W. Richards, '68, D. I. Mackie, '83, H. S. Wardner, '88, and J. A. Stetson, '91; for the committee of admissions, to serve until May, 1902, F. C. Huntington, '87, George Blagden, Jr., '90, B. J. Tilton, '90, E. C. Moën, '91, C. C. Baldwin, '93, S. A. Lawton, '95, and J. H. Hyde, '98.

The annual dinner of the Club was held Feb. 21 at the Waldorf-Astoria, and was the occasion of an enthusias tic demonstration in favor of Mr. J. H. Choate, '52, ambassador to Great Britain, who sailed the following day for England. C. H. Russell, '72, vicepresident of the Club, presided, and the other regular speakers were : Prof. G. L. Kittredge, '82, Edmund Wetmore, '60, Jutaro Komura, l'77, the Japanese minister, C. C. Beaman, '61, Judge H. E. Howland, '57, of Yale, and Captain Goodrich, U. S. N. 452 men sat at the tables, 100. more than at any previous dinner of the Club, and we were glad that many more men than usual came from places away from New York.

Walter Alexander, '87, Sec.

RHODE ISLAND.

The semi-annual meeting was held at the Eloise, Feb. 8, 26 members present. In the absence of the president, Dr. Frederick Bradley, the business meeting was called to order by the vice-pres., J. B. Farnsworth. The records of the annual meeting were read and approved. The report of the treasurer, R. M. Franklin, was received and placed on file. The Committee on Honorary Membership reported through Dr. Brackett that they had made some progress in dealing with the questions, and asked to be continued; so voted. The Committee on Life Membership reported that, in their judgment, it was inexpedient to

create life memberships. Report was received and committee discharged. G. D. Bussey, formerly of East Greenwich, resigned from membership in the Club on account of his removal from the State; his resignation was accepted. The following were elected to membership: Maxwell Norman, W. L. Hoopes, '93, F. G. Atkinson, '77, H. B. Hutchins, '86, S. M. Pitman, '70, J. H. Flannigan, '96, G. A. Jepherson, '90, C. F. Stearns, '92, F. R. Martin, 93, Walter Sweet, '96, G. P. Winship, '94, A. L. Ordway.

On the arrival of the guest of the evening, Dean L. B. R. Briggs, the company proceeded to the dining-room and were entertained until a late hour. Professor Briggs spoke for the University; the Hon. Horatio Rogers, for the Law School. Brown University was represented by Prof. A. K. Potter. The Rev. Floyd Tomkins eulogized the courage of Harvard men in civil as well as in military life, and paid a tribute to the service rendered by Harvard men to the State of Rhode Island in purifying the medical profession from charlatans and quacks. The Hon. Amos Perry, '37, gave some interesting reminiscences of the College as he knew it. He spoke of the famous graduates, and told amusing experiences of his career in Cambridge. At the close of his remarks, his health was drunk standing.

Mr. S. M. Pitman responded briefly for the Scientific School, and the meeting adjourned after singing Auld Lang Syne.

L. F. Snow, '89, Sec. for Providence.

SAN FRANCISCO.

Out of respect to the memory of E. J Pringle, '45, a former president of this Club, who died of cerebral typhoid fever at his home at East Oakland,

He

Cal., on April 21, the executive committee of the Club voted to postpone indefinitely the regular quarterly meeting and dinner which is usually held in the month of April. Mr. Pringle was at the time of his death one of the commissioners appointed by the State Supreme Court to assist it in the performance of its duties, and in the writing of opinions in cases pending before it. He received his appointment about two months before his death. leaves a widow and seven children.Dr. Washington Ayer, m '47, a member of this Club, died in San Francisco on Feb. 15.-E. V. Morgan, '90, arrived in San Francisco on April 24, and sailed on April 26 for Apia on the auxiliary cruiser Badger with the Samoan high commission. He goes in the capacity of secretary to the United States Commissioner, the Hon. Bartlett Tripp.

Richard C. Harrison, '90, Sec.

Later he continued his studies at Westford Academy, and in 1822 entered Harvard, where he graduated in the Class of 1826. Next, during a short period, he taught in two private schools, after which he took up the study of medicine. To this end, he at first entered the office of Dr. Leonard Proctor, m '24, of Lexington, and later that of Dr. G. B. Doane, '12, of Boston, with whom he completed his professional studies, in the meanwhile availing himself of instruction from Dr. Rufus Wyman, 1799, in charge of the McLean Asylum, then situated in Charlestown. In 1831 he took the degree of M. D. at the Harvard Medical School. Soon after, he began the practice of medicine at Barre, where he has since resided. On June 2, 1836, Dr. Russell was married to Mary Ann Warren, only daughter of Calvin and Caroline (Carter) Warren, of Hubbardston, who died in Barre, Jan. 6, 1892. Three children were born of this marriage, a son, who died at the age of eight years, and two daughters. The elder daughter, Caroline, married William Howland, of Lynn. The younger daughter, Marian, married J. C. Bartholomew, now a business man of Barre. Dr. Russell was always methodical in his habits, and paid strict attention to the laws which govern health; and to this fact he attributed his longevity and sound physical condition. He retained his mental faculties to a remarkable degree, and would easily have passed for a man many years his junior. He was a director of the First National Bank of Barre, and a punctual attendant at the directors' meetings, where he took much interest. He visited Cambridge last October. At the time of his death, he was the oldest graduate of the Medical School.

