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The following were elected to membership in the section : Nathaniel L. 

 Britton, Oliver P. Geoffroy, Mary Walcott Green, George S. Humphrey, 

 Stephen L. Mershon, Charles M. Shipman, Edward M. Stothers, George 

 W. Tuttle. 



On motion the recorder was instructed to transmit to the Board of Trus- 

 tees a communication offering the assistance and cooperation of the section 

 in any way that might be suggested in connection with the future develop- 

 ment of the Cubberly House and grounds. 



Mr. Delavan exhibited a steel engraving of the steamboat wharf at the 

 foot of Whitehall Street, New York, with the following imprint : 

 " New York. Bourne. Broadway 



" Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1831, by G. 

 Melksham Bourne, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the South- 

 ern District of New York. 



" Printed by J. R. Burton." 



A sign on a building adjoining the wharf reads " Bolivar & Nautilus 

 Steam Boat House." 



Mr. Delavan also read an editorial by Horace Greeley from a copy of 

 the New York Tribune of December 3, 1859, on the execution of John 

 Brown at Charlestown, Va. 



Dr. Hollick exhibited a sword, partly destroyed by fire and read the 

 following memorandum : 



At the meeting of the Association held on May 16, 1914, there were 

 shown five of the seven swords (including this one) presented on various 

 occasions to General William Jenkins Worth, all of them more or less 

 melted or marred by the fire which partially destroyed the New York State 

 Capitol, where they were on deposit. The one to which special attention 

 is now called is almost unidentifiable; but it may be recognized if the 

 details of the remaining ornamentation on the scabbard are critically com- 

 pared with a woodcut on page 171 in The World of Science, Art and 

 Industry, etc., — a volume descriptive of the New York Exhibition, or 

 "Crystal Palace" as it was commonly designated — edited by B. Silliman, 

 Jr., C. R. Goodrich and others, and published by G. P. Putnam & Co. in 

 1854. The volume was loaned by Mr. Delavan, and the discovery of this 

 reference to one of our historical relics was entirely accidental. 



The descriptive text in connection with th^ woodcut states that "The 

 concluding engraving represents a very elegant dress Sword exhibited by 

 the Ames Manufacturing Company, of Chicopee, Mass. The sword was 

 presented by the President of the United States, according to a resolution 

 of Congress, to Brigadier General Worth, for his gallantry and good con- 

 duct at the storming of Monterey." 



S. McKee Smith, 

 Recorder. 



