nalist before entering the public service of the Commonwealth. Besides being a member of various boards and commissions, he was for thirty years the able Assistant Librarian and Librarian of the Massachusetts State Library and Treasurer of the Board of Education. ARTHUR LAWRENCE for more than a generation was rector of St. Paul's Church, Stockbridge, and a foremost citizen of the town. After service in the Civil War on General Howard's staff during Sherman's march from Atlanta to the sea, and extensive travel in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land, he entered upon his life work with a zeal which was unflagging to the end. His serious, quiet life, and cheerful, unfailing courtesy, endeared him to a wide circle of friends and always helped to make pleasanter those meetings of the Society which he was able to attend. EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Chaplain of the United States Senate at the time of his death, was widely known at home and abroad as teacher, minister, author, editor, and philanthropist. A leader in the formation of Chautauqua circles and Lend-a-Hand Clubs, publicspirited and active in all good works, he had long been recognized as Boston's first citizen. SIMON NEWCOMB, honored in both hemispheres, was one of the most eminent men of science this country has produced. An astronomer of the first rank, he was constantly in the service of the national government for nearly forty years. The recipient of the most distinguished honors from foreign universities and scientific societies of the highest standing, the Institute of France, and European sovereigns, he was Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of our own National Academy of Sciences and in fellowship with the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The leading universities of America also bestowed upon him the highest honors within their gift. On more than one occasion Professor Newcomb journeyed from Washington expressly to attend our annual meeting and dinner. So highly did he prize our fellowship that only a few months before his death he wrote that in any enumeration of the many honors which he had received he should place his honorary membership in the Colonial Society of Massachusetts high on the list. WOLCOTT GIBBS was a man of varied and deep learning, and pioneer in the higher branches of physical chemistry. Descended from Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, from his son of the same name, who sat in Washington's cabinet, and connected by marriage with William Ellery Channing, Dr. Gibbs was from his earliest childhood surrounded by a stimulating mental atmosphere which was not without its effect upon his own mental development. Bred at Columbia College, he later studied in Europe under Rammelsberg, Heinrich Rose, and Liebig, and attended courses of lectures by Laurent Dumas and Regnault. In 1863 he became Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts at Harvard. During the War of the Rebellion he was a member of the Executive Committee of the United States Sanitary Commission, and a principal founder of the Union League Club of New York. In 1873 he was United States Commissioner to the Vienna Exposition. He was a charter member and for six years President of the National Academy of Sciences; a Fellow and Councillor of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and in fellowship with foreign scientific bodies. He was a prolific writer, and during the latter part of his career was "the most commanding figure in American chemistry.' WILLIAM REED HUNTINGTON, long Rector of Grace Church, New York, was an able, forceful leader, who did much for charitable work and to help towards good government. During the year the following Resident Members have been elected, OGDEN CODMAN, MORRIS HICKY MORGAN, WORTHINGTON CHAUNCEY FORD, WILLIAM LOWell Putnam, HAROLD MURDOCK; and the following has been elected a Corresponding Member,— JOHN TAGGARD BLODGETT. Mr. Ford's election was by transfer from the Corresponding Roll. Acting under Chapter IV, Article 2, of the By-laws of the Society, the Council elected the Rev. Charles Edwards Park to fill the vacancy in the office of Corresponding Secretary, the duties of which office had been for several months of Mr. John Noble's last illness performed by Mr. Henry Ernest Woods. 356 SOCIET THE COLONIAL SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS [Nov. The TREASURER submitted his Annual Report, as follows: REPORT OF THE TREASURER In compliance with the requirements of the By-Laws, the Treasurer submits his Annual Report for the year ending 15 November, 1909. A. W. Elson & Co., photogravure plates, negatives, and Henry H. Edes, temporary loan without interest, repaid 100.00 3,500.00 Interest in adjustment 76.69 $5,765.25 Balance on deposit in State Street Trust Company, 15 November, 1909 918.67 $6,683.92 The Funds of the Society are invested as follows: $53,200.00 in First Mortgages, payable in gold coin, on improved property in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline. 5.00 deposited in Charlestown Five Cents Savings Bank. $53,205.00 REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE The undersigned, a Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Treasurer of The Colonial Society of Massachusetts for the year ending 15 November, 1909, have attended to that duty and report that they find them correctly kept and properly vouched, and that proper evidence of the investments and the balance of cash on hand has been shown to us. This examination is based on the Report of William H. Hart, Auditor. BOSTON, 19 November, 1909. ANDREW MCF. DAVIS, Committee. The several Reports were accepted and referred to the Committee of Publication. On behalf of the Committee appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year, Mr. THOMAS MINNS presented the following list of candidates; and, a ballot having been taken, these gentlemen were unanimously elected: PRESIDENT HENRY LEFAVOUR VICE-PRESIDENTS WILLIAM WATSON GOODWIN RECORDING SECRETARY HENRY WINCHESTER CUNNINGHAM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY CHARLES EDWARDS PARK TREASURER HENRY HERBERT EDES REGISTRAR FREDERICK LEWIS GAY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL FOR THREE YEARS On behalf of Mr. CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON, Mr. ALBERT MATTHEWS communicated a Memoir of CALEB BenJAMIN TILLINGĦHAST, which Mr. Bolton had been requested to prepare for publication in the Transactions. After the meeting was dissolved, dinner was served. The guests of the Society were the Rev. Dr. James De Normandie, the Rev. Dr. George Hodges, the Rev. Dr. Edward Caldwell Moore, and Messrs. Clarence Saunders Brigham, Francis Henshaw Dewey, Alfred Walter Elson, Frederick Perry Fish, Jerome Davis Greene, Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe, Arthur Pulsford, William Bernard Reid, William Roscoe Thayer, and Winslow Warren. The PRESIDENT presided. |