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Nature. 



Newton Transcript. 



Our Dunib Animals. 



Peabody Press. 



Quaritch's Catalogue. 



Sailors' Magazine and Seamen's 



Friend. 

 Salem Evening News. 



Salem Gazette. 



Salem Observer. 



Salem Register. 



Stove and Hardware Reporter. 



Turner's Public Spirit. 



West Newbury Era. 



Zoologischer Anzeiger. 



The Art Exhibition opened on Wednesday eveiiing, 

 May 23, 1883, the seventh under the auspices of the In- 

 stitute. These exhibitions of Essex Coiinty work have 

 an increasing interest for those who watch them carefully 

 from year to year, as an indication of a grovvth of art feeling 

 in the Community, and of the development of talent whose 

 beginnings we have seen, as well as of the appearance of 

 iiew aspirants whose early endeavors are füll of interest 

 and sometimes of decided promise. 



The electric light was put into the hall for the first 

 time,and enabled the visitors in the evening to see the col- 

 lection to much better advantage than heretofore. Some 

 excellent photographs were made of a portion of the ex- 

 hibit with this light. 



There were on exhibition, from one hundred and forty- 

 four contributors, four hundred and eight specimens in the 

 various departments of art. The arrangement was very 

 effective, and the hall attractive. 



The followino^ is the list of contributors : 



Miss Delia Sheldon, Beverly. 



" Ida Caller. 

 John and Henry Benson. 

 Mrs. Sara K. Hart. 

 Miss E. A. Welch, Georgetown. 

 Mr. Arthur W. Dow, Ipswich. 

 Miss Edith B. Pickering. 



" Edith Rantoul. 



Mr. David H. Barry, Marble- 



head. 

 Mr. Albert I. Whipple. 

 Mrs. A. P. Newhall, Lynn. 

 Miss C. B. Crossman, Swamp- 



scott. 

 Miss S. Ellen Pratt. 



*' L. L. A. Very. 



