twenty feet in 

 width, and some but two and a half yards from wall to 

 wall. They are paved with polygonal blocks of lava, in 

 which time and traffic have made but little impression. 



