P. Vedder, Harmon A. Vedder, Maus R. Vedder, Frederick P. Voorhees, Samuel H. Wandell, Townsend Wandell, Jacob I. Wendell, Josiah A. Westervelt, Henry V. Williamson, James D. Wynkoop, Andrew C. Zabriskie, Christian B. Zabriskie, Simeon T. Zabriskie.

From Borough of Brooklyn : Theodore M. Banta, Walter A. Banta, Tunis G. Bergen, Tunis H. Bergen, John F. Berry, Delavan Bloodgood, Alexander. G. Brinckerhoff, Henry W. Brinckerhoff, David Brower, John W. Cooper, Matthias V. D. Cruser, Isaac E. Ditmars, Arnatt R. Gulick, Charlton R. Gulick, Ernestus S. Gulick, Francklyn Hogeboom, James V. Lott, Walter M. Meserole, Andrew J. Onderdonk, Andrew J. Provost, Jr., John C. Schenck, Thomas Van Loan, George G. Van Mater, Julius F. Van Riper, Evert Van Slyke, Albert B. Van Vranken, Edward W. Van Vranken, Augustus Van Wyck, Jacob S. Van Wyck, William Van Wyck, John H. Visscher, Charles C. V. Voorhees, Judah B. Voorhees.

From Borough of Queens: William H. H. Amerman, Arverne-by-the-Sea; Joseph F. Bloodgood, Flushing; Henry A. Bogert, Flushing; Henry L. Bogert, Flushing; Edward C. Hulst, Flushing.

From Borough of Richmond: Calvin D. Van Name, Mariners' Harbor; Edward L. Bogert, New Brighton.

From Westchester County: Warren Rosevelt, Mount Vernon; Robert B. Brinkerhoff, Pelham Manor; David Cole, Yonkers; Andrew Deyo, Yonkers; Charles R. Dusenberry, Yonkers; Ezekiel J. Elting, Yonkers; Peter J. Elting, Yonkers; Pierre V. B. Hoes, Yonkers; Theodore R. Varick, Yonkers; Elias W. Dusenberry, Bronxville.

From Orange County: Hiram Lozier, John Schoonmaker, William W. Schomp.

From Dutchess County: Edward Elsworth, Frank Hasbrouck, Martin Heermance, Edward T. Hulst, George S. Van Vliet.

From Ulster County: Charles Burhans, A. T. Clearwater, Gilbert D. B. Hasbrouck, Hyman Roosa, John G. Van Slyke, Joseph E. Hasbrouck, Jacob Le Fevre, Samuel D. Coykendall, Frank M. Van Deusen.

From Greene County: Frank E. Van Gorden, Eugene Van Loan.

From Columbia County: John B. Van Petten. From Albany County: William B. Elmendorf, Richard Lansing, John V. S. L. Pruyn, Cornelius H. Van Antwerp, Charles E. Witbeck.

From Schenectady: John L. Swits, Josiah Van Vranken.

From other places in New York State : John Bogart, Cooperstown; Joseph D. Van Valkenburgh, Greene; John W. Vrooman, Herkimer; Robert B. Roosevelt, Sayville; George A. Rosa, Saratoga Springs; Charles Dusenberry, Jr., Tuckahoe; Joseph Hasbrouck, Dobbs Ferry.

New Jersey. From Hudson County: William Brinkerhoff, Everest B. Kiersted, Isaac Romaine, Henry Traphagen, Francis I. Van der Beek, Daniel Van Winkle, Arthur Voorhis, Reynier J. Wortendyck, Alfred P. Vredenburgh, Edward L. Vredenburgh.

From Bergen County: Andrew D. Bogert, Peter Stanford Duryee.

From Passaic County: Max de M. Marsellus, Robert I. Hopper, John A. Van Winkle.

From Union County: Deuse M. Van Vliet, Philip V. R. Van Wyck, Jr.

From Essex County: Adrian O. Schoonmaker, John C. Van Cleaf, Moses J. De Witt, James S. Polhemus, Carlyle E. Sutphen, Herbert S. Sutphen, Harrison Van Duyne, Frederick L. Van Ness, Anson A. Voorhees.

From Monmouth County: David A. Vander Veer, William H. Vredenburgh, Daniel T. Hendrickson.

From Middlesex County: Willard P. Voorhees. From Burlington County: Charles Wessel. From other places in New Jersey: Henry W. Van Wagenen, Morristown; William S. Stryker, Trenton. From

Pennsylvania: Andrew J. Kiersted,

Philadelphia.

From other States: Wellington Vrooman, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Cornelius D. Vreeland, Chicago Heights, Ill.

The President, Tunis G. Bergen, Esq., presided. As the minutes of the previous annual meeting had been published in the Year Book, their reading was on motion dispensed with.

The Secretary, Theodore M. Banta, read the following Statement, which was accepted and ordered on file:

THE SECRETARY'S REPORT.

In accordance with custom, the Secretary presents the following brief Statement of the year's proceedings of the Society.

The membership at last report was
Elected during the year

843

36

879

16

7

24

47

832

Present membership.

The Treasurer's Annual Report, which was printed in full and sent to all members, showed that the receipts for dues, etc., had been $4,613, and the disbursements $4,363.90. A legacy of $1,000 had also been received from the will of Mrs. Sarah A. Van Nostrand, whose late husband had been one of our early Trustees, and who had shown her interest in our Society by an annual contribution to our treasury. We have invested $8,000 in bonds, costing $8,416.50, and $1,197.81 cash in bank.

In October last, during the controversy between the governments of the British Empire and the Transvaal, a meeting of the Society was held, at which resolutions were adopted expressing sympathy with the Republic, and invoking the good offices of our own Government to preserve the independence of the Boers.

This we believe was the first of the meetings held in the United States to give expression to the sympathies of the citizens of the great Republic of the West for the brave little people of South

Africa, battling for Right against Might against such enormous odds, the forerunner of the great gatherings of our people throughout the Union, who have voiced their admiration of the libertyloving scions of the heroic race which has made immortal the names of Alkmaar and of Leiden.

The

present seems to be a fitting occasion to recall that the Society was presented eight years ago by the American Minister at the Hague with copies of a set of Medals designed by Friesland in 1782, to commemorate the recognition of American Independence by that Province, and we were reminded by the Minister that while a Dutch shipof-war was the first to salute the Stars and Stripes, Holland was second only in the roll of foreign nations to formally recognize our independence.

A Dutch Historical Naval Exhibition, under the patronage of Queen Wilhelmina, of the Netherlands, is to be given at the Hague during the coming summer. We have been officially asked to invite our members to loan, for the purpose, suitable mementos of the early period of Dutch navigation and naval affairs.

A circular explaining the matter has been sent out by the Secretary to all the members.

Under the auspices of this Society, Columbia University gave another series of lectures this past winter, by Mr. L. C. Van Noppen, on the Dutch Poets, which increased the interest felt in the University for the language and literature of the Netherlands.

The Secretary has recently had prepared a Calendar of all the Manuscripts in the New York City Clerk's office covering the Dutch period, and