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(1904.)
EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SECRETARY
OF THE
Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland.
Mr. President and Gentlemen:
In reviewing the events of the past year, the eighteenth of our
existence as a Society, my report will for want of material
naturally be very brief.
The year was an exceedingly quiet one. But seven monthly
meetings took place and only one orginal article was presented,
viz: „Als Deutsche in Venezuela regierten" by Judge Otto
Schoenrich of Porto Rico.
Not one active member was added to our number, but
several were lost, among them by death Hon. G. A. Dobler,
who departed this life on September 4th, 1903, and Captain
Dietrich Hoelljes who died October 15th, 1903, so that we
close the present year with but forty-two names on our member-
ship list. It is deserving of special mention that Mr. Eberhard
Niemann, one of the original members of this Society and its
first Treasurer, though now residing for quite a number of
years in Germany, is still one of our contributing members.
The number of our friends, who remembered us during
the year by donations to our Library has not diminished; they
are:
The Proprietors of the two daily German papers of this City.
The Enoch Pratt Free Library.
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The American Jewish Historical Society.
The Ohio Archæological and Historical Society.
The German American Historical Society of Illinois.
The New York State University.
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
The Historical Society of Virginia.
The Franklin and Marshall College.
The Drew Theological Seminary.
The Pennsylvania Genæological Society.
The Illinois State Historical Library.
The New York State Library.
Mr. J. G. Rosengarten of Philadelphia and individual mem-
bers of our own Library.
The correspondence and inquiries addressed to this Society
from different parties and on different subjects was quite consid-
erable.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
F. PH. HENNIGHAUSEN, Sec'y.
Baltimore, February 16, 1904.