lecture attendees was Caroline Healey Dall. In addition, as part of the society's effort to improve the minds of its members, it published a reading list. The short list of titles "recommended to those members of the Society, who may seek any direction as to the matter and the course of their reading" consisted of: David Hume's History of England Walter Scott's History of Scotland William Robertson's History of America John Marshall's History of the American Colonies Thomas Hutchinson's, George Richards Minot's and Alden Bradford's Histories of Massachusetts Caleb Snow's History of Boston William Gordon's American Revolution Henry Lee's Southern Campaigns John Marshall's Life of Washington Washington Irving's A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus Life of Franklin, James Otis, Patrick Henry, Josiah Quincy, Fulton, the Signers of the Declaration of Independence 1st vol. of Malte Brun's Geography Timothy Flint's Valley of the Mississippi William Paley's Natural Theology John Mason Good's Book of Nature Jane Marcet's Conversations on Vegetable Physiology and Elements of Botany Isaac Ray's Conversations on Animal Economy Stewart's and Thomas Brown's Philosophy of the Mind Neil Arnott's Elements of Physicks Jacob Bigelow's Technology William Paley's Moral Philosophy Adam Ferguson on Civil Society William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England 1st vol. of James Kent's Commentaries on American Law Works of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hill Everett's Europe and America Jean-Baptiste Say's Political Economy Willard Phillips on Insurance The society also donated money for purchase of books to Boston's Mercantile Library Association and the Mechanic Apprentices Library Association. Lectures 1829 Edward Everett: "The Biography of Franklin" Walter Channing: "On Physical Education, Including the History of the Ancient Gymnasium;" "On the Means of Promoting and Preserving the Health of Communities, and the History and Operation of Quarantine Law;" "Aqueducts or the Means and Advantages of Supplying Cities with Water" Francis Lieber: "Causes of the Decline of the Turkish Empire" Chandler Robbins, M.D.: "Animal Mechanics" 1830 Alexander H. Everett: "The History of Civilization" Alonzo Potter: "The Theory of Morals" John Park: "On Sensation, the Source of Knowledge and the Means by Which Truth May Be Ascertained" William Sullivan: "The Constancy of Human Nature Illustrated by the Physical and Moral Character of War in the Past Ages" John Pickering: "Uncertainty of the Law"; "The Moral Sciences and Belles Lettres as Branches of Useful Knowledge" Davis: "On Natural Sciences" F.W.P. Greenwood: "The Nature and Power of Moral Circumstances"; "On