Memoir of Cornelius Conway Felton Author:George Stillman Hillard General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: PROCEEDINGS MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL, 1867. THE Society held its annual meeting this day, Thursday, April 11, 1867, at eleven o'clock, A. m. ; the President, the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, in the chair. After the reading of the Records by the Recording Secretary, the President remarked, that the business of the monthly meeting would be transacted before that of the annual meeting was entered upon. The Librarian announced donations from the Department of State of the United States; the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; the Chicago Historical Society ; the Long-Island Historical Society; the Mercantile-Library Company of Philadelphia; the New-England Historic- Genealogical Society; the New-York State Agricultural Society; the Trustees of the Public Library of Taunton ; the Editors of the " Advocate;" the Publisher of the Savannah " Daily Republican;" John Appleton, M. D.; Messrs. Belding, Keith, and Company; William Allen Butler, Esq.; Mr. Andrew Gushing; Mr. Henry B. Dawson; George Hannah, Esq.; Charles II. Hart, Esq.; Adjutant-General John F. Hodsdon, of Maine ; Benjamin P. Johnson, Esq. ; Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D.; Mrs. George Livermore; Hon. Alexander H. Rice; Hon. Charles Sumner; Mrs. Joseph E. Worcester ; and from Messrs. E. Ames, Ellis, Green, Latham, C. Robbins, J. M. Robbins, Waterston, and Winthrop, of the Society. J. Anthony Froude, F. S. A., of London, and Leopold Von Ranke, of Berlin, were elected Honorary Members; and Messrs. Charles C. Smith and George S. Hale, of Boston, were elected Resident Members. The annual Reports of the Standing Committee, of the ...« less