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PROCEEDINGS.

SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 29, 1903, AT THE HALL OF THEMASSACHUSETTS HISTOKICAL SOCIETY IN BOSTON.

THE meeting was called to order by the President, Hon.STEPHEN SALISBURY.

The following members Avere present :— . -George F. Hoar, Nathaniel Paine, Stephen Salisbury,

Samuel A. Green, Elijah B. Stoddard, Edward L. Davis,James F. Hunnewell, Egbert C. Smyth, Edward H. Hall,Chai-les C. Smith, Edmund M. Barton, Charles A. Chtise,Samuel S. Green, Henry W. Haynes, Andrew McF. Davis,Horatio Rogers, Henry S. Nourse, Daniel Merriman, Wil-liam B. Weeden, Reuben Colton, Henr}' H. Edes, JamesPhinney Baxter, Charles P. Bowditch, Calvin Stebbins,Rockwood Hoar, "William DeLoss Love, William T. Forbes,George H. Haynes, Charles L. Nichols, Waldo Lincoln,Edward S. Morse, John Noble, Austin S. Garver, A.Lawrence Rotch, Francis Blake, Samuel Utley, Edward H.Gilbert, Benjamin T. Hill, Henry F. Jenks, Allen C.Thomas, Alexander F. Chamberlain, William MacDonald,Roger B. Merriman.

An abstract of the doings of the previous meetingwas read by the Recording Secretary, the full reportbeing in printed form and in the hands of members.

The report of the Council, prepared by NATHANIEL

PAINE, A.M., was next presented.

The report of the Librarian was read by Mr. EDMUNDM» BARTON.

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It was voted that the full report oi the Council be ap-proved, and published in the proceedings of the meeting.

A memoir of Hon. JOHN DAVIS WASHBURN was readby the Biographer, HENRY S. NOURSE, A.M. Beforepresenting the paper Mr. NOUESE siild : "In beginningthe duties of the office which has been assigned to merecently I do so with due diflidence. I should not haveassumed the duties had I not been assured by the Presi-dent and Council that no lengthy memoirs were required,and no loftv eulogy is expected. Whatever tributes Ihave to pay Avill be brief, relating to simple biographicaland genealogical facts, and the relation of the deceased tothis Society ; and this of course is appropriate, becausethose associates who have been guilty of distinguishedcareers will have suffered sufficiently from the pens ofnumerous writers before our Proceedings can be published.Since I have been appointed, there has been but one deathin the Society, Hon. John Davis Washburn."

The Eecording Secretary read the list of nominationsfor membership. There Avere three vacancies, and theCouncil recommended for election the foUoAving namedgentlemen :—

Anson Daniel Morse, LL.D., Professor of History atAmherst College.

Edward Gaylord Bourne, Ph.D., Professor of Historyat Yale University.

Et. Rev. Alexander Hamilton Vinton, D.D., of Spring-field, Bishop of Western Massachusetts.

The nominees Avere duly elected on separate ballots.

Prof. ALLEN C. THOMAS, of Haverford College, Penn-sylvania, read some letters, &c., of John Hancock andThomas Cushing.

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Vice-Président HOAR said :—

I make this communication in behalf of a friend inWorcester, Mr. James Green. Mr. Green is a very accu-rate and thorough investigator of any subject in which heis interested. He is a nephew of our late associate Dr.John Green, and the brother of our two valued associates,Mr. Samuel S. Green, and Dr. John Green of St. Louis.Mr. Green is verj' much interested in a matter to Avhich hecalls the attention of the Society, namely, the edition of

"* Aristotle's Musical Problems, lately published in Belgium,with the Greek text on one page and a French translationopposite, and the musical commentary by the director ofthe Royal Conservatory in Brussels. Mr. Green callsattention to the fact that this work of Aristotle, so welledited by our associate, is the earliest publication of ascientific character, if not of any character, in regard tomusic, in existence ; and he gives an account of the eluci-dation and illustration of that text by three scholars work-ing together upon it. Mr. Green endeavored to find somestudent of music in the Society, who would present thispaper with appropriate comments, but the only musicianin the Society as far as I have been able to learn, who hasany practical as well as theoretical knowledge of it, isthe President. I understand the President, and he willcorrect me if I am wrong, once gave a musical entertain-ment in Spain to a very large and highly appreciativeand highly pleased audience. I desire, therefore, to com-municate this paper of Mr. James Green, with the book,to the Society, and ask that it may be referred to theCommittee of Publication, and that the paper with suchaccount of the book as may be added be published at theirdiscretion in our Proceedings, and if the President shallbe willing to illustrate it in any way from his ownexperience, that may also be added.


