PAGE

Second Paper, by F. B. SANBORN, on The Early History of
Kansas, 1854-1861

Letters between Edward Everett and John McLean, 1828,
relating to the use of patronage in elections and the princi-
ples which should control the distribution of public office,
communicated by WORTHINGTON C. FORD

331

359

MARCH MEETING, 1908.

Recent additions to the series of portraits of Treasurers of the
Society reported by the Cabinet-Keeper

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394

394

Resident Member elected, George Lyman Kittredge
Corresponding Member elected, James Wilberforce Longley
Committees appointed: to nominate officers; to examine the
Treasurer's accounts; and to examine the Library and
Cabinet

Revision of the By-Laws reported

394

394

394

Tribute by the PRESIDENT to Charles Henry Dalton
Tribute to Edward Gaylord Bourne, by JAMES FORD RHODES 399
Paper by SAMUEL A. GREEN on a forged letter said to have been

written by Cotton Mather in 1682 to John Higginson . . 407 Remarks by ALBERT BUSHNELL HART on the southern question in the light of a recent visit to remote parts of the South 409

ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL, 1908.

Resident Member elected, Charles Pelham Greenough.
Corresponding Member elected, Henry Morse Stephens
Report of the Council

Report of the Treasurer.

Report of the Auditing Committee

Report of the Librarian.

Report of the Cabinet-Keeper.

Report of the Committee on the Library and Cabinet
Officers elected

Paper by JAMES DENORMANDIE on Modernism

Letters of Harrison Gray to Harrison Gray Otis, 1787, relative to regaining his confiscated estate, communicated by GRENVILLE H. NORCROSS

By-Laws revised and adopted, new code

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435

439

MAY MEETING, 1908.

House Committee appointed.

Announcement of the publication of the late Judge Mellen
Chamberlain's History of Chelsea; and of a new edition
of the Short Account of the Society, with the revised By-
Laws and a complete list of officers and members
Invitation from the Société Historique Franco-Américaine to
attend a meeting in connection with the Quebec tercenten-
ary, and the appointment of Barrett Wendell to represent
the Society.

450

450

450

Remarks by WILLIAM R. THAYER On The Centenary of Lincoln and Darwin..

451

Third and concluding Paper by F. B. SANBORN on The Early
History of Kansas, 1854-1861

Second Paper by JAMES DENORMANDIE on Modernism

452 499

JUNE MEETING, 1908.

Memorandum by the Treasurer relative to the bequest of Mellen Chamberlain, and the publication of his History of Chelsea, submitted by the PRESIDENT for the Council . . 508 Papers, 1859, 1860, given by Mrs. William B. Rogers relative to the Harper's Ferry affair of October, 1859, and the execution of John Brown Account by BARRETT WENDELL of his presence as delegate of the Historical Society at the dinner of the Société Historique Franco-Américaine on May 30

509

518

Third and concluding Paper by JAMES DENORMANDIE On

Modernism

519

Remarks by EDWIN D. MEAD in protest against the proposed change of the name of Maverick Square, East Boston Remarks by President ADAMS on the disregard of historical association in the changes of names of streets and squares

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527

in Boston, and the desirability of a radical measure of reform 529 Paper by President ADAMS on the visits of Miles Standish, in

1621 and 1623, to Boston Harbor, and the reprint of a
paper on Thompson's Island and Squantum by Elizabeth
Taylor Horton .

532

LIST OF DONORS TO THE LIBRARY

INDEX.

541

545