22 The New -York Historical Society may be able tc realize our dreams of larger activities and greater usefulness. During- the year your Director has again served as President of the Bibliographical Society of America and has delivered three lectures as Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Pennsylvania, in addition to occasional lectures delivered here in New York. He has served on various professional committees' and has found time for the writing of a few book reviews in addition to his regular duties. We deeply regret the resignation of Mr. Norvin H. Green from membership on our board of trustees but we are happy that we now have in Ms place our former board member, Mr. Stephen H. P. Pell. We welcome him back for we know that we shall benefit from his rich experience in the field of history and museum administration and from his friendly and understanding counsel. We record with sorrow the death, on September 30th, of our life member, John Ward Dunsmore. The following is the memorial tribute adopted by the Board of Trustees. JOHN WARD DUNSMORE 1854-1945 In the passing of our colleague, the artist John Ward Dunsmore, on September 30th, in his 90th year, the Society has lost a member who made many valuable contributions to its work and its collections. A native of Ohio, educated in Cincinnati, Paris, and the Detroit School of Arts, he specialized, after coming to New York about 1900, in painting portraits and historical scenes of the American Revolution. As a member of the Society's Field Exploration Committee, he helped excavate the large British hut camp at Inwood Hill, and he painted, and presented to our museum in 1919, a view of the camp as it must have looked during the British occupation. He was one of the members who explored Revolutionary War sites on Staten Island and in the Hudson Highlands,