To the Honorable GEORGE F . HOAR,Vice-President of the American Antiquarian Society.

Sir:—May I have the pleasure of calling your attention,

and that of the members of your Society, to an edition ofAristotle's " Musical Problems " lately published in Bel-gium,—^the Greek text on one page and a French transla-tion opposite, followed by Philological Notes by Dr.Johann C. VoUgraff, your learned Associate Member ofthe Antiquarian Society, and a Musical Commentary byM. François-Auguste Gevaert, Director of the EoyalConservatory of Brussels. The book contains nearly 450pages, beautifully printed, in octavo, and was published atGhent in three parts, in 1899, 1901 and 1903,—(LibrairieGénérale de Ad. Hoste, Éditeur.) Although your Socie-ty confines its oiEcial work chiefly to American antiquities,I know that you are interested also in classical antiquity.

The nineteenth section of Aristotle's "Problems," as 3'ouknow, contains about fifty "Musical Problems," said byProfessor Wagener to be " the oldest text known todaywhich is especially devoted to music. The grammarianunder the Roman Empire," he adds, "who copied thismusical document in the general collection of the Aris-totelian problems, apparently had no comprehension ofwhat he was copying." That the musical problems werethe work of Arjstotle himself has been doubted by somescholars, but our present editors hold stoutly to the beliefin Aristotle's authorship. The antiquity of the text,however, seems not to have been called into question.The manuscript appears to have suffered exceptionally incopying and to be full of errors of every sort. Thepresent edition has been under study for a full generation.

It was in the winter of 1870-71 that Auguste Wagener,Professor of Greek at the University of Ghent and adevoted lover of music, called the book to the attention ofM. Gevaert, the Inspector of the Academy of Music atParis, who had left Paris at the time of the Siege and wasthen living temporarily at Ghent near the place of hisbirth ; and suggested to M. Gevaert that they should studythe book together,—" one of them a musician imbued withphilolog}', and the other a philologist devoted to music."In March, 1871, the Commune was proclaimed at Paris and

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the Opera remained closed, and M. Gevaert was soonafterward named Director of the Royal Conservatorv ofBi'ussels and Musical Conductor to the .King of Belo-iuni.He was a bom musiciiin, a baker's°soii who sang his tunefuldreams as he worked at his trade, and who Avon the Bel-gian "Prize of Kome" for musical composition, Avheii onlyeighteen years old. He had written operas before hecame to full age, had afterwards composed a dozen piecesfor tho musical stage, and was now Avriting a book on"The History and Theory of the Music of Antiquity."The duties of his new office were arduous at first, and allof his timoi left free from teaching at the Conservatory andleading the Orchestra was devoted to this book ; so that itwas nearly ten 3'ears from the time the plan Avas formedliefore M. Gevaert was free to undertake this neAV stud}'.M. Wagener was also deeply occupied with the adminis-tration of the University of Ghent in addition to his pro-fessorial duties ; but in 1881 the tAvo friends got together,again and plotted out their work. The first thing^to dowas to correct the Greek text which was manifestly cor-rupt and sometimes out of its proper sequence. This paitof the work fell naturally to Professor Wagener. Thenfollowed the translation into French by both the editorssejiarately. Afterwards the special study of the musicalside of the problems fell principally to M. Gevaert, whowanted to show the resemblances and the great differencesbetween the old Plellenic music and that of modern Euro-peans. Hardly had the two professors begun their woi'lc

Svhen Wagener ivas elected to the Belgian Legislatui-e andentered with enthusiasm upon his new parlianientarj' du-ties, without giving up his work at the IJniversity. Thisbrought the projected book suddenly to an apparent end ;and M. Gevaert occupied himself with other studies in¡¡reparation for another book,—"La Mélopée Antique dausle Chant de l'Église Latine,"—which was published in1894.

