CLASS OF 1879

George W. Putnam has retired from a connection of nearly forty years with the C. I. Hood Company of Lowell, Mass., and has purchased a residence in his old home town, Amherst, N. H.

In September last Judge Charles M. Hough of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals was appointed by President Harding senior delegate on behalf of the United States to an International Maritime Conference, to be held in Brussels in October, for the purpose of considering certain specified subjects of maritime law. The United States delegates were directed not only to go to Brussels, but to go there by the way of London, and attend in the latter city a meeting of what is known as the International Maritime Committee, being the central body of a large number of maritime law societies scattered all over the world. He attended both meetings, where the principal matters considered were the possible regulation, by international agreement, of the following important subjects, viz.: "Limitation of Ship Owners' Liability"; "Ship Mortgages, and Maritime Liens Affecting; the Same"; "Rules for the Carrying of Goods at Sea under Bills of Lading"; and "The Immunity from Suit or Seizure of Publicly Owned Vessels." The result was that what diplomats might call a "protocol" was signed, recommending for further and favorable consideration forms of treaties as to the first three subjects, while the last subject was relegated to the further consideration of a sub-committee to report at another and future maritime conference to' be called, as before, by the Belgian government.

Secretary, Henry Melville, 45 Cedar St., New York