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tistic interest, have been placed in the rooms of Dalaud 

 House and have been received from the following con- 

 tributors : 



Lucy Hood, old baptismal blankets; Chas. O. and Wm. L. Welch; 

 Joseph B. F. Osgood ; L. E. Millea, ornamental Lantern for hall of In- 

 stitute Building; Jacob H. Medairy, Baltimore, Md. ; Chas. W. Pal- 

 fray, silhouette of Rev. Dr. Hopkins; David G. Yates, Philadelphia, Pa. ; 

 John W. Hart; John Robinson; Chas. E. Whittredge; J. Linton 

 Waters; Edw. C. Browne; Mrs. Maria H. Bray, West Gloucester, an 

 old pewter Communion Service; Win. D. Dennis; Peabody Academy 

 of Science; Robt. S. Rantoul; Mrs. C. K. Ireson; Geo. W. Pousland ; 

 Geo. A. Carey; John H. Sears; Chas. E. Trow; Mrs. Carrie Burbank; 

 H. M. Brooks; Wm. J. Walton; Miss Mary R. Kimball; Mrs. Chas. 

 Osgood; Wm. L. Kinsman; Mrs. H. M. Brooks; T. F. Hunt; Char- 

 lotte A. L. Sibley, Groton; Miss Mary Otis Bailey, Dorchester, valu- 

 able old Hathorne deeds and other papers, etc. ; Frederick Lamson; 

 Chas. A. Ropes; Jos. L. Lougee, map of Salem, 1820; Miss E. M. R. 

 Brooks, old fashioned rubber shoes; Ross Turner, ancient fire-dogs, 

 etc.; Miss Abby E. Cleveland, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., copy of Covenant 

 of Second Church in Ipswich; John H. Nichols, sea journal of Sell. 

 Betsey, 1793; Co. F., 23 Regt. Mass. Volunteers, original Roll-book, 

 1861-4; A. Aug. Smith, seveifty-three bills of school teachers in Salem, 

 1791 to 1830, etc. ; Frank V. Wright; Frederick P. Porter; Chas. Baker; 

 Mrs. Paul P. Patten; John T. Brown, Newburyport; Rev. Thos. R. 

 Pynchou, Hartford, Conn. ; David Moore, Commission and Seal of Nova 

 Scotia Justice Benijah Collins. 



A life-like portrait in oil of the President of the Essex 

 Institute by Frederick P. Vinton, has been presented by 

 Messvs. Stephen G. Wheatland and George Wheatland, jr. 



AN EXHIBITION of roses was held on June 23, 1887. 

 There Avere thirty contributors. Awards were made to 

 J. B. F. Osgood, T. D. Williams, and John M. Ward, of 

 Peabody for exhibits of special excellence. 



The collection included also other flowers ; a handsome 

 bank of pansies with a border of ferns was shown by .Jas. 

 F. Almy ; S. P. Fowler, of Danvers, exhibited an excep- 

 tionally fine spray of magnolias ; some particularly large 

 "ImprovedNymphsea" were from Mrs. Geo. R. Emmerton, 



