An Address on the Life and Character of Samuel Adams delivered in the Old South Church, Boston, Sunday, October 26, 1884. On the occasion of the erection of Tablets in the Church, commemorative of its line of Ministers, and of Samuel Sewall and Samuel Adams. Boston, 1885. 8vo. pp. (2), 46.

Portrait.

Rambles in Old Boston, New England. Illustrated by George R. Tolman. Boston, 1887. 8vo. pp. xviii, 439.

Memoir of the Hon. Charles Hudson. [Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, IV. 28-32) of the Massachusetts Historical Society for November 10, 1887.] No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 28–32.

Memoir of John C. Phillips. With the Remarks of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and other Tributes. Privately printed. [From the Proceedings (2d series, IV. 33-36) of the Historical Society for November 10, 1887.] Portrait. Cambridge, 1888. 8vo. pp. 12.

Address at a Dinner given by the Lexington Historical Society, November 5, 1889. On the 100th Anniversary of Washington's Visit to Lexington. [Reprinted from the Society's Proceedings (I. 67-74).] Boston, 1890. 8vo. pp. 10.

The Aborigines of Australia. A Paper read before the American Antiquarian Society, Boston, April 30, 1890. [Reprinted from the Society's Proceedings, new series, VI. 303-322.] Plates. Worcester, 1890. 8vo. pp. 22.

House. No. 416. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. [Report of Mr. Porter, Samuel A. Green, and John C. Ropes, Commissioners appointed under Chapter 24, Resolves of 1890, that the bust in Doric Hall, marked Samuel Adams, is that of Washington, March 26, 1891.] No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 5.

[Record of the Marriage of John Hancock and Dorothy Quincy at Fairfield, August 28, 1775. Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, VI. 395-397) of the Historical Society for April 9, 1891.] No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 2.

An Historical Sketch of the Town of Bedford, England. Reprinted from a chapter contributed to the History [pp. 77-81] of Bedford, Massachusetts. Boston, 1891. 16mo. pp. 16.

Diary of Ezra Stiles. VII. 338-345) of the titlepage. 8vo. pp. 8.

[Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, Historical Society for March 10, 1892.] No

The Ship "Columbia" and the Columbia River. [Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, VII. 416-421) of the Historical Society for May 12, 1892.] No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 6.

The Ship "Columbia" and the Discovery of Oregon.

From the

New England Magazine, Boston, June, 1892. Illustrations. 8vo. pp. (1), 472-488.

The Andover Band in Maine. [From the Andover Review for March, 1893.] Cambridge, 1893. 8vo. pp. 12.

[Remarks at a Meeting of the Historical Society, June 14, 1894, on presenting a bound copy of an old French play, "La Bohémienne, ou l'Amérique en 1775. Drame Historique en cinq Actes et en prose," of which the scene is laid mostly in Boston. Reprinted from the Proceedings, 2d series, IX.] No titlepage. 8vo. pp. 108-109.

Memorial Stones dedicated by the Town of Acton, April 19, 1895. [Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, X. 188-193) of the Massachusetts Historical Society for May 9, 1895.] Cambridge, 1895.

8vo. pp. 7.

Hamilton Andrews Hill, LL.D. 1827-1895. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society [new series, X. 205-208], October, 1895. No imprint. 8vo. pp. 6.

Armenian Relief Committee. Boston, September 23, 1895. [Circular No 1, signed by Mr. Porter, Martin Brimmer, Mortimer B. Mason, Henry L. Higginson, and Hagop Bogigian.] No titlepage. 12mo. pp. (3).

Circular Letter No. II. December 28, 1895. [Signed pp. (3).

Howland Holmes, M. D.

[Reprinted from the New-England His

torical and Genealogical Register (L. 93-94) for January, 1896.] No imprint. 8vo. pp. (3).

To the Friends of Education in Turkey. What the College and Hospital at Aintab have done in 1895. and other Trustees, and dated at Boston, titlepage. 12mo. pp. (4).

Armenian Relief Measures.

[Signed by Mr. Porter, February 27, 1896.] No

From The Independent, of New York,

March 5th, 1896. No titlepage. 16mo. pp. 8.

The Distribution of Relief in Armenia. [Reprinted from the "Lend a Hand," March, 1896.] No titlepage. 12mo. pp. (4).

The Demolition of the McLean Asylum at Somerville. With an Account of its original buildings, formerly the Country Seat of Joseph Barrell. [Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, X. 548-552) of the Massachusetts Historical Society for April 9, 1896.] Cambridge, 1896. 8vo. pp. 6.

Report of the Cabot Proceedings at the Halifax Meeting of The Royal Society of Canada, June 21-25, 1897. [Presented at the October Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Proceedings, 2d series, XII. 2-9).] Cambridge, 1897. 8vo. pp. 10.

Remarks suggested by a Tablet at Rome commemorative of S. F. B. Morse. [Reprinted from the Proceedings (2d series, XI. 282–285) of the Massachusetts Historical Society, March 11, 1897.] Cambridge, 1897. 8vo. pp. 6.

