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RUSCHENBERGER HENRY PHILLIPS, JR. oe gapres er eeripeeyemychc er a J e: es E ‘Z - a anette “LEL ON ‘IHAXX “TOA *ALBIOOS IWOIHdOSOTIHd NVOINSWY 3HL JO SONIGSSZOONd SRT "LEL “ON “ILAXX “TOA a ES as aa "ALBIOOS IWOIHdOSOTIHY NVOINSWY 3HL 4O SONIGZS0ONd vce ke iis ietaearienis "ALBIOO§ IWOIHdOSOTHd NVOINAaWY BHI JO SONIGAZIOUd & ¢ g t 7 ' 4 3 H 7 ae Xo, ae ha ER NE ne Si taiat cetaceans ete aeeeedl me — 5 ees ae all TEE aaa “LEL ON HAXX~ S$ IOIHdOSOTIH v aH ‘ALBIOOS WOIHdOSOTIHY NVOINSWY 3HL 4O SONIGAZOOUd “—¢ SS FOS STAT St COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN PertLOSOPHICAL SOCIETY'S OCCUPATION OF ITS PRESENT HALL, NOVEMBER 21, 1880. At the stated meeting of the Society held on May 17, 1889, the following Resolution from the Commit- tee on Hall was unanimously adopted: RESOLVED, That a proper Commemorative Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of the American Philosophical Society’s occupation of its present Hall, on November 21, 1789, be held on November 21, 1889, the subject and order of exercises to be referred to a Special Committee of six members with power to take action on the matter. In accordance with the resolution, the President ap- pointed as such Committee, J. Sergeant Price, Esq., Chairman, and Messrs. Richard Vaux, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, William A. Ingham, Charles A. Oliver and Henry Phillips, Jr. 4 Proceedings at the Hall. On the afternoon of November 21, 1889, at 4 o'clock, Hon. Freperick Fravtey, LL.D., THE PREsI- DENT of the Society, delivered the following address at the Hall of the Society: Associates and Friends : It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to this ancient edifice, which has been the home of the Ameri- can Philosophical Society for one hundred years, It — stands on a portion of the old State House Square, in Philadelphia, about which and the buildings standing upon it cluster so many precious historic and patriotic memories. The site for it was granted by the Com- monwealth of Pennsylvania in the year 1785, after a persistent struggle on the part of the Society to obtain aspot upon which to locate its dwelling-place, and itis a source of high gratification to all those who have succeeded in the membership of the Society that such a place was selected for its home. It stands in close proximity to the other monumental buildings upon the square, is not distinguished by any architectural pre- tensions, but is a simple, home-like building, frequently mistaken as a part of the municipal buildings which surround it. As the passers in the streets go to and fro they identify it with the city buildings and have no consciousness that it is the ancient home of a great scientific institution. The members of that day had considerable trouble, — of course, in raising the necessary funds for the erec- tion of such a building. It was one of quite large pro- portions then, and it occupied some thought so to ey iol PE Ree: GLAS Ts, ae ee men oe ay pee aN a 5 adjust the apartments to the expected purposes of the institution as to have space, convenience and harmony of arrangements. But when the members of the Society and visitors from abroad enter its por- tals to ascend to these rooms, memories of the past naturally arise in their hearts, and they feel that they are surrounded by a different atmosphere from that which prevails below. Their thoughts are exalted to the purposes of such an institution, and after looking over its treasures and appreciating what so many years have gathered together they are prepared to go, reinforced by its associations, and hopeful that such an institution may continue for many years to come. The property was granted in perpetuity by the ~ Commonwealth, with permission to rent such parts of the building as were not needed for its immediate use, and from the time it was erected to the present hour considerable portions of it have been under rental, largely contributing to the income of the Society and enabling it to work out its career of usefulness. It has been attempted, upon several occasions, to dispose of our interests in the site and building, but we are limited in these respects to a sale to the city of Philadelphia, to the county of Philadelphia, to the State of Pennsyl- vania, and to the United States, for courts of justice or purposes cognate thereto. Thus it has happened that upon two occasions arrangements have been made to sell it to the city of Philadelphia and once to sell it to the United States, but happily, perhaps, for the institu- tion, those sales were not consummated, and we still remain in our ancient dwelling-place. Yet when our Committee on Hall moved the Society to hold this celebration, it seems to me that they meant to admon-. 6 ish us of the fact that the time was rapidly approaching when we must dispose of our property here. In the year 1870 the Legislature created a Building Commission for the purpose of erecting a City Hall on Penn Square, and they connected with that enact- ment a provision that when those buildings were com- pleted the Building Commission should remove from this beloved square all the buildings standing upon it except the venerable State House, Independence Hall, supposing that would bea sufficient monument to per- petuate all the patriotic thoughts clustering about the city of Philadelphia. I feel embarrassed when I have to talk of our part- ing with our ancient home. It is associated in my mind with so much pleasure, with so much instruction, that perhaps I ought to hope that I may not live to see the Society part with it. But there are considerations connected with this subject which I think ought to weigh with the members of the Society, when they consider the