Excerpt from Proceedings of the Bostonian Society at the Annual Meeting, January 11, 1898 The Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Bostonian Society was held in the Council Chamber of the Old State House, on Tuesday, January II, 1898, at 3 P. M. In the absence of the President, on account of illness, Mr. Benjamin C. Clark, of the Board of Directors, took the chair. In calling the meeting to order, the Chairman alluded in feeling terms to the severe illness of President Guild, whom he had recently seen, and who sent through him to the Society his cordial greetings, hoping that its members might not suffer what he had been called upon to endure. 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.