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FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1867. Special Meeting. 



Vice President GOODELL in ttie chair. 

 The following call of the meeting was read : 



SALEM, May 21, 1867. 



"A Special Meeting of the Essex Institute will be held at their 

 rooms, in Plummer Hall, Salem, on Friday afternoon next, at 3 o'clock, 

 to act upon the report of the Committee on the removal of the Scien- 

 tific Collections of the Institute to the East India Marine Hall." 



[Signed] H. WHEATLAND, Secretary. 



The Committee of Conference with the Trustees .of the Peabody 

 Fund, offered the following Keport : 



ESSEX INSTITUTE, May 24, 1867. 



Your Committee of seven members of the Institute, appointed to 

 confer with and receive proposals from the Trustees of the Peabody 

 Fund, ask permission to offer as their report the following communi- 

 cation received from the Trustees, and resolutions of this Committee : 



SALEM, May 21, 1867. 

 F. W. PUTNAM, Esq., Chairman Com. of the Essex Institute, 



DEAR SIR, " After the full and satisfactory conference with your 

 Committee on Friday evening, in relation to the deposit of the Natu- 

 ral History collection of the Institute with the Trustees, the under- 

 signed, in behalf of the Trustees, submit the following proposal : 



The Trustees will take the collections and specimens in Natural 

 History of the Institute upon special and permanent deposit, place 

 them in East India Marine Hall, and keep them there or in a building 

 equally as good in Salem, arrange and label them as the deposit of the 

 Institute, and give to them the same care and attention which they 

 give to other collections and specimens deposited in the same place of 

 a similar character. The usual arrangement in regard to exchanges 

 of duplicates being observed, and due credit therefor being given to 

 the Institute. To the collections, when properly arranged in the said 

 Hall, the members of the Institute are to have access, and the same 

 privileges to study and examine the same which they now have under 

 the rules and regulations of the Institute. All the expenses of re- 

 moval, arrangement, and care to be borne by the Trustees. 



The Trustees will also pay to the Institute the sum of one thousand 

 dollars for the ten table and upright cases, now standing in the Muse- 

 um of the Institute, and the shelving in the permanent cases of the 

 Museum, upon which a portion of the collection is now arranged. 



Articles of agreement upon the above basis should be drawn and 

 executed by the parties. 



In behalf of the Trustees the undersigned would repeat, what they 

 have before stated, that it will give the Trustees great pleasure thus 

 to cooperate with the Institute in a common object. It promises most 

 favorably for their future harmony of action, and seems to insure the 

 establishment of an institution, which, drawing its life and strength 

 from the well-earned position of the Institute, the zeal and activity of 

 its members, and the large and munificent gift of Mr. Peabody, will be 

 an honor to the county and a source of great benefit to its people. 



