CONTENTS. 



Prefatory Note, 



The North American Keptiles and Batrachians ; by Samuel Gar 

 man, 



An Extraordinary Shark ; by Samuel Garman, . 



A Species of Heptranchias supposed to be new ; by Samuel Gar 

 man, • . 



Pigeons and the Pigeon Fancy ; by Wra. G. Barton, . 



Annual Meeting, Monday, May 19, 1884, 



Election of officers, 82 ; retrospect of the year, 83 ; members, 8.3 ; fleld 

 meetings, 88; meetings, 89; lectures, 90; publications,91; Iibrary,92 

 art exhibition, 103; horticultural, 105; museum, 105; financial, 107 

 abstract of secx-etary's report, 108. 



Fleld Day at Topsfield, Wednesday, June 18, 1884, . 



Remarks of the President, 111 ; of James J. H. Gregory, 111 ; of Rev 

 Fielder Israel, 112. 



Notes on the Condition of Zoölogy, fifty years ago and to-day 

 in connection with the growth of the Essex Institute ; by E 

 S. Morse, 



The Progress of Botany in Essex County during the last half 

 Century, especially asinfluenced bythe Essex Co. Natural His 

 tory Society and the Essex Institute ; by John Robinson, 



Geology and Mineralogy in Essex County ; by B. F. McDaniel 



An Historical Sketch ; by Samuel P. Fowler, 



A Field Day at Annisquam, Wednesday, July 16, 1884, 



Remarks of the President, 147; of Alpheus Hyatt, A. C Perkin8,147; 

 of Jonas H. French, James Davis, 148. 



The Annisquam Laboratory ; by J. S. Kingsley 149 



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