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 Tlmrsday, June 2, 1859. 



Field Meeting at Wenham. — The series of Field Meet- 

 ings for this year were well commenced by a visit to this 

 pleasant town, the scenes of the labors of so many gifted 

 men in former years, and so much a favorite region with 

 lovers of nature at the present day. Not only have the 

 names of Hugh Peters and William Oakes made the woods 

 and lakes of Wenham precious in colonial and scientific his- 

 tory, but those woods and lakes are still the same to day, 

 full of innocent, curious and beautiful things to tempt and 

 gratify the eye and heart of every one who is disposed to 

 commune with nature in her truest moods, apart from the 

 marring disguises of artificial life. Some of the party took 

 an early train, and spent the morning hours in collecting 

 specimens to furnish themes for the afternoon discussions ; 

 while others less diligent or more occupied, arrived in the 

 noon train so as to take part in the later exercises of the 

 day. 



At 3 o'clock, P.M., the meeting was called to order by 

 Vice President John L. Russell. The Records having been 

 read, donations received since the annual meeting (11th 

 ult.) were announced as follows : — 



To the Library — From Ralph P. Lowe, Governor of Iowa; 

 George F. Read ; Jacob Hood ; Miss Anna M. Low ; George 

 F. Chever ; Joseph Cloutman ; Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Science ; Georgia Historical Society ; Boston Board 

 of Trade ; M, A. Stickney ; New Jersey Historical Society ; 

 Henry F. Shepard ; Allen Jacobs, of Danvers ; Henry Os- 

 good Stone ; J. Linton Waters, of Chicago ; Chicago Histori- 

 cal Society ; Canadian Institute at Toronto ; Stephen H. 

 Phillips ; Joseph Osgood. 



To the Cabinets — From E. K. Benson ; H. F. Shepard ; 



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