Thursday, July 28. Ordinary meeting 

 Vice President, A. C. Goo-dell Jr , in the chair 

 The following persons nominated at the North Beverly 

 meeting by A. C. Goodell Jr., and H. Wheatland, were 

 elected Eesident Members ; Isaac Appleton, of Beverly ; 

 Geo. P. Russell, of Haverhill ; Shadrach M. Gate, Ephraim 

 Miller, James C. Stimpson and George Newcomb, of Salem. 

 The thanks of the Institute were voted to Mr. Rantoul for 

 the reading of his paper, on the " History of Wenham 

 Pond" at the meeting of yesterday, and a copy was re- 

 quested for publication in the Historical Collections. 



Wednesday, August 10. Field meeting at Gloucester. 



About three hundred persons arrived in the first train 

 from Salem, and were escorted to the Town Hall where a 

 few remarks of welcome were made by Rev. Mr. Skinner, 

 of Gloucester, and the divine blessing was invoked by 

 Rev. Mr. Banvard of Worcester. The party was then 

 dismissed for rambles and observations. Some visited the 

 " Stage Rocks" and " Rafe's Chasm"; others rambled along 

 the beach or in the woods in search of plants and animals. 



At one o'clock the party had mostly reassembled at 

 the Town Hall, where after appeasing the good appetites 

 caused by the morning walks, the meeting was called to 

 order by Rev. S. Barden, of Rockport, who made a few 

 opening remarks. 



The records of the last Field meeting were read, and 

 donations to the Cabinets and Library announced. Letters 

 were announced from : 



New Jersey Historical Society, acknowledging the receipt of publications ; 

 J. F. Tuckerman, of Salem, accepting membership ; C. M. Tracy, of Lynn; 

 A. P. Peabody, of Cambridge, and G. W. Skinner, of Gloucester, respecting 

 Field meetings. 



G. D. Phippen, of Salem, gave a brief account of the 

 early history of Gloucester, and then spoke of the trans- 



