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The Secretary, in Ms report, stated that the scientific collections, 

 in conformity to a vote of the Institute passed at a special meeting held 

 in May, 1867, have been deposited with the Trustees of the Peabody 

 Academy of Science in the East India Marine Hall, and will be ar- 

 ranged with the Museum of the East India Marine Society in the new 

 cases made for that purpose. The Museum thus arranged will con- 

 stitute one of the finest in the country and in some of the depart- 

 ments will be unique. 



The large room on the first floor of Plummer Hall formerly used for 

 tlie Museum, is now arranged for newspapers, pamphlets, and those 

 books not intended for circulation ; the area in the centre will accom- 

 modate some two or three hundred persons, and is well adapted for 

 the lectures and meetings of the Institute. The cases in the eastern 

 ante-room on the same floor will accommodate the Manuscripts and 

 Historical Collection. The western ante-room has been fitted with a 

 gallery for the deposit of the Periodicals and other works received in 

 exchange ; also for the records and publications of the Society. 



Members. — Eighty resident and three corresponding members have 

 been elected during the year. Notices of the decease of twelve of the 

 former and three of the latter have been received. Fourteen of the 

 former have removed or retired. The present number is seven hun- 

 dred and eighty-five ; — five hundred and ninty-nine Resident, one hun- 

 dred and eighty-six corresponding. 



Biographical notices of the following deceased associates will be 

 prepared for the Historical Collections: — Mary Doyle, died in Salem, 

 July 16, 1867, aged seventy-one years, nine months and four days. N. 

 A. Erye, died in Salem, January 5, 1868, aged fifty -two years, one 

 month and eleven days. M. Hartney, died at Worcester, Wednesday, 

 January 15, 1868. Henry S. Joselyn, died in Salem, January 26, 1868, 

 aged forty-two. D. H. Johnson, died in Salem, Eebruary 14, 1868, 

 aged sixty-four years, one month and two days. Edward D. Kimball, 

 died in Paris, France, September 22, 1867, aged fifty-six. N. J. Kins- 

 man, lost at sea. S. Mackir;tire, died at Salem, Wednesday morning, 

 January 24, 18G8, aged fifty-six years. Jeremiah Page, died at Salem, 

 November 1, 1867, aged seventy-one years and five months. Francis 

 Peabody, died at Salem, October 31, 1867, aged sixty-five years, ten 

 months and twenty-four days. George F. Read, died in Salem, Octo- 

 ber 4, 1867, aged fifty-six years, eleven months and twenty-two days. 

 W. S. Roberts, died October 21, 1867, aged sixty years. Joseph 

 Torrey, died at Burlington, Tuesday, November 26, 1867, aged seventy 

 years. J. A. Andrew died at Boston, Wednesday, October 30, 1867, 

 aged forty-nine years. C. G. Page, died at Washington, D. C, May 5, 

 1868, aged fifty-six. 



proceedings ESSEX INST., VOL. VI. 3 OCT., 1868. 



