Hon. Lucius F. Hubbard, Minnesota; the Hon. J. C. Welling, District of
Columbia; the Hon. George C. Ludlow, New Jersey; General William T.
Sherman, Missouri; Dr. Edward W. Jenks, Michigan; Capt. Clinton B.
Sears, Tennessee; the Hon. Joseph B. Young, Iowa; the Hon. Horace Noyes,
West Virginia; the Hon. James H. Campbell, Pennsylvania; the Hon.
William H. Baker, New Mexico, and the Rev. Charles M. Blake, California.

Executive Committee.--The Hon. Stephen M. Allen, Edward F. Thayer,
Nathaniel W. Ladd, the Hon. Edmund H. Bennett, and the Hon. Albert
Palmer.

Finance Committee.--The Hon. Nathaniel F. Safford, William B. Wood,
Henry P. Kidder, Edward F. Thayer, and the Hon. Alexander H. Rice.

Historiographers.--The Rev. William C. Winslow, the Rev. Edward J.
Young, and the Rev. Thomas A. Hyde.

Committee on Future Work.--The Hon. Nathaniel F. Safford, the Hon. E. S.
Tobey, Stillman B. Allen, the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain, and Thomas H.
Cummings, Esq.

Treasurer.--Francis M. Boutwell.

Recording Clerk.--Nathaniel W. Ladd.

Corresponding Secretary.--Thomas H. Cummings.

Actuary.--William H. Colcord.

The annual address, entitled "Daniel Webster as an Orator," was then
delivered by the Rev. Thomas Alexander Hyde.

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January 18.--At Lowell, Mass., the Joint Special Committee of the City
Council, appointed to consider the expediency of observing April 1, the
fiftieth anniversary of the city's incorporation, by a formal
celebration, decided that it was expedient. James Russel Lowell, who is
a nephew of Francis Cabot Lowell, the founder of the city, will probably
deliver the oration.

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January 28, 29.--A serious ice-storm did great havoc among trees in many
of the cities and towns of New England.

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February 11.--Meeting of the Mass. Historical Society, the Rev. Dr.
Ellis, the president, being in the chair. The death of Francis E.
Parker, who had been for twenty-three years a member of the society,
called forth earnest words from those who were intimately associated
with him.

Mr. Quincy presented to the cabinet of the society a piece of
Shakspere's mulberry-tree, which had been cut from a block that belonged
to David Garrick, and was sealed with his seal (a head of Shakspere), as
a witness of its authenticity. This block was presented to the
distinguished actor by the mayor, aldermen, and bu