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At the stated monthly meeting of the Century, held October 2, 1886, the President of the Association was, on motion of Mr. Louis Lang, requested to prepare an address on "the long and industrious life of Asher B. Durand, one of the founders of the Century," then recently deceased. The address was accordingly prepared, and was read before the Century at a meeting, held at the rooms of the Association on the evening of Saturday, April 9, 1887, to which were especially invited the officers of the New York Historical Society and of the National Academy of Design.

At the conclusion of the address, the Association requested a copy of it for publication; and, subsequently, a committee was appointed to print it for the Century, "with a reproduction of the portrait, now the property of the Club, as a frontispiece."

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