vast amount of precious treasures that we have accumulated here in the shape of our library, our collections, our manuscripts, our portraits, and so many things of which all feel pride in the possession. We havea building fund slowly accumulating, which, in time, independently of the sale of this property, might provide for the erection of a fire-proof build- ing, and we ought, perhaps, to look a little beyond our own immediate wants and ascertain, when the time of removal comes, whether there are not kindred asso- ciations in the city of Philadelphia with which we could unite in erecting a temple to useful knowledge, to the fine arts, to the mechanic arts, and to all those arts which contribute to the happiness and. welfare of mankind. —_ ee ah a ee Street AMCs Mba wird 7 It may be appropriate in the progress of this address to make a brief reference to the history of the Society itself. When Benjamin Franklin came to | _ the city of Philadelphia about the year 1727, he formed that celebrated Junto which he has so admirably de- scribed in his autobiography, an association of his friends pledged to each other for mutual improvement, for the study of the philosophy and science of that day, and for disseminating their ideas by discussions and essays that might appear in the public prints. It appears that for the forty years this Junto was in existence, it was always in the thoughts of that eminent and patriotic man, so urgent in the performance of his duties, so apt to every exigency, that even after it had existed for forty years he wrote to his friends in Phila- delphia, calling their attention to the fact that the Junto still existed, and urging upon them the propriety of keeping up its meetings and further developing its usefulness and prosperity. In 1743, on the 25th of May—new style—Benjamin Franklin published a pros- pectus for the establishment of an American Philo- sophical Society. In that prospectus he described with minute precision the objects that such a society should have, the methods to prosecute them, the means by which it might obtain success, and the organization which seemed to him to be necessary to bring about perfection to such an institution. With keen foresight he saw that the chief labor of sucha society and such an organization would devolve upon the active mind which had originated it, and. with the simplicity and adaptation of his great character he proposed himself for the humble office of secretary in the society, and for many years acted in that capacity ; 8 and the minutes in his handwriting are to a great extent now in our possession. But 1743 was quite too early for an institution having such vast objects in view, expecting so much to be done by its members, and hoping to associate with them distinguished men from abroad to contribute to its proceedings and records. So the society had a sort of intermittent existence for many years, and in 1750 a new Junto made its appearance, established upon the same prin- ciples as the ancient Junto of Franklin, composed of many of his friends, and for awhile it seems to have been mistaken for the old Junto itself. But the exami- nation of the records of our Society and of the tradi- tions by Dr. R. M. Patterson, collected in 1843, when the Society celebrated the Centennial of its organiza- tion, seem to afford conclusive proof that it was a new Junto, copied from the old one, endeavoring to carry out the same objects and in the same way, and with the same number of members, the same traditions and everything that seemed to equip it for usefulness in such a crude form. It went on, and in the year 1758, as far as 1 have been able to determine, it, too, formed a society for the promotion of useful knowledge. It embraced in its membership many of the distinguished men of the city of Philadelphia. It had for its president the Hon, James Hamilton, who was governor of the province — of Pennsylvania, and with quite a worthy band of associates seemed, so far as the simplicity of those times could go with the need of educated minds to prosecute scientific research, to be accomplishing quite a useful purpose. But it was soon found that there was no room for two such societies, and gradu- 9 ally the authorities of each, in friendly conference, tried to bring them together, and after some diplomacy, and some difficulties about the status that the mem- bers of each should occupy in a new organization, the union was happily effected, in the month of Decem- ber, 1768, and on the 2d of January, 1769, Benjamin Franklin, the honored scientist, the great statesman, the man of affairs, was elected President of the Society, and the subordinate officers were about equally divided among the members of the two insti- tutions. The new society took the title of “The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for Pro- moting Useful Knowledge,” and such has been its honored and honorable designation from that time to the present hour. I have thus briefly sketched the history of the build- ing in which we are now assembled, and, as briefly, the history of the Society itself, and perhaps I ought to terminate my address at this point, but I cannot for- bear to call the attention of my brother members to the illustrious list of members elected from 1769 up to the present day, the labors of the Society in promoting useful knowledge, the correspondence that it has held with foreign bodies of the same sort, the accumulation of the treasures which surround us here to-day, and all that seems to clothe such an association with a most honorable record and with the means for continued usefulness. I may say, in passing, that I have known this hall for seventy-five years; that I recollect it when it was in part occupied by Charles Wilson Peale, the founder of the Philadelphia Museum, in which, while it con- PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. B. PRINTED JAN. 24, 1890. 