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Smyth may have borne to the Society. He was elected at the December meeting of 1882, during the presidency of Mr. Winthrop. It was the largely attended meeting of the Society which greeted Mr. Winthrop on his return from his last visit to Europe. Dr. Smyth, though a constant attendant at our meetings, never closely identified himself with our Society; that is, he never served on more than one committee, never at all upon the Council, nor did he contribute largely to our Proceedings. Nevertheless, at the January meeting of 1886, he was appointed on a special committee to report what action the Society should take upon the Sibley bequest. Again, at the March meeting of 1891, he contributed some remarks when presenting to the Society a number of original papers relating to the construction and first occupancy of Fort Dummer, and to a conference with the Scatacook Indians held there. He further, at the March meeting of 1899, communicated a letter from Timothy Dwight to his son. Finally, at the March meeting of three years ago, he favored our Proceedings with some remarks on Jonathan Edwards. This was his last contribution. At the time of his death the name of Dr. Smyth stood twentyeighth upon our roll. He had been a member of the Society four months over twenty-one years.

Mr. Samuel S. Shaw communicated the memoir of the Hon. Henry S. Nourse which he had been appointed to write.

MR. ANDREW MCF. DAVIS, Senior Member at Large of the Council, presented their report.

Report of the Council.

From year to year it has been the pleasant duty of the Council to congratulate the Society upon the satisfactory condition of our finances. Our income is adequate for a reasonable activity in the way of publication; we have the means to secure for our library such additions as are of impending necessity, and our investments are reported to be in good condition. Under these circumstances, and mindful of the depredations to which business, religious, and eleemosynary corporations seem subject of late, we may rejoice that it is our privilege to repeat the phrases upon this topic already well worn by use in so many annual reports, thankful that their very monotony is a source of pleasure.

The regular meetings of the Society have during the current year been held in this building at their appointed times, and all of them have been well attended. Papers were read at each meeting, some of which provoked discussion, interesting to those who were present, but in a great measure lost to our records. Granting that the Annual Meeting, 1903, belongs in the year which we are at present considering, we may begin our review of these meetings by stating that there were two papers read at that meeting: "The Members of the Pilgrim Company in Leyden," by Morton Dexter, and "The Merchants' Notes of 1733" by Andrew McFarland Davis, the former a painstaking and laborious research in a recondite field, and the latter a collation of items from contemporaneous newspapers bearing upon the financial experiment defined in its title. The May meeting was made interesting by a discussion concerning the battle of Marathon, introduced by the President, through suggestions which occurred to him on the occasion of a recent visit to Greece, and participated in by Prof. William W. Goodwin, whom the President called upon as an acknowledged authority on such subjects. At the same meeting Professor Goodwin submitted some reflections on the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the difficulties of reconciling contemporaneous accounts with the topographic conditions demanded by their surroundings. Dr. Edward

Channing added an account of his personal experiences while engaged in a similar study.

The June meeting was devoted to a discussion of the battle of Salamis, which was participated in by the President and Prof. William W. Goodwin. At the October meeting the President read a paper on "an alleged interview between Queen Victoria and Hon. C. F. Adams," in which it was demonstrated that an account by Hon. Abram S. Hewitt, purporting to be from memory, of a conversation with Hon. C. F. Adams in which the interview with Queen Victoria was described, was mainly "but the hallucination of an old man." The reading of this paper was followed by extended extempore remarks by Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, on the present condition of the Southern States. Professor Hart's address induced a protracted discussion. At the November meeting Mr. James Schouler read a paper on "The Massachusetts Convention of 1853," and Mr. Josiah P. Quincy read one on "The Louisiana

Purchase; and the Appeal to Posterity." "The Prospectus of Blackwell's Bank, 1687," a document rescued from the Winthrop Papers, was submitted by Andrew McFarland Davis at the December meeting. James F. Hunnewell at the same meeting described his visit in Southern Devonshire to "Another Bunker Hill," and Charles Henry Hart, a Corresponding Member, submitted a paper on "Paul Revere's Portrait of Washington." At the January meeting the President presented an extended appreciation of the services to this country of Queen Victoria during our Civil War. Mr. Franklin B. Sanborn read, at the February meeting, a paper on "Samuel Langdon, S. T. D., Scholar, Patriot, and President of Harvard University," which was followed by some "Remarks on the joint meetings of the American Historical Association and American Economic Association in New Orleans, December, 1903," by James Ford Rhodes, and later by a paper on the "Woodbridge-Phillips Duel," by Samuel S. Shaw, and one on "The Landing of the Hessians" by Edmund F. Slafter. At the March meeting Prof. Charles Eliot Norton read a letter from Rev. Samuel Locke, afterward President of Harvard College, and later read a paper showing statistically the growth of the use of a middle name by students at Harvard.

The following important letters and documents were communicated: At the May meeting, Letters of Richard Price, 1767-1790, by Charles Eliot Norton; at the June meeting, Letters of Benjamin Vaughan, 1782-1783, by Charles Card Smith; at the October meeting, The Federal Constitution in Virginia, 1787-1788, by Worthington C. Ford.

