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the grateful appreciation by the audience of its great interest and 

 value, and moved its reference to the appropriate committee of the In- 

 stitute, for publication. This motion was seconded by Vice President 

 A. C. GooDELL, jr., and unanimously adopted, and the company dis- 

 persed without farther formality. 



The Trustees of the "Peabody Academy of Science," of which Mr. 

 Peabody was chairman at the time of his decease, met in the fore- 

 noon for organization under the Act of the Legislature, and were 

 present at Plummer Hall, in the afternoon, to listen to Mr. Upham's 

 discourse. 



Wednesday, July 22, 1868. — Pield Meeting at Kowley. 



The third Field Meeting of the present season was held by the 

 Institute at Rowley. 



A dredging party consisting of six officers of the Institute left 

 Salem the morning previous. They were hospitably welcomed and 

 entertained by Messrs. Brookhouse, Ives, Johnson, Kinsman, and 

 Frye, of Salem, at their camp house on Rowley river. This party 

 spent the afternoon and evening of Tuesday in searching the shores 

 and creeks of Rowley river, and in dredging near the mouth of Plum 

 Island river. They continued explorations during the forenoon of 

 Wednesday. The region proved to be, for the most part, too sandy 

 to be very fruitful in specimens. 



By the five minutes past eight train on Wednesday morning, mem- 

 bers and friends of the Institute, a party numbering about one hundred 

 and fifty persons, left Salem for Rowley ; their number was enlarged 

 by some who came by the quarter past eleven, and others who took 

 the one o'clock train from Salem. 



The residents at Rowley generously provided for the comfort of 

 their visitors. They furnished carriages free of charge to take all 

 who did not prefer to walk to the appointed rendezvous, a mile and a 

 half distant. 



Rev. John Pike, D.D,, met those who arrived by the first train at 

 the Town Hall, and in behalf of his fellow citizens, in a neatly turned 

 address, welcomed the Institute to their town. He at the same time 

 pointed out the various places and objects of interest, and tendered 

 the services of guides who were waiting to lead parties wherever they 

 might wish to go. 



Several parties were formed and went in various directions over the 

 town. At the appointed hour all assembled again at the Town Hall 

 to partake of the collation prepared by a committee of ladies from the 

 contents of the numerous baskets. Here substantial additions to the 

 usual plain repast, and the presence of the Rowley Brass Band to en- 



