NOTE. 



[The Rev. Dr. Ferris has obligingly favored me uoith 

 the following extract from his Annual Address.] 



" The loss of two of the early and distinguished friends 

 of the Institute, during the year, admonishes us to car- 

 ry out our plans of activity without delay. The work 

 of change is going on, and amid the innumerable uncer- 

 tainties of life, we are called, to suffer no opportunities 

 of usefulness in any of its pursuits to pass unimproved. 

 And well may we take as our models in constant useful- 

 ness, the honored friends who have been removed. 



The name of Charles R. Webster will be long 

 remembered, as of one, who enjoyed the good feelings 

 and confidence of this community and of the older in- 

 habitants in the northern and western parts of this state, 

 in a degree which has fallen to the lot of few. He was 

 identified from his first settlement here, with almost every 

 plan for the improvement of the literary and moral coff- 

 dition of this city and this section of our state, and an 

 active participator in the labors of most of them. His 

 devoted services in the Board of Trustees of the Lan- 

 caster School particularly, have secured for him the bles- 

 sings of many who, cheered by his kind counsel, have 

 made their way through hosts of difficulties and become 

 most worthy members of society. He has left in the 

 mementoes of his great moral and social worth, an in- 

 heritance far dearer to the feeling heart, than any pe- 

 rishable estate. 



We have lost during the year, the venerable first Vice- 

 President of th€ Institute, Simeon De Witt; a man 

 endeared to a wide circle of friends, adorning every sta- 

 tion he occupied in public, social and private life, and 

 crowning every excellence with piety. It is not neces- 

 sary that we should now dwell on the details of his pro- 

 tracted and useful course, as we shall soon be called to 



