experts, the subjects of which will be given out as
long in advance as possible, in order that all may be
thoroughly prepared for a full and open discussion;
and then, after these meetings, in order to promote
sociability amongst the members, and to show how
thoroughly practical we are, we propose to have
something to eat. We also hope later to establish
schools, not only for young men, but particularly for
draughtsmen, where they can be taught, not only the
art of drawing, but also the many practical branches
connected with the profession.

The meeting was also addressed by the Rev. Dr. Chas. H. Hall,
President of the Associate Members. He spoke at great length and kept
his audience intensely interested by describing his own acquaintance
with architecture, beginning with the original negro log-house down
South, then the prim buildings of old Andover and Harvard, and finally
how he saw the great former St. Ann's of Brooklyn, the likeness of
which, he said, could be seen any day on the piers of New York when
they were unloading dry-goods boxes; and how he finally went abroad
and saw the beautiful architecture of Paris, which he could not praise
enough. He was also unstinted in his praise of the modern beauty and
architecture of Washington. He also spoke of his visits to London,
and, while he admitted that Englishmen thought their architecture
beautiful, he took exception, and claimed that the great St. Paul's,
though beautiful to the English eye, was a cold barren building,
blacked with smoke inside and out, a place where you could not be
comfortable, nor hear the speaker at any distance. We regret that we
are not able to give a verbatim account of his witty address.

At the end of Dr. Hall's address, the lecturer of the evening,
Professor Russell Sturgis, architect, of New York, addressed the
meeting as follows, his subject being "The Study of Architecture,"
with particular reference to the architecture of to-day.

ADDRESS OF MR. RUSSELL STURGIS.

With regard to architecture and all the arts of decoration, there is a
strange difference between the practice of them, and such study as
looks toward practice, on the one hand, and the history and theory of
them, with such study as that involves, on the other. Quite completely
are these two studies separated, each from the other. A man may be
most active and successful as a practising designer, and success