1899. Nov. 21. Letter received from Henry E. Reed, Portland, Ore., state vice-president of the Society for Oregon. He regrets that he has not been able to give more attention to the Society, but his duties for the past two years having taken him up and down the Pacific coast from Alaska to the Mexican boundary, he has been pressed for time. However, he has interested a number of Oregon people in the Society, and requests to be supplied with membership application blanks. 1899. Nov. 26. Dr. Stephen J. Maher of New Haven, Conn., a member of the Society, presided at a public reception in the Hyperion, that city, to Lord Mayor Tallon of Dublin, and Hon. John E. Redmond, M. P. Col. John G. Healy, another member of the Society, opened the exercises. 1899. Nov. 27. An official declaration in behalf of the Society is issued in Boston to-night, endorsing the project to bring the remains of John Paul Jones back to this country from France, where he died in 1799. 1899. Nov. 28. The _News and Courier_, Charleston, S. C., contains an editorial to-day, speaking highly of the Society and its work. 1899. Nov. 29. Death of Edmund Phelan, a member of the Society, at his home, 32 Adams street, Roxbury (Boston), Mass. 1899. Dec. 2. Col. James Gadsden Holmes, Charleston, S. C., presents to the Society a copy of the “History of the Calhoun Monument” in that city. This monument was erected in honor of Hon. John C. Calhoun, whose father was an Irishman by birth, and was dedicated April 26, 1887. 1899. Dec. 7. Henry Stoddard Ruggles of Wakefield, Mass., calls the Society’s attention to a work recently published by the Massachusetts chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. It is entitled, “Honor Roll of Massachusetts Patriots, Heretofore Unknown; being a List of Men and Women who Loaned Money to the Federal Government, 1777–1779.” Among the names in this list are Daniel McCarthy, Dennis Tracy, Patrick Wade and Daniel Ryan. 1899. Dec. 12. Hon. Jeremiah Crowley, of the Society, is reëlected mayor of Lowell, Mass. 1899. Dec. 13. Thomas Carroll of Peabody, Mass., a member of the Society, delivers an historical address at the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of St. John’s Catholic parish in Peabody.