10 tinued in existence, so many people derived both amusement and instruction in natural history. I recol- lect when the cages which contained the animals that composed the modest menagerie which he possessed were located along the wall on Fifth street; and in my boyhood I used to go to look at what were then the wonders of natural history to me; and then, straying with my parents or friends into the old Museum which was then in Independence Hall, trying to gather amusement and instruction from the good collection that he had established there. The Transactions and Proceedings of the Society contain the eulogies and other biographical notices of the members that have passed away, and I must refer my associates and friends to those Proceedings in order that they may read in those eulogies and biogra- phies the character and works of the men who were members of this Society, and who ornamented and instructed the world by their labors in the various departments of useful knowledge, of applied science, of intellectual research—in all, indeed, that contributes to make the perfect man and to illustrate through him the great works of the Creator, and which enable men to penetrate into those secrets that are buried in the earth, exist in the air and in the waters, and which are so full, not only of instruction but admonition, too, to the thoughtful heart, to realize what is in the world and what the world seems to have been made for. My intimate acquaintance and personal friendship with the prominent members of this Society resident in Pennsylvania began about the year 1825, when the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia was founded—a great institution intended for the promotion of the 11 mechanic arts. In its formation the active members of the Philosophical Society participated, two or three were counted among the founders of that institution, and many among its original members. I have always considered it fortunate that I had such an introduction to the members of this Society. In the year 1842 I was honored with election to its mem- bership, and for forty-seven years I have attended its meetings with reasonable regularity, listening to the papers and essays that have been read here, and the discussions which have come up from time to time upon them, forming the most pleasant and friendly associa- tion with the old members, and participating with them in the traditionary usages of the Society. After the serious business of the hour was over, the members gathered in a quiet circle around that ancient fireplace, and there, from grave to gay, from lively to severe, the conversation went on, science and humor and glee moving around the circle, cheering every heart; and when the old clock: struck ten, the members, bidding each other a hearty good-night, separated with the hope that the next Friday evening would bring them together again for participation in renewed joy. If I have had any useful career in life I owe much of it to what I have learned in the Franklin Institute and in the American Philosophical Society. And I avail myself of this occasion to say to my fellow- members that if I have a great object at heart at the present time it is that the American Philosophical So- ciety shall rouse itself up with energy to the work that is demanded of it at the present time, and use the means and the influence that it has and the power that it ought to exercise in the community for promoting 12 everything that is connected with usefulness to man, everything that will tend to improve his moral and intellectual character, and everything that will enable him to rise with higher appreciation of what is good, drawing him nearer and nearer to the Great Creator. I am almost afraid to trust myself to mention names in connection with this address, but considering that Benjamin Franklin and the worthies of those early days, that George Washington and Thomas Jeffer- son, and Robert Morris, and Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Willing, and David Rittenhouse, were members of this Society before the close of the eighteenth century, and that since then the Society has been adorned by such men as Caspar Wistar, Robert Patterson, William Tilghman, Peter S. Dupon- ceau, Nathaniel Chapman, Robert M. Patterson, Frank- lin Bache, Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane, George B. Wood, and that other names of the illus- trious roll such as Joseph Henry, Robert Hare, Henry D. Rogers, J. Peter Lesley and Asa Gray have been members during the present century, I think that I can point my fellow-members to a roll which they may study with great profit, realizing from it the in- struction, the comfort, the happiness, I may say, in that such men have lived and have contributed so largely to the instruction of the world. Here philanthropy has also had its home. Many of the great and useful institutions of the city of Phila- delphia have been thought of, formulated and brought into existence within these walls. The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, the House of Refuge, the Apprentices’ Library, 13 the Academy of Natural Sciences, the Historical So- ciety of Pennsylvania—oh, my friends and asso- ciates, my mind is full of these precious associations, and I have not time to give them full utterance. But pointing you to the records of the Society, I ask you to have the same interest in them that has given me so much enjoyment, and if in this hour I can awaken you to more affection for the old Society than you now have, and bring you to think of it in the same favor- able light in which I do, I will have accomplished a part of