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PKOCEEOINaS 



OF THE 



ESSEX INSTITUTE 



Wednesday, May 14, 1856. 



Annual Meeting, Rev. John L. Russell, Vice President, in 

 the chair. The record of the last Annual Meeting was read. 



The report of the Secretarj was then read and accepted. ' 

 According to its statement, fortj-one new members have been 

 added to the Institute ; eight of the former members have 

 removed from Essex County, one other has retired from the 

 Institute, and one beside, has died. The present number is 

 three hundred and one. There are sixtj-six Correspondent 

 Members, who, with eleven Honorary Members of the original 

 Essex Historical Society, and thus in virtue of their connection 

 with that body are also members of the Institute, make the 

 aggregate number of our members to be three hundred and 

 seventy-eight. 



The recurrence of the Annual Meeting seems an appropriate 

 occasion to speak of those removed by death since our last 

 similar gathering. In thus doing, we are reminded of the 

 decease of one, whom, though, for few years past, withdrawn 

 from society in consequence of severe illnes, yet Ave were wont 

 to behold the deep enthusiasm which he always manifested in 

 literary and historical reseach— a taste for these pursuits he 

 early imbibed and sedulously cherished during a long life, thus 

 entitling him to a place among our refined scholars. His 

 printed productions were principally contributions to periodical 

 literature, and were such as we should expect from a mind so 

 richly cultivated and so highly endowed. 



ESSEX INST. PROCEED. VOL. ii. 1. 



