THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 121 



In commemoration of Forefathers' Day Dec. 19, 1887, 

 Mr. Rantoul read an interesting letter from Mr. Thomas 

 Spencer of England, for some years a resident of Salem 

 and one of the original members of the^NaturarHistory 

 Society, 1834-8, addressed to the President in 1869, de- 

 scribing two visits he had made to Scrooby, the home of the 

 Pilgrims ; conversation followed by Messrs. T. F. Hunt, 

 John Robinson, George D. Phippen, Fielder j Israel and 

 Henry M. Brooks (see Bulletin, Vol. xx, p. 55). 



Prof. F. W. Putnam, of Cambridge, lectured on " The 

 Serpent Mounds of the Ohio Valley." 



Mr. Shebnah Rich, of Salem, read an essay " On Wen- 

 dell Phillips." 



Dr. David Cog gin read a paper entitled " Nine Hun- 

 dred Leagues West of Cape Malabar." 



Rev. H. W. Perris, of Hull, Eng., discoursed on "Some 

 Eminent Englishmen." 



Gen. William Cogswell discussed " The Fishery Ques- 

 tion." 



Robert Rayner followed on " The Fishery Question." 



Robert S. Rantoul contributed " Negro Slavery in Mas- 

 sachusetts." Portion of a paper read before the Beverly 

 Lyceum, April, 1833, by Robert Rantoul, sr." 1 



Wellington Pool, of Wenham, furnished "Inscriptions 

 from the old Burying-ground in Dodge's Row (North 

 Beverly)." 2 



Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, of New York, sent a 

 "Sketch of Mrs. William Jarvis of Weathersfield, Ver- 

 mont, by Mrs. Mary Pepperell Sparhawk Jarvis Cutts." 3 



Rev. E. P. Crowell, of Amherst, contributed " An Epi- 



iSee Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, Vol. xxiv, 3 See Hist. Coll., Vol. xxrv, pp. 123, 



p. 81. 206. 



"See Hist. Coll., Vol.xxiv,p.l09. 