my work as your President. Our industrious Secretary, Mr. Henry Phillips, Jr., has prepared two pamphlets, being registers of the subjects of the essays that are to be found in the Transactions and Proceedings of the Society. You will wonder when you look over them at the diversity of objects which have been under the care of the So- ciety, that have occupied its attention, that have stimu- lated its members in their various paths of life, and which have enabled them to throw additional light upon the concerns of the world, and to open up the treasures of science to those to whom they had not previously been given. It is fortunate for us that the Society recovered from the great difficulties of a pecuniary character under which it labored in the year 1837, and has been able to accumulate a handsome permanent fund, which, with its rentals, enables it to publish in an attractive form all the valuable essays and contributions of the mem- bers, not only of its resident members, but of those cherished associates who reside abroad and are prose- cuting their labors in the various fields of human knowledge. It will be criminal, indeed, for us to hold 14 the purse-strings with a niggard hand when contribu- tions come to us for publication that have the merit of novelty in original research, of usefulness in discovery, because of the inability, often, among students to pos- sess the pecuniary means to give them publication themselves. Here such a society as ours stands be- tween the student who toils over the midnight lamp or penetrates the caverns of the earth, or looks into the heavens for new planets and new stars—here, then, I say, the members of our Society ought, with a liberal hand, to supply all such explorers in the fields of nature and all such laborers in the fields of knowledge with the means for giving publicity to their works and en- abling them to spread abroad great scientific truths. In closing this address, I will refer my associates and the friends that we have here with us to-day to the last edition of the charter and laws of the Society ; and . the same industrious Secretary to whom I have referred has placed upon the pages of that book, in the order of their election, the various Presidents of the Society, its Vice-Presidents, its Treasurers, its Secretaries, its Curators, and the members of its Council. An exami- nation of this list shows, I think, the great sagacity of the founders of the Society in this respect: while, se- lecting from the members those who were thought worthy to be office bearers, they gradually placed each man in the position of apprenticeship, educating him in the work of the Society as he was found useful, promoting him to what was the higher order of the office holder, and thus bringing about an esprit du corps among the members of the Society which I think has largely contributed to its usefulness. Thus, we find that before the illustrious Jefferson was elected Presi- 15 dent, he served as a Vice-President of the Society, and during his residence in Philadelphia often attended its meetings, and when absent in Virginia, having the Society at heart, contributing original publications and even sending to it geological and other specimens, and discussing what some of us even now think are the mysteries of meteorology. So it was with every Presi- dent of the Society (but one, and he its most liberal benefactor), that this process of education and assimi- lation as officers went on from the year 1769 and is _ now continued. It may be appropriate in a slight historical sketch like this to say that the election of members is made in secrecy and confidence. The theory is that no man has the least idea that he is to be elected a member. He is proposed by two or more members, in writing, the nomination setting forth briefly the claims that he has to membership in the Society, and four times a year a balloting takes place, equally confidential and secret, requiring three-fourths of the votes cast to constitute an election. If a candidate be unsuc- cessful, the nomination papers and all the ballots con- taining his name are destroyed, and he is supposed never to know that he has been a candidate. And so, in this connection, and in view of this secret and con- fidential introduction to membership in the Society, I would urge my fellow-members, both resident and non-resident, to look about them with open eyes and with studious thought for men deemed fitting to be associated as members of this honorable institution. When they find, of their own knowledge or by inquiry, a worthy name to present for membership, to indicate in the same confidential way to their associates the 16 claims of such a man, and finally to bring him into the fold, where we may hope to have the benefit of his knowledge, the influence of his worth, the lustre which his character may throw upon the institution, and that his name may be placed on this Golden Roll, which began in 1743, and, coming down to the present day, contains a record of all those who have been elected to our membership. If 1 find that it is not too voluminous, I propose to make it an addendum to this address which I have had the honor to deliver before you, so that it may point the way to the future as it will indicate the history of the past, and that this honorable Society of ours may go on, from century to century, by perpetual existence under that charter which it obtained from the State of Pennsylvania in the year 1780, so comprehensive in its character, so full of wisdom as to the purposes of such a society, securing for its members freedom of transmission of their correspondence and Proceedings even in times of war, and indicating that the men of those early days had those high purposes at heart which we of the present