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[printed] The Essex Institute,
Organised for the promotion of HISTORY, NATURAL HISTORY, AND HORTICULTURE, Have, at their meeting held at [written] Salem [printed] on the [written]twenty-fourth [printed] day of [written] February [printed] A. D. 18 [written] 59 [printed] elected [written] Robert Kennicott [printed] to be a [written] Corresponding [printed] Member of the said Institute.
In testimony whereof, the President and Secretary have affixed their respective signatures at Salem, Massachusetts, U. S. A. this [written] twenty-fourth [printed] day of [written] February [printed] AD. 18 [written] 59
[signatures] Henry Wheatland [printed] Sec"y D.A. White [printed] Pres"t
[handwritten] OLIVE