At a stated meeting held on Tuesday evening, May 2, an oil painting of the Dutch School, the “Sacrifice of Abraham,” was presented to the Society by Mrs. Peter Gerard Stuyvesant Ten Broeck; a crayon portrait of Prof. Samuel F. B. Morse was added to the collection by the Dürr Gallery Fund. The silver medal presented by Congress November 3, 1780, to David Williams, one of the captors of Major John André, September 23, 1780, was presented to the Society by Mrs. Eugene A. Hoffman. Resolutions, on the death of Mr. Edward Floyd de Lancey, late Chairman of the Executive Committee and Domestic Corresponding Secretary, 1879–1899, were adopted. Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard read the paper of the evening entitled: “Wall Street, 1653–1789.” COMMUNICATIONS THE FIRST BRITISH PRISONER TAKEN IN THE REVOLUTION Silvanus Wood of Woburn, Mass., on the alarm of the 19th of April, 1775, left his home at Kendall’s Mill and hastened to Lexington where he joined Capt. Parker’s company of thirty-seven minute-men on the Common at the time the British regulars fired upon them. He assisted in removing the dead and wounded from the field to the meeting-house and then followed the British troops to Concord, accompanied by a companion who was unarmed. When about a mile beyond the meeting-house, near Parkhurst’s Hill in Lexington, Wood observing a British soldier who had left the ranks and was resting by the roadside, ordered him to surrender, which he did, and taking from him his musket and equipment gave them to his companion. They then marched their prisoner to Lexington and delivered him into custody. Wood later enlisted in the army formed by Washington at Cambridge, and was at New York and in New Jersey, at the battle of Trenton [and was wounded at the battle of Pell’s Point (Pelham), Oct. 18, 1776. He was then an Ensign in Col. Loammi Baldwin’s regiment, the 26th Massachusetts.—ED.]. HERBERT W. KIMBALL. BOSTON. MINOR TOPICS. JOHN PAUL JONES RELICS There are but three articles in the National Museum which serve as relics of the great naval hero of revolutionary times, whose remains were recently unearthed in Paris by Ambassador Porter. The three articles are in a case containing mementos of the Revolution, and they consist of an old flag which flew at the masthead of the _Bon Homme Richard_, an old flintlock musket, and a fierce-looking cutlass, both of which were captured from the _Serapis_ when Jones took that ship in the famous engagement of September, 1779.