century are too apt to think are our peculiar inheritance. What the discoveries of the past century have been ; how much they have contributed to the welfare and prosperity of the world; how rapid and infinite the progress of discovery seems now to be; such thoughts almost overwhelm the mind that attempts to contem- plate them and to wonder what is to come next. When Benjamin Franklin drew the lightning from the heay- ens by his kite, when he carried the wire across the Schuylkill river and showed that communication with such a distance could be had by electricity, who ever SF OE, Oe ee eee OE A dai Fees ‘ = = a eo hace i 17 thought that Henry, Morse and other scientists would develop the grand idea, the spark of which was thus struck out by Franklin, into the electric telegraph, into electric lighting, into electric motion over a railway? Well, [cannot venture to enumerate what are to be the exhibits of electrical phenomena. And, when we find that the human voice can penetrate space to immense distances; that speech in such a room as this can be transmitted to a cylinder, recording every word and the tone of every word that is spoken, and that then—how long a time afterwards has not yet, I believe, been de- termined—that same cylinder can be unrolled and the words can be again uttered, and the speech, whether it be one of wisdom or of folly, be repeated to the world for good or for evil, as the case may be, what is the unfolding of the ancient papyri to such a wonderful discovery as this? How, my associates, can we bring ourselves to realize what has been accomplished during our own lifetime in these respects? And yet the men of science are fear- lessly looking forward, making, day by day, new dis- coveries in archzology, geology, paleontology, in chem- istry, mechanics, and physics, with their great variety of applications. And we, who are approaching the evening of life, and realize what we have enjoyed in so many discov- eries and so much usefulness, cannot hope that we shall be permitted to see all the glorious developments that yet remain to be produced by the operation of the hu- man mind, by the application of the principles which lie at the foundation of applied science. But when the tinte -céffies for our departure hence, I trust that we may all realize that we have been permitted to live in PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. C. PRINTED JAN. 27, 1890. 18 an age characterized beyond all others by the useful applications of knowledge, and to be proud that such institutions as this have contributed to their promotion, have added to the intellectual wealth of society, and are prepared to go on for all time somewhat beyond the beaten pathway, but still tending higher and higher, under the wisdom of the Creator, who endows His hu- man creatures with those faculties which enable them to look into His works and to be influenced by His word and spirit. Proceedings at the Dinner. The dinner was given at the Hore, Srratrorp, S. W. corner of Broad and Walnut streets, Philadel- phia, at 6 o'clock p.m., of the same day. There were present the following gentlemen: Richard L. Ashhurst, William W. Griscom, William S. Baker, Traill Green, Wharton Barker, Henry D. Gregory, Daniel G. Brinton, Inman Horner, Arthur Biddle, Edwin J. Houston, Martin H. Boye, Henry Hartshorne, William G. A. Bonwill, Joseph S. Harris, John R. Baker, Henry Hazlehurst, Andrew A. Blair, William W. Jefferis, George W. Childs, George DeBenneville Keim, Robert Cornelius, William W. Keen, William C. Cattell, William V. Keating, Thomas H. Dudley, John J. Keane, Frederick Fraley, M. H. Messchert, Joseph C. Fraley, James W. Moore, Isaac.C. Martindale, William V. McKean, John W. Mallet, William F. Norris, Charles A. Oliver, J. Sergeant Price, Samuel W. Pennypacker, Thomas C. Porter, William John Potts, Henry Phillips, Jr., William H. Pancoast, James W. Robins, P. F. Rothermel, Thomas B. Reed, Theodore D. Rand, 19 William B. Rogers, Charles E. Sajous, Furman Sheppard, Albert H. Smyth, Monroe B. Snyder, Charles W. Shields, Joseph B. Townsend, Heber S. Thomson, Lyon G. Tyler, Richard Vaux, Samuel Wagner, Jr., Richard Wood, Joseph M. Wilson, Charles S. Wurts, Sir Daniel Wilson. The following Menu and Program of Regular Toasts was presented to each guest: MEN U. Hock. Shrewsburys. Sherry. ~ Tortue Verte Claire. Escalopes 4 la Turque. Timbales 4 la Parisienne. Selle de Venaison. Chicorée au Jus. Pommes a la Brabant. Artichauts 4 la Bellevue. Sorbet Menthe. Sauce au Pain. Piments D’ Espagne Sautés. Terrapin 4 la Philadelphie. Salade Variée. Fromage. Pouding Glacé a la Philosophical. Croquants. Liqueurs. Fruits. Café. Champagne. Faisans Rotis. 20 REGULAR TOASTS. The language of Science and Philosophy is universal, but adopts various dialectic forms to diffuse knowledge. Prof. Joun W. Matter, M.D., LL.D., F.RS., Representative from the Royal Society of London. All research into the Book of Nature has not discovered an erratum. . Sir Danie, ‘Witson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., etc., President of the University of Toronto. The successful pursuit of Science expunges error: it never an- — tagonizes truth. a Hon. Lyon G. Tyrer, M.A., President OE 3 3 William and Mary College. Mental Analysis is the efficient solvent of many — in Science and Philosophy. Rev. CHARLES W. SuiEtps, D.D., iis 7 of Princeton College. | The labors and achievements of great teachers in Science and Philosophy live after them; these are their monuments. Rt. Rev. Jonn J. Keane, D.D., LL.D., Presi- dent of the Catholic University of America. 