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to individuals should be brought together and a good local 

 collection commenced, and such a collection should be 

 confined to articles found in the immediate vicinity. He 

 said that some of the specimens before him were remark- 

 ably fine and well worthy of very careful preservation. 

 During his remarks he explained the methods of manufact- 

 ure and the uses of the various implements exhibited. 



Rev. B. F. McDaniel of Salem, being called upon, said 

 "It seems fitting before we part that we give some expres- 

 sion to the feelings and thoughts that have been uppermost 

 in our hearts and minds to-day. As we left our homes to 

 assemble at this place, the tolling bells struck sadly on our 

 ears, and we knew that the great soldier of the Union, 

 whose patience, courage, and genius saved the Union to us 

 in the time of its great need, had passed into the larger 

 and higher life. Our hearts have been with him in his 

 mouths of suffering, and now, as the inevitable end has come, 

 we begin to realize what a loss has befallen our country. 

 "With the things we have seen and heard to-day to be add- 

 ed to our stores of mental riches, are mingled his image 

 and deeds. I do not offer these remarks as a formal res- 

 olution, but as a simple expression in my own words of 

 what is in all our minds and hearts." 



Mr. Putnam answered several questions regarding the 

 stone-work near the Chain Bridge. The Secretary offered a 

 vote of thanks for the courtesies and favors extended to 

 the members of the Institute and their friends during this 

 pleasant visit to Salisbury Point, and the meeting then 

 adjourned. 



Third, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1885, at Marblehead 

 Neck. The afternoon session was held in the Hall of the 

 Marblehead Neck Association at 2.30 o'clock. The Presi- 

 dent called the meeting to order and introduced Mr. 

 Julius A. Palmer of Boston who spoke of mushrooms 



