“A committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Albert B 
Fowler, Ralph Lawson and Arthur A. Osborne, was nominated 
from the floor to prepare and present for consideration at 
the next meeting, by-laws and a list of oflicers for election. 
“The next meeting was called for Monday evening, April 10 
at 7.45 o’clock at the Peabody Museum, Salem.” 
The records show that this committee held three meetings, 
and at the general meetihg called on April 10, presented a 
set of by-laws and a list of officers. The by-laws were 
approved, and by general consent a single ballot was cast for 
the list of officers as presented, who were then declared 
elected. 
The first regular meeting was held April 24th. This, and 
the following meetings on May 8 and May 22, were given up 
to perfecting the organization of the club. At the fourth 
regular meeting, on June 12, several resolutions were adopted 
and a revised list of charter members read and accepted as 
follows: — Active Members: Arthur William Beckford, Frank 
Weston Benson, George Emery Benson, Clarence Emerson 
Brown, Frank Arthur Brown, George Mudge Bubier, Charles 
Everett Chase, Willard Charles Cousings, John Newport 
D’Este, George Clinton Donaldson, Dr. Walter George Fan¬ 
ning, Albert Brown Fowler, William Prescott Hubon, Gardner 
Maynard Jones, Ralph Lawson, Philip Little, John Anderson 
Lord, Richards Bryant Mackintosh, Alva Morrison, Albert 
Pitts Morse, Prof. Edward Sylvester Morse, Frank Eugene 
Morse, Rodman Armitage Nichols, Arthur Augustas Osborne, 
Dr. John Charles Phillips, Willard Brown Porter, Charles 
Henry Preston, George Newton Proctor, Reginald Chauncey 
Robbins, John Robinson, Jr., Willis Henry Ropes, Arthur 
Percival Stubbs, George Merrick Teel, Dr. Henry Tolman, Jr., 
William Robert Marshall Tortat, Dr. Charles Wendell Town¬ 
send and George O. Welch. Associate Members: Shepard 
Gilbert Emilio and Frederic Parker Spaulding. 
No regular meetings of the Club were held during July and 
August, so the first meeting, after the organization was put in 
full running order, was on the second Monday of September 
1916. The Club has met regularly once a month through 
the fall and winter, and twice a month during the spring 
