114 ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 16. 



societies of Europe and this country. The Institute was 

 represented by Messrs. Hagar and Rantoul. 



During the session of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science at Boston, in August, 1880, 

 the members and their friends, at the request of the Trus- 

 tees of the Peabody Academy of Science and the mem- 

 bers of the Essex Institute, visited Salem on the after- 

 noon of Monday, the 30th of August. 



After examining the libraries and collections of these 

 institutions, the party proceeded to Kernwood, the resi- 

 dence of S. Endicott Peabody, Esq., who extended a 

 cordial invitation. The extensive grounds were thrown 

 open to the visitors, and the time was pleasantly passed 

 until the hour for departure arrived, in listening to the 

 music of a band, partaking of a bounteous collation, and 

 conversing with many of the citizens of Salem and vicin- 

 ity, who were invited to meet them on this interesting 

 occasion. 



The annual contributions of books, pamphlets and 

 other printed matter to the library, valuable manuscripts 

 and relics of the olden times to the cabinets, also paint- 

 ings, engravings, maps, etc., to the general collections, 

 indicate to the officers, members and friends of the In- 

 stitute the necessity of obtaining means to provide more 

 suitable accommodations for the proper arrangement and 

 classification of these increasing collections, so that the 

 same may be rendered readily accessible to the student 

 and enquirer for historical, statistical, scientific and gen- 

 eral information. This want is now very sensibly expe- 

 rienced, and it is most ardently hoped that at no distant 

 day the public spirited friends of the Institute, of litera- 

 ture, the arts, the sciences and history, will liberally 

 respond. 



