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M. Tracy of Lynn ; C. C. Binney of Burlington N.J.; S. H. 

 Scudder of Boston ; R. G-reen & Oo. of Providence, R.I.; 

 F. H. Lee. 



Report of the Secretary was read and accepted. 



Report of the Treasurer read, and referred to the Finance 

 Committee. 



F. W. Putnam read a report on the condition of the Zo- 

 ological collections. 



Prom these Reports the following may be specified : 



Six members have been stricken from the roll by death ; 

 these brief notices, a deserving tribute to their memory, are 

 appended. 



1. George xIndrews, son of John H. and Nancy fPage) 

 Andrews, born in this city March 11, 1824 — was prepared 

 for the University at the Latin School, then under the 

 charge of Oliver Carlton, graduated at Harvard Col- 

 lege in 1847 — studied the profession of the law in the office 

 of A. Huntington of Salem, from July 14, 1847 to Sept. 25 

 184.8, and from July 18, 1849 to June 19, 1850— in the in- 

 terval at the Law School in Cambridge — was admitted 

 a member of the Essex Bar June 20, 1850. He always 

 took a deep interest in all educational movements and was 

 for several years an active and useful member of the School 

 Committee. He was an Associate Justice of the Salem Po- 

 lice Court ; a Representative of the Massachusetts Legisla- 

 ture from Salem in 1859. His death occurred August 26, 

 1862. The city thereby has lost a conscientious faithful, 

 and upright man and our literary, scientific and educational 

 institutions, a kind and sympathizing friend. 



ESSEX INST. PROCEED. VOL. iii. 31. 



