ACTIVITIES OF THE SOCIETY AS announced in the April Bulletin, a graduate course of -Z~\ fifteen fully-illustrated lectures on early American painting is being conducted this autumn by Mr. William Sawitzky, in the Society's building, under the auspices of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. It is open to graduate students and to the public upon registration and payment of the University term fee. The lectures will be presented every Friday afternoon at 2:30 P.M. beginning September 27th, in the Painting Study Room on the Fifth Floor of the Society's building. For further information about admission to the course, inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Walter W. S. Cook at the Institute of Fine Arts, 17 East 80th Street, New York City. The material for the course will be drawn from Mr. Sawitzky's interesting experiences as a student of early American painting for the past twenty-five years, during which he has examined nearly ten thousand oil paintings, pastels, and miniatures. Mr. George A. Zabriskie, President of the Society, delivered an address on "Oliver Evans, the Miller," on the afternoon of June twelfth, at the unveiling of a memorial to Oliver Evans (i755-i8ig), in Trinity Cemetery, New York City. During the summer a number of changes were made in the museum galleries. Cases were rearranged and objects which have not been shown recently were placed on exhibition. Because of limited space, the rotation system has been adopted in some of the galleries, so that visitors may have the opportunity of seeing all of the Society's many and varied collections, at different times. The September "Exhibition of the Month" featured "The Star Spangled Banner," which was written by Francis Scott Key in September, 1814. Notices have been sent to shareholders in the John Watts — 126 —