T5 



containing about 50 pages eaoli, at stated intervals during 

 the year. 



Meetings. — During the past summer five field meet- 

 ings have been held, in Topsfield, Groveland, West Glouces- 

 ter, Hamilton Ponds, and Ipswich ; and ten evening meet- 

 ings at the rooms, during the winter and spring. 



To the Library have been added 1104 bound volumes and 

 about 2000 pamphlets and serials, not including many in- 

 <;omplete files of newspapers, &c., with few exceptions, dona- 

 tions ; and received from thirty four societies, or departments 

 of States, and National governments, and ninety individuals. 

 The principal donors were W. D. Pickman, Esq., who pre- 

 sented nearly 400 volumes o( valuable books, besides many 

 .serials and pamphlets, and our late President, Hon. D. A. 

 "White, on the day preceding his decease, sent to the library 

 some fifty volumes of choice classical works formerly owned 

 by the late Dr. Francis Vergnies, of Newburyport, who died 

 in that city some thirty years since, at the advanced age of 

 80 years, — a gentleman of fine classical attainments. In 

 this couiiection it may not be inappropriate to state that the 

 late Judge White has bequeathed his valuable library to the 

 Institute, with some reservations to his family. 



To the Cabinets, many valuable and interesting additions 

 have been received to the various departments from 119 

 contributors. Of these wo may mention several general col- 

 lections made by our sea-faring friends and residents in 

 other places. Among whom are Capt. Geo. Harrington, 

 Rio Grande, Brazil ; Capt. Charles Millett, 2d, Arabia and 

 ■vicinity : Wm. G. Webb, Zanzibar ; Capt. Francis R. Webb, 

 during passage to and from Zanzibar ; Capt. L. Peirson 

 Ward, from Straits of Malacca ; Capt. Wm. Lefavor, from 

 Para : Capt. Wm. J. Chever, Port Louis, Mauritius, Ma- 

 nilla, etc. ; Prof. M. Miles, Lansing, Mich. ; James Bartlett 



