PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE THE TENTH MEETING HE TENTH MEETING of THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY was held the twenty-eighth day of January, nineteen hundred and eight, at a quarter before eight o'clock in the evening, in the building of the Cambridge Latin School, Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the absence of the President, the Third Vice-President, ARCHIBALD MURRAY HOWE, presided. The Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. ELIZABETH HARRIS HOUGHTON read a memoir of Lizzie Sparks Pickering, and the SECRETARY read two memoirs, one of Anna Maria Read, prepared by JAMES ATKINS NOYES, and the other of James Mills Peirce, prepared by WILLIAM ROSCOE THAYER. MARY ISABELLA GOZZALDI read the following paper: THE SEAL OF THE SOCIETY THOSE of us who are charter members will remember that at the first meeting of the Cambridge Historical Society, held in the old Brattle House, June 17, 1905, it was proposed that the seal of the Society should show the Washington Elm. There was some objection to this, not that any one doubted the claims of the venerable tree to fame, but it seemed more fitting that the seal of the Society should embody the history of the town, and carry us back |