HENSHAW: REPORT OF SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN. 
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The general meeting held, December 2, 1896, was commemorative 
of Thomas Tracy Bouv6, who died at Hingham, June 3, 1896. Mr. 
Bouve was a member of the Society for more than sixty-two years. 
His disinterested devotion and activity in behalf of the Society 
connects his name indissolubly with our history and endears his 
memory as a cherished association. 
The names of the members elected and the dates of their election 
are as follows : — 
Francis Xoyes Balcli. Dec. 16, 1896. 
Edward E. Bancroft. Dec. 16, 1896. 
W. S. Beekman. Apr. 21, 1897. 
Walter G. Chase. Apr. 21, 1897. 
Miss Clara E. Cummings. Dec. 16, 1896. 
George C. Curtis. Apr. 21, 1897. 
Ulric Dahlgren. Feb. 17, 1897. 
George A. Dorsey. Feb. 17, 1897. 
Justus W. Folsom. Dec. 16, 1896. 
Mrs. Mary L. Hammatt. Apr. 21, 1897. 
Walter E. Hobbs. Oct. 21, 1896. 
John G. Hubbard. Feb. 17, 1897. 
James Arnold Lowell. Oct. 21, 1896. 
John Murdoch. Dec. 16, 1896. 
James E. Peabody. Oct. 21, 1896. 
William Z. Ripley. Dec. 16, 1896. 
John H. Sears. Oct. 21, 1896. 
Mrs. Mary L. Seavey. Oct. 21, 1896. 
W. Porter Truesdell. Apr. 21, 1897. 
Miss Mary L. Ware. Dec. 16, 1896. 
Samuel M. Weld. Dec. 16, 1896. 
J. Edmund Woodman. Feb. 17, 1897. 
Meetings. 
Fourteen regular meetings have been held with a total attendance 
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of 1,138, an average of 81 plus to a meeting; the total last year was 
1,339, the average 95 plus. 
The largest attendance at any one meeting was 280, the smallest 
28 ; the largest last year was 400, the smallest 13. 
Thirty communications have been made by twenty-five persons. 
Eight papers have been presented by title. 
