The 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society was celebrated on
Tuesday evening, Nov. 22, 1904, by a banquet. The president announced
that Mr. Henry Dexter, a fellow member had presented to the Society the
sum of $150,000, and in addition the granite for the entire front of the
central portion of the new building, Central Park West, 76th–77th Sts. A
medal in bronze and silver has been struck to commemorate the founding
of the institution.
At an annual meeting (Jan. 3d, 1905), of the Society, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Samuel V.
Hoffman; first vice-president, Frederic W. Jackson; second
vice-president, Francis R. Schell; foreign corresponding secretary,
Archer M. Huntington; domestic corresponding secretary, George R.
Schieffelin; recording secretary, Acosta Nichols; treasurer, Charles A.
Sherman; librarian, Robert H. Kelby.
At a stated meeting held February 7th, Mr. A. Emerson Palmer, Secretary
of Board of Education, read a very interesting and instructive address
on “A Century of Public Schools in the City of New York,” with
stereopticon illustrations.
The Society resolved to take measures to celebrate in 1909 the
ter-centenary of the discovery of this part of North America by Henry
Hudson, the 200th anniversary of that event having been celebrated by
the Society on September 4th, 1809.