HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER.

Any woman is eligible for membership in the NATIONAL SOCIETY, Daughters of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, who is of the age of eighteen years, and is descended from a patriot man or woman who aided in establishing American Independence, provided the applicant is acceptable to the Society. Family tradition alone in regard to the services of an ancestor, unaccompanied by proof will not be considered.

All persons duly qualified, who have been regularly admitted by the National Board of Management, shall be members of the National Society, but for purposes of convenience, they may be organized into local Chapters (those belonging to the National Society alone being known as members-at-large).

Application Blanks and Constitutions will be furnished on request by the State Regent of the State in which you reside, or by the "Corresponding Secretary General" at headquarters, 902 F street, Washington, D. C.

Applications should be made out in duplicate, one of which is kept on file at National Headquarters and one returned to file with a Chapter should one be joined.

The application must be endorsed by at least one member of the Society. The application, when properly filled out, should be directed to " Registrars General, D. A. R., Room 52, 902 F street, N. W., Washington, D. C."

The initiation fee is One Dollar; the annual dues are Two Dollars. The sum (Three Dollars) should be sent by check or money order, never by cash, to "Treasurer General, D. A. R., Washington, D. C." No application will be considered until this fee is paid. If not accepted this amount will be returned.

AT the April meeting of the National Board of Management, D. A. R., the following motion was unanimously passed:

“Resolved, That the following notice be inserted in the AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE: Chapters shall send to headquarters, D. A. R., 902 F street. Washington, D. C., notice of deaths, resignations, marriages and all changes of addresses and list of officers.'"'

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT..

FRIDAY, February 17, 1899. The National Board of Management met at 902 F street, at 10 o'clock.

Members present: Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Frye, Mrs. Jewett, Mrs. Burdette, Mrs. Stakeley, Mrs. Newcomb, Mrs. Main, Mrs. Sperry, Mrs. Abner Hoopes, Mrs. Slocum, Mrs. Shippen, Mrs. Depue, Mrs. Alger, Mrs. Holley, Miss Temple, Mrs. Cameron, Mrs. Akers, Mrs. Hatcher, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Benning, Miss Forsyth, Mrs. Belden, Mrs. Howard, Dr. McGee, Mrs. Darwin, Miss Hetzel, Mrs. Goodloe, Mrs. Fairbanks, Mrs. Colton, Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Henry, Mrs. Porter King. The meeting was called to order by the Recording Secretary General, who stated that a message had been received from the President General, who was too ill to attend the meeting. Nominations for a Chairman for the day were now in order. Mrs. Jewett was nominated and elected, and took the Chair. Prayer was offered by the Chaplain General.

The minutes of the previous meeting were called for. The Recording Secretary General asked the indulgence of the Board, explaining that the minutes were unavoidably delayed in being transcribed, but would be in readiness before the adjournment of the Board.

The reports were then called for in routine order, but the officers having failed to understand this to be the regular meeting of the Board, the same were presented irregularly.

Mrs. Hatch, Treasurer General, presented her report, which was accepted.

Mrs. Darwin, Librarian General, presented the following report, which was accepted.

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN GENERAL, February 17, 1899.-The following bound volumes have been added to the library since the last report: 1. Parliamentary Rules, by Mrs. E. H. Walworth, from the author; 2-3. Porcupine Gazette, two additional volumes; 4-10. Reports of Early Congresses, containing much information about Virginia grant lands (these seven volumes are the gift of our ever generous friend, Mr. Robert Stockwell Hatcher); 11. Old Kent, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, from Nicholas E. Jones; 12-13. Our Country, Vols. VI and VII, from Mr. Wilson L. Gill; 14. Fort Dusquesne and Fort Pitt, from the Pittsburg Chapter; 15. Reports of War Relief Board, Cleveland, Ohio, from Elroy M. Avery; 16. Early Connecticut Marriages; 17. Early Massachusetts Marriages (these two are from F. W. Bailey, in exchange); 18. Cateechee of Keeowel, from Mrs. Isabel D. Martin; 19. Notes and Queries, 1898, from Harrisburg Publishing Company; 20. Maryland Archives, Vol. XVII, from Mrs. J. P. Thom; 21. The Tuttle Family, from Mrs. M. A. Coverly.

Unbound volumes have also been received as follows: 1. Captain Roger Jones, of London and Virginia, from Mr. Nicholas E. Jones; 2. Record of the Pettibone Family; 3. Program of the Sa-go-ye-wat-ha Chapter; 4. Colonial Boundaries of Virginia and Maryland, from Gilbert Thompson; 5. A second copy of the same from the District of Columbia Society of Colonial Wars; 6-12. Presentation of the Battle Flags; Egypt, its Monuments, etc.; Transactions of the Oneida Historical Society, 1881-1884, 1885-1886, 1889-1892, 1895-1897, 1898, all from the Society in exchange; 13. "Who Built the Fort?" from the Pittsburg Chapter; 14. History of New York City Chapter, from the Historian, Miss Emma Lathrop; 15. By-Laws of the Denver Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, from the Chapter; 16. Elizabeth Ross Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, program and roster of members, from Mrs. Martha Thrall; 17. Fargo Blue Book, from Mrs. Lounsberry; 18. Report of National Officers. 1899; 19. Monument in memory of Rubena Hyde Walworth; 20-28. Nederlands Familie-Archief, being the genealogies of the Browne, Crommelin, Steyn, Meyner, Van Beeftingh, Lestenoven, Dumbar (Dunbar), Groenix Van Zoelen and Huyssen van Cattendyke families; 29. Banquet of the California Society, Sons of the American Revolution, in exchange.

