[43] Charles Pinckney Sumner, afterwards a lawyer in Boston,
        and for many years sheriff of the county of Suffolk.

[44] A black man who sold pies and cakes.

[45] Written after a general pruning of the trees around
        Harvard College.

[46] Doctor of Medicine, or Student of Medicine.

[47] Referring to the masks and disguises worn by the members
        at their meetings.

[48] A picture representing an examination and initiation into
        the Society, fronting the title-page of the Catalogue.

[49] Leader Dam, Armig., M.D. et ex off L.K. et LL.D. et
        J.U.D. et P.D. et M.U.D, etc., etc., et ASS.

        He was an empiric, who had offices at Boston and
        Philadelphia, where he sold quack medicines of various
        descriptions.

[50] Christophe, the black Prince of Hayti.

[51] It is said he carried the bones of Tom Paine, the infidel,
        to England, to make money by exhibiting them, but some
        difficulty arising about the duty on them, he threw them
        overboard.

[52] He promulgated a theory that the earth was hollow, and
        that there was an entrance to it at the North Pole.

[53] Alexander the First of Russia was elected a member, and,
        supposing the society to be an honorable one, forwarded to
        it a valuable present.

[54] He made speeches on the Fourth of July at five or six
        o’clock in the morning, and had them printed and ready for
        sale, as soon as delivered, from his cart on Boston
        Common, from which he sold various articles.

[55] Tibbets, a gambler, was attacked by Snelling through the
        columns of the New England Galaxy.

[56] Referring to the degree given to the Russian Alexander,
        and the present received in return.

[57] 1851.

[58] See DIG.  In this case, those who had parts at two
        Exhibitions are thus designated.

[59] Jonathan Leonard, who afterwards graduated in the class of
        1786.

[60] 1851.

[61] William A. Barron, who was graduated in 1787, and was
        tutor from 1793 to 1800, was “among his contemporaries in
        office ... social and playful, fond of bon-mots,
        conundrums, and puns.”  Walking one day with Shapleigh and
        another gentleman, the conversation happened to turn upon
        the birthplace of Shapleigh, who was always boasting that
        two towns claimed him as their citizen, as the towns,
        cities, and islands of Greece claimed Homer as a native. 
        Barron, with all the good humor imaginable, put an end to
        the conversation by the following epigrammatic
        impromptu:—­