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On motion of Mr, Beaman it was Voted, That the thanks 

 •of the Institute be presented to the School Committee of 

 Lynn for their kindness in furnishing the use of this build- 

 ing ior this meeting ; to Mr. L. W. Grossman, the teacher 

 of this school for his friendly interest in our behalf ; also to 

 Messrs. W. W. Lummus, H. S. Lufkin, Oliver Ramsdell and 

 other residents in this village, for their attentions and ser- 

 vices, as guides and otherwise. 



Adjourned. 



Thursday, Aug. 29, 1861. 



Field Meeting at Middleton. Most of those who at- 

 tended this meeting, came as usual by the morning train 

 from Salem ; but others of the more active collectors of 

 natural objects preferred an earlier trip by the carriage 

 road and came accordingly, making such stops for their 

 investigations as seemed to be proper, or promised to be 

 productive. This party made some considerable progress in 

 dredging the brooks and sweeping the bushes, for reptiles, 

 shells, or insects as the case might be ; while fishing after 

 the more established mode was not by any means neglected ; 

 but failed to afford any notable results. 



On the arrival of the main party the scene of action was 

 transferred, for the most part, to the shores of the fine pond 

 which bears the name of the town which claims and protects 

 it. The usual diversity of taste here found exhibition and 

 employment, as this company lounged in the pleasant pic- 

 nic grove that adorns the shore, or that one proceeded slowly 

 along by the water, carefully searching after some unex- 

 pected plant, or another manned the jaunty sail-boat there 

 kept, and pleased themselves with an excursion more thor- 

 oughly aquatic still. There were not wanting those who 

 sought for berries ; and the geological characters of the 



