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![handle is hein.trials/abvz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: V EBRUARY MWiTNG
HE stated meeting was held on Thursday, the 9th instant,
at three o'clock, P. m.; the first Vice.President, in the
absence of the President, in the chair.
The record of the last meeting was read and approved; and
the Librarian read the list of donors to the Library during the
last month.
The Corresponding Secretary reported that letters accepting
their election had been received from Henry Herbert Edes, as
a Resident Member, and from Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, as
a Corresponding Member.
The Cabinet-Keeper reported the gift, by Mrs. Francis B.
Davis, of Plymouth, of three silver badges of Harvard College
clubs, the Hasty Pudding Club, the Porcellian Club, and the
M[onks] O[f] F[lagon], which were the property of the late
William Nye Davis, of the Class of 1851, grandson of John
Davis, a former president of this Society.
Dr. DE No =mrx submitted a memoir of Edward J.
Young; Professor HAYNEIMS, one of E. Winchester Donald; and
the Editor, for Franklin B. Dexter, a Corresponding Member,
one of Morton Dexter.
The EDITOR announced a gift from the PRESmENT of ten
interleaved almanacs, 1728-1778, belonging to Rev. William
Smith, of Weymouth, and one, 1765, belonging to Dr. Cotton
Tufts. These almanacs are in continuation of the twelve issues
given by Mr. Adams to the Society in March, i9o9, and printed
in June of that year.1 The beries thus comprises twenty al-
manacs of Rev. Mr. Smith and three of Dr. Cotton Tufts.
The years covered in this second gift of the Smith almanacs
are, 1728, 1759, 1761, 1762, 1765, 1766, 1767, 1771, 1777 and
1778. Also a gift of manuscripts by Mr. Henry Howell Williams
Sigourney, of Milton. They relate to claims for damages to
the property of Henry Howell Williams on Noddle's Island by
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