NOVEMBER MEETING.

HE stated meeting of the Society was held on Thursday, the 8th instant, at three o'clock P.M., the President, Mr. LODGE, in the chair.

The President announced the appointment by the Council, in accordance with the By-Laws, of Henry Winchester Cunningham, to serve as Recording Secretary until the next Annual Meeting. The record of the October Meeting was read and approved.

The Librarian reported the following gifts:

From the late Mrs. William Roscoe Livermore, through her sister, Mrs. John M. Cornell, of Seabright, New Jersey, the Bible once belonging to Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560), printed at Basel, Switzerland, by Nicolas Bryling in 1557, and containing many annotations in Melanchthon's hand. It was formerly in the library of Alexander Chalmers, and was later sold in the library of Dr. Georgius Kloss, of Frankfort, in 1835. Mr. Samuel Leigh Sotheby in 1848 noted it in his catalogue of books bought at the Kloss sale. It was sold in 1853 in a part of the library of Edward Craven Hawtrey, D.D., Provost of Eaton College, and was bought by Henry Stevens for George Livermore, of Cambridge, whose name is on the first fly-leaf, with date July, 1853. On the same leaf is a manuscript note by Dr. Hawtrey, signed with his initials. At the end of the book there are several manuscript entries: “Richard Dart. His Book," Jan. 5, 1707; “Em" Dart," died at Westham, May 12, 1707; "Eliza: Dart," died at Shadwell, Nov. 28, 1711; and "J. Dart 1714." At the sale of George Livermore's library, on Nov. 20, 1894, this Bible, No. 139, was bought by his son, Col. William Roscoe Livermore, our late associate. At the request of Mrs. Cornell a silver plate has been attached to the cover of the Bible, with the following inscription expressing the purpose of the gift:

THE PHILIP MELANCHTHON BIBLE

WITH MANY NOTES IN HIS HANDWRITING
ONCE THE PROPERTY OF

GEORGE LIVERMORE OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS.
PRESENTED TO

THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
IN MEMORY OF HIS GRANDSON

WILLIAM ROSCOE LIVERMORE, JR.

From Dr. Sydney Howard Carney, Jr., of Staten Island, New York, five manuscripts relating to his ancestors.

From James Benjamin Wilbur, of Manchester, Vermont, a letter of Israel Keith, to Mrs. E. Palmer, Germantown, dated at Boston, June 24, 1779.

From Mrs. Kingsmill Marrs, additions to the Kingsmill Marrs Collection.

From Mrs. Julian (Mary Maud Beresford) Sturgis of London, through John Hubbard Sturgis, the letter-book of Thomas Handasyd Peck, trader in Boston, containing copies of his letters between April, 1766, and November, 1776.1 It was used by Julian Sturgis in From Books and Papers of Russell Sturgis, privately printed before 1894.

From Charles Knowles Bolton, a drawing, 1923, of Birch Island, Casco Bay, by Mary and Elizabeth McMahon, with their typewritten description of the Island.

From Benjamin Loring Young, letters and papers, 1844-1887. From Harold Murdock, thirty-three volumes of British Army Lists, 1766 to 1827.

The Cabinet-Keeper reported the following accessions:

From John F. Paramino, sculptor, of Boston, thirty photographs of tablets, statues, and bas-reliefs, in bronze, marble and stone, designed and executed by him, among which are the Province House tablet, 1923, in the Province Building, Washington Street, Boston; several tablets erected by the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission at Truro, Wellfleet, and Eastham; the tablet and boulder to the memory of Alexander Scammell, on Burial Hill, Plymouth; the tablet placed in the Central Burying Ground, Boston Common; the memorial tablet to Mrs. Henry Cabot Lodge, in the Chapel, at Nahant; the Phillips Brooks tablet; the William Barton Rogers medal made for the dedication of the Technology buildings, Cambridge; the portrait bust of Lieut. Norman Prince placed in the State House; his portrait bas-relief in Norman Prince Square, State Street; and portrait bust of Parker Pillsbury in the New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord.

