eting of the Bostonian Society. The following were
chosen directors for the coming year: Thomas C. Amory, William S.
Appleton, Thomas J. Allen, Joshua P. Bodfish, Curtis Guild, John T.
Hassam, Hamilton A. Hill, Samuel H. Russell, and William Wilkins Warren.
The report on the library showed a total of 520 volumes, and many
pamphlets not yet enumerated, being an addition of 184 volumes, and 126
pamphlets during the year. The report of the treasurer showed: Balance
of last year, $3,857.85; receipts, to make a total of $4,736.65;
expenditures, to leave a present balance of $1,992.23. It was announced
that Mr. D. T. V. Huntoon, the secretary and treasurer, declined a
re-election, being about to take a journey for the benefit of his
health. The vacancy was not filled.

Jan. 14.--Monthly meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Dr.
Green, as one of the executors of the will of John Langdon Sibley, read
that part of the will in which he has constituted this society the
residuary legatee of nearly all his estate. This amount is by far the
largest sum of money ever given or bequeathed to the society, and will
place the name of Sibley among the greatest benefactors of historical
research. It was voted that a committee consisting of Judge Hoar, Mr.
Cobb, and Professor E. C. Smyth be appointed to consider and report to
the society what action should be taken in view of this munificent
bequest.

Mr. R. C. Winthrop, Jr., communicated thirty-two letters, written
between 1693 and 1699, from General Lord Cutts to Colonel Joseph Dudley,
then lieutenant-governor of the Isle of Wight, and afterward governor of
Massachusetts. They contain incidental reference to William of Orange,
and many public men of that period, as well as to the campaign of the
allied army in Flanders, and the evident sincerity and soldierly
bluntness of the writer renders them quite entertaining. Lord Cutts was
not merely a famous commander, but a poet, and his verses are quoted by
Horace Walpole. Mr. Winthrop expressed a desire to learn where a picture
of him might be found, and he discussed the authority and probable date
of various portraits of Governor Joseph Dudley, and his wife, Rebecca
Tyng.

Mr. Appleton spoke of the flag carried by the minute-men of Bedford to
Concord, on the 19th of April, 1775, a photograph of which had been
exhibited at the last meeting. It was originally designed in England in
1660-70 for the three county troops of Massachusetts