ANNUAL MEETING. 
71 
The reports of the Trustees were read ; also the report of the 
Auditing Committee. 
On opening the envelopes accompanying the Walker Prize essays, 
Mr. Myron L. Fuller was announced as the author of the paper, 
“ Modified drift of Cape Cod,” to whom a prize of $100.00 was 
awarded, and Mr. W. O. Crosby, the author of the essay on the 
Pleistocene history of the Nashua Valley, to whom a prize of $50.00 
was awarded. 
It was voted to proceed to the election of officers for 1897-98. 
Messrs. W. A. Jeffries and C. R. Eastman were appointed to collect 
and count the votes. They reported the election of 
PRESIDENT, 
CHARLES SEDGWICK MINOT. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS, 
NATHANIEL S. SHALER. 
CHARLES P. BOWDITCH. 
EDWARD S. MORSE. 
CURATOR, 
ALPHEUS HYATT. 
SECRETARY, 
SAMUEL HENSHAW. 
TREASURER, 
EDWARD T. BOUVE. 
LIBRARIAN, 
SAMUEL HENSHAW. 
COUNCILLORS FOR THREE YEARS, 
Samuel L. Abbot. 
William S. Bryant 
William M. Davis. 
Henry W. Haynes. 
Miss Catharine I. Ireland. 
Benjamin Joy Jeffries. 
Nathaniel T. Kidder. 
William H. Niles. 
