Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Vol. 1: New Series, 1880 1881 There are the usual notices of deceased members, including the action of the Council on the death of Samuel F. Haven, LL.D., our late esteemed Librarian, and personal recollections of Baron Visconti, of Rome, in a letter from Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D. The index to this Volume has been prepared by the assistant-libra rians, Edmund M. Barton and Reuben Colton. The publication of the Proceedings of the meeting of October, 1880, was under the immediate supervision of Dr. Haven, since which time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.