98 THG RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



Danvers, gave the closing lecture in the "free course " 

 this evening in Plummer Hall ; subject, " An Historie 

 Highway." Mr. Hines gave an interesting aecount of the 

 old road leading from Ipswich to Boston. It was prob- 

 ably an old Indian trail that was laicl out as a road prior 

 to 1634. Henry F. Waters of Salem, a few years ago, 

 discovered a map in the British Museum, that describes 

 this road. The map was from the celebrated Hans Sloan 

 collection and was labelled, " Map of Massachusetts in New 

 England." On this map the road or path was traced as 

 clearly as though it was a new print. It ran through Med- 

 ford, Maiden, Kevere, Saugus, across Saugus river, Lynn, 

 Peabody, Danvers, North Beverly, along the shore of 

 Wenham Lake to "Agawam" (now Ipswich). There can 

 be no doubt as to the age of the map,as the word Agawam 

 shows that it must have been made before 1634, for in 

 that year the name Agawam was changed to Ipswich. 

 Mr. Hines also spoke of the traditions concerning the old 

 highway ; its noted inns, and of the distinguished persons 

 who had travelied over it — Gov. Winthrop, Nathaniel 

 Saltonstall, and many others. 



Monday, April 30, 1894. — Meeting this evening in 

 the library rooms. Prof. Edward S. Morse spoke inter- 

 estingly, as usual, lipon some new methods of printing in 

 colors. First, describing with chalk illustrations, the 

 common mode of steel and copper engraving and printing, 

 lithographs and wood cuts, and then showing by drawings 

 and speeimens the old and new way of color printing. 



Monday, May 7, 1894. — Regulär meeting of the So- 

 ciety this evening in the library rooms. 



John H. Sears, of the Peabody Academy of Science, 

 read some extracts and made some observations upon an 