Dr. S. W. Chandler, '22, is now both the oldest living graduate and the senior alumnus of the College. The Class of '26 had 53 graduate members, among whom were J. N. Bonaparte, Pres. G. W. Hosmer, Dr. Willard Parker, Dr. A. P. Peabody, Dr. George Putnam, Senator Robert Rantoul, and Dr. Oliver Stearns.

1835.

C. H. PARKER, Sec.

47 Tremont St., Boston.

John Williams, senior bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, died at Middletown, Conn., Feb. 7. He was born at Deerfield, Aug. 30, 1817, prepared for college at Deerfield and Northfield, and entered Harvard in 1831. At the end of his Sophomore year he decided that he would become a churchman, and leaving Harvard entered Trinity (then Washington) College, in Hartford, where he graduated in 1835. After studying theology at the General Theological Seminary in New York, and with the Rev. Dr. Jarvis, he was ordained to the diaconate in 1838. Returning from a year's travel abroad, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Brownell, and took the position of assistant minister of Christ Church, Middletown, in 1841. Later he was called to St. George's Church in Schenectady, N. Y., where he remained six years. In 1848 he was chosen president of Trinity College. He retired from the presidency in 1853, and on the moving of the Berkeley Divinity School to Middletown, Conn., became its dean and principal instructor in Doctrinal The ology, History of the Reformation, and in the Prayer Book. He was made full bishop in 1865. Of the 57 graduate members of the Class, 9 survive.

1843.

THOMAS B. HALL, Sec.

75 State St., Boston.

Some Beethoven and Schubert autograph manuscripts that had belonged to the late A. W. Thayer, the biographer of Beethoven, were recently sold in London. The trombone parts to the choral portion of the Ninth Symphony brought $225; four pages containing the songs "Ah Perfido" and "Heidenröslein," $120; "Kennst du das Land," two pages, $62; autograph letters of Beethoven brought from $30 to $105 each. Four Schubert songs were sold at from $105 to $165 each.

1844.

EDWARD WHEELWRIGHT, Sec.

22 Chestnut St., Boston.

J. H. Choate, '52, has prepared for the Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts a memoir of the late Leverett Saltonstall (pp. 30).

1845.

C. W. FOLSOM, Sec.

19 Berkeley St., Cambridge. Edward J Pringle died at his home in San Francisco, Cal., April 21. He was born in South Carolina in 1826, went to California in 1852, and in 1854 formed a law partnership with J. B. Felton, '47. Later the firm was Pringle & Hayne. Two years ago he took his sons, E. J. and W. B. Pringle, into partnership. In politics he was a Democrat. Recently he was appointed State Supreme Court commissioner. He leaves & widow, daughter of Sydney R. Johnson, and seven children. Rolla Oscar Page died at Fordham, N. Y., Dec. 18 last, in his 78th year. He was born at Canton, N. J., March 13, 1821. A sketch of Gen. Manning Ferguson Force, who died May 8, will be printed in the September issue.

1850.

JOHN NOBLE, Sec. pro tem.

2 Court House, Boston.

James Fowler Lyman, who died in New York city on March 13, was born at Northampton, Aug. 30, 1830. He fitted for college at Williston Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy; studied for a time in the Harvard Law School; was admitted to the bar in New York, Oct. 10, 1853; was in practice in New York till about 1867; then spent a year or two in Europe, mainly in Paris. After his return he was with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. at Newark, N. J., till 1871, when he returned to the practice of law in New York, where he continued till his death. He was a good classical scholar, and a proficient in French and German; was well versed in the literature, history, and politics of France and Germany. He published various pamphlets, among them, "France, its Present Policy and Government," "The Distribution of Surplus in Life Insurance Companies," and he wrote many articles for Appleton's American Encyclopaedia, as well as many contributions for reviews and periodicals. John Noble has been elected a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

1851.

PROF. H. W. HAYNES, Sec.
239 Beacon St., Boston.

