CONSTITUTION. I. The name of this society shall be The American Historical Association. II. Its object shall be the promotion of historical studies. III. Any person approved by the executive council may become a member by paying three dollars; and after the first year may continue a member by paying an annual fee of three dollars. On payment of fifty dollars any person may become a life member exempt from fees. Persons not residents in the United States may be elected as honorary members, and be exempt from the payment of fees. IV. The officers shall be a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary, an assistant secretary, a curator, a treasurer, and an executive council consisting of the foregoing officers and of four other members elected by the association, with the expresidents of the association. These officers shall be elected by ballot at each regular annual meeting of the association. V. The executive council shall have charge of the general interests of the association, including the election of members, the calling of meetings, the selection of papers to be read, and the determination of what papers shall be published. VI. This constitution may be amended at any annual meeting, notice of such amendment having been given at the previous annual meeting, or the proposed amendment having received the approval of the executive council. VIII AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. Organized at Saratoga, N. Y., September 10, 1884. OFFICERS FOR 1895. President: Hon. GEORGE F. HOAR, Worcester, Mass. Vice-Presidents: Rev. RICHARD S. STORRS, D. D., Dr. JAMES SCHOULER, Professor in the Boston University, Massachusetts. HERBERT B. ADAMS, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, Ph. D., Executive Council: (In addition to the above-named officers.) JUSTIN WINSOR, LL. D., CHARLES KENDALL ADAMS, LL. D., JAMES B. ANGELL, LL. D., Washington, D. C. G. BROWN GOODE, Ph. D., LL. D., Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in charge of the National Museum. GEORGE B. ADAMS, Professor of History, Yale University. Hon. J. L. M. CURRY, Washington, D. C. CONTENTS. I. Report of Proceedings of Tenth Annual Meeting, in Page. VI. Tributes to Hamilton Fish, Hon. John Jay, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, and others, by Gen. James Grant Wilson. XII. A Chapter in the Life of Charles Robinson, the First Governor of Kansas, by Prof. Frank W. Blackmar.... XIII. The Continental Congress, by Dr. Herbert Friedenwald. |