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Thursday, Fehniary 22, 1855. 



Evening meeting. Hon. D. A. White, President, in the 

 chair. Records and list of donations read. 



An animated discussion on the expediency of introducing the 

 study of Physiology and Hygiene into our common schools was 

 sustained by Messrs. Richard Edwards, Albert G. Boyden, 

 John L. Russell, and the President. Among other considera- 

 tions was this, that the study of Human Physiology seemed so 

 intimately connected with Comparative Physiology as to induce 

 wider research than ordinary school studies seemed to afford or 

 require. 



Wednesday, May 9, 1855. 



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

 chair. 



Records of the last annual meeting read, and a list of 

 donations to the Cabinets and Library since the meeting in 

 February was announced. 



The Report of the Secretary was read and accepted. From 

 it we gather that the present number of members of the Essex 

 Institute is 270. Fifty new members have been elected, three 

 have died, and three have removed from the County. Of 

 deaths in our Society we notice that of Mr. Greene L. Weston, 

 Principal of the Phillips school, in this city, from November, 

 1847, to May, 1853 — well known for his untiring spirit and 

 indefatigable industry in his profession ; full of success and in 

 the prime of life, died at Roxbury on the 27th of July, 1854, 

 where he had removed in May, 1853, to take charge of a 

 Grammar School in that city. He was born in Bristol, Maine, 

 October 25, 1821. 



The Quarterly, Ordinary and Evening meetings have been 

 held throughout the year as usual, the latter however as 

 occasion seemed to offer. 



