Excerpt from The Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell: Class of 1882 of New York As this was an extraordinary meeting Of our association, and for an extraordinary occa sion, it seemed to be proper, and I suggested to the committee on arrangements, that there should be an extraordinary chairman to con duct it. The suggestion did not meet with the favor that I expected or that I thought it deserved. I was compelled to yield to the wishes of my associates and take the chair, presumably because I chance to be the suc cessor Of our lamented associate and friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.