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Wednesday, May 11, 1853. 

 Annual Meeting, Hon. D. A. White, President, in the chair. 



Record of the last Annual Meeting, and List of Donations, 

 since the meeting of March 10th, were read. 



Report of the Secretary read and accepted. According to its 

 statement, the present number of members is one hundred and 

 sixty-one. Within the past year, there have occurred six 

 instances of death, as follows, viz : 



Thomas Cole, Esq., a graduate of Harvard University, of 

 the class of 1798 ; for man^^ years a resident of Salem ; a 

 distinguished teacher ; a ripe and elegant scholar:- — and in the 

 later years of his life, a distinguished microscopist. His decease 

 occurred on the twenty fourth of June, 1852. 



J. G. Sprague, a public spirited man, and one, who 

 though not actively engaged with us, yet was a warm fiiend of 

 the Institute. His death occurred thirtieth of Nov. 1852. 



E. Mack, a resident of Salem, his adopted place of abode, 

 for upwards of forty years ; whose love for rural life and 

 general interest in all associations of agriculture, literature and 

 benevolence, rendered him a valuable member of this Society. 

 His death occurred on Thursday, ninth of December, 1852. 



Andrew Nichols, a valued physician ; one of the founders 

 of the Essex County Natural History Society ; its President 

 from the period of its organization until its annual meeting in 

 June, 1845, at which time he resigned the office. Born in the 

 rural part of Danvers, where Nature was unusually attractive 

 to its admirer, he early imbibed a taste for the study and 

 investigation of its works. He was particularly conversant with 

 the geological formations, and with the wild flowers and trees 

 of his neighborhood, many of which he was the first to recog- 



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