Thomas Parkman Cushing Lane was born in Ashburnham, May 30, 1827, and died in Mattoon, Ill., Feb. 28, 1897. He was the youngest of a family of 13 children, of whom only one, Mr. Joseph Lane of Chicago, survives. The ancestor of the Lane family, Job Lane, was an early immigrant to the colony, and in 1654 was a resident of Malden; but removed to Billerica, NO. 28.

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where, and in Bedford and Ashburnham, his descendants have continued to live. Mr. Lane's immediate family removed to the West, but the boy was enabled by the assistance of friends to prepare for college at the Roxbury Latin School, and, mainly by his own efforts, to graduate with the Harvard Class of '51. For two years after graduating he was an assistant teacher in the Roxbury Latin School; but in 1854 he removed to Jeffersonville, Ind., was admitted to the bar, and soon was made prosecuting attorney for two counties. In 1857 he removed to Mattoon, Ill., where the remainder of his life was spent. He was married to Helen M. Rose in 1861, who survives him, with one of their two children, Mrs. Arthur T. North, of St. Louis. For over 40 years Mr. Lane was an esteemed citizen of Mattoon, filling many positions of honor and trust. He had the strongest affection for the late Dr. B. A. Gould, '44, by whose help he had been greatly aided in gaining his education, and by whose death, a few months before his own, he had been deeply moved. It was one of his last requests that a fine photograph of Dr. Gould, one of his most treasured possessions, should be rolled up, tied with a white ribbon, and placed under his right arm when he was laid to rest; and it was done.

1852.

HENRY G. DENNY, Sec.

68 Devonshire St., Boston.

Weld 1 will be open for the use of the Class on Commencement Day. Business meeting at 12 M. The Class will meet at Young's Hotel for its annual dinner at 6.30 P. M. Dinner will be served at 7 P. M. precisely. Charles Thomas Bonney died in New Bedford March 25. He was born in

Rochester, April 28, 1832, the son of Charles and Catharine (Thomas) Bonney, both originally of Plympton. Both of his grandfathers were soldiers of the Revolution. He was fitted for college at the academies of Rochester and of Andover. He studied law with John Eddy, of Providence, R. I., and at the Harvard Law School, and was also in the office of Thomas D. Eliot; he was admitted to the bar Oct. 20, 1855, and practiced law in New Bedford till his death. Sept. 25, 1856, he married Mary Lucretia, daughter of George C. and Mary (Haskell) Gibbs, who, with two sons and three daughters, survives him. He was a member of the executive committee of the Republican State Central Committee for several years, and also served on the Republican City Committee. In 1863 and 1864 he represented New Bedford in the House of Representatives, being on the committee on probate and chancery, and on that of the judiciary. Beginning in 1874, he was assistant counsel in the court of commissioners of Alabama claims till 1876; and, on the reëstablishment of the court in 1882, he was again appointed, and served for two years. For about 30 years he was a member of the school committee, and he was for a long time a trustee of the Trinitarian Church. Edwin Hedge Fay died in Baton Rouge, La., Dec. 27, 1898. He, with four others, of whom J. S. Wallace is the only survivor, left Western Reserve College and entered Harvard about the middle of the Senior year. He was born in Autauga County, Ala., March 17, 1832, the son of Edwin, '17, and Harriet Porter (White) Fay, his father being a nephew of Levi Hedge, 1792. In his early boyhood he went to school for several years in the State of New York, returning to Alabama

in 1841, where he was under the instruction of his father, who had given up law for teaching. By him he was fitted for college, and entered the Junior Class in Western Reserve College in 1850. After leaving Harvard, he taught in Alabama, and removed in 1855 to Minden, La., where he had charge of the Boys' Academy, and, March 13, 1856, married Sarah Elizabeth Shields of that place. During the Rebellion he served in the cavalry and in the engineer corps of the Confederate army. He afterwards taught again in Minden and in Rocky Mount, and in 1868 became principal of the Fayette (Miss.) Academy. In 1872 he was elected president of the Silliman Institute in Clinton, La. ; and in 1883 he resigned this position to remove to his country place in East Feliciana. In 1885 he opened the Baton Rouge Seminary, but was obliged to give it up at the end of three years because of failing health. He served as ruling elder in the Presbyterian churches of Clinton, Baton Rouge, and Wilson, and represented the presbytery of Louisiana in four general assemblies.

1853.

S. S. SHAW, Sec.

49 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Hamilton Alonzo Hill, who died in Boston March 18, was the son of the Rev. Dr. Alonzo Hill, '22; was born in Worcester, Jan. 2, 1832, attended the Worcester School; entered Harvard in 1849, and graduated in 1853. He studied law in the office of G. F. Hoar, '46, and later removed to Boston, entering the office of Causten Browne, with the intention of devoting himself to the practice of patent law. On account of ill-health, however, he was compelled to give up his