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MEETINGS. Five Field Meetings have been held during the past 

 season. At Haverhill, July 2 ; at Andover, July 16 ; at Beverly Farms, 

 August 1 ; at Kittery, Me., August 22 ; at Ipswich, October 4. They 

 were verj r successfull and largely attended, and at every place re- 

 ceived the kind attentions of the citizens and a cordial welcome. The 

 meeting at Kittery was the first one held beyond the limits of the 

 State. Our thanks are due to the friends of the Institute in these sev- 

 eral places, and to the directors, superintendents and other officers of 

 the Eastern and Boston and Maine Railroads for the courtesies ex- 

 tended on these occasions. 



The Quarterly and Regular Monday Meetings have be*en held during 

 the wintry months as usual. Two Microscopic Meetings, of a social 

 character, one on Monday evening, January 6, the other on Monday, 

 May 4, were well attended and passed off very pleasantly. 



LECTURES. A course of seven lectures on Botany by Mr. Horace 

 Mann of Cambridge, was delivered in Plummer Hall on alternate 

 Monday evenings during the months of February, March and April. 

 These lectures were repeated before the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Mr. Mann treated his subject in a very lucid manner and 

 gave evidence of becoming one of our most instructive lecturers on 

 the study of Botany. 



Also a course of seven lectures in the Lyceum Hall : first, on Thurs- 

 day, March 5, by Mr. E. S. Morse of Salem, on the different modes 

 in which animals eat, commencing with the lowest forms among the 

 radiates and tracing the gradual modifications which the organs of 

 mastication assume in the several classes of the animal kingdom. 

 Second, on Thursday, March 12, by Mr. M. G. Farmer of Salem, 

 with experiments illustrating the various discoveries that have been 

 made in Electricity, Electro-magnetism and the kindred subjects. 

 Third and fourth by Capt. N. E. Atwood, of Provincetown, on Fishes 

 and the Fisheries, on Thursday, March 19 and 26. Fifth, by A. C. 

 Goodell, jr., Esq., of Salem, on the History of Church Music, Thursday, 

 April 9. Sixth, by A. C. Goodell, jr., Esq., Thursday, April 16, on 

 Church Psalmody and Hymnody previous to the present century. 

 Seventh, by General H. K. Oliver, of Salem, Thursday, May 4, on An- 

 cient Music. The last three lectures were interspersed with illustra- 

 tions by an excellent choir and orchestra. Many of the old favorite 

 fugues and other tunes were sung with great skill and excellent effect, 

 and in the Coronation, St. Martin's and Federal Street, the whole 

 audience were requested to join. The success of these musical lec- 

 tures encourages the hope that similar lectures, with illustrations, 

 may hereafter be acted upon by the Institute. 



THE CORRESPONDENCE continues to increase in consequence of the 

 more extended circulation of the different publications. The letters 



