is now in the hands of the binders, and will be distributed within a few weeks.

Volumes XV and XVI, containing the Harvard College Records, are now well advanced, and work is being prosecuted upon the index. It is impossible, as yet, to say with certainty just when these two volumes will be ready.

Volume XVII, another volume of Transactions, has been begun and has been set up and stereotyped to page 142.

The material for still another volume (or volumes), which will contain the Massachusetts Royal Instructions, is gradually being collected, but since there are many of these Instructions yet to come from London, the work of printing has not yet been begun. Work on the Harvard College Records, contained in Volumes XV and XVI, will be continued just as fast as the funds are forthcoming for its support. It is perhaps needless to remind the Society and their friends that these two volumes promise to be of exceptional interest and value. The Council sincerely hopes that there will be no delay, through lack of means, in getting these volumes ready.

The Council ventures to recommend a more general attendance on the part of the Society at the stated meetings during the year, and they make this recommendation in the belief that the members would find these meetings exceedingly pleasant and profitable. The surroundings are all that could be asked. In the quiet and comfort of the American Academy's house there is to be found everything that may conduce to a full enjoyment of the occasion, without distracting noises, or physical discomforts or interruptions. The communications presented are of a high order of interest and value. If a large attendance were to be found at these meetings, it would not only serve as a stimulus to those who are generous enough to offer communications, but the practice might awaken a similar ambition in the minds of those who are not in the habit of making such communications, and so the scope of the whole Society be widened and enriched. Your Council makes this recommendation with the conviction that in letting these stated meetings go by unattended, many of our associates are losing a rare opportunity for rest, relaxation, enjoyment and profit.

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 17 November, 1913.

A. W. Elson & Co., photogravure plates, negatives, and

$4,872.55

Lucy Drucker, services in London at the Public Record

Office

316.95

Carnegie Institution, annual subscription towards Bibliog-
raphy of American Historical Writings
Subscription to International Congress of Historical
Studies . .

50.00

5.02

Balance on deposit in State Street Trust Company, 17
November, 1913 .

2,000.00 $23,303.64

1,962.70 $25,266.34

The Funds of the Society are invested as follows:

$56,400.00 in First Mortgages, payable in gold coin, on improved property in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline

800.00 deposited in the Provident Institution for Savings in the Town of Boston

REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE

The undersigned, a Committee appointed to examine the Accounts of the Treasurer for the year ending 17 November, 1913, have attended to their duty and report, that they find them correctly kept and properly vouched, and that proper evidence of the Investments and of the balance of Cash on hand has been shown to us. This Report is based on the examination of Andrew Stewart, certified public accountant.

ALLAN FORBES

CHARLES S. RACKEMANN

Committee

BOSTON, 21 November, 1913

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. GEORGE V. LEVERETT presented the following list of candidates; and, a ballot having been taken, these gentlemen were unanimously elected:

PRESIDENT

HENRY LEFAVOUR

VICE-PRESIDENTS

MARCUS PERRIN KNOWLTON
ANDREW MCFARLAND DAVIS

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

MARK ANTONY DEWOLFE HOWE

After the meeting was dissolved, dinner was served. The guests of the Society were the Rev. Dr. James De Normandie, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, Dr. Robert Montraville Green, and Messrs. Augustus George Bullock, Livingston Davis, Francis Henshaw Dewey, Charles William Eliot, Charles John McIntire, Edward Kennard Rand, Henry Paul Talbot, and William Roscoe Thayer. The PRESIDENT presided.

DECEMBER MEETING, 1913

A STATED MEETING of the Society was held at the house

of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, No. 28 Newbury Street, Boston, on Thursday, 18 December, 1913, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the President, HENRY LEFAVOUR, LL.D., in the chair.

The Records of the Annual Meeting were read and approved.

The CORRESPONDING SECRETARY reported that letters had been received from Mr. FRANCIS HENSHAW DEWEY and Mr. ALFRED CLAGHORN POTTER accepting Resident Membership.

Mr. EDWARD KENNARD RAND and Mr. WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER, both of Cambridge, were elected Resident Members. Mr. ALBERT MATTHEWS spoke as follows:

In the Preface to Volume II, issued last spring, it was stated that five of the Massachusetts Royal Commissions were not printed because "no copies have been found, though diligent search has been made for them in London, Boston, and elsewhere." In a notice of Volume II which appeared in the latest number of the American Historical Review,' Professor Charles M. Andrews said that three of the

1 October, 1913, xix. 157-158. Professor Andrews says:

The first volume containing the commissions is now before us and the second, which will contain the royal instructions issued during the same period, is already provided for. With the completion of this work an undertaking of first importance will have been finished, constituting not only the most important publication of this active society, but the first presentation in print of a complete series, as far as obtainable, of the commissions and instructions issued to a royal governor in any of the colonies. We can only wish that an effort of this kind would arouse the state of Massacusetts to atone for a long and not very creditable neglect by printing its colonial records for the period after 1686. It stands now with the state of South Carolina as the only two of the thirteen original colonies that have failed to fulfil this duty to themselves and to colonial history.