Feb. 5. Article published in the _New York Sun_, from the pen of Secretary T. H. Murray, relative to Andrew Jackson’s ancestry. Feb. 10. Contribution appeared in _The Monitor_ of San Francisco, Cal., descriptive of the Society’s work and urging active interest therein. The author is James Connolly, of Coronado, the Society’s state vice-president for California. Feb. 18. Rev. Michael Gilligan, rector of St. Joseph’s Catholic church, Medford, Mass., died to-day in Norfolk, Va. He was a member of the Society. Feb. 20. Lieut. Martin L. Crimmins, Sixth U. S. Infantry, a member of the Society, writes an interesting descriptive letter from the Philippines. The letter was subsequently published in the _New York Sun_ of March 13. Feb. 24. Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, Protestant Episcopal Archdeacon of Pennsylvania, and member of the Society, begins to-day, in the Philadelphia _Evening Post_, his serial, “The Grip of Honor.” March. In _Donahoe’s Magazine_ for this month is an article by T. St. John Gaffney, of the Society, on “The Alleged European Coalition Against the United States During the Spanish-American War.” The article was subsequently reprinted in pamphlet form for the American Raad. Mar. 1. Check for $50, life membership fee, received to-day from P. F. McGowan, New York City. Mar. 3. The steamship _Lucania_ arrived off Sandy Hook from Liverpool. Among her passengers was John E. Milholland, of New York, a member of the Society. On the passage over a British baronet bought champagne for the saloon passengers and proposed the health of the British queen and a toast to the success of the British arms in the war against the Boers. Mr. Milholland and others refused to drink the toast. Mar. 6. Richard Ryan, of the Society, was a candidate for mayor of Rutland, Vt., in to-day’s election in that city. Mar. 6. Capt. Patrick O’Farrell, the Society’s vice-president for the District of Columbia, participated in the banquet at Washington, D. C., of the Second Army Corps Association, he being a member of the executive committee of the Association and treasurer of the banquet committee. Mar. 8. President McKinley to-day sent to the senate the nomination of Second Lieutenant Hugh A. Drum, Twelfth U. S. Infantry, he to be first lieutenant. This officer is a son of our late member, Capt. John Drum, Tenth U. S. Infantry, killed in battle near Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898. Mar. 9. William Hopkins, member of the Society, is elected a vice-president of the Boston Press Club.