21 At 9 o'clock the Hon. RicHarp Vaux, as toast-master, on behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, pro- posed consecutively the regular toasts, and, ntro- ducing the first speaker, said: FELLOWS oF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY:— By direction of the President, it becomes my happiness to shorten the time of your expectation here. I will try to relieve you of some of the pains and penai- ties by stating that in a few minutes you will have some tobacco, the effect of which upon your intelléctual capacities will enable you clearly to understand what I am about to say to you, and to appreciate far more fully the reply that will be made. I ask you, therefore, to fill the first toast: “ THe Lancuace or ScIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY IS UNIVERSAL, BUT ADOPTS VARIOUS DIALECTIC FORMS TO DIFFUSE KNOWLEDGE.” If you doubt the truth of that sentiment, I will ask Prof. John W. Mallet, M.D., LL.D., of the Royal Society of London, to give you any reason why that is not true. MR. PRESIDENT :—In accepting the invitation to the Royal Society to be present in the person of a delegate on this occa- sion, it was the wish of the President of that Society to do full honour to the invitation, and that one of its Fellows resident in England should cross the Atlantic for the purpose, but in the time at disposal for correspondence it was not possible to find one who could undertake at present the double voyage necessary. While I regret that the Royal Society is not more worthily represented, I cannot but feel it a high honour that it falls to my lot to appear as the delegate of the oldest scientific society in the world which retains its original form to the oldest of such sccieties in the New World of America. And the 22 pleasure which I feel in serving in this capacity is increased by remembering that—long resident in this hospitable country, though without having given up my birthright of nationality beyond the sea—I have also the honour to be a member of the © latter of these two bodies. The ties between the two are of older date even than the event in your history which you this evening commemorate. A third of a century before its present Hall was first occupied by the American Philosophical Society, Franklin, the most illus- trious of its founders, and afterwards its first President, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, which three years be- fore had awarded him the Copley Medal in recognition of the importance of his electrical researches, and for more than twenty years the volumes of the Philosophical Transactions record, at no infrequent intervals, communications made either — by him or through him on scientific subjects. Even through the seven long years of war which ended in separating the American colonies from the mother country, the name of Benjamin Franklin annually appears in the “ Home List” of Fellows, and so continues afterwards until his death. In a letter to Mr. Benjamin Vaughan, of London, dated 2d of November, 1789, Franklin says: “I have not received the Philosophical Transactions for the two or three last years. - They are usually laid by for me at the Society’s House, with my name upon them, and remain there until called for. I shall be much obliged to you, if you can conveniently take them up and send them to me ”—thus showing his continued interest in the work of the society but a few months before his death. On the other hand, the President of the Royal Society in 1789, and in all for forty-one years, a longer tenure of the of- fice than that of any other President, was Sir Joseph Banks, 23 _ who in 1787 was elected a member of the American Philo- _ sophical Society, and at a meeting of the latter, on April 18, gy 1788 (Franklin presiding), returned thanks for his election and ee communicated “ A very curious account of pure iron in a met- allie (sic) state lately found in South America.” Not in membership alone, but also in scientific activity, does there remain evidence of early relations between the two so- cieties. In the Philosophical Transactions for 1769 we find the “ Account of the Transit of Venus over the Sun’s Disc, as observed at Norriton in the County of Philadelphia and Pro- vince of Pennsylvania, June 3,1769. By William Smith, D.D., Provost of the College of Philadelphia, John Lukens, Esq., Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania, David Rittenhouse, AM, of Norriton, and Jobn Sellers, Esq., one of the Repre- sentatives in Assembly from Chester county, the Committee a appointed for that observation by the American Philosophical E _ Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge. - Communicated to the said society by Dr. Smith, and to the Royal Society of London by Nevil Maskelyne, B.D., Astrono- mer Royal.” And in the following year was published an “ Account of the Transit of Mercury, November 9, 1769, ob- served at Norriton, Pennsylvania. By a Committee of the American Philosophical Society. Communicated by Benja- min Franklin, LL.D.” T am sure that now, a century later than the day on which _ your Society held its first regular meeting in its newly com- pleted Hall, the feelings of good will between the two socie- ties, and cordial desire for the continued scientific vitality and prosperity of both, are increased rather than abated. The Royal Society congratulates you on your entering upon the second century of corporate life in your accustomed meeting place. 