August, 1917, sundry expenses..
December, 1917, sundry expenses..

Miss C. S. Freret, clerical services..

Binding Souvenir Books for War Libraries...

Total disbursements

Balance cash on hand...

56.40

.$

53.98

65.00

21.75

140.73

$ 803.58

396.34

There were no receipts in September, October or December, and no disbursements in September, October or November.

REPORT OF ROBERT GLENK, CORRESPONDING SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN.

At the meeting of the Society on February 21, 1917, the regular meeting date was changed from the third Wednesday to the third Tuesday of each month.

During the year 1917 ten monthly meetings were held and two special lectures were given by the Society, as follows:

MEETINGS AND LECTURES.

January 17-Purnell M. Milner, Forgotten Treks.
February 21-James Renshaw, The City Beautiful.

March 21-Miss Grace King, Boimare's Notes Bibliographiques.
March 26-Motion Pictures, Celebration of the Centennial of the
Battle of New Orleans.

April 17-S. A. Trufant, Review of Banking in New Orleans, 1830-1840.

May 15—Mrs. II. F. Magruder, Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge Old and New, and Its People.

T. P. Thompson, The U. S. Flag and the Designation of the
States of the Union by the Enlargement of Particular
Stars.

June 19-Colonel Allison Owen, History of the Washington Ar

tillery.

July 17-Doctor Joseph Holt, Review of Colonel Owen's Paper on the History of the Washington Artillery. Professor Henry M. Gill, The War.

October 16-Joe Mitchell Pilcher, The Story of Marksville. November 27-Miss Grace King, The True History of Philip

Nolan.

December 18-W. O. Hart, History of the First Protestant Church in New Orleans.

J. F. C. Waldo, Story of the Unitarian Church in New Orleans.

December 21-Edward A. Parsons, In the Path of the Black

The Executive Committee met twelve times during the year. On January 8th, the Annual Reunion Dinner of the Louisiana Historical Society took place in the Gold Room of the Grunewald Hotel, about 130 members and friends of the Society participating. The excellent menu and well-filled program of speeches and singing were greatly enjoyed by all present. Mr. W. O. Hart was toastmaster of the occasion.

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On October 24th, at 1 o'clock, at the City Hall and in the Council Cher, took place a reception and ceremonies comceremonies taking place this day in Paris and preliminary toe Biennial Bi-Centennial Celebration in New Orleans in April, 1918. The program, which was preceded by a concert on the City Hall gallery by the United States Naval Station Band, was as follows:

The invocation, by Rev. A. Gordon Bakewell; address of welcome, by Mayor Behrman, and replied to by Mr. Gaspar Cusachs; speech, by Mr. E. Genoyer, acting Consul of French Republic, America and France"; paper on Bienville, by Miss Grace King; outline of the Bi-Centennial program prepared fo the celebration in New Orleans in April, by Mr. T. P. Thompson; song, "La Marsellaise," Miss Anita Deynoodt; song, "Joan of Arc," Miss Constance Ray; song, "The Call of the Flag," Mr. Charles Dorhauer; song, "The Star-Spangled Banner," led by Miss Rose Dirmann; Salute to the Flag, led by Mrs. C. Hamilton Tebault, and benediction, by Rev. J. B. Jeanmard.

Mr. W. O. Hart was master of ceremonies.

A large and brilliant gathering attended the ceremonies. The delegates sent by the City of New Orleans to Paris to attend the ceremonies taking place there on the same date were: General W. J. Behan, J. M. Vergnole, Andre Lafargue, Paul Villere.

MEMBERSHIP.

Seventy-nine applicants were elected to active membership in the Society-fifty-two gentlemen and twenty-seven ladies.

During the year there were twenty-five resignations and seventeen deaths from among the members. The net increase in membership for 1917 is thirty-seven active members, making a total of 625 active members and thirteen honorary members on the roster of the Society on January 1, 1918.

Death has removed the following esteemed members during the year 1917:

DEATHS IN 1917.

