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much to the enjoyment of the large number who partici- 

 pated in the celebration. 



At I P.M. lunch was served in the dining hall ; at 2.30 

 o'clock the afternoon session was held in the hall below. 

 The President in the chair. 



The PRESIDENT introduced, in brief and appropriate 

 words, Robert S. Rantoul, Esq., who delivered the ad- 

 dress which is printed in the Historical Collections of the 

 Institute, Vol. XVI, Part 3, with the other exercises of 

 the meeting, consisting of a poem written by Miss Lucy 

 Larcom, and read by Rev. De Witt S. Clark, of the 

 Tabernacle Church, Salem ; remarks from Col. T. W. 

 Higginson of Cambridge, Hon. G. Washington Warren 

 of Boston, Hon. G. B. Loring of Salem, Hon. H. K. 

 Oliver, mayor of the city, Seth Low, Esq., of New York 

 City ; letters were read by Rev. E. S. At wood of the South 

 Church, Salem, from Hon. Chas. Levi Woodbury of 

 Boston, John G. Whittier of Danvers, Hon. Robert 

 Chas. Winthrop of Boston, Hon. Leverett Saltonstall of 

 Newton, Prof. A. P. Peabody of Cambridge, and Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wilder of Dorchester. The exercises appro- 

 priately closed with the reading by Rev. George H. 

 Hosmer, of the East Church, Salem, of a communication, 

 prepared by Stanley Waters, an associate member, giving 

 a succinct account of the life of Rev. William Bentley, 

 D. D., a former minister of that church, a distinguished 

 antiquarian and historical scholar, and well known for his 

 attainments in philology and general literature ; this 

 gathering also commemorates his birth-day. He was 

 born in Boston, June 22, 1759. The paper also contains 

 a narration (found among Dr. Bentley's papers) of a 

 drive of Benjamin Ward, in company with his grand- 

 father, Miles Ward, about the town, in 1760. 