24 Tn reading the words of the toast to which I am called upon to respond, the thought suggests itself that the century which ends to-night has, far more than earlier ages, seen these words - become true, and true in a somewhat different sense from that which would perhaps most naturally have occurred to bi members of your Sotviety in 1789. Then the symbols of the mathematician had indeed the same meaning for the eyes of men in every country, but save in this special field the stately and exact tongue of ancient Rome had szarcely ceased to be recognized as the only univer- sal language of science and philosophy, requiring every one to come under itssway who would learn of his fellow-students or would communicate to them what he had to offer of newly discovered truth. | Since then the symbolic formula of the chemist, the strati- graphic section of the geologist, the microscopic photograph of the biologist, have all been brought to speak alike to every one who pursues the same line of investigation, and now the ever-increasing activity of the printing press and the telegraph tends more and more to render it a matter of small moment — in which of the many forms of human speech a worker in science may originally put forth what he has to say: in how short a time will it be placed in intelligible form before the whole of the civilized world. The tapping of the armature to which science has given an articulate voice, or the gentle waving to and fro of the noiseless spot of light in a darkened room, speaks forth in the languages of all nations, and with- out irreverence may it be said that now “hear we in our own tongue, wherein we were born, * * * the wonderful works of God.” Familiar as is nowadays the remark that within the last century science has brought about the most marvelous exten- 25 sion of communication amongst men, it is perhaps to be doubted whether we yet see the full significance of this fact or appreciate its profound importance in the history of man- kind. Yet how naturally, and by how simple anorder of logi- eal succession in the history of science itself, the “ Letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq., to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.RS., con- cerning an electrical kite,” published in Vol. xlvii of the Philosophical Transactions, is connected with the possibility of the message from Sir George Stokes, instructing me to be here to-night, which was darted westward a few days ago beneath the ocean’s depth, with a speed that anticipated by hours the laggard turning eastward of the earth upon its axis. As we think of the gradually expanding insight into the mys- teries of nature which has come of scientific study in the pass- ing years of the last century, of what was concealed from the workers in science in 1789, and isseen of all men to-day, we nat- urally wish that those who then saw dimly could share the larger measure of light which is given to us, and as naturally we think, and with some sadness, of the yet brighter light which those who are to come after us will undoubtedly enjoy. The words of Seneca suit our mouths as well as they did his: “Quidem multa venientis aevi populus tynota nobis sciet. Multa seculis tune futuris, gquum memoria nostri exoleverit, reservantur. * * * Rerum natura sacra sua non simul tradit. Initiatos nos eredimus: in vestibulo heremus.” Such thoughts bring with them the seemingly opposite yet both together best results of the pursuit of science, a profound and exulting appreciation of the advance already made in knowledge of the universe spread out before us, and at the same time a yet more profound humility in face of the far greater ignorance which hides from us the more wondrous things beyond. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. sOC. XxvII. 131. D. PRINTED JAN. 27, 1890. 26 Mr. Vaux: The next toast is, ‘Our KINDRED Soct- ETIES IN EVERY CLIME,” and we would suppose that to that sentiment it was very easy to make a reply, but the difficulty was where to look for the replier. It seemed reasonable to think that the proper place to look for it was where arts and sciences were in a highly flourishing condition, so they sent to Boston, and Prof. Joseph Lovering, LL.D., President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, was requested to be present this evening and make a reply to this toast. He is not here. He wrote a letter which indicated, as I understood, that he would be here, but something has prevented his coming. I have, on behalf of the Committee, been requested to interpret this absence, but it is a very difficult thing to put the interpretation which I hope will be agreeable and acceptable to everybody here and at the same time acceptable to my distinguished friend, Dr. Lovering. The arts and sciences of New England are not to be present, and I have no reason to give why not. So the art and science of it is to leave me the ex- cuse, and! make the excuse for him. Yet the art and the science belong to that part of the globe of which he is an inhabitant. Therefore, we will have the Art and Sci- ence omitted, and ask you gentlemen to drink to the third toast: “ALL RESEARCH INTO THE Book oF NATURE HAS NOT DISCOVERED AN ERRATUM.” It seems to bea generally accepted idea by those who are philosophers and scientists that the best possible reply which could be made to that sentiment will be given to you by Sir Daniel Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., President of the Uni- versity of Toronto, and if he has found any one of those errata he will have the opportunity now to tell you which one it is. 27 MR. