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"Every facility in the power of the Superintendent, con- 

 sistent with the welfare of the specimens, shall be offered 

 to persons visiting the Museum for the purpose of study 

 and comparison." 



D. B. Hagar, J. Leonard Hammond and Elizabeth A. 

 Putnam, of Salem, were elected Resident Members. 



Friday, August 18. Field meeting at North Andover. 



The fifth Field meeting of the season was held at North 

 Andover this day. About three hundred persons arrived 

 in the train from Salem and assembled at the "First 

 Church" before separating into small parties to visit the 

 special objects of interest to each. 



The zoologists sought the brooks and streams and found 

 many specimens amply rewarding them for their search ; 

 the botanists the woods and meadows for various flowers ; 

 the antiquarians for the relics of olden time. 



This township was first settled in 1634. In the same 

 year the following order of the court was issued respecting 

 the land in Andover : 



"It is ordered that the land about Cochichewick shall be 

 reserved for an inland plantation, and whosoever will goto 

 inhabit there shall have three years immunity from all 

 taxes, levies, public charges, and services whatever, mili- 

 tary discipline only excepted." 



The land is uneven, rising into large hills, affording fine 

 and delightful prospects and scenery. Dr. Dwight, in his 

 travels, some sixty or seventy years since, says of the North 

 parish of Andover : "Its surface is elegantly undulating, 

 and its soil in an eminent degree fertile. The meadows 

 are numerous, large, and of the first quality. The groves, 

 charmingly interspersed, are tall and thrifty. The land- 

 scape, everywhere varied, neat and cheerful, is also every- 

 where rich." Hither many come from the crowded city to 



