with music, were the feature after supper. The attendance totalled nearly 300. Lieutenant Cole presided, and speeches were made by Capt. Edward E. Allen, Capt. Jacob Fottler, Col. Sidney M. Hedges, Capt. Frank Huckins, Col. J. Payson Bradley and Rev. Ernest S. Meredith. Colonel Hedges outlined arrangements for the proposed visit to the Jamestown Exposition in the following October. The speeches were interspersed with singing by a quartet and monologues by D. G. Leon. Among the guests were Colonel Foss of Dover, N. H., and Major Charles F. Sargent, the newly elected commander of the First Battalion Light Artillery, M. V. M., who succeeded in that command Major Laurence N. Duchesney, a former captain of the Company.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.

The programme for this, the last smoke talk of the series, had been described in the notices as "Reception and general howdy, 6.30 P.M.; dinner, 7.30; entertainment immediately after the dinner." One form of entertainment, if such it may be called, but one certainly not on the programme, was an alarm of fire, and in a few moments the building was surrounded with apparatus. The trouble was in a market stall in the basement, but the blaze was extinguished with slight loss. While it was progressing Shunopari, the Indian medicine man, was exhibiting his powers. Other entertainers included George Channing Darling, the clay man, the Imperial Banjo Club, and Walter Eccles, monologue artist.

Nearly 200 members were present. Previous to the dinner and entertainment the officers held an informal reception in headquarters, Lieut. R. Whiteman Bates, the Lieutenant Commanding, receiving many congratulations on his safe return from the south, where he had spent the winter for his health.

Camp Andrew, 17th Regt. Mass. Vols., Stewart's
Grove, Baltimore, Md.

Water bottle from the Boer War.

Lieut. T. J. Tute.

Golden pineapple. This wooden pineapple was

taken off the Massachusetts State House
during the alterations in 1896; it had been
there a great many years.

Gold ball. It was made the same time as the
grasshopper which is now the weather vane
on Faneuil Hall, this being the original ball
taken off in 1898.

Photograph of the field, staff and line officers of the 1st Regt. Mass. Vol. Infty, during their three years' service in the Civil War.

Leaves of absence granted to Corp. Albert A. Farnham, Co. E, 1st Mass. Vol. Infty., 1861 ; signed by General Hooker and Col. Robert Cowdin. Farnham was taken prisoner at Gettysburg and died at Richmond, Nov. 15, 1863.

Wood from Washington Elm, Cambridge.

D. B. Badger.

Sergt. W. B. Lucas.

Colored Lithograph, Fort Pierson, Camp of 5th
Mass. Vol. Militia at Newburn, N. C.
Photograph of camp 824 Regt., U. S. Col. Infty.
at Port Hudson, La., November, 1863.

Southwick.

Officers of the 82d Regt., U. S. Col. Infty., Port

Hudson, La., November, 1863.

Maj. George H. Maynard.

Two bronze medals, celebration of the 250th

anniversary of the Ancient and Honorable

Artillery Company at Boston, 1888. Capt. George O. Noyes.

Capt. J. Henry Brown.

Sword bayonet picked up on the battlefield at
Gettysburg after the battle, July 5.

Menu card in frame, banquet complimentary to
Honourable Artillery Company at London,
England, July 9, 1896.

56 Pictures French uniform, presented by

Frames for the same given by

Capt. A. A. Folsom.

Thomas Cahill.

Capt. J. Stearns Cushing.

Piece of the Confederate Steamer Nashville,

destroyed Feb. 27, 1863, by the U. S. iron

clad Montauk in the Big Ogeechee. Maj. Robt. Patterson,

Photograph of a detachment of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company placing a floral offering at the Confederate Monument, Holly Wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., Oct. 7, 1895.

Whalebone exercising bayonet.

U. S. A.

Mrs. H. G. Weston.

Harry V. Styles, 26th U. S. Vols.

Bronze badge, souvenir Reunion of Lafayette Post 140, New York, Meade Post No. 2, Philadelphia, Kinsley Post 113, Boston, at the 33d National Encampment G. A. R. at Philadelphia, Pa., June 25, 1899. This badge is made out of cannon captured by New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Regiments at Fort Fisher, S. C.

Lieut. Chas. Clark Adams.

Reception of the City Imperial Volunteers at

The Guildhall, Oct. 29, 1900.

Sir Alfred J. Newton,
Lord Mayor.

Photograph, The Dinner of the Ancient and.
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston,
U. S. A., to the Honourable Artillery Com-
pany of London at Kings Hall, Holborn,
July 9, 1896.

Photograph, Dinner given by the Honourable
Artillery Company to the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Massa-
chusetts at the Armoury House, Finsbury,
July 7, 1896.

Photograph, Departure of the Steamer Servia
with the Ancient and Honorable Artillery
Company for London from Boston, June 29,
1896.

Photograph, Steamer Servia off Liverpool,
England, July, 1896.

Photograph, Landing of the Ancient and Hon-
orable Artillery Company at Liverpool,
England, July, 1896.

Col. Henry Walker.

Ribbon badge, Committee Ancient and Honor-
able Artillery Company, 248th anniversary,
June 7, 1886.

Metal badge, Committee of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company, Fall Field
Day, 1895.

Engraving, Battle of Gettysburg.

Capt. A. A. Folsom.

Six drawings by Howard Chandler Christie, uniforms worn in the Spanish War.

Cross belt plate, 1st Light Infty. Regt., Provi

dence, R. I.

Ornam L. Pratt, Jr.,

Providence.