readers by a wider array of small tables and seats, so that our increasing facilities may end in affording easier access to our important collections now placed in the outer hall.

It is quite worth considering, moreover, whether an additional assistant would not be a valuable addition for this purpose, when one considers the much larger attendance supplied in this respect at the Boston Public Library. The actual force now employed may be enough to supply the comparatively small number of students who now visit the rooms; and the arrangement of all papers in the drawers is very satisfactory; but the provision of one more attendant would seem essential to the larger service implied by such great additional supplies of unique treasures as the Winthrop and Parkman papers. The arrangements, still incomplete for miscellaneous collections, in the upper hall may also create additional need of enlarged service.

Of the two Resident Members who have died during the last year, Messrs. Young and Slafter, both have distinguished themselves for faithful service; and the whole nation is still mourning for the loss of our Honorary Member, Carl Schurz, whose autobiography is still passing through the magazines. Of the five Corresponding Members, the one whose name will be dearest to all students who have visited the British Museum is Richard Garnett; while Gustave Vapereau, Alexander Brown, Henry Martyn Baird, and Frederic William Maitland have all left honored memories behind. The loss of George Spring Merriam and of Thomas Corwin Mendenhall by resignation is also regretted, while the names of six new Resident Members are very welcome, these being Messrs. Lindsay Swift, George Sheldon, M. A. DeW. Howe, Arnold A. Rand, Jonathan Smith, and Albert Matthews. Messrs. Beekman Winthrop and James Phinney Baxter have been elected Corresponding Members, and there are still vacancies of four in that department. Captain Mahan has been transferred from the Corresponding membership to the Honorary position.

The following changes took place, during the year, in the membership of the Society:

Deaths:

Edward James Young
Edmund Farwell Slafter

Resident Members.

June 23, 1906.
Sept. 22, 1906.

The following publications have been issued by the Society during the year:

Serial numbers of Proceedings, Vol. XX., March to December, 1906. Collections, seventh series, Vol. VI. (Part II. of the Bowdoin and Temple Papers).

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

Lee's Centennial. An Address by Charles Francis Adams at Lexington, Virginia, Saturday, January 19, 1907, on the invitation of the President and Faculty of Washington and Lee University.

Centralization and the Law; Scientific and Legal Education [lectures delivered by Melville Madison Bigelow, Brooks Adams, and others, before the Boston University Law School]. With an introduction by Mr. Bigelow.

Mayan Nomenclature. Privately printed. By Charles P. Bowditch. The Temples of the Cross, of the Foliated Cross, and of the Sun at Palenque. Privately printed. By Charles P. Bowditch.

Four American Leaders [Franklin, Washington, Channing, and Emerson]. By Charles W. Eliot.

Great Riches. By Charles W. Eliot.

Through Man to God. By George A. Gordon.

The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811. By Edward Channing. With maps. [Vol. XII. of "The American Nation," edited by Albert

Bushnell Hart.]

Confiscation Laws of Massachusetts. By Andrew McFarland Davis. The Investments of Harvard College, 1776-1790: an Episode in the Finances of the Revolution. By Andrew McFarland Davis. Reprinted from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1906.

A Search for the Beginnings of Stock Speculation. By Andrew McFarland Davis.

The American Nation: a History from Original Sources by Associated Scholars. Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, advised by Historical Societies. Vols. VI.-XIX., of which three are by Corresponding Members and three by Resident Members; Vol. VII., " France in America, 1497-1763," by Reuben Gold Thwaites; Vol. X., "The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789," by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin; Vol. XIV., "Rise of the New West, 1819-1829," by Frederick Jackson Turner; Vols. XII., XVI., and XVIII., by Professor Channing, Professor Hart, and Theodore Clarke Smith, which appear in other parts of this list.

Peabody Education Fund. Proceedings of the Trustees at their Forty-eighth Meeting, New York, 3 October, 1906. By Hon. Samuel A. Green, General Agent and Secretary.

Peabody Education Fund. Proceedings of the Trustees at their Forty-ninth Meeting, New York, 20 February, 1907. By Hon. Samuel A. Green, Secretary.

