CXVI 



Messrs. F. W. Putnam, Charles Davis, W. P. Upham 

 and the Secretary were appointed a committee to nomi- 

 nate officers for the ensuing year, and report the same at 

 the annual meeting. 



Edward Dean and T. Francis Hunt, of Salem, were 

 elected Resident Members. E. T. Cresson of Philadelphia, 

 was elected a Corresponding Member. 



WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. Annual meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 



The reports of the Secretary, Treasurer, Superintendent, 

 Curators and Committees were read and accepted. From 

 these reports the following particulars may be specified. 



The Society is in a good and healthy condition. The 

 receipts from the assessments of the Resident Members have 

 been greater than in any preceding year, which was also 

 the case in regard to the sales of publications. During the 

 year one hundred and fifty seven Resident and twelve Cor- 

 responding Members have been elected. Eight Resident 

 Members have removed from the county, and the follow- 

 ing have died during the year: Wm. B. Brown, Henry 

 Hubon, Edward L. Perkins, Charles W. Swasey, Lucy 

 Treadwell, George A. Ward, Mary E. Wheatland, Sam- 

 uel Webb, all of Salem. The sad intelligence of the de- 

 cease of the following Corresponding Members has been 

 received : Hon. Edward Everett of Boston, Mass., Pro- 

 fessor Benjamin Silliman of New Haven, Conn., Carlton A. 

 ShurtlefF of Roxbury, Mass., and William B. Fowle of 

 Medfield, Mass. Biographical notices of the deceased 

 Members will be printed in the Historical Collections. The 

 present number of Resident Members is five hundred and 

 two, of Corresponding, one hundred and thirty-six. 



Five field meetings have been held during the past sea- 

 son ; at East Saugus, Wenham Pond in Beverly, Glouces- 

 ter, Rockville chapel in South Danvers and Newburyport. 

 These meetings have been largely attended, and a greater 

 interest than at any previous season has been manifested. 