Mr. Dudley Avery,
Reverend James H. Blenk,
Judge A. A. Gunby,

Judge A. D. Land,
Captain T. J. Woodward,
Captain C. W. Drown,
Mr. T. L. Barnes,

Mr. C. Meyer Eiseman,
Reverend William C. Gaynor,
Mr. Emile Hoehn,
Mr. A. Schmedtge,
Mr. Philip Werlein,
Mr. C. H. Willard,
Mr. Thomas J. Ford,

Mr. H. A. S. Bacher,

Mrs. Ruth McEnery Stuart,

Mrs. Aimee Bengnot.

NEW MEMBERS ELECTED IN 1917.
Miss Rena Duncan, 1533 Erato Street.
Mrs. Benjamin Lewis, 2419 Milan Street;
Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath, Tiffin, Ohio;
Mr. Alexander Hay, 834 Broadway;

Dr. Felix Gaudin, 1001 State Street;

Mrs. Edward Wisner, 2362 Camp Street;

Mr. Etienne Mazureau Reynes, 1206 North Rampart Street;
Mr. Albert Aschaffenburg, Lafayette Hotel;

Mrs. F. G. Govan, 909 Eleonore Street;
Mr. J. D. Kennedy, Hotel Monteleone;
Mr. M. Augustin, 323 Baronne Street;
Hon. John Marshall, Baton Rouge, La.;

Mr. S. Locke Breaux, 1907 Prytania Street;

Mr. R. D. Reeves, 1106 Nashville Avenue;

Miss Nellie Farwell, First and St. Charles Avenue;
Mr. Alfred Slidell, 136 Carondelet Street;
Mrs. George Koppel, 4411 Carondelet Street;
Mr. Gustave Pitot, 1438 North Prieur Street;
Mr. Frank Henning, 718 Pelican Avenue;
Mr. William A. Briant, 2409 Bienville Street;
Mrs. Celeste Claiborne Carruth, New Roads, La.;
Mr. T. L. Barnes, Hotel Bentley, Alexandria, La.;
Judge Taylor Beattie, Thibodaux, La.;
Miss Florence Lavelle, Mandeville, La.;
Mr. Arthur H. Dicks, 437 Carondelet Street;
Mr. Armand Romain, 211 Camp Street;

Mrs. Mary T. Yount, 2223 Soniat Street:

Mr. F. D. Charbonnet, Jr., 624 Gravier Street;

Mr. A. H. Johness, 630 Gravier Street;

Mr. Joseph Bernard, 1000 Title Guarantee Building;
Dr. J. L. Deslattes, Convent, La.;

Mr. Thomas J. Ford, 406 Chartres Street;

Mr. Parham Werlein, 605 Canal Street;

Mr. Charles F. Buck, Jr., 2027 Carondelet Street;
Mrs. Charles F. Buck, Jr., 2027 Carondelet Street;
Mr. Peter A. Chopin, 2800 St. Charles Avenue;
Rev. C. W. Bispham, 1727 Coliseum Street;
Mr. John B. Stetson, Jr., Elkin's Park, Pa.;
Mr. O. G. Boisseau, Holden, Missouri;
Mr. J. Edward Crusel, Denegre Building;

Mr. Fernand Laudumiey, 1112 North Rampart Street;
Dr. Rigney D'Aunoy, 1935 Ursuline Avenue;
Mrs. George B. Penrose, 2302 Prytania Street;
Dr. A. E. Fossier, 8134 Cohn Street;

Rev. Raymond Carra, St. Patrick's Church;
Mr. J. R. Wells, 211 St. Charles Street;

Mr. Bertrand Beer, 4035 St. Charles Avenue;

Miss Florence E. O'Neal, 215 Macheca Building;
Mr. J. L. Rice, 2326 Robert Street;

Hon. Harry D. Wilson, Baton Rouge, La.;

Mr. J. A. Wherry, 132 Carondelet Street;