Wagener had now left Parliament, but was still Pro-fessor and Administrator at the University of Ghent, andhis liealth was a good deal broken. Again the two friendscame together and agreed to go on Avith their common \vork.But at the close of their first consultation. Professor Wa<>--ener said with infinite sadness, "Eeally, rny friend, I find


I am not strong enough to carry out my part of the workalone. I must have help. I have in my mind a youngand very capable associate whom you know by name atleast, M. Vollgraff, Professor at the University of Brus-sels. He is a philologist by profession, a strict gram-marian, in every way the man that you need in case Idisappear before the end of the work. You two togetlierwould complete the volume to perfection. Do you wantme to bring him the next time I have business at Brussels ? "

This new arrangement Avas made. M. Vollgraff gainedthe musician's sympathy at once. He was found to be aconstant attendant at the concerts of the Conservatory, anda great admirer of Bach, Beethoven, Händel and G l̂iick.The three friends worked together diligently for a fewmonths, but Wagener had come into the work too late andwas already passing away. His mind dwelt constantly onthis book until January, 1896, when he was no longerallowed to see his friends. How well he had chosen hissuccessor in the Greek Professor's part, the book bearseloquent testimony.

The three collaborators were Dutchmen. Johann Chris-toph Vollgraff was born at The Hague, in 1848. Hestudied six years at the university of Leyden, where hewon his doctorate of classical philology in 1870. Later,he travelled in Italy, collating manuscripts of Aristophanes

• at Venice, and others at Ravenna and in the VaticanLibrary, and attending lectures in the German School ofArcha3ology and the Museums of Rome. Afterwards hetravelled in Greece. After teaching the Greek classicsand Roman antiquities in Holland, he was a professor ofClassical philology at the University of Brussels for twenty-years, from 1883 to 1903. Now he has returned to hisnative Holland, and is lately become the successor of Dr.van Herwerden, his old instructor and friend, the eminentGreek scholar and lexicographer, in the chair of Greekletters and antiquities in the University of Utrecht. Heis an Associate Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium,Corresponding Member of the Imperial German Archajo-logical Institute, Member of the-Philological Society ofConstantinople, and of several Dutch societies. Besidescooperating with van Ilerwerden on an edition of theHelena of Euripides, he has published various pamphlets


in the line of his studies, a list of some of Avhich is hereappended; but his time for the past twenty 3'ears hasbeen spent chiefl}' in the lecture-room at the Uuiversitj'.

JAMES GREEN.Worcester, Massachusetts, April 29, 1903.

PROFESSOR VOLLGRAFF'S PUBLICATIONS.Studla Palœographica.—Disputatio litteraria inauguralis. Lugdunl

Batavorum, 1K70.Greek Writers of Eoitian History. Some Reflections upon the Authori-

ties of Plutarch and Appiaiius. Leyden, 1880.L' essence et la méthode de la phiiologie classique. Disconrs prononcé

il l'ouverture de son cours iX l'Université de Bruxelles, le 14 No-vembre, 1883.

M. TuUii Ciceronis pro M. CÍBIÍO Oratio ad iudices. Ad óptimos codicesdenuo coUatos recognovit I. C. VoUgrafT. Accessit appendix crit-ica. Lugduni Batavorum apud E. Ï. Brill, 1887.

Nekrolog von Dr. Hermann Müiler-Strübing in Burslan's Jahresbericht-en, 1897.

Numerous critical studies and essays on Greek writers in the Mnemos-yne, Review of classical philology. (Leyden.)

Papers read in the Royal Belgian Academy.Les Problèmes Musicaux d' Arlstote.

A paper containing an explanation and introduction tothe diary of Isaiah Thomas Avas read b}'̂ BENJAJIIN THOMAS

HILL, A.B.

ANDUEAV MCFARLAND DAVIS, A.M., of Cambridge pie-

sented a communication concerning " The Fund at Bostonin NeAv England," 1681.

A paper Avas presented by Rev. WILLIAM DELOSS

LoAT,, Ph.D., of Hartford, upon "The Navigation of theConnecticut Iliver."

