DECEASE or MEMBERS ANNOUNCED. 145 



for the purpose of holdiug its meetings when in session in the City 

 of Boston in 1898, in case this Society is in his opinion able to 

 do so. 



The Chair announced the following Committee, appointed by 

 the President, agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws, to 

 nominate candidates for Officers and Standing Committees for the 

 year 1898: 



William H. Spooner, Chairman. 

 Benjamin M. Watson, Patrick Norton, 



Samuel Hartwell, Azell C. Bowditch, 



Benjamin P. Ware, Charles F. Curtis. 



The Chairman announced the receipt of a letter from Mary Yale 

 Eliot, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial of her late hus- 

 band, Charles Eliot, and expressing her high sense of its value, and 

 also a letter from Robert Milligan Hogg, of London, of similar 

 tenor, in reply to a letter written by the President and Secretary 

 of this Society, agreeably to the vote of the Society at the April 

 meeting, expressing the Society's sense of the loss sustained in the 

 decease of its Corresponding Member, Dr. Robert Hogg. 



The decease of Hon. Joseph S. Fay, an Honorary Member of 

 the Society, was announced, and Dr. Henry P. Walcott, E. W. 

 Bowditch, and Walter Hunnewell were appointed to prepare a 

 memorial of him. 



The decease of Robert Douglas, of Waukegan, 111., a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Society, was announced, and Charles S. 

 Sargent, J. W. Manning, and James H. Bowditch were appointed 

 a Committee to prepare a memorial. 



The following vote, moved by Joseph H. Woodford, was 

 passed : 



Voted, That the Secretary write to J. G. Barker, requesting 

 him to send warrants, signed by him, to the Treasurer, for i)ay- 

 ment of services by his Committee. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in tlie Societ}', were on 

 ballot duly elected : 



