OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 343 



March after." This was the entire History in three MS. parts or 

 volumes. He had undoubtedly borrowed thena of the Winthrop family. 

 The first and second volumes had been returned, and by consent of 

 the proprietors were transcribed and published at Hartford in 1790, 

 in one volume. The third volume had been overlooked, and was 

 therefore not included in the Hartford publication, and had never 

 been published. On its discovery in 1816, in Prince's library, which 

 he had bequeathed to the Old South Society, it was presented to the 

 Historical Society. By them it was committed to Mr. Savage. While 

 engaged in copying and preparing this MS. for the press, Mr. Savage 

 carefully collated the first and second volumes * with the corresponding 

 printed volume of 1790 ; and he soon saw the importance of preparing 

 a riew edition of those two volumes, to be published in connection with 

 the third, the newly discovered volume. Various circumstances, in- 

 cluding two absences from the country, occasioned delay in the publi- 

 cation of the work. On its appearance, largely annotated by its editor, 

 this work gained for Mr. Savage the highest reputation as a New 

 England Antiquary. 



In January, 1832, Mr. Savage delivered a lecture before the Massa- 

 chusetts Lyceum on the " Constitution of Massachusetts," which was 

 published in the March number of the " New England Magazine " in that 

 year. In his connection with the Massachusetts Historical Societ3% to 

 which he was elected a member in 1813, Mr. Savage found a field of 

 labor eminently congenial to his tastes and to his talents. Of this 

 institution he was Librarian four years ; a member of the Publishing 

 Committee of five volumes of its Collections ; Treasurer nineteen years ; 

 a member of the Standing Committee nine years ; and President from 

 1841 to 1855, — fourteen years. In 1842 he visited Europe, and made 

 valuable collections of materials to illustrate our early history, part of 

 which he published in the " Collections" of the Society, under the head 

 of " Gleanings for New England History." 



As chairman of a committee of the Pilgrim Society, appointed in 

 1849, Mr. Savage in the following year made a report on the subject 

 of the calendar for old and new style, demonstrating that the Society 

 had hitherto chosen the wrong day to celebrate the landing of the 



* Volumes one and two of the original manuscript had already been trans- 

 ferred to the Society's library (see Proceedings Mass. Hist. Soc. for June, 

 1872, pp. 233-236). The second volume was unliappily destroyed by fire, with 

 Mr. Savage's copy and notes, while the work was going tlirougli tlie press 

 (see Savage's Winthrop, vol. ii. pp. 13, 200, 201, notes). Volumes one and 

 three are still m the Historical Society's library. 



