BULLETIN ·

OF THE

ESSEX INSTITUTE,

VOLUME X.

1878.

SALEM, MASS.

PRINTED AT THE SALEM PRESS.

CONTENTS.

Page.

Regular Meeting, Monday, January 7, 1878, .

1

Dr. George A. Perkins, Remarks on Liberia, 1.-A List of the Birds of

Massachusetts with Annotations, by J. A. Allen, 3.

Regular Meeting, Monday, January 21, 1878,

38

Prof. E. S. Morse, Lecture upon Japan, 38.

Regular Meeting, Monday, February 4, 1878,

38

Remarks on the subject of commemorating the 250th anniversary of the

Landing of John Endicott, 38.-Rev. G. D. Wildes, on Gen. Abbott's

military journal, 39.

Mr. D. Waldo's Lecture on "Telling the Time," 40.-J. S. Kingsley's

"List of the North American Crustacea," 53.

Regular Meeting, Monday, March 18, 1878,

72

F. W. Putnam's Archæological Explorations in Tennessee, 72.

Notice of the death of Francis Putnam, 85.-Rev. E. C. Bolles, on Salis-

bury and a Day at Stonehenge, 86.

Regular Meeting, Monday, April 15, 1878,

86

93

G. D. Phippen, Impressions on the Flora of Texas, 86.

Annual Meeting, Monday, May 20, 1878,

Retrospect of the year: members, 94; meetings, 96; lectures and con-

certs, 97; art department and museum, 98; library, 99; financial, 107;

horticultural, 109; publications, 109; excursions, 109; resolutions on

the death of Francis Putnam, 111; officers elected, 112.

Regular Meeting, Monday, June 3, 1878,

Field Meeting at Centennial Grove, Essex, Monday, June 24, 1878, 113

J. H. Emerton, Remarks on Arachnida, 114.-S. B. Buttrick, List of

Plants Collected, 114.-John Robinson's paper on the Life of a Pine

Tree, 115.

Field Meeting at Juniper Point, Salem Neck, Wednesday, July

10, 1878,

Visit to the Zoological Laboratory of Messrs. Emerton and Minot, 126.

The proposed celebration of Endicott's Landing noticed, 127.-G. D.

Phippen, Notes on the History of the Neck, 127.-J. H. Emerton, on

the Development of the Common Starfish, 128.-J. S. Kingsley, on the

Anatomy and Development of the Tunicates, 129.

Regular Meeting, Monday, July 15, 1878,

Notice of the death of Hon. J. G. Waters, 130.

Regular Meeting, Monday, August 5, 1878,

Field Meeting at West Newbury, Thursday, August 8, 1878,

Visit to the residence of Ben Perley Poore, 132.-Notice of the Poore

Family, 133.-Remarks of Haydn Brown, 135; James Parton, 135;

J. H. Emerton, 136; George Dixon, 136.