Excerpt from De Witt Historical Society of Tompkins County: Publications No; 1, I. Sketch of the Work; II. Rulloff: The Great Criminal and Philologist
Both regular and special meetings have been held statedly during four of the past five years, at which the following papers were read and business transacted.
I. The importance of the Study of Local History. Prof. H. Morse Stephens. Meeting held in the Ithaca High School.
II. The Early Formative Influences of Central New York. William Elliot Griffis. House of Dr. and Mrs. E. H. Kyle.
III. Ithaca of Fifty Years Ago, as Seen by a Boy. Dean T. F. Crane. Residence of Hon. and Mrs. S. D. Halliday.
IV. Rulloff, the Great Criminal and Philologist. Hon. S. D. Halliday. Ithaca High School.
V. Annual Meeting. Election of officers and vote to erect tablet commemorating Sullivan's Expedition of 1779. President's address. House of Mr. and Mrs. Gillette.
VI. Changes in the Natural History of a Newly Opened Country. Prof. Liberty Hyde Bailey. Illustrated by the stereopticon, in charge of Mr. Seth Sheldon. Ithaca High School.
VII. Notes, Historical and Otherwise, of the Birds of Tompkins County. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Illustrated with drawings by the author. Residence of Mrs. Fanny E. Bostwick.
VIII. The Battle of Newtown, August 29th, 1779. Dr Walter H. Ottman. The Continentals of 1779 in Tompkins County. The President. Loan Exhibition of Indian Relics exhumed an South Geneva Street, Ithaca. House of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus E. Calkins.
IX. Some Ithaca Families of the First Half of the Last Century. Mr Charles D. Johnson. Rooms of the Business Men's Association.
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