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the brief session, the only business of which was the 

 election of a secretary of the society pro tern. Time 

 was taken for consultation and two adjourned meet- 

 ings followed. At that of May 31, John Avery, Jr., 

 was chosen permanent secretary, and seventy-two new 

 members were admitted. At the adjourned meeting 

 of June 14, articles of organization were submitted 

 and what in them was necessary for the immediate 

 purpose was adopted, and a permanent board of 

 officers was chosen as follows: 



President, Thomas Russell; vice presidents, John 

 Lowell and Moses Gill; recording secretary, John 

 Avery, Jr.; corresponding secretary, Oliver Smith; 

 treasurer, Aaron Dexter; trustees. Cotton Tufts, 

 Loammi Baldwin, James Bowdoin, Christopher Gore, 

 Charles Vaughan and Martin Brimmer. 



The names of three who had become members since 

 the date of the charter appear. The articles adopted 

 at the next meeting, June 22, provided among other 

 things for an annual and a semi-annual meeting of 

 the society ; that the officers and those specially named 

 as trustees should be the board of trustees, to which 

 board the routine work of the society was to be com- 

 mitted, and that an annual fee of two dollars should 

 be paid by each member of the society. 



The first meeting of the board of trustees was held 

 on August 3. It was voted to publish at once in the 

 principal newspaper of Boston an announcement, with 

 the list of officers, that the society was now organized 

 and that the board would meet monthly, and soliciting 

 communications of a practical character from all in- 

 terested in the objects of the society. Another vote 

 was passed recommending that members of the society 



