94 THE KETROSPECT OF THE YEAK. 



seif.) A high tribute was paid to the late Abiel Abbot 

 Low of New York and to several others who have been 

 intimately connected with Salem by birth or residence. 



Monday, Feb. 19, 1894. — Regulär meeting this even. 

 ing in the Library room. Rev. E. B. Willson read an 

 interesting paper lipon the "Covenant of the First Chnrch 

 in Salem in 1629." The paper showed careful preparation 

 and exhanstive research, and at its conclusion a discnssion 

 was participated in by A. C. Goodell, jr., John Robinson, 

 W. L. Welch and others. Mr. Willson went over the 

 matter which was discnssed at great length many years 

 ago by the late Dr. S. M. Worcester and Jndge Daniel 

 A. White, as to whether the covenant of 1629 and 1636 

 were identical. The point, it was (well) said, was not 

 of vital importance, bnt interesting (to theologians). 



Monday, Feb. 26, 1894.— -Rev. George T. Flanders, 

 D.D., of Rockport, lectured in Plummer Hall; subject, 

 "The Seven Stars; a Study of Early Mythology." The 

 lecturer pictured in glowing langaage the beliefs of the 

 ancients about man lipon the earth, more particularly his 

 first habitations and surroundings ; drawing illustrations 

 from the views held by the Chinese and other of the 

 older nations lipon the subject. 



Monday, March 5, 1894. — Regulär meeting of the So- 

 ciety in the library room. Dr. Leroy J. Cherrington 

 read a paper on "The Electric Theory of Pain." It was 

 a carefuliy prepared address written for a populär medical 

 article. Pain was regarded as a morbid condition of some 

 bodily part. The working of pain in the System was ex- 

 plained. The general and excessive useof"pain killers" 

 was deprecated, and the lecturer gave an account of his 

 theory for relieving pain, etc. Folio wed by discussion. 