SAMUEL S. GREEN, A.M., read a paper entitled, "DidSir Thomas BroAvne write ' Fragment on Mummies ? ' "

In connection Avith this paper Senator HOAR remarked :

I Avould like, if there be time, to say a Avord or two forthis paper. In spite of the question about its genuinenessAvhich Mr. Stephen , a very high authority, seems to settlevery emphatically, I do not quite feel like giving up this


wonderful passage. I have for many years, probably forfifty years, deemed it one of the three or four finestexamples of English prose, outside of the King Jamestranslation of the Bible, and with all the halo and hallu-cination gone, I still think that this obscure forger, if heforged this passage, is one of the greatest, and perhaps thegreatest, single English writer of original English prose.Mr. Emerson thought so. That is, he thought that of the" Fragment." I remember in my boyhood hearing thelate Charles C. Hazewell, who was one of our most learnedand enthusiastic scholars, repeat this passage by heart.I could repeat it myself now. Mr. Green read only asmall part of it. It occupies four pages in Wilkin's firstedition. Now let me read what Mr. Green just read, withone or two sentences more. I will append the whole" Fragment" to the report of what I say.

Now, the evidence that the forger wrote that is, thatwhen somebody said, "You wrote that yourself," heanswered, " It is the first time anybody ever taxed me withit." Well, I think nobody has ever taxed me with writingHamlet, but if I can get the credit of it I will make thatanswer.

Sir Thomas Browne is one of the great antiquaries ofthe world. There never was a man to whom antiquityM'as more, not only an object of curiosity, but an objectof profound reverence, and the enthusiasm of whosesoul was stirred by antiquity in history, literature, phi-losophy and science. As I said, I think this passage isone of the thi'ee or four greatest passages in all Englishliterature, not counting what is found between the leavesof the Old and New Testaments, and I am very slow andreluctant to give it up.

Mr. President, if there be a little more time, I wouldlike to read to the Society an account of the meeting inGloucestershire, England, at the unveiling of a portraitof our late friend and associate, Mr. John Bellows.


I suppose nearly every member of the Society had thegood fortune to meet Mr. Bellows when he was here, andall of us probably have seen the two interesting conti'il)u-tions which he made to our Proceedings. Mr. Bellows,soon after he went home, yielded to the exactions uponhis slender physical strength of a life of incessant labor,largely spent in humane work. He was the representativeof his denomination in all of their admirable work for allraces that were desolate and oppressed in Europe. Hetook to his bed, and lay in his chamber for many weeks.His dwelling is on the Cotswold Hills, about four milesout of Gloucester, and not far from the famous scene ofFalstaff and Justice Shallow in Shakespeare. Lookingover the valley from his house he could see the towers ofGloucester and Worcester and Hereford and TeAvksburyAbbey, and the scene of the great military operationswhich ended in the taking of Gloucester and the taking ofWorcester in Charles H.'s time.

There was a meeting in Gloucester shortly after Mr.Bellows's death to unveil a painting which had beensubscribed for by his friends to be placed in the TownHall in Gloucester, and many eminent persons of theregion around were present. The chair Avas taken bythe Earl of Ducey, Lord Lieutenant of the County, whois a very eminent authority as a botanist, especially in thematter of trees and shrubs.

I move that this account of Mr. Bellows be referredto the Committee of Publication with authority to print it.

FEAGMENT ON MUMMIES.[FROM A COPY IN THE HANDWIIITINO OF .1. CROSSLEY, ESQ.'l

Wilkin'a Edition, Sir Thomas Browne's Works. London. William Pickering, 1835.

Wise Egypt, prodigal of her embalmments, wrapped upher princes and great commaii'ders in aromatical folds, and,

' J. Crossley, Esq.'\ I liave given this lragment on the authority of Mr. Crossley ;but have not been able to tlnd the vol. in the British Museum which contained it,nor uould he iiiforui me ; having transcribed it himself in the Museum, but omittedto note the volume ia which he met with it.


studiously extracting from corruptible bodies their corrup-tion, ambitiously looked forward to immortality ; fromwhich vain-glory Ave have become acquainted with rnanyremnants of the old AA'orld, AVIIO could discourse unto us ofthe great things of yore, and tell us strange tales of thesons of Misraini, and ancient braveries of Egypt. Won-derful indeed are the preserves of time, Avhich openethunto us mummies from erj'pts and pyramids, and mam-moth bones from caverns and excavations ; Avhereof manhath found the best preservation, appearing unto us insome sort fleshly, Avliile beasts must be fain of an osseouscontinuance.

