Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Volume 25Essex Institute., 1893 Vol. 30 includes "The first half century of the Essex Institute," and "List of present members." |
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Page 75 - Goodell, jr., in the chair. The record of the last annual meeting was read by the Secretary. The...
Page 75 - Manning, and it was Voted, To proceed to the election of officers for the (i) ensuing year.
Page 23 - That the gentlemen whose names are appended be requested to act as a Committee (with power to add to their number) for the purpose of carrying out the previous resolution and of reporting to an adjourned public meeting to be held during the second week in October next.
Page 84 - Treasurer of any institution are to take care of what funds that institution has, it may not be out of place for me to call the attention of the...
Page 33 - Some material for a history of the name and family of Rentoul— Rintoul— Rautoul.
Page 26 - led the way from New England round the Cape of Good Hope to the Isle of France, and India, and China. Her vessels were the first from this country to display the American flag and open trade with St. Petersburg, and Zanzibar, and Sumatra ; with Calcutta and Bombay ; with Batuvia and Arabia ; with Madagascar and Australia.
Page 46 - The major part of the Council of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, at Boston, this twenty-eighth day of May, AD 1778; by their Honors
Page 95 - M. SAFFORD, widow of James O. Safford, and daughter of James and Lydia (Eustis) Potter, was born in Salem, Jan. 23, 1831 ; elected a member of the Essex Institute, Jan. 3, 1876, and died in Salem, Mar. 5, 1893. DR. HENRY WHEATLAND, son of Richard and Martha (Goodhue) Wheatland, was born in Salem, Jan. 11, 1812 ; elected a member of the Essex Historical Society, Sept. 6, 1841, and of the Essex County Natural History Society in 1834, and died in Salem, Feb.
Page 78 - Summer, that a committee be appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the great loss we have sustained in the death of our distinguished associate and brother practitioner, Dr.
Page 89 - Newbury and the earthquake at the same place in 1727. Plum Island, he said, was a perfect example of the formation of islands by sand bars. The rocking stones of Gloucester he accounted for by the erosion of frost and water. Speaking of the bog iron deposits, he stated that iron was first worked from these bogs iu Lynn in 1642-3, in Boxford, 1668, and Ainesbury in 1728.