. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. nder 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 established by the Essex Institute in 1867. 1 To a little venture called the Weal Heat printed in 18(>0 at a fair for thebenefit of the Essex Institute, Nathaniel Hawthorne contributed a delightfulreminiscence of Brownes Folly. During the period when his genius was ,— say from 1825 to 1845, — he spent much time in the Historical Soci
. Bulletin of the Essex Institute. nder 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 established by the Essex Institute in 1867. 1 To a little venture called the Weal Heat printed in 18(>0 at a fair for thebenefit of the Essex Institute, Nathaniel Hawthorne contributed a delightfulreminiscence of Brownes Folly. During the period when his genius was ,— say from 1825 to 1845, — he spent much time in the Historical SocietysRooms in Pickman Place, and filled his notebooks witli what he saw there. Manyof our treasures will be found described in the American Note Books. Espe-cially has he used a bit of rough-cast from the old Browne Mansion, built in 16*8,which he found preserved there, for a mural decoration of the House ofSeven Gables, where It will be recognized, twice described to the letter, in Chap-ters One and Thirteen. We have it THE FIRST HALF CENTURY OF THE INSTITUTE. 11 The Institute has for twenty-five years, succeeding theLyceum in the field of oral popular instruction, conductedannual courses of free public lectures. It has always heldfrequent evening meetings, and of late fortnightly meet-ings throughout the winter, at which members and theirhouseholds have met to consider and discuss papers onlocal topics of history and science. These papers havefurnished a large part of the material printed in our twoserial issues. At its lectures the Institute has enjoyed the honorabledistinction to introduce Professor Bell and the Bell Tele-phone to the notice of this utilitarian age,2—and to pre-sent to its members at different times such eminentstrangers as Dean Stanley, Dr. William B. Carpenter,Canon Kings]ey, Wilkie Collins, and Matthew Arnold,together with such local celebrities as Chief Justice Chase,Professors Rogers and Gray, Agassiz and Dr. has celebrated most
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