Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Reports of the annual meetings in October, 1887 and 1888, of the stated meeting in April, 1888, and of a special meeting of the Council on October 20, 1888, following the death of Dr. Joseph Sargent, With the papers presented at these meetings, make up the Fifth Volume, New Series. Of the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. The Hori. George F. Hoar, elected as President in October, 1884, felt com pelled by the pressure of other duties to lay down the othee after three years of service, and was succeeded by Stephen Salisbury, a.m. In October, 1887, was inaugurated the plan of publishing an essay, - written by the member of the Council to Whom was assigned the duty of prepar ing the semi-annual report, - as a separate paper and not as a part of the report itself. So we have herewith essays from Prof. Franklin B. Dexter, on the Estimates of Population in the American Colonies; from President Salisbury, on Early Books and Libraries; and from Rev. Dr. Edward E. Hale, on the Naval History of the Revolution. 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.