1 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas H. Peck, married James Perkins (17331773) and after her husband's death carried on an importing business in Cornhill, Boston. During the War for Independence she lived at the house of Edward Bacon of Barnstable, and her eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married in October, 1773, Russell Sturgis. Their grandson, Russell Sturgis, was a member of the firm of Russell and Sturgis, later Russell and Co. of China, and at a later period of Baring Brothers and Co. of London.

From Mrs. Clarence C. Williams, of Washington, D. C., relics of the World War, which belonged to the late Major Augustus Peabody Gardner: a German iron cross; a German medal on the sinking of the Lusitania, three German satirical medals on American Neutrality, Protest to England, and Germany's answer to the United States; thirty "Vivat Victory" ribbons, and three naval cap ribbons; and also a collection of special war stamps, regimental and otherwise, French, English, Italian, and German.

From Walter Gilman Page, a piece of the plaster showing one figure in the painted "fleur-de-lis" design on the walls of a room in the old Coolidge house in Plymouth, Vermont, built by John Coolidge, about 1800.

From Henry W. Cunningham, signed photographs of Charles W. Eliot, and William Roscoe Thayer.

From Walter J. Lane, of Dedham, the engraving of the United States Senate Chamber in 1846, by T. Doney.

From Mrs. Henry Herbert Edes, a bronze medal struck to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1907.

From Edmund M. Parker, of Cambridge, a photographic group of members of the Massachusetts Historical Society, taken on June 10, 1869, in front of the house of Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. This is of special interest as the original photograph, before it was "built up" by changes and additions, as reproduced in the frontispiece of 2 Proceedings, III.

From Mrs. Alice O. Mecorney, of Waverley, two photographic views of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Lookout Mountain. From Hon. Albert D. Bosson, a German 500,000 mark note. From James R. Carret, a Maryland colonial bill.

The Corresponding Secretary reported the receipt of letters from James B. Wilbur and George M. Wrong, Corresponding Members, accepting their appointment as delegates to the Parkman Centenary to be celebrated in Montreal on the 13th instant.

Jean Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador, a Corresponding Member, was transferred to the roll of Honorary Members.

Henry Dwight Sedgwick, of Cambridge, was elected a Resident Member of the Society.

The President, in announcing the death of Lord Morley, an Honorary Member, said:

Lord Morley was one of the most distinguished men in English literature during the second half of the Nineteenth Century. His studies of the Eighteenth Century, especially of the Frenchmen of the time of the Encyclopedia, were, and I think are, quite unsurpassed in their particular field. He had a fine and most engaging style, carefully finished, very clear and very effective. He gave up his literary pursuits in order to enter politics, where he attained the highest distinctions and served in more than one Cabinet. I have seen it stated in the notices of his death, both in English newspapers and our own, that he was the last of what they called the "Great Victorians," the men eminent in letters during the latter part of the last century and equally eminent in public life. It is a curious oversight, however, that those who wrote about Lord Morley in this way did not remember that Sir George Trevelyan, who happily still survives and was a very close friend of Lord Morley, was also and most conspicuously one of the Great Victorians." He took very high rank at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1861, and was afterwards an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of Oriel College at Oxford. He was elected to Parliament from Tynemouth in 1865 and continued in the House of Commons until 1897. He was one of the leaders of the House and held very high rank in the Liberal Party. He was Civil Lord of the Admiralty in 1868 and Secretary of the Admiralty in 1880; the Chief Secretary for Ireland in 1882; Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with a seat in the Cabinet, in 1884; Secretary for Scotland in 1886 and again Secretary for Scotland in 1892. He was one of Mr. Gladstone's most conspicuous supporters. His course in life, however, in one way was the exact reverse of that of Lord Morley. Lord Morley, after a long and brilliant literary career, laid letters aside and entered public life, where he attained, as I have just said, that high distinction with which we are all familiar. Sir George Trevelyan retired from public life, where he had filled a great place, and devoted himself to history and letters. His life of his uncle, Lord Macaulay, appeared in 1876, while he was in the full tide of an active public life, and is, in my