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Alpheus Hyatt was elected a Curator of Paleontology and Protozoa. 

 George Peabody Russell was elected a Curator of Archaeology. 

 The following amendment to By-Laws was adopted : 



Any Corresponding Member, taking up his residence in the County, 

 becomes a Resident Member. 



Arthur M. Edwards, of New York, and Hiram A. Cutting, of Lu- 

 nenburg, Vt., were elected Corresponding Members. 



MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1866. Regular Meeting. 



ANDREW LACKEY, Esq., in the chair. 



Samuel L. Caldwell and Reuben A. Guild, of Providence, R. I. ; 

 George H. Clark, of Hartford, Ct. ; Alvan Clark, of Cambridge ; Brad- 

 ford Kingman, of North Bridgewater ; and William H. Dall, of San 

 Francisco, were elected Corresponding Members. 



TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1866. Field Meeting at Salisbury Beach. 



By invitation of the Amesbury and Salisbury Horticultural Society, 

 a meeting was held at Salisbury Beach this day. The weather was 

 admirably suited for an excursion of this character, and nearly four 

 hundred persons from Salem and vicinity attended the meeting, the 

 number being increased to upwards of two thousand, by persons inter- 

 ested from the northern portion of the county who arrived In vehicles 

 of all description. Leaving the cars at the East Salisbury station, a 

 walk or ride of from two to three miles brought the Salem party to 

 the famous Salisbury Beach, which fronts the broad Atlantic, and af- 

 fords a splendid drive-way of hard level road, for seven miles from the 

 mouth of the Merrimac to Hampton River. The Beach is held by a 

 Company of Commissioners, under a grant from the General Court 

 made within ten years of the settlement of the country, and they leave 

 suitable lots to parties who wish to build. There is now a Hotel and 

 several houses, and the Beach Village is constantly Increasing, and will 

 eventually become a place of great celebrity, as the beach is hardly 

 equalled along the whole coast in those qualities legitimately belonging 

 to sea-side resorts. 



After passing the forenoon in rambling about the beach and the 

 woods in its vicinity, refreshments were partaken of in two private 

 houses which were placed at the disposal of the Institute, the Beach 

 people kindly providing a good chowder and other substantial*. 



At two o'clock the meeting was called to order in front of the res- 

 idence of W. W. Huse, Esq., to whom the Institute are under obliga- 

 tions for many kind attentions during the day. 



