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in Newbury oldtown popularly known as "the Devil's 

 Den." For over forty years it has been visited by miner- 

 alogists for the fine specimens that have made it famous 

 all over the country, and still the supply is abundant. Other 

 openings have been made near by, the most noted of which 

 is the "Basin." 



Specimens of the following minerals, some of them very 

 fine, were brought home. Noble serpentine, common 

 serpentine, retiualite, wollastonite, chrysolite, massive 

 garnet, nemalite, calcite, chalybite and dolomite. The 

 noble serpentine and wollastonite are easily obtained, 

 and are very fine at the "Den," while at the "Basin," the 

 common serpentine and retinal ite abound. 



/Second, on Monday, Nov. 10, 1884, to the Quarry near 

 Lynnfield Centre. A stop was made at Ship Rock in Pea- 

 body, after which the drive was continued to Lynnfield. 

 The Quarry was reached at half-past eleven o'clock. Ham- 

 mers and drills were soon in use and good specimens of 

 brucite and serpentine were found in abundance. An 

 increased interest in the study of geology has been awak- 

 ened, and the result will probably be an interesting ad- 

 dition to the already large collection of Essex County 

 Minerals in the Museum. 



MEETINGS. Regular meetings occur on the first and 

 third Monday evenings of each mouth. At these the fol- 

 lowing communications were read and lectures delivered : 



From E. A. Silsbee, talk upon "Criticism of Poetry." 

 Stephen H. Phillips, "Witchcraft not exceptional in 



Salem." 



Charles A, Benjamin, " On an adjacent Peninsula." 

 A. C. Hobbs of Bridgeport, Conn., lecture "On the 



History of Locks." 



William G. Barton of Salem, essay on "Thoreau, Flagg 



and Burroughs." 



