July 4. Edward A. Moseley, Washington, D. C., ex-president-general of our Society, was to-day elected to membership in the Society of the Cincinnati in place of his father, recently deceased. July 11. A contribution appears in the _New York Sun_, to-day, from the pen of T. St. John Gaffney, a New York member, dealing with the ancestry of President McKinley. July 11. Death of one of our members, William H. Quinn, Hallowell, Me. He had been a member of the board of aldermen of that city. July 16. Secretary Murray, of the Society, has a contribution in the _New York Sun_ to-day relative to President McKinley’s ancestry. July 16. On or about this date a letter was written by Rev. Fred B. Cole, chancellor of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Rhode Island, in which he very kindly offered his services as guide in a contemplated pilgrimage of the Society to the grave of “Old Parson” MacSparran. Rev. Dr. MacSparran was an Irishman, born toward the close of the 17th century and for nearly forty years was pastor of St. Paul’s church, in Narragansett, R. I. A vote of thanks was extended Rev. Mr. Cole. July 18. T. M. Bryan, of Montesano, Wash., writes to the Society desiring information regarding his great-grandfather, John Bryan, who was an officer in the patriot ranks during the American Revolution. This officer came from Ireland and Mr. Bryan is of opinion that he had served in a company from Chester county, Pennsylvania. July 21. J. D. O’Connell, a Washington, D. C., member of the Society, has an article in the _N. Y. Irish World_ of this date on “The Irish in the Civil War.” Aug. 3. Hon. Timothy J. Howard, Manchester, N. H., of the Society, was nominated for congress to-day. Aug. 9. _The Tribune_, of East Liverpool, Ohio, publishes an article to-day on the “Fawcett Memorial Tablet” erected in that city to the Fawcett family. Thomas Fawcett, the pioneer of the family in this country, was an Irish Quaker, born in 1747. His wife, Isabella Snodgrass, was also born in Ireland, 1754. Thomas platted “Fawcettstown,” now East Liverpool, O., in 1798. Aug. 12. Rev. Thomas W. Broderick, a Hartford, Conn., member of the Society, died in that city to-night. He was rector of St. Peter’s church there for sixteen years. Aug. 26. Mrs. Charles Warren Lippitt, regent of Gaspee chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, writes to Secretary Murray, from Newport, R. I., to enlist his interest, and that of the Society, in the project to preserve the old Revolutionary fort on Butt’s Hill, Portsmouth, R. I.