In Avhat original this practice of the Egyptians had root,divers authors dispute ; while some place the origin hereofin the desire to prevent the separation of the soul, bykeeping the body untabified, and alluring the spiritual partto remain by SAveet and precious odours. But all this wasbut fond inconsideration. The soul, having broken its* * * *, is not stayed by bands and cerecloths, nor tobe recalled by Sabsean odours, but fleeth to the place ofinvisibles, the ubi of spirits, and needeth a surer thanHermes's seal to imprison it to its medicated trunk, Avhichyet subsists anomalously in its indestructible case, and,like a AvidoAv looking for her husband, anxiously awaitsits return.

» « * # «Of Joseph it is said, that they embalmed him ; and he

was put in a coffin in Egypt. When the Scripture saiththat the Egyptians mourned for him three score and tendays, some doubt may be made, from the practices asdelivered liy Herodotus, Avho saith that the time allowedfor preserving the body and mourning was seventy days.Amongst the Eabbins, there is an old tradition, thatJoseph's body was dried by smoke, and preserved in theriver Nile, till the final departure of the children of Israelfrom Egypt, according to the Targum of Uzziel. Sckich-ardus delivereth it as the opinion of R. Abraham Seba,that this Avas done in contempt of Egypt, as unAvorthy ofthe depositure, of that great patriarch ; also as a type ofthe infants who were drovvned in that river, wheretoSckichardus subjoineth that it Avas physically proper toprevent corruption. The Rabbins like^vise idly dream


that these bones were carried away l̂ y Moses about a cen-tury after, when they departed into Egypt, though how acoflin could be preserved in that large river, so as to bofound again, they are not agreed ; and some fly after theirmanner to Schem-liamphorasch, which most will regardas vain babblings. <

That mummy is medicinal, the Arabian Doctor Haly de-livereth and divers confirm; but of the particular usesthereof, there is much discrepancy of opinion. WhileHofniannus prescribes the same to epileptics, Joliaii deMuralto commends the use thereof to gouty persons;Bacon likewise extols it as a stiptic : and J"unkenius con-siders it of efficacy to resolve coagulated blood. Mean-while we hardly applaud Francis 'the First, of France,who always carried mummies with him as a panacea againstall disorders ; and were the efficacy thereof more clearlymade out, scarce conceive the use thereof allowable inphysic, exceeding the barbarities of Cambyses, and turningold heroes unto unworthy potions. Shall Egypt lend outher ancients unto chirugoons and apothecaries, and Cheopsand Psammitticus be weighed unto us for drugs? Shallwe eat of Chamnes and Amosis in electuaries and pills,and l)e cured by cannibal mixtures? Surelj-̂ such diet isdismal vampirism ; and exceeds in horror tho black banquetof Domitian, not to be paralleled except in those Arabianfeasts, wherein Ghoules feed horribly.

But the common opinion of the virtues of mummy bredgreat consumption thereof, and princes and great men con-tended for this strange panacea, wherein Jews dealt largely,manufacturing mummies from dead carcasses, and givingthem the names of kings, while specifics were compoundedfrom crosses and gibbet leavings. There Avanted not u setof Arabians who counterfeited mummies so accurately,that it needed great skill to distinguish the false from thetrue. Queasy stomachs would hardly fancy the doubtfulpotion, wherein one might so easily swallow a cloud forhis Juno, and defraud the fowls of the air while in conceiteniovine the conserves of Canopus.

