Excerpt from Report of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 3: In Connection With Harvard University, 1880-86 Monday, March 7, 1881. The Annual Meeting of the Board of Trustees was held this day, at 2 p.m., in the Museum, Cambridge, at: Messrs. Winthrop, Adams, Salisbury, Lyman, Scudder; Wheatland, and the Curator. The Report of the Treasurer was read and accepted and ordered to be printed under the direction of the Treasurer and Curator, as a part of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Board. Mr. Salisbury resigned the office of Treasurer, the duties of which he had performed since the organization of the Board. Voted, that the Trustees accept his resignation with deep regret, and desire to place upon record their sincere thanks for his long and valuable services in this responsible position. Mr. Theodore Lyman was unanimously elected Treasurer. The Curator submitted his report on the expenditures during the year, which was accepted and ordered to be printed. The Curator read his report on the operations of the Museum during the year, which was accepted and ordered to be printed. The Treasurer was authorized to pay to the Curator the income of the funds for the ensuing year. Hon. Charles Francis Adams resigned his position on the Board of Trustees. The Hoard, in accepting his resignation, expressed deep regret that he should feel compelled thus to sever his connection with them, and offered him their grateful acknowledgments and best wishes. Mr. John C. Phillips of Boston was unanimously elected to fill the vacancy on the Board created by the retirement of Mr. Adams. The meeting then adjourned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."