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should have been called to the position of General-in- 

 Chief and continued in that office for nearly two years. 

 General Halleck was born in Waterville, N. Y., Jan. 15, 

 1815, and died in Louisville, Ky., Jan. 9, 1872, at the age 

 of fifty-seven. He was graduated from West Point in 1839 

 and served in various minor capacities in the army until 

 1854, when he retired and practised law in California. 

 Upon the breaking out of the civil war he was made Major- 

 General in the regular army and assigned to command in 

 the west. The speaker proceeded to give some account 

 of a few of the movements in the war, including victories 

 by various generals as those of Grant, Pope and Buel and 

 thought that Halleck was more to blame for slowness in 

 movements of the Army of the Potomac than McCIellan ; he 

 also made him responsible for the defeats of Burnside at 

 Fredericksburg and Banks at Red River. He said he made 

 these statements on the authority of government official 

 records. 



Monday, Apr. 3, 1893. Mr. George D. Phippen spoke 

 of the spring flowers and made some interesting and in- 

 structive remarks on cultivated fruits and of the impor- 

 tance of turning scientific investigations to practical account. 



Monday, Apr. 17, 1893. A memorial meeting in 

 honor of Dr. Henry Wheatland, the late president, was 

 held in Academy Hall. Vice-President Abner C. Good- 

 ell, Jr., presided and addresses were made by His Honor, 

 Mayor Robert S. Rantoul, Mr. George D. Phippen, Prof. 

 Edward S. Morse and Rev. E. C. Bolles, D.D., of New 

 York. Mr. Goodell introduced each speaker with appro- 

 priate remarks. 



A full account of this meeting is to be printed in a sep- 

 arate pamphlet. 