The current periodicals were as follows: I. American Colonial Tracts, for October, 1898; 2. AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE, for February, 1899; 3. Connecticut Quarterly; 4. Annals of Iowa, Third Series, Vol. 3, No. 8; 5. Bulletin New York Public Library for January; 6. Spirit of '76, from the publishers.

Two books plates were received from the Vassar College Chapter, in exchange.

In my final report, it seems fitting that the needs of the library should be set forth more plainly than my inexperience enabled me to do when I began work two years ago. You will thus be better able to help my successor.

The Librarian should be the helper of the Registrar and the Historian. They trace genealogies and state facts. But she should be able to show where the facts and genealogies may be found. This can be done only through a very close index of the library. Those who have seen me at work have doubtless wondered how any one could possibly occupy so much time over so few books. But just as the card catalogue of members and ancestors are invaluable, so an index of the information of our books is a necessity. That is precisely what I have been trying to make during the last two years. It involves writing thousands of cards which shall serve as guides to the innumerable scattered references in our books to names to which there is no published clue. It also requires some judgment in selecting the facts to be indexed, that even one inexperienced can find the clue to the information sought. Time is very truly money in these busy days,

and such an index as described will save to the Society much time which is now spent in a search that would be needless if the facts buried in these volumes were readily accessible.

But one pair of hands cannot make an index of even one thousand two hundred and fifty books in two years, if the volumes must be begged for and suitably acknowledged when received, and if a look out is kept for new books and new ways by which to secure them. Though working as fast and as late as I could, the index is as yet only a part of what it should be. It embraces most of the books which have come in during my term, but with all diligence it has been impossible to work backwards very far. A mere catalogue of one thousand two hundred and fifty books by authors and titles is not much of a task. But we need an index, not merely a catalogue. Therefore, I hope that my successor may have a permanent, trained library clerk to help her in this work.

But the best index is of little service if the books are out of place. Some one must have the special duty of keeping them in their places. That means the presence of the Librarian or her assistant in the office from 9 a. m. until 4 or 5 p. m. Only a paid clerk could be expected to do that.

Additional shelves will soon be needed-indeed, are now neededand should be ordered immediately after the Congress, and a case will soon have to be provided for the growing scrap book.

Respectfully submitted.
(Signed)

GERTRUDE B. DARWIN,
Librarian General.

The Registrar General, Miss Hetzel, presented the following report: Applications presented, 232; applications verified awaiting dues, 48; applications on hand unverified, 55; badge permits issued, 184; deaths, -; resignations,

Miss Forsyth inquired if the acceptance of this report also meant the acceptance of the resignations; she was of the opinion that no resignations could be accepted by the Board, unless first submitted to the State Regent, she therefore moved that the report be accepted but not the resignations. Second. Mrs. Hoopes asked if it were not always the rule that resignations were presented to the Chapters first, and then forwarded to the Board for acceptance? Mrs. Hatch answered this question as follows: "The Chapters send in many and most of the resignations and deaths. When they are received, I generally write to them inquiring if they wish to resign from the Society or Chapter only, so these resignations have been through the hands of the Chapter Regents before presented here."

Miss Forsyth stated that from her experience she thought it more advisable not to accept the resignations.

Mrs. Hatch stated that often when members were in arrears for

their dues, they sent in their resignations, but she thought they should be "dropped."

Miss Hetzel recalled the fact that in February the Board accepted ten resignations. The minutes being called for, the Recording Secretary read an extract from the February minutes. Miss Forsyth then moved that the report be accepted, with the exceptions of the resignations. Carried.

Mrs. Darwin moved the announcement of deaths be accepted with regret. Carried.

Dr. McGee moved that the Recording Secretary cast the ballot for the new members. Carried.

Mrs. Henry, Corresponding Secretary, made the following report: Letters received, 188; letters answered, 93; postals, 52; application blanks issued, 2,492; officers' lists, 160; Caldwell's circulars, 160; Constitutions, 306. Report was accepted.

Mrs. Fairbanks, Chairman of the Finance Committee, presented her report, which, after discussion, was accepted.

Mrs. Frye, Chairman of the Auditing Committee, stated there was no report from this committee as the Treasurer's books were in the hands of the Auditor.

Mrs. Hatcher, Chairman of Printing Committee, presented her report, which was accepted.

No reports from the following committees, which were called for in order by the Chairman: Revolutionary Relics, Mrs. Lindsay, Chairman; Magazine, Miss Forsyth, Chairman; University, Mrs. Walworth, Chairman; relative to this committee, Mrs. Newcomb stated that circulars had been sent out, committees formed, but no work accomplished yet, but that Mrs. Walworth will report to the Congress.

In the absence of the Vice-President General in Charge of Organization, Mrs. Howard presented the following report: Upon the resignation of Mrs. Adelaide F. G. Chase, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Mrs. Caroline B. Tufts has been appointed by the State Regent to form a Chapter there. The report was accepted.

No report from the Assistant Historian General.

Mrs. Darwin stated that there was no report to be submitted relative to the report to be sent to the Smithsonian Institution, but that report would be made to the Congress now and would be forwarded to the Smithsonian immediately.

Miss Temple, chairman of the Committee on Historical Scholarship, stated that the committee would report officially to the Congress, but she wished to refer to the work in contemplation as it was a grand undertaking and the accomplishing of the same would be a great glory to the National Society. The course is to be of high grade to be donated to a college graduate, and to be of two or three years' duration.

Mrs. Hatch presented an invitation to the Daughters of the Ameri