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Radzivil had a strange story of some mummies whichhe had stowed in seven chests, and was carrying on shipboard from Egypt, when a priest on the mission, while at


his prayers, Avas tormented by tAvo ethnic spectres ordevils, a man and a Avoman, both black and horrible ; andat the. same time'a great storm at sea, which • threatenedshipwreclv, till at last they were enforced to pacify theenraged sea, and put those demons to flight by throwingtheir mummy freight overboard, and so Avith difficultyescaped. What credit the relation of the Avorthy persondeserves, Ave leave unto others. Surely if true, thesedemons Avere Satan's emissaries, appearing in formsansAverable unto Horus and Mompta, the old deities ofEgypt, to delude unhappy men. For those dark cavesand mummy repositories are Satan's abodes, wherein hespeculates and rejoices on human vain-glory, and keepsthose kings and conquerors, Avhom alive he beAvitched,Avhole for that great day, Avhen he Avill claim his oAvn, andmarshal the kings of Nilus and Thebes in sad processionunto the pit.

Death, that fatal necessity which so many Avould over-look, 01- blinkingly survey, the old Egyptians held con-tinually before their eyes. Their embalmed ancestors theycarried aboutat their banquets, as holding them still a partof their families, and not thrusting them from their placesat feasts. They wanted not likewise a sad preacher attheir tables to admonish them daily of death, surely anunnecessary discourse Avhile they banqueted in sepulchres.Whether this Avere not making too much of death, astending to assuefaction, -some reason there is to doubt,but certain it is that such practices would hardly be em-braced by our modern gournmnds who like not to look onfaces of morta, or to be elboAved by mummies.

Yet in those huge structures and pyramidal immensities,of the builders whereof so little is knoAvn, they seemed notso much to raise sepulchres or temples to death, as tocontemn and disdain it, astonishing heaven with theiraudacities, and looking forAvard Avith delight to their inter-ment in those eternal piles. Of their living habitationsthey made little account, conceiving of them but as hos-pitia, or inns, Avhile they adorned the sepulchres of thedead, and planting thereon lasting bases, defied thecrumbling touches of time and the misty vaporousness ofoblivion. Yet all Avere but Babel vanities. Time sadlyovercometh all things, and is now dominant, and sitteth

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upon a sphinx, and looketh unto Memphis and old Thebes,while his sister Oblivion reclineth semisomnous on a pyra-mid, gloriously triumphing, making puzzles of Titanianerections, and turning old glories into dreams. Historysinketh beneath her cloud. The ti'aveller as he i)acethamazedly through those deserts asketh of her, who buildcdthem? and she niumbleth something, but what it is hehcareth not.

Egypt itself is now become the land of obliviousness anddoteth. Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hathvanished as a phantasma. Her youthful daj's are ovei',and her face has become wrinkled and tetrick. Sheporeth not upon the heavens, astronomy is dead unto her,and knowledge maketli other cycles. Canopus is afaroff, Memnon resoundeth not to the sun, and Nilus hearethstrange voices. Her monuments are l>ut hieroglyphicallysempiternal. Osiris and Anubis, her averruncous deities,have departed, while Oi'us yet remains dimly shadowingthe principle of vicissitude and the eíñuxlon of things.but receiveth little oblation.

« » * » «Mr. SAMUEL S. GIIEEN .added :—

I want to second Mr. Hoar's motion. In this connec-tion I cannot help describing to you a visit that I made inthe family of John Bellows last summer. His widow,youngest son and one of his daughters met the little partyto which I belonged at the station in Gloucester, anddrove us to the beautifully situated home of which Mr.Hoar has spoken. There is an admirable description of thevery interesting views which are obtainable from all sidesof the house in the paper which Mr. Bellows contributedto our Proceedings, giving the particulars of a trip avhichhe and Mr. Hoar made together in Dean Forest. Thatpaper illustrates, too, that acute sensitiveness to thebeauties of nature, equally with the example Avhich Mr.Hoar has given. I was charmed by the atmosphere of thefamily of Mrs. Bellows, which consisted of the widowand several grown up children. It is a family Avliicli isdeeply interested in the life of the Society of Friends.


