The New-York Historical Society Henry Parish, Third Vice-President, and Mr. James Lenox Banks, Fourth Vice-President. Mr. Zabriskie gave up the office of Treasurer when elected President, and was succeeded by Mr. LeRoy E. Kimball, who was elected Treasurer in May. New members of the Board of Trustees are: Mr. Lewis L. Delafield The Rev. Millard L. Robinson Mr. Louis C. Wills Mr. William T. Van Alstyne Mr. Arthur Delano Weekes A memorial account of the death of John Abeel Weekes was printed in the July, 1939 issue of our Quarterly Bulletin. Following are the memorial minutes adopted by the Board of Trustees upon the deaths of Augustus C. Hone and Harris Fahnestock: AUGUSTUS CRANE HONE On Sunday, September 17, 1939, Augustus Crane Hone died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City in the sixty-sixth year of his age. Mr. Hone was born at Morristown, N. J., on June 17, 1874, the son of John and Mary Crane Hone. He was a great-great-grand- nephew of Philip Hone, one-time Mayor of the City of New York, and a great-grandson of Commodore Matthew Galbraith Perry. As a young man, Mr. Hone attended the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y., from which he received the degree of civil engineer in 1896. He married Alice Castleman, daughter of General John Breckinridge of Kentucky. They have a daughter, Mary C. Hone. Mr. Hone became a member of The New-York Historical Society in 1929, and the same year was appointed a member of the Executive Committee. In 1935 he was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Society, which office he held at the time of his death. His ever-active interest in the Society's welfare, serving on the Membership, Art, and New Building Committees, brought him into close contact with the work of the Society. ~ 16 ~