78 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



Rev. G. T. Flanders, D.D., of Kockport, on "A Study 

 of Martin Luther." 



Reports of all these lectures have appeared in the daily 

 papers. 



Informal papers and talks have been given at our reg- 

 ular meetings at the rooms, by Professor Morse, Mr. Gard- 

 ner M. Jones, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Phippen, Mr. Nevius, 

 Mr. Sears and Mr. Hines. 



There have been the past year 1173 donations to the 

 cabinets from 127 different donors. These donations 

 have been acknowledged through the mail and in the Salem 

 Gazette. 



The old meeting-house of the First Church continues to 

 attract visitors. More than 8000 have visited it during 

 the year. 



Twenty persons have joined the society this year and 

 nine members have died, as follows : 



Samuel P. Andrews, Miss Mary Eliza Gould, 



E. Frank Balch, J. T. Moulton of Lynn, 



Gardner Barton, Nathaniel Ropes, 



James Emerton, Mrs. James O. Safford, 



Dr. Henry Wheatland. 



Two of our honorary members have also died, viz. : 

 Rev. Dr. Andrew P. Peabody and John G. Whittier. 



It seems hardly necessary for me to remind members 

 of the society of the great loss we have sustained in the 

 death of our venerable and honored president Dr. Wheat- 

 land. As he had been incapacitated by sickness from 

 taking an active interest in our affairs for more than two 

 years, his absence from our rooms is not now as much felt as 

 it was when he was first taken from his work ; but in cer- 

 tain ways we shall feel his loss more and more as years go 

 by. This is not the place, nor am I the person, to pro- 

 nounce any eulogy on the character of our late president. 