The inmates are all devoted members of that small butinteresting body, and the ai;r which pervaded the housewas one of unobtrusive piety, mingled with the mostcordial hospitality. The pleasant way in Avhich Mrs.Bellows spoke of the enjoyment of her visit and that ofJohn Bellows to this countrj' makes me feel that she Avouldbe unwilling that I should fail to take this opportunity tobring a message of greeting to all of you. It was evi-dent that association with members of this Society gaveboth of them much pleasure. The family took me thefirst evening that I reached Upton Knoll, its residence, toa Eoman camp not far from the house. An incident ofinterest was that when the family horse was about to goup one of the hills which prevailed, the carriage was alwaysemptied, and we all walked up the hill. That incidentwas repeated every time Ave used the horse during the twoor three days that our party was in Mrs. BelloAvs's house.Mr. Hoar has spoken of the earnestness of the convictionsof John BelloAvs. While Mrs. Bellows was shoAving usthe interior of the Cathedral at Gloucester she gave meAvhat Avill seem to some persons an extreme example ofthis trait. She said that her husband had never beeninside of the Cathedral. It Avould have been necessaryhad he gone in to have taken off his hat, and as a con-sistent member of the Society of Friends he felt that becould not do that. I Avas taken to the great printingestablishment which John Bellows had in Gloucester, andAvhich the family still conducts. I was taken into thecellar and shoAvn a piece of Koman Avail Avhich was foundin excavating the cellar and was alloAved to remain. Per-haps it Avas that discover}^ Avhich developed the greatinterest in Eoman antiquities Avhich John Bellows had,and which made him a leading authority in England inregard to Eoman antiquities in that country. I Avaspleased to see that one of his sons was seated in theprinting office Avith a young Frenchman by his side, and

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that they were going over the little French pocket dic-tionary Avhich is so famous, word by word, to make suchchanges and additions as Avere necessary, in bringing outa neAv edition. They told me it could no longer be apocket dictionary, but that they Avere trying to make it aperfect dictionary. Mr. BelloAvs, as I have learned sinceour meeting, had recently spent several months in Parisin improving the text of the new edition. Another sonof our late associate Avas seated in another room in thisprinting house Avith a 3'oung German by his side, andthe}' were working on Avhat they meant to be a com-pendious little German dictionary. The Avhole visit inthe Bellows family Avas delightful, and the courtesy of itsinmates will never be forgotten.

In regard to my short paper, I Avish to say that it is agreat pleasure to me to have been the means of bringingout the interesting remarks of our beloved associate.Senator Hoar. I have only to remind you that theFragment from Avhich Mr. Hoar has read so large a por-tion is, as stated in the paper, to be found only in theearlier edition of Wilkin's Avork. That Avas issued in 1835.I have the later edition in my library. I have been trj'-ing for some time to get the earlier edition in England,but only succeeded after reading my paper. I shouldadvise people AVIIO have the earlier edition to treasureit.

It Avas moved and seconded that the communications ofSenator HOAR and Mr. GREEN in regard to John Bellowsbe referred to the Committee of Publication, and thata vote of thanks be given Mr. JAMES GREEN for hiscommunication in regard to this valuable gift from theauthor. '

Mr. CHARLES P. BOAVDITCH presented his report as a


delegate to the Société Internationale des Américanistes, asfollows :—

28 State Street, Boston, Mass.,October 28th, 1902.

Hon. STEPHEN SALISBURY,President American Antiquarian Society,

Worcester, Mass.Sir:

I beg to report that I attended the Congress of theSociété Internationale des Américanistes, as a delegate ofthe American Antiquarian Society from Tuesday, October21st, to Saturday, October 25th.

The meeting was largely attended by members anddelegates from many foreign countrietí and from tlieUnited States. Questions of interest in archaeology,ethnology, linguistics, folk-lore and kindred subjects,were presented in valuable papers and were discussed bythose present. Most of the papers were read in theEnglish language, although French is the official languageof the Society. The iuteixst and enthusiasm manifestedby the members and delegates clearly showed the advan-tage of such meetings as this.

Very i-espectfully yours,CHARLES P. BOWDITCH,

Delegate of the American Antiquarian Societyto the

Congress of tlie Société Internationale desAméricanistes.

It was voted that the various papers and communica-tions be reierred to the Committee of Publication, to bepublished in the Proceedings of the meeting.

After the meeting was dissolved, many of the memberslunched together at Hotel Somerset.

CHARLES A. CHASE,Becording Secretary.

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