. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. ree hundred contain material of a character common to suchissues, except for this, that it is strictly local to EssexCounty. These volumes are cited with respect, and theirhigh authority will be recognized when I say that theyare the work of such contributors, of more than localfame, as Professors Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkinsand Emerton and Wendell of Harvard, of the ReverendsJones Very and Charles T. Brooks, of the two Uphams,father and son, of the Honorables Leverett Saltonstalland Eben F. Stone, of Captain George H. Preble, of theUnited St
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. ree hundred contain material of a character common to suchissues, except for this, that it is strictly local to EssexCounty. These volumes are cited with respect, and theirhigh authority will be recognized when I say that theyare the work of such contributors, of more than localfame, as Professors Herbert B. Adams of Johns Hopkinsand Emerton and Wendell of Harvard, of the ReverendsJones Very and Charles T. Brooks, of the two Uphams,father and son, of the Honorables Leverett Saltonstalland Eben F. Stone, of Captain George H. Preble, of theUnited States Navy, of Dr. Joseph B. Felt, of HenryWheatland, of Henry F. Waters, of Abner C. Goodell,of Matthew A. Stickney, and of William G. Barton. Thetemptation to recite the list of local authorities to whomwe owe so much of our success, is well-nigh overmaster-ing, but I must refrain. A score or two of the mostapproved writers this neighborhood has produced in our KSSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XXX 1* 10 BULLETIN OF THE ESSEX picr^rpar) place Rough \lr\tVtom STOwrve f\cvnsv century, would be found to have furnished us with the mass of our material and with much of our its establishment in 1848 the Institute has issued six volumes of its Proceedings and twenty-eight volumes# of its Bulletin, and these contain, together with itscurrent transactions,scientific papers of highauthority and value num-bering two hundred andninety-six articles, besidesminor contributions,covering an infinite variety of topics of greater or less importance, for the most part related to the Natural History of Essex County; and the work of one hundred and forty-nine writers, amongst whom I find such names as Agassiz, Fitch Poole, the Uphams, Alex-ander Bell, Jones Very, Russell, Silsbee, Wheatland, John Robinson, Professors Wright, Dorsey, Emerton, Fewkes, Garman, Crosby, Putnam, Hyatt, Morse. The American Naturalist, a scientific magazine in good standing, was establish
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