THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 73 



MEETINGS. Regular meetings were held on the first 

 and third Monday evenings of each month. The follow- 

 ing communications and lectures may be specified : 



Rev. 8. L. Gracey, "The New England Thanksgiving." 



J. W. Fewkes, of Cambridge, " A Naturalist's Visit to 

 Grand Menan." 



F. W. Putnam, of Cambridge, " General burial places 

 of the Mound builders, particularly the makers of those 

 known as the Turner Group of the Little Miami Valley, 

 Ohio." 



William D. N~orthend, " The Settlement of the Massa- 

 chusetts Bay Colony. " 



John T. Moulton, of Lynn, "Inscriptions from the old 

 Burying-ground , Lynn." 1 



Andrew McFarland Davis, of Cambridge, "Indian 

 Games ;" " A few additional notes concerning Indian 

 games." 2 



George M. Whipple, " A Sketch of the Musical Socie- 

 ties of Salem."' 



William P. Upham, "Account of the Rebecca Nurse 

 Monument." 4 



Richard H. Derby, of New York, "Roger Derby." 5 



Robert S. Rantoul, " A Contribution to the History of 

 the Ancient Family of Woodbury." 6 



Wellington Pool, of Wenham, "Inscriptions from the 

 old Burying-ground, Wenham." 7 



J. H. /Sears, "Dermatochelys Coriacea, Trunk Back or 

 Leathery Turtle ;" "List of native and introduced plants 

 observed in flower in the vicinity of Salem, during the 

 spring of 1886, on or before May I." 8 



iSee Hist. Coll.,vols. xxn, xxin. " See Bull.,vol. xvii, p. 89 and vol. xvm, p. 168. 



See Hist. Coll., vol. xxni, p. 72. * See Hist. Coll., vol. xxm, p. 151. 



See Hist. Coll., vol. xxin, p. 229. See Hist. Coll., vol. xxiv, p. 1. 



See Hist. Coll., vol. xxiv, p. 72. See Bulletin, vol. xvm, pp. 87, 95. 



