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The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 1941. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," "Declension in a Bible Commonwealth," and "The Reverend Robert Jenney."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 21, 1953. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "American Literature: The First Seventy-Five Years," and "Calvin Coolidge: Twenty Years After."

The article offers information on the activities of the American Antiquarian Society. Completion of library construction is mentioned. The author reflects on the Society's collections of colonial paper currency and the study of engraving and printing. The length of the membership of historian John M. Merriam is discussed. Other topics include the geographical distribution of membership, members from Worcester, Massachusetts involved in the administrative affairs of the Society, and the development of collections.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 13, 1948. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Yankee Sailing Ship Records" and "Francisco López de Gómara and his Works."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 16, 1946. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "A New England Friendship: John Adams and Henry Knox" and "Peter Martyr and his Works."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 17, 1945. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The presentations given at the meeting are also listed, including the paper "Varnum's Ministerial Oppression: A Revolutionary Drama."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 21, 1942. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including discussion of the National Geographic Society, 18th-century landscape painters, and the Louisiana Purchase.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 15, 1941. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Horatio Gates Spafford and His Historical Activities" and "The Press in the New England Town."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 16, 1940. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Jean Lafitte in the War of 1812," "John Watson: Painter, Merchant, and Capitalist."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 17, 1934. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Ebenezer Cooke and the Maryland Muse" and "The Libraries of the Presidents."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Library of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 18, 1933. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Journal of a Belated Puritan, 1835-1853," "William Gaston, an Old-Fashioned Federalist," and "Champlain and his Landings at Cape Ann."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 1933. A list of presiding members is given, mention of the death of former society president Calvin Coolidge is provided, and a list of papers presented at the meeting is included such as "General Washington and the Loyalists," "The Early Circus in America," and "The Narragansett Planters."

Information about the October 19, 1927 annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society is presented. Papers imparted were: "East Florida as a Refuge of the Southern Loyalists, " by Wilbur H. Siebert; "General Grant's Opinion of the War with Mexico," by Justin H. Smith; and "Lewis Hughes, the Militant Minister of the Bermudas, and his Printed Works," by George Watson Cole. The meeting also discussed the resignation of Waldo Lincoln as president of the Society, elections held for new officers, and the acceptance of new members.

The article discusses several news briefs concerning the American Antiquarian Society, presented at their annual meeting on October 17, 1917 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The author states that there are no deaths of Society members to report since their last meeting. The financial aspects of the Society are talked about, and the author states that they are insufficient for their needs. The library of the Society and the growth of its collection over 10 years is also discussed. The article closes by talking about a collection of South American papers that have been acquired from Harvard University in Massachusetts.

The article presents the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 24, 1901. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. A memorial to the late scholar Edward Elbridge Salisbury is discussed. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, along with commentary by members of the Society.

The article presents the proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Society in Worcester, Massachusetts on October 24, 1894. A list of presiding members is included. The results of society office elections are given. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Analysis of the Pictorial Text Inscribed on two Palenque Tablets," by Philipp J. J. Valentini, and "The Rival Claimants for North America 1497-1755," by Justin Winsor.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 17, 1946. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The New England Town: A Way of Life," by Carl Bridenbaugh and responding remarks by selected society members.

Information about the April 13, 1927 semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society is presented. Papers imparted were: "The India Ventures of Fisher Ames, " by Samuel E. Morison; "The Boston Edition of the Baskett Bible," by Charles L. Nichols; and "A General View of the Common Origin of the Middle Colonies," by Hampton L. Carson. The meeting also discussed new members and membership in the society, and sending delegates from the society to the Bi-Centennial of the American Philosophical Society.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 27, 1904. A list of presiding members is included. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Commercial Primacy of the United States," a biography of Henry S. Nourse, and "The Attempted Suicide of a Massachusetts Town."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 1953. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine," and "Collecting Western Americana."

Information is offered on semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 1952. Topics discussed include the election of members to the society and the presentation of the papers "Lincoln and Prohibition— Blazes on a Zigzag Trail" by Harry Lydenberg and "Early History of the Square-Dance" by S. Foster Damon.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 21, 1943. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Francis Wayland, a Pioneer in Higher Education" and "Whittier: Historian of Quakerism."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 1942. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Part of an Almanack," "Further Notes on John Watson," and "Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger."

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 17, 1940. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Libraries of Harvard and of the Mathers," "Those Human Puritans," and "David Claypoole Johnston, the American Cruikshank."

Information is offered on a semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society in Boston, Massachusetts on April 17, 1929. Topics discussed include gifts from the former society president Charles Lemuel Nichols and presentations of the papers "The Spanish Manuscripts of the Florida State Historical Society" by James A Robertson and "The Development of the Clipper Ship" by Charles E. Clark.