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Saturday, November 2, 1867. Special Meeting. 

 Vice President Goodell in the chair. 



Tills meeting was called to take suitable notice of the decease of 

 the President, Francis Peabody, which occurred at his residence in 

 Salem, on Thursday evening, after an illness of several mouths. The 

 chair having made a very appropriate allusion to tlie occasion of calling 

 this meeting together, proposed that a committee of three be ap- 

 pointed to prepare a series of resolutions to report at this meeting; 

 and Messrs. H. Wheatland, J. G. Waters, and H. P. King were ap- 

 pointed on said committee. 



Dr. Wlieatland, of the committee, reported the following resolu- 

 tions, which, after remarks from Messrs. J. G. Waters, T. M. Stimp- 

 son, P. W. Putnam, tlie cliair, and others, were unanimously adopted : 



Besolved, — That the Essex Institute receives tlie tidings of the 

 decease of its President, Francis Peabody, Esquire, witli profound 

 sorrow ; that in his death it recognizes tlie loss, not only of its most 

 devoted, laborious, and enthusiastic chief officer, but of a friend and 

 patron of science and the useful arts, who, while distinguished for his 

 accomplishments in a wide field of intellectual inquiry, was indefati- 

 gable in reducing the results of his investigations to practical use ; a 

 citizen who used his liberal means to advance the welfare of his 

 neighbors by the encouragement of industry and the discovery of new 

 sources of profit ; a man whose life was characterized bj'' untiring 

 devotion to those studies and pursuits which lead to the highest and 

 most enduring prosperitj^ of anj^ community, and, in its more intimate 

 and private relations, Avas pure and blameless. 



Besolved, — That, as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 

 ceased, the Booms of the Institute be closed to the public on Monday, 

 Nov. 4, and that the members assemble at this place on that day, at 

 12.30 P. M., to attend the funeral of their late President. 



Besolved, — That the Hon. C. W. Upham be invited to prepare a 

 Eulogy upon the life and character of the deceased, to be read before 

 the members of the Institute at such time as shall be hereafter deter- 

 mined upon ; and that the Trustees of the Peabody Fund be invited to 

 participate in the exercises of that occasion. 



liesolved, — That a copy of these Resolutions be presented to the 

 family of the deceased, to whom the Institute hereby tenders its sin- 

 cerest sympathy and condolence ; and that a copy be also forwarded 

 to George Peabody, Esquire, of London, who so much relied upon the 

 deceased for the wise management of his large donation for the pro- 

 motion of science and useful knowledge in the County of Essex, be- 

 tween whom and the deceased the warmest feelings of kindred and 

 friaudship existed. 



