BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX: IISrSTITTJTEl. 



Vol. 21. Salem: Oct., Nov., Dec, 1889. Nos. 10-11-12. 



Annual Meeting, May 20, 1889. 



The annual meetino: was held this evenin^ at 7.30 

 o'clock, the President in the chair. Records of the last 

 annual meeting read and approved. 



The reports of the Secretary, Librarian, Curators and 

 Committees were read and aecepted. 



The reading of the report of the Treasurer was post- 

 poned to an adjournment of this meeting, on account of 

 the absence of the Treasurer, Mr. Phippen, being on a 

 journey for his health. 



On motion of Mr. Whipple 



Voted that when this meeting adjourns, it will be at the 

 call of the Secretary. 



The President callcd attention to photographs of two 

 old oil paintings receatly presented to the Institute by 

 Mr. Waldo Higginson of Boston, whose letter explanatory 

 of the same was read. 



The first represents a scene in Madras about 1694, with 

 portraits of Governor Nathaniel Higginson and wife, and 

 Stephen Aynsworth who afterwards married Sarah Hig- 

 ginson, their daughter, born Dec. 2, 1697. 



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