Note and Comment.

At a meeting of the Longfellow Memorial Association, held Saturday evening at the house of Mr. Arthur Gilman on Watertown street, Cambridge, Dean G. Z. Gray presiding, the following officers were elected: President, James Russell Lowell; vice-presidents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John G. Whittier, Charles W. Eliot, Stanton Blake, E. N. Horsford; secretary, Arthur Gilman; treasurer, Benjamin Vaughn; committee on plans, James R. Lowell, Asa Gray, Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Van Brunt, John Trowbridge, W. P. P. Longfellow; board of directors, James Russell Lowell, Arthur Gilman, Benjamin Vaughn, William Eustis Russell, Francis C. Foster, James B. Ames, H. P. Walcott, William Lawrence, Samuel L. Montague, Alexander McKenzie, H. E. Scudder, George Zabriskie Gray, T. W. Higginson, Charles E. Norton, J. G. Thorp, Jr.

A committee reported that the album containing the English letters which accompanied the present of copies of the Longfellow bust placed in Westminster Abbey be presented the Maine Historical Society at Portland. The report was accepted, after which a vote was adopted that the album be retained by the association.