Quarterly Bulletin for July and October. List of 500 Portraits of Men by Pine MacDonald at the NewYork Historical Society. Annual report, 1941-1942, of the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands. War Records Handbook, issued by the Division of Archives and History of the State Education Department. Diary kept by Alexander Hamilton Coffin, March 1851 - December 1862. Commission of John Ward as fourth sergeant in Captain John Bailey's Company, Dutchess County, dated in 1797; the gift of Mr. William H. Ward, Morristown, New Jersey, through Mrs. Dexter Cooper of the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. N ew York Historical Source Studies, by Albert Hazen Wright of Cornell University. The secretary further reported that the society had lost one member by resignation and the following members by death: Mr. Charles S. Mitchell, Dr. Alva L. Peckham and Mrs. Carrie Van Benschoten. Mrs. Waterman gave the report of the treasurer, which was accepted as read and follows these minutes. Mrs. Ver Nooy, for the Year Book Committee, reported that practically all of the material for this issue was in the hands of the printer and that she hoped and ex11-
pected that the book would be ready for distribution at the usual time. She said that she regretted that she had found no articles among Miss Reynolds' papers which might be used for the year book but that, with the help of some of the members of the society, Dr. Poucher in particular, an issue had been prepared which might prove . acceptable. i\/Ir. Guernsey reported, for the Pilgrimage Committee, that the Board of Trustees had thought it best not to attempt a pilgrimage this year and that, although there had been some suggestion of a picnic, it was decided not to do anything along that line until a pilgrimage could be planned on a par with the usual annual trip. Mr. Frost, the curator, urged that members who owned documents of historical or family value should either place them in the care of some institution or have photostat copies made so that in case of loss of the original document there might still be a copy of it on file. The assistant secretary proposed the names of the following persons and they were elected to membership: Miss Barbara Corliss, Mr. Herbert V. Dederer, Miss Edith Dutcher, Mrs. W. W. Guenther, Mrs. Harry G. Harper, Mrs. Leon L. Jaminet, Miss Dena Mabie, Mrs. Thomas P. Michaels and Mr. Edgar B. Nixon. The assistant secretary reported that a flag which had been in the possession of General A. B. Smith of the 150th Regiment, New York Volunteers, and which had been
