day he complained of a feeling of faintness, said he felt ill and should not recover; and in a few minutes was insensible with symptoms of ingravescent apoplexy.  There was extensive haemorrhage into the brain, as shown by post-mortem examination, the cerebral vessels being atheromatous.  The fatal haemorrhage had occurred into the lateral ventricles, from rupture of one of the middle cerebral arteries.

                                   I am, my dear Sir,
                                             Yours very truly,
          
                                             William W. Gull.

E.

From the proceedings of the Massachusetts society.

At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held on Thursday, the 14th of June, 1877, after the reading of the records of the preceding meeting, the president, the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, spoke as follows: 

“Our first thoughts to-day, gentlemen, are of those whom we may not again welcome to these halls.  We shall be in no mood, certainly, for entering on other subjects this morning until we have given some expression to our deep sense of the loss—­the double loss—­which our Society has sustained since our last monthly meeting.”—­[Edmund Quincy died May 17.  John Lothrop Motley died May 29.]

After a most interesting and cordial tribute to his friend, Mr. Quincy, Mr. Winthrop continued: 

“The death of our distinguished associate, Motley, can hardly have taken many of us by surprise.  Sudden at the moment of its occurrence, we had long been more or less prepared for it by his failing health.  It must, indeed, have been quite too evident to those who had seen him, during the last two or three years, that his life-work was finished.  I think he so regarded it himself.

“Hopes may have been occasionally revived in the hearts of his friends, and even in his own heart, that his long-cherished purpose of completing a History of the Thirty Years’ War, as the grand consummation of his historical labors,—­for which all his other volumes seemed to him to have been but the preludes and overtures,—­ might still be accomplished.  But such hopes, faint and flickering from his first attack, had well-nigh died away.  They were like Prescott’s hopes of completing his ‘Philip the Second,’ or like Macaulay’s hopes of finishing his brilliant ‘History of England.’

“But great as may be the loss to literature of such a crowning work from Motley’s pen, it was by no means necessary to the completeness of his own fame.  His ‘Rise of the Dutch Republic,’ his ’History of the United Netherlands,’ and his ‘Life of John of Barneveld,’ had abundantly established his reputation, and given him a fixed place among the most eminent historians of our country and of our