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Note A. Page xxxi. 



Mr. Pickering was a representative from Salenn in the legislature of Massachu- 

 setts, in 1812 and 1813, and again in 1826 ; a Senator from the county of Essex 

 in 1815 and 1816, and from the county of Suffolk in 1829, and a member of the 

 Executive Council in 1818. He received the degree of LL. D. in 1822, from 

 Bowdoin College, and, in 1835, from Harvard University. The following is copied 

 from the Law Reporter already referred to. 



" The number of societies, both at home and abroad, of which he was an hon- 

 ored member, attests the wide-spread recognition of his merits. He was President 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ; President of the American 

 Oriental Society ; Foreign Secretary of the American Antiquarian Society ; Fellow 

 of the Massachusetts Historical Society ; of the American Ethnological Society ; of 

 the American Philosophical Society ; honorary member of the Historical Societies 

 of New Hampshire, of New York, of Pennsylvania, of Rhode Island, of Michigan, 

 of Maryland, of Georgia ; of the National Institution for the Promotion of Science ; 

 of the American Statistical Association ; of the Northern Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, Hanover, New Hampshire ; of the Society for the Promotion of Legal 

 Knowledge, Philadelphia ; corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sci- 

 ences at Berlin ; of the Oriental Society at Paris ; of the Academy of Sciences and 

 Letters at Palermo ; of the Antiquarian Society at Athens ; of the Royal Northern 

 Antiquarian Society at Copenhagen ; and titular member of the French Society of 

 Universal Statistics." 



Note B. Page xxxv. 



The Report referred to was made to the Board of Overseers at their annual 

 meeting in January, 1841. The following brief e-xtract will sufficiently indicate its 

 character. 



" Superficial observers, who measure the value of education by its direct ca- 

 pacity of being turned into money, or the immediate supply of the physical wants 

 of man, and not by its moral effects on the constituent elements of human society, 



