76 THE RETROSPECT OF THE TEAR. 



and count votes. This committee reported the following 

 list of names as receiving all the ballots, and these officers 

 were declared unanimously elected : 



PRESIDENT: 

 EDMUND B. WILLSON. 1 



VICE-PRESIDENTS : 



ABNEK C. GOODELL, JR., DANIEL B. HAGAR, 



FREDERIC W. PUTNAM, ROBERT S. EANTOUL. 



SECRETARY: TREASURER: 



HENRY M. BROOKS. WILLIAM O. CHAPMAN. 



AUDITOR: LIBRARIAN: 



GEORGE D. PHIPPEN. CHARLES S. OSGOOD. 



COUNCIL. 



WILLIAM H. GOVE, EDWARD S. MORSE, 



THOMAS F. HUNT, DAVID PINGRBE, 



DAVID M. LITTLE, EDMUND B. WILLSON, 



FRANCIS H. LEE, GEORGE M. WHIFFLE, 



RICHARD C. MANNING, AT.DEN P. WHITE. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Since the last annual meeting there have been twenty- 

 one meetings of the society and three meetings of the di- 

 rectors, besides fourteen meetings of committees. 



Only one field meeting was held the past year ; this 

 was at North Beverly near Wenham Lake, on September 

 21. A number of persons who took the forenoon train 

 were entertained at the house of Mr. W. S. Nevins. 



1 Mr. S. Endicott Peabody was first elected but declining to serve, Rev. E. B. 

 Wlllson was chosen at a regular meeting, June 19, 1893. 