Mr. E. W. Burgis, 222 Elmira Avenue, Algiers, La.;
Mrs. Wyndham A. Lewin, 2110 Bayou Road;

Mrs. Peter F. Pescud, 1413 Third Street;
Miss Eleanor E. Riggs, 4535 Prytania Street;

Mrs. Victoria M. Jones, 1337 Esplanade Avenue;

Mr. St. Clair Adams, 416 Hibernia Building;

Miss Alice M. Goforth, 635 Mills Avenue, Baton Rouge, La.; Miss Nellie W. Price, 1231 Webster Street;

Dr Milton A. Dunn, Colfax, La.;

Mr. Joe Mitchell Pilcher, Marksville, La. ;
Mr. Jules Mazarat, 1921 Ursuline Avenue;

Mr. J. A. Barger, 7315 St. Charles Avenue;

Colonel James Long Wright, 617 Common Street;
Mr. Alfred S. Amer, St. Charles Hotel;
Mr. Robert Legier, 124 Carondelet Street;

Mr. F. A. Brunet, 313 Royal Street;

Miss Marie L. Points, 930 Elysian Fields Avenue;
Mrs. J. W. Carnahan, 2204 Calhoun Street;
Mrs. Benjamin Ory, 1620 Seventh Street;
Mrs. Fred Querens, 2016 Baronne Street;
Miss M. V. Denegre, 2427 St. Charles Avenue;
Mr. P. L. Noblom, 516 Canal Street;
Mrs. Olivia Blanchard, 1237 St. Andrew Street;
Mr. Louis A. St. Martin, 3700 Dauphine Street;
Miss Delphine Points, 930 Elysian Fields Avenue;

Mr. Adolfo E. Hegewisch, Wolvin Line, Whitney Building;
Mr. W. H. Anderson, 5212 Coliseum Street;

Mrs. Marie Mioton, 1219 North Rampart Street.

PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.

Volume 9 of the Louisiana Historical Society Proceedings and Reports was prepared for publication by Miss Grace King during the year and has been sent to all members not in arrears.

The Louisiana Historical Quarterly, edited by Mr. John Dymond, appeared on June 5th, and has been admitted to the mails as second-class matter. Only one number so far has been issued, owing to unexpected difficulties in having the publication prepared and printed.

Back numbers of the proceedings of the Society are still available and can be had on application to the President.

Two hundred and fifty copies of the Society's publication, entitled "The Story of the Battle of New Orleans," by Stanley Clisby Arthur, were ordered bound and were distributed to the various camp libraries through Professor Gill for the use of the American soldiers.

GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY.

The following gifts have been received during the year and deposited with the Society's collections in the Louisiana State Museum in the Cabildo:

Miss Fannie Wolfson-Commission as postmaster of Campti, La., 1845, issued to Jacob A. Wolfson by the United States Government and by the Confederate States Government in 1862.

H. W. Robinson-Copy of the New Orleans Democrat, September 14, 1874, and the New Orleans Picayune, September 22, 1874.

E. K. Summerville (through Mr. Hart)-Four large photographs of the home and the tomb of John J. Audubon, in New York.

Commodore A. V. Wadhams (through Mr. Hart)-Two small photographs of ex-slaves of Louisiana, made in New York in 1862. A. M. Costa-Old percussion cap gun, found in Lake Pontchartrain.

Miss Grace King-Old pistol, found in making excavations in New Orleans.

William Beer-Copy of a document on the history of the Battle of New Orleans.

W. O. Hart-Program of celebration of the 142nd anniversary of the Battle of Lexington; New Orleans, program of the meeting of the Louisiana Bar Association, 1917; report of the Committee on Uniform State Laws, 1917.

Professor Milledge L. Bonham, Jr.-Reprint; Baton Rouge's Municipal Centenary.

LIBRARY.

To the Library of the Louisiana Historical Society have been added 388 bound volumes, pamphlets and parts of volumes,