98 ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 16. 



Jos. Banvard of Neponset, and N. A. Horton, Esq., of the 

 Salem Gazette, took part in the exercises of the afternoon 

 session. The Institute is again under obligations to Mr. 

 Rantoul for his interesting account of Cat (now Lowell) 

 Island which has been appended to the report of this 

 meeting in the Bulletin of the Institute. 



Fourth meeting. On Friday and Saturday at the Went- 

 worth House, New Castle, N. H. At the session, Friday 

 evening, Vice-President F. W. Putnam spoke on the 

 Pueblo Indians of New Mexico on Saturday the party 

 visited many places of interest in the vicinity, making an 

 extended call at the old and celebrated Mansion of Gov. 

 Benning Wentworth, on the return trip, in carriages, to 

 the cars. 



Fifth Meeting. Was held in midwinter January 11, 

 1881, at the Ponds in Essex and Hamilton ; thither the party 

 was conveyed in large sleighs. After a ramble about the 

 shores of the ponds and in the woods, and dinner at 

 Whipple's, the afternoon session was held; Messrs. F. 

 W. Putnam, C. C. Abbott, E. S. Morse and E. S. At- 

 wood were the speakers, and an interesting paper on the 

 condition of trees in winter was read by Mr. John 

 Robinson. 



EXCURSIONS. First, a summer excursion to the Glen 

 House, one of the leading White Mountain hotels. Among 

 the natural attractions in this vicinity are Tuckerman's 

 Ravine, Crystal Cascade, Glen Ellis Falls, the ascent to 

 the summit of Mt. Washington by carriages, and a stage 

 ride from the Glen Station of fourteen miles to the hotel. 

 Left Salem Tuesday morning July \3, 1880 and returned 

 on Thursday evening July 15. 



The Second. To Ausable Chasm, Lake Champlain, 

 River St. Lawrence, Thousand Isles, Montreal, Dixville 



