HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
The New York Historical Society.—At a stated meeting held March 7 a letter was read from Governor Higgins, acknowledging his election as an Honorary Member of the Society. The paper of the evening, entitled “Unpublished Papers of the Revolutionary War,” by Baron von Closen, Aide to Count de Rochambeau, with stereopticon illustrations, was read by Mr. Clarence Winthrop Bowen. Several views showing the progress in the erection of the new building of the Society were shown.
At the April 4th meeting the Peter Marié Collection of Miniatures, 284 in number, was presented to the Society by the residuary legatees under the will of the late Peter Marié. A daguerreotype of Washington Irving was presented by Mr. Walter L. Suydam.
The thirteenth of the illustrated series of papers relating to the City of New York, entitled: “Memorials of the Revolution Within Our Gates,” was read by Mr. Albert Ulmann, author of a “Landmark History of New York.”
At a stated meeting held on Tuesday evening, May 2, an oil painting of the Dutch School, the “Sacrifice of Abraham,” was presented to the Society by Mrs. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant Ten Broeck; a crayon portrait of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse was added to the collection by the Dürr Gallery Fund.
The silver medal presented by Congress November 3, 1780, to David Williams, one of the captors of Major John André, September 23, 1780, was presented to the Society by Mrs. Eugene A. Hoffman.
Resolutions, on the death of Mr. Edward Floyd de Lancey, late Chairman of the Executive Committee and Domestic Corresponding Secretary, 1879–1899, were adopted.
Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard read the paper of the evening entitled: “Wall Street, 1653–1789.”