Slavery and Abolition, 1831-1841. By Albert Bushnell Hart. With maps. [Vol. XVI. of "The American Nation," edited by Professor Hart.]

The Descendants of Adam Mott of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y. A Genealogical Study, revised edition. By Edward Doubleday Harris. Diocese of Massachusetts. Thirteenth Annual Address of the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, D. D., to the Convention of the Diocese, May 2, 1906.

A Frontier Town and other Essays. By Henry Cabot Lodge. Reminiscences of Old Cambridge (reprinted from the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society), being in part the report of an informal address to the Cambridge Historical Society on the evening of October 30, 1905. By Charles Eliot Norton.

Early American Engravings and the Cambridge Press Imprints, 1640-1692, in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society. By Nathaniel Paine. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society [with two Supplements, Addenda and Corrections]. Walt Whitman: His Life and Works. By Bliss Perry.

Evidence of the Work of Man on Objects from Quaternary Caves in California. By F. W. Putnam.

History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877. Vols. VI.,

VII., 1866-1877. By James Ford Rhodes.

Successors in Success. A Memorial Address in Honor of Michael Anagnos, given at the Tremont Temple, in Boston, Wednesday, October 24, 1906. By F. B. Sanborn.

Parties and Slavery, 1850-1859. By Theodore Clarke Smith. With maps. [Vol. XVIII. of "The American Nation," edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.]

Memoir of Sigourney Butler. By Lindsay Swift.

Cavour e Bismarck. Un parallelo storico di William Roscoe Thayer. Poem at the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Founding of Cambridge, Sanders Theatre, December 21, 1905. By William Roscoe Thayer. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Cambridge Historical Society.]

Edward Atkinson. By Thomas Wentworth Higginson. [Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.] There has also been printed in pamphlet form by the Cambridge Public Library in 1896 a chronological list of all the publications of T. W. Higginson.

Respectfully submitted,

THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON,
Chairman of Committee.

The Report of the Treasurer and the Report of the Auditing Committee were presented in print, as has been customary for many years:

REPORT OF THE TREASURER.

In compliance with the requirements of the By-Laws, Chapter VII., Article 1, the Treasurer respectfully submits his Annual Report, made up to March 30, 1907.

The special funds held by him are twenty-two in number, and are as follows:

I. THE APPLETON FUND, which was created Nov. 18, 1854, by a gift to the Society, from Nathan Appleton, William Appleton, and Nathaniel I. Bowditch, trustees under the will of Samuel Appleton, of stocks of the appraised value of ten thousand dollars. These stocks were subsequently sold for $12,203, at which sum the fund now stands. The income is applicable to "the procuring, preserving, preparation, and publication of historical papers." The cost of publishing nineteen volumes of the Collections has been charged to the income of this fund.

II. THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL TRUST-FUND, which now stands, with the accumulated income, at $10,000. This fund originated in a gift of two thousand dollars from the Hon. David Sears, presented Oct. 15, 1855, and accepted by the Society Nov. 8, 1855. On Dec. 26, 1866, it was increased by a gift of five hundred dollars from Mr. Sears, and another of the same amount from another associate, Nathaniel Thayer. The annual income must be added to the principal between July and January, or by "a recorded vote" of "the Society it may be expended in such objects as to them may be desirable." The directions in Mr. Sears's declaration of trust may be found in the printed Proceedings for November, 1855. The cost of publishing five volumes of the Collections has been charged to the income of this fund.

III. THE DOWSE FUND, given to the Society by George Livermore and Eben. Dale, executors of the will of Thomas. Dowse, April 9, 1857, for the "safe keeping" of the Dowse Library, which was formally given by Mr. Dowse to the Society in July, 1856. It amounts to $10,000. The income for the year has been placed to the credit of the General Account, in accordance with what was understood to be the wish of the executors.

IV. THE PEABODY FUND, which was presented by the eminent banker and philanthropist George Peabody, in a letter dated Jan. 1, 1867, and now stands at $22,123. The income is available only for the publication and illustration of the Society's Proceedings and Memoirs, and for the preservation of the Society's Historical Portraits. The cost of publishing twenty-five volumes of the Proceedings and the Consolidated