Meeting of the Board of Overseers.

A special meeting of the Board of Overseers was held yesterday morning, at 50 State street, Boston, at eleven o'clock. Solomon Lincoln, president of the board, occupied the chair. It was voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing Edward Cornelius Briggs, M. D., D. M. D., professor of materia medica and therapeutics, and appointing Morris Hickey Morgan, Ph. D., assistant professor of Latin for five years, from September 1, 1896, and Charles Wesley Birtwell, A. B., lecturer on scientific methods in philanthrophy, for 1896-97.

The whole matter on the question of voting for overseers by graduates of professional schools was referred to the stated meeting in April.