TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT

Bryden B. Hyde, President of Historic Annapolis, Inc.; William S.
James, Harford County member of the State Senate and historian of
Spesutk Island; G. Bucher John, Clerk of the Circuit Court for Carroll
County; Robert Jackson Kerr II, Executive Director, Preservation Society
of Newport County, Rhode Island; Louise D. C. King, Librarian, Medi-
cal and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland; Herbert E. Klin-
gelhofer, biographer of Matthew Ridley; Reverend Robert Lawthers,
Deacon in Charge, Trinity Parish, Charles County.

Others were Reverend Thomas T. McAvoy, Archivist, University
of Notre Dame; Robert H. McDonough, Director, Division of the State
Library, Archives and History, New Jersey; Reverend Willard S. Mc-
Ginnis, Rector, All Faith Parish, St. Mary's County; Cora McNamara,
Deputy Clerk, Circuit Court for Dorchester County; Reverend Arthur
Pierce Middleton, Rector, St. Paul's Church, Brookfield Center, Con-
necticut; Walter E. Minchington, Professor at the University College of
Swansea, Wales; Daniel M. Murray, Howard County Delegate to the
General Assembly; George W. Nutwell, Register of Wills for Anne
Arundel County; Elizabeth Packard, Director of Restoration, Walters
Art Gallery; Mrs. Henry C. Patterson, Friends Historical Library,
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Mark O. Pilchard, Worcester County Dele-
gate to the General Assembly; Martha Sprigg Poole and Katherine R.
Poole, co-authors of an article on Mt. Airy, Charles County; H. E.
Reinhard, student of post offices and postmarks in Maryland to 1847;
Irwin S. Rhodes, historian of early Jewish life in America; Orlando
Ridout IV, Anne Arundel County Delegate to the General Assembly;
John Beverley Riggs, Research Associate, The Longwood Library, Long-
wood, Delaware.

Other visitors were Reverend Nelson W. Rightmyer, Histori-
ographer of the Diocese of Maryland, author of Maryland's Established
Church and The Parishes of the Diocese of Maryland; Milton Rubin-
cam, editor, National Genealogical Society Quarterly; Reverend Edwin
Schell, President, Methodist Historical Society of the Baltimore Con-
ference; Frank J. Schwartz of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory and
student of shell fish; George B. Scriven of the Harford County His-
torical Society; Fred Shelley, Head, Presidential Papers Section, Manu-
script Division, The Library of Congress; Robert C. Smith, Department
of History, University of Pennsylvania; Neil Strawser, news commen-
tator and biographer of Samuel Chase; Jean Stephenson, Fellow of the
American Society of Genealogists; Harrison Tilghman of Easton, family