J. D. O’CONNELL, Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C. WALTER LECKY, Redwood, Jefferson County, N. Y. J. W. FOGARTY, Assessors Department, City Hall, Boston, Mass.; Secretary, Charitable Irish Society (instituted 1737). THOMAS ADDIS EMMET, New York City. DENNIS HARVEY SHEAHAN, Ex-Reading Clerk, Rhode Island House of Representatives, Providence, R. I. M. J. HARSON, Founder, Phi Kappa Sigma, Brown University, Providence, R. I. JAMES R. O’BEIRNE, Late Brevet Brigadier-General of Volunteers; Ex-Commander, U. S. Medal of Honor Legion, New York City. ST. CLAIR A. MULHOLLAND, Brevet Major-General of Volunteers; commanded Fourth Brigade, First Division, Second Corps, Philadelphia, Pa. REV. THOMAS J. CONATY, D.D., Rector, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. REV. GEORGE C. BETTS, Rector, St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Goshen, N. Y. REV. GEORGE W. PEPPER, (Methodist), Cleveland, Ohio. REV. ANDREW MORRISSEY, C. S. C., President, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. OSBORNE HOWES, (Eighth American generation), Secretary, Board of Fire Underwriters, Boston, Mass. HENRY STODDARD RUGGLES, (Ninth American generation), Member, Sons of the Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution, Wakefield, Mass. HENRY G. CROWELL, (A descendant of David O’Killia, who was a settler in Plymouth Colony as early as 1657), South Yarmouth, Mass. RICHARD W. MEADE, Rear Admiral, U, S. N. JOHN COCHRANE, President of the N. Y. Society of the Cincinnati, New York City. MATTHEW CALBRAITHE BUTLER, Late a Senator of the United States, Edgefield, S. C. _Issued at Boston, Mass., Dec. 26, 1896._ In response to this call, fifty gentlemen met at the Revere House on Wednesday, January 20, and organized the AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY by signing the following agreement: “We, the undersigned, by our subscription herewith, agree with the other subscribers hereto to organize ourselves into a body to be known as the AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY of the United States, whose object shall be the study of American history and whose special line of work shall be the history of the Irish element in the composition of the American people, and the investigation, record and publication of the influence of that element in the up-building of the nation.”