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pie of Capitalization," accompanied with a plate. Referred 

 to the Publication Committee. 



Donations to the Library and Museum were announced. 



H. R. Lovett of Beverly was elected a Resident Member. 



THURSDAY, JUNE 24. Field meeting at Standley's Grove 

 in Beverly. 



This second Field meeting of the season was attended 

 by a large party from Salem and the adjoining towns, 

 who, after a pleasant forenoon's ramble in the woods and 

 over the Laurel Ground, and a collation in the grove, 

 assembled on the platform, when the meeting was called to 

 order by Dr. G. B. Loring, Chairman of the Field meet- 

 ing committee, who made a few remarks upon the history 

 of the town, alluding to several of the worthy persons who 

 once lived within its limits, as the Cabots, Nathan Dane, 

 President Wiliard, of Harvard University, and others. 



After the reading of the records of the last meeting, 

 letters were read from the following : 



Thomas Bland, New York ; Thomas Me Ilwraith, Hamilton, C. W. ; 

 Capt. Alpheus Hyatt, Baltimore, Mel. ; Thomas M. Peters, Moulton, Ala. ; 

 John Bolton, Portsmouth, Ohio; S. I. Smith, Norway, Me.; A. L. Bab- 

 cock, Sherborn, Mass. ; E. S. Morse, Gorhain, Me. ; Thomas Meehan, 

 Gcrmantown, Pa., relating to the publications : Prof. Theo. Gill, Smith- 

 sonian Institution, applying for the use of specimens : Prof. Leo Les- 

 quereux, Columbus, Ohio, accepting Membership and notice of trans- 

 mission of books for the library : Asst. Surg. A. S. Packard, Camp near 

 Washington ; C. M. Tracy, Lynn ; Dr. W. Prescott, Concord, N. H. ; Rev. 

 S. Barden, Kockpoit, on business : B. F. Mudge, Quindaro, Kansas, 

 stating that he will send fossils to the Institute : W. H. Dall & B. E. C. 

 Stearns, San Francisco, relating to an exchange of specimens. 



Donations to the Library an 1 Museum were announced. 



Rev. G. D. Wildes read a poem written for the occasion 

 by Mrs. P. A. Hanaford. 



Dr. Henry C. Perkins, of Newburyport, read a paper of 

 which the following is an abstract. 



