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At the same meeting announcement was made of two art 

 classes to be formed under the instruction of Prof. J. Warren 

 Thyng, supervisor of drawing in the public schools, and Mr. Wm. 

 E. Burbank. Beginning the same week as the meeting when the 

 announcement was made and lasting till July Mr. Burbank met 

 his class on every Thursday evening for work in drawing from 

 the antique, and Prof. Thyng lectured before his class upon per- 

 spective and composition. These classes were free to members 

 of the Institute and were largely attended. 



Messrs. Burbank and Thyng began their classes again in the 

 fall and have at times had so large an attendance as to tax the 

 accommodations of the rooms. At the annual meeting of Sec- 

 tion E, held October loth, 1899, the following officers were elect- 

 ed for the ensuing year : 



WILLIAM H. HUSE, President. 

 WILLIS B. KENDALL, Treasurer. 

 WILLIAM E. '^\i<ZY^, Auditor. 

 MISS EVA F. TUSON, Clerk. 



DIRECTORS. 



HENRY W. HERRICK, WILLIAM E. BUCK. 



NORWIN S. BEAN, J. BRODIE SMITH, 



W. R. CALL, WILLIAM K. ROBBINS, 



. LUTHER C. BALDWIN, CHARLES H. BARTLETT. 



The following gentlemen have served as President of the Man- 

 chester Art Association in the order named : Henry W. Herrick, 

 three years ; Edward M. Tubbs, six months ; George W. Stevens, 

 three and one-half years ; Henry W. Herrick, two years ; Moody 

 Currier, fourteen years ; Edward J. Burnham, one year. 



