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ANNUAL MEETING, MAY 19. 



The following may be specified as contributors : 



Edwin R. Ide. 



Leverett S. Tuckerman. 



Edward S. Morse. 



Edward S. & Henry Huntington 



Nelson. 



Charles W. Palfray. 

 George G. Putnam. 

 T. F. Hunt. 

 John C. Osgood. 

 Peabody Academy of Science. 

 William Reith. 

 Charles Odell. 

 Capt. Henry F. King. 

 Miss Dorcas C. Nourse. 

 Charles H. Webber. 

 Rev. Fielder Israel. 

 Rev. B. F. McDaniel. 

 Peter Coffee. 

 George M. Whipple. 

 Miss F. L. Prescott. 



Miss C. A. Hurlburt. 



Rev. George B. Jewett. 



Mrs. John Robinson. 



Ezekiel Goss. 



Daniel Henderson. 



Moses S. Prime. 



B. D. Hill. 



Philip D. Wheatland. 



Eben N. Walton. 



Tenn. Historical Society. 



John Larcom. 



William Chambers. 



Henry A. Brown, 



Miss Caroline L. Bayley. 



Lemuel B. Hatch. 



Frank T. Mooney. 



J. Coward. 



H. M. Batchelder. 



John Davis. 



Among the additions to the cabinets during the year, a 

 very interesting historical relic has been received, the 

 inkstand of Wordsworth. A brief account of the manner 

 in which it came into our possession may not be devoid of 

 interest. In August last a letter was received from Mrs. 

 Sarah N. (Pope) Dixon, formerly of Salem, now a 

 resident of Darlington, Eng., dated Aug. 14, 1883, giving 

 an account of her recent visit to Ainbleside, in the Lake dis- 

 trict", and of a pleasant call at "Stock-Ghyll Force or Falls," 

 the residence of Mr. J. Coward, " who exhibited an ink- 

 stand, being the one used by Wordsworth. He said that 

 he had many offers for it, but he would not sell, but 

 would give it to some society or museum. Immediately 

 I spoke a word for the Essex Institute, and he gave his 

 word that he would give it." Ambleside was the home 

 of Wordsworth from 1813 till his death April 23, 1850; 

 the locality teems with memorials of him ; there is 