The Cabot Quadri-Centenary Celebrations at Bristol, Halifax, and St. John's, in June, 1897. Reprinted from the New England Magazine, Boston, February, 1898. Plate and illustrations. 8vo. pp. (1), 653-671.

Matthew Henry Merriam.

Died in Lexington, January 26, 1898, Matthew H. Merriam, aged 73 years. [Reprinted from the Lexington Minute-Man for February 5, 1898.] No titlepage. 16mo. pp. (4). Remarks concerning the recent visit of Lieutenant General George Digby Barker, C. B., and the Diary of Lieutenant John Barker, of the Fourth (King's Own) Regiment, during the Siege of Boston. printed from the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Vol. V. Cambridge, 1898. 8vo. pp. 9.

Re

A Sermon commemorative of One Hundred and Fifty Years of the First Church in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Delivered September 4, 1898. Containing Biographical Sketches of the Pastors and Some of the Citizens of the Town. [Reprinted from the Proceedings, pp. 57-102.] Plates. Cambridge, 1899. 8vo. pp. 48.

An Address given at the One Hundred and Sixtieth Anniversary of the Second Church in Plymouth (Manomet Precinct), November 9, 1898. With a Sketch of the Life of its Third Pastor, the Rev. Ivory Hovey. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Day. Plates. No imprint. [Plymouth, 1899.] 8vo. pp. 37.

Address at the Dedication of the Congregational House, Boston, December 21, 1898, on the Four Sculptured Tablets of the Façade. No imprint. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Day.

pp. 8.

8vo.

A Brief Sketch of George F. Bemis, of Lincoln, Massachusetts. Being an Extract from the Sermon on Rev. Edward G. Porter, at the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Lincoln Church. Portrait. Cambridge, 1899. 8vo. pp. 7.

MAY MEETING, 1901.

THE stated meeting was held on Thursday, the 9th instant, at three o'clock, P.M.; the President in the chair.

The record of the last meeting was read and approved. The Librarian read the list of donors to the Library; and the Cabinet-Keeper made an oral report of several interesting gifts to his department.

Charles Gross, Ph.D., of Cambridge, was elected a Resident Member.

The President reported from the Council the following vote, which on their recommendation was passed unanimously,

Voted, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby, authorized, with the written approval of the President, or, in case of his absence or inability to act, of one of the Vice-Presidents, to sell, assign, and transfer any stocks or registered bonds standing in the name of the Society.

Messrs. Edward J. Young, Alexander McKenzie, and Charles C. Smith were appointed the Committee to publish the Proceedings for the current year.

Mr. WILLIAM S. APPLETON communicated the memoir of the late William H. Whitmore, which he had been appointed to prepare for publication in the Proceedings.

The PRESIDENT then said:

Since the April meeting of the Society two names have been stricken from its rolls, the Right Rev. William Stubbs, Bishop of Oxford, an Honorary Member of the Society, died at the palace of the diocese, Cuddesdon, England, on the morning of Monday, April 22d; and Samuel F. McCleary, a Resident Member, died at his house in Brookline on Thursday, April 25th.

It has not been customary to enter upon our Proceedings. any detailed action in connection with the deaths of Honorary Members, unless during their membership they may have

taken some special or active part in the work of the Society. No exception was made to this salutary general rule in the case of the late Bishop of London, the Right Rev. Mandell Creighton. Before proceeding, however, to speak of the Bishop of Oxford, I feel that there were certain circumstances connected with the Bishop of London which should have here received more notice than was at our February meeting given to them; for this Society, in common with all Massachusetts, was under a peculiar obligation to Bishop Creighton, which ought not to have been ignored. It was through his active intervention that the Bradford manuscript, the sacred book of Massachusetts Genesis, was restored to the Commonwealth. Indeed, it may be, and should be, remembered that, had it not been for the Right Rev. Mandell Creighton, then, by a happy accident, Bishop of London, the Bradford manuscript would not now be in the library at the State House. The case was one of a class which not infrequently arises. A picture, a relic, an original book of records of valuable historical character, through some unknown process finds its way into a public collection,—in that case into the Library of the Diocese of London. How it came there no one knows, nor, probably, will ever know; but, whether as the result of theft or purchase or gift, it is there. Under such circumstances, in the case of the Bradford manuscript, it would have been the easy, perhaps it would have been the natural course, because acquisitive and human, for one temporarily intrusted with its possession, as was Bishop Creighton, to insist that the curious relic was part of the Fulham Library, and could under no circumstances be parted with or surrendered. The incumbent held it merely as part of his trust. Such an insistence would have been in strict keeping with a long line of precedents. Fortunately Mandell Creighton was a larger-minded, a more liberal man; and, as such, he took a broad view of the question. When, through the intervention of our Associate Member the Hon. George F. Hoar, the suggestion was thrown out that it would be a graceful act of international courtesy were this record restored to those across the Atlantic to whom it originally and rightfully belonged, the then Bishop of London met the proposition as such a proposition should be met. The equitable ownership being indisputable, it became with him merely a question of devising the appropriate legal means