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CAN REPUBLICS.

N the suggestion of several Trustees, a special meeting of the Trustees was held at the Society's room, September

19, 1899, to consider the propriety of calling a special meeting of the Society to express sympathy with the South African Republic in its controversy with Great Britain.

It was unanimously voted to request the President to call such meeting on October 2d, and the President with Judges Van Hoesen and Van Wyck were appointed a Committee to draft resolutions to be presented at the meeting.

The Secretary was requested to make arrangements for the place of meeting.

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY.

A special meeting of the Holland Society was held at Delmonico's, on Monday evening, October 2, 1899, President Tunis G. Bergen in the chair. About two hundred members had notified the Secretary of their intention to be present.

The President requested the Secretary to read the notice sent out for the meeting, which he had been requested to call by a letter signed by the following named members:

Robert A. Van Wyck, Augustus Van Wyck, George M. Van Hoesen, Charles H. Truax, John W. Vrooman, Theodore M. Banta, James B. Van Woert, Henry A. Bogert, Arthur H. Van Brunt, Henry L. Bogert, Edward B. Adriance, L. L. Van Allen.

The Secretary then read the notice which had been mailed to all members ten days before, as follows:

"A special meeting of the Holland Society of New York (called by the President in accordance with Section 2 of Article VII of the Constitution) will be held on Monday evening, October 2d, at 8 o'clock, at Delmonico's, Fifth Avenue and Fortyfourth Street, for the purpose of giving expression to the Society's sympathy with the South African Republic in its struggle against Great Britain for the preservation of its independence."

The Secretary stated he had received thirty letters from members who were not able to attend, all of whom, with three exceptions, expressed their hearty sympathy with the South African Republic. The President then spoke as follows:

PRESIDENT BERGEN'S REMARKS.

We meet as an American society. More than two centuries of American ancestors are behind us. More than eight generations of men born and bred on American soil are our heritage. With the blood of the ancient Netherlanders in our veins we repre