76 THE RETROSPECT OF THE YEAR. 



and coiint votes. This comniittee reported the following 

 list of names as receiving all the bailots, aud these officers 

 were declared unanimously elected : 



PRESIDENT: 

 EDMUND B. WILLSON.^ 



VICE-PRESIDENTS : 

 Abner C. Goodell, Jr., Daniel B. Hagar, 



Frederic W. Pütnam, Robert S. Rantoul. 



SECRETARY: TREASURER: 



Henry M. Brooks. William O. Chapman. 



AUDITOR: LIBRARIAN: 



George D. Phippen. Charles S. Osgood. 



COUNCIL. 



WilllälM H. Gove, Edward S. Morse, 



Thomas F. Hunt, David Pingree, 



David M. Little, Edmund B. Willson, 



Francis H. Lee, George M. Whipple, 



Richard C. Manning, Alden P. White. 



Keport 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. Kevins. 



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

 Willson was chosen at a regulär meetiag, June 19, lö93. 