The following vacancies in the membership exist: one in the Resident, two in the Corresponding, and four in the Honorary Membership.

During the year the following gentlemen were elected as Resident Members: Ephraim Emerton, April 9, 1903; Waldo Lincoln, May 14, 1903; Frederic Jesup Stimson, June 11, 1903; Edward Stanwood, October 8, 1903; Moorfield Storey, November 12, 1903; Thomas Minns, January 14, 1904; Roger Bigelow Merriman, February 11, 1904. The following were elected Corresponding Members: Horace Davis, April 9, 1903; Sidney Lee, January 14, 1904.

The following publications have been issued by the Society during the year: Proceedings, Second Series, Vol. XVI.

(March to December, 1902); Proceedings, Second Series, Vol. XVII. (January to October, 1903), and two serial numbers, November, 1903, to January, 1904.

Death has not spared our ranks during the year. The melancholy duty has fallen upon the Council of filling no less than four vacancies in our numbers occasioned by this cause. John Tyler Hassam departed this life on the 22d of April, 1903; William Sumner Appleton, April 28, 1903; George Harris Monroe, October 15, 1903; Henry Stedman Nourse, November 14, 1903. The death of a fifth member, Egbert Coffin Smyth, April 12, has occurred since our last meeting. We have lost during the year three Corresponding Members: Edward McCrady, November 1, 1903; Hermann Eduard von Holst, January 20, 1904; Sir Leslie Stephen, February 22, 1904.

In addition we have to record the loss of two Honorary Members: William Edward Hartpole Lecky, October 22, 1903; Theodor Mommsen, November 1, 1903.

The following memoirs have been presented to the Society during the year: October, 1903, memoir of John Davis Washburn, by Henry S. Nourse; October, 1903, memoir of William Sumner Appleton by Charles C. Smith; December, 1903, memoir of Roger Wolcott by William Lawrence; December, 1903, memoir of Edward Everett, communicated by William Everett; January, 1904, memoir of Horace Gray, by George F. Hoar.

The following is a list of such publications by members, during the year, as have come to the knowledge of the Council:

The Constitutional Ethics of Secession, and "War is Hell." Two Speeches of Charles Francis Adams, delivered respectively at Charleston, S. C., December 22, 1902, and at New York, January 26, 1903.

The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay: to which are prefixed the Charters of the Province. With Historical and Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix. Volume XI. 1726-1734. Edited by Melville M. Bigelow.

Notes on the Report of Teobert Maler in Memoirs of the Peabody Museum. Vol. II., No. II. By Charles P. Bowditch. Privately printed.

Boston "Banks," 1681-1740. Those who were interested in them. By Andrew McFarland Davis.

The Confiscation of John Chandler's Estate. By Andrew McFarland Davis.

The Fund in Boston in New England. By Andrew McFarland Davis.

New Hampshire Notes, 1735. Those who agreed not to receive them. By Andrew McFarland Davis.

The Beauty of Wisdom. By James De Normandie.

More Money for the Public Schools. By Charles W. Eliot.
Ultimate Conceptions of Faith. By George A. Gordon.

Peabody Education Fund. Proceedings of the Trustees at their Forty-third Meeting, New York, 8 October, 1903. Edited by Samuel Abbott Green, Secretary and General Agent.

Peabody Education Fund. Proceedings of the Trustees at their Forty-fourth Meeting (a special meeting), Washington, 28th January, 1904. Edited by Samuel A. Green, Secretary and General Agent.

Ten Fac-simile Reproductions relating to Various Subjects. By Samuel Abbott Green.

The Ideas of the Founders. An Address delivered before the Brooklyn Institute, November 4, 1903. By Edward E. Hale.

Library of Inspiration and Achievement. By Edward E. Hale.
New England History in Ballads. By Edward E. Hale.
"We, the People." By Edward E. Hale.

Adolescence. By G. Stanley Hall.

Actual Government as applied under American Conditions. (American Citizen Series.) By Albert B. Hart.

Handbook of the History, Diplomacy, and Government of the United States. By Albert B. Hart.

Source Readers in American History. By Albert B. Hart and others. No. 4, The Romance of the Civil War.

Reader's History of American Literature. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson and H. W. Boynton.

An Address delivered by United States Senator George F. Hoar. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association, Washington, D. C. [April 13, 1903.] By George F. Hoar.

Autobiography of Seventy Years. By George F. Hoar.

Washington. Address before the Union League Club of Chicago. By George F. Hoar, February 23, 1903.

Getting One's Bearings. Observations for Direction and Distance. By Alexander McKenzie.

The Poet Gray as a Naturalist, with selections from his Notes on the Systema Naturæ of Linnæus and Fac-similes of some of his Drawings. By Charles Eliot Norton.

The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of M Mary Rowlandson. First printed in 1682 at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Lon

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