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the sufiatings of the Unkai pnsoDers at AndersonviQe and other prants. Almost 

 Hb last Eteraiy woA was a history of the Elevoith Amiv Corps of the Army of the 

 Ptjtccssr. of wWdi he had been medical director. This was published in 1896. In 

 :1 he reviewed minxiteiy and ably the evoits eonnected with the battle of 



- 3e, May. 1S63. and deaziy jaoved the feJlacy of certain charges made 

 ::.z—-' --: :?Tpe in socie of the aeoMmts. For this important service to history 

 iT. i " : " - T 1 r. : of the ccffpe, he was jxesoited by the sarviTing members with an 

 ;rT: ::--"f iri ^_ : _t -Qver gOded vase, at a banqoet hdd in New York, NoTem- 

 :-^: I'vi 1 - Tir :f gold, set with 20 Maine tourmalins and beiyls. 



1 7 >I_^-^ ^li : :- ; ;:_lirei. a scm and a dao^iter. matha- of whan is living. 

 Tie ;;r^fr i-fi .z. ir f :-er of his youth at the age of IS years. The dau^iter 

 fieien was the Fair Heloi of Maine of LongMlow's poon. The loss of his wife, 

 <y»wng dr-e'- ;:^er the death of his children. aSected h im deeply, and for two or 

 three ye&rr : - iis heahh was mudi brotsi. ELe died at his home in Bangor on 

 Xovenifae' ISth, 1505. greatly honored and moomed not only in that eommmiity, 

 faok also by a — : - r :".r :f friends* acquaintances and correspfHidents. 



GscffiGE F. Krxz. 



Commiitee. 



"Hie faJkranng names of applicants for Active Membership, having been 

 s^pproxed bv the Council, were then presented to the Academy, and it was 

 unanimouslv voted that thev be elected : 



B. E. Dahlgren, American Museum of Xararal History, 



John Belknap Marcou, Princeton, Mass., 



Adol|A Obrig, 1 West 72 Street, 



W. TV, Owens, 93-99 Nassau Street, 



George H. Proctor, Hotel San Remo, 



Thomas Fitdi Rowland, 329 Madison Avenue, 



Joel TV. Thome, 995 Madison Avenue, 



Artemas Ward, 32 West 11 Street, 



John Gilbert Ward, 117 West 5S Street, 



M. F. West over, Schenectady, X. Y., 



Leonard D. White, 45 West 75 Street. 



A lenei to the Council, announcing the death of Professor C. Ogden 

 Doremus was read to the Academv. 



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The meeting then adjourned. 



W. M. Wheet.f.r, 

 Recording Secretary. 



