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be to rudely dry them as they come from the salt water ; 

 then tie them up in bundles, enveloped in coarse paper and 

 kept dry : or put into some box. It is always best to take 

 every thing that first comes in one's way, not being select in 

 choosing. Any thing that is a sea weed, large or small, 

 homely or pretty, should be saved. Often fragments of what 

 might be considered valueless, are found to be more estima- 

 ble than sparkling cystals or glittering stones. Whenever 

 opportunity occurs of procuring sections of rough bark 

 from foreign forest trees, shrubs and gigantic tropical vines, 

 the Institute would be greatly obliged to any who would 

 collect such ; preserving with caution the rough exterior 

 and not removing any scurfiness or mossy growth there may 

 be upon such. Any member of the Essex Institute, resi- 

 dent in a foreign climate, especially at the tropics, could not 

 render his Society a greater service than to be on the alert 

 to ivhaiever meets his eye in every department of Nature ; 

 and as pieces of native wood, bark, and sea weeds are the 

 most readily cared for in the vegetable kingdom, the Cura- 

 tor of the Herbarium would welcome every fragment of 

 such which may reach him by the alcohol-cans or by other 

 means. 



The Institute is under great obligations to those members 

 and friends, resident temporarily in foreign climes, or who 

 are attached to some of our merchant vessels, for their wil- 

 lingness to take charge of cans for the purpose of depositing 

 such specimens of Natural History as fall in their way du- 

 ring their voyages a.nd rambles, and the zeal and interest 

 manifested in collecting and preserving them. 



Mr. Jacob Batchelder mentioned that the Essex County 

 Teachers' Association propose to hold a semi-annual meeting 

 in Salem, on Friday and Saturday, the 6th and 7th of next 

 month, and on his motion, a vote was unanimously adopted, 

 that the Association be invited to visit the Rooms of the In- 

 stitute, at such time during the coming session as may be 

 most convenient. Adjourned. 