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW-MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PuHiLosopHicaL Soctety:—In the part which you have _ assigned to me in this Centennial Commemoration, I find my- _ self called upon to deal with a subject the compass of which is wholly beyond my powers; as it is all too ample for the limited time available. In the eloquent address in which you, Mr. President, retraced the history of this, the oldest among the scientific societies of America, you found an hour F too brief for a review of the events of the century which to-day completes its cycle; and now I find myself called upon, in the briefer limits at my disposal, to verify the entire Book of Nature, and demonstrate the faultless perfection of the record. Looking back over the immeasurable ages of the past, and turning to the equally incomprehendable vastness of the visible universe, hours, instead of minutes, would fail, in the most superficial effort at such a review. Amid the brightness of this festive commemoration, the temptation is rather to leave the past unheeded, and to ‘take the wings of fancy—or, better still, the intuitions of science,— and anticipate the marvels of the coming time; those fairy tales of science that surpass all the wonders of romance. But your behest must be obeyed; and it will perhaps most aptly meet present requirements if I select from the manifold phases which challenge our consideration two suggestive aspects of the comprehensive subject, which in some sense may serve to epitomize the past and the present for such brief review. When the fiat went forth, formulated in words that might fitly constitute the motto of this, the oldest among the philo- sophical fellowships of the New World: “ Let there be light!” the abyss flashed into cosmic brightness and beauty; and the ____ illimitable depths of space, illumined with the splendor that -__ enkindled suns, and awoke the myriad worlds to life, traced for 28 us the first page in the book of nature. Your theme invites our attention to it under the apt metaphor of a book; no chance medley of the materialist, or mere evolution of time out of chaos; but a volume of well-ordered method and sequence, revealing on every page the purposed design of its Author. Turning then to the pages of this ample volume, astronomy is the science which, dealing with the visible present, appeals even to the uncultured mind—to the Syrian shepherd, as to the Indian hunter on the prairies,—in proof of an all-mighty, an all-wise Creator. With upturned eyes, savage and sage alike peer into the immeasurable depths of space lighted up with its galaxy of worlds and suns, marshaled in such harmonious symmetry that they unmistakably reveal the evi- dence of design, order and law; the governance of a supreme Intelligence. Nor is the royal psalmist alone in learning from them the lesson of devout humility, as he considered the heavens, the work of God’s hand; the moon and the stars which He has ordained; and realized the marvelous compass of that overruling Providence that can still be mindful of the meanest of His creatures. The old Greek, perplexed though he was by the misleading complexities of a stellar universe, revolving, as it seemed to him, around our own little planet, nevertheless realized such a rhythmical harmony and beauty in the motions of the heavenly bodies, cycle on epicycle, orb on orb, that he listened if perchance he might catch some echo of the music of the spheres which seemed inseparable from that stately measure of their nightly round. The same fascinating idea is revived by our own Shakespeare, in lighter mood, when his Venetian lovers meet in the moonlit gardens of Belmont. I say, in its amplest sense, “ our Shakespeare,” for in this reunion with so choice a gathering of American friends it is pleasant to recall 29 the community which we realize in the matchless literature of - our mother tongue. With an altogether peculiar bond of kin- ship, akin to that recognized among the remotest wanderers from the Hellenic fatherland; on the Euxine, at Cyrene, Mas- silia; or in furtherest colonial outposts on the Iberian shores; we, “ who speak the tongue that Shakespeare spake ; the faith and morals hold that Milton held,” may surely claim to be one. And so, as such, with Shakespeare for our guide, we renew the fond imaginings of the old Greek; as Lorenzo, in that moonlight meeting with his bride, in “The Merchant of Venice,” points her to the floor of heaven, all thick inlaid with patines of bright gold, and exclaims: ‘«There’s not the smallest orb in all the heaven But in its motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubim, Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But while this muddy vesture of decay Does grossly close us in we cannot hear it.’’ Thus, as it. would seem, not alone the gaze of the wonder- ing on-looker, but the combined research of ages, concur in the verdict which your thesis affirms. We, too, in the spirit of the old Greek, may assuredly recognize the perfect harmony and order which everywhere reveals a Creator’s hand. Alike in the splendor of that universe which greets our eyes, as with optic glass we strive to fathom its mysteries and to interpret its chronicling as a page of Nature’s volume; and in the min- utest atom, that the microscope reveals, we recognize the con- ae = | : es : sistent harmony of a Divine law-giver. For the same law that moulds a tear, and shapes the dew-drop, holds the planets in their course, and regulates the form and motions of suns and worlds, The astronomer, with ever-increasing aids of science, _ penetrates into remoter depths of space only to bring back 30 fresh evidence of an all-pervading harmony amid its countless members. In confident reliance on the orderly movements of the planets, Leverrier and Adams independently wrought out results by means of which the telescope of the observer was pointed to the unheeded speck, invisible to the naked eye; and the planet Neptune was added as a new member of our solar system. The science of Chemistry, too, unexpectedly directing its operations to a sphere which had hitherto seemed to lie wholly beyond its province, by means of spectrum analysis brings back to us the reassuring disclosure that, amid endless diversities in their combinations, the remotest of those suns that light up the firmament are fashioned of the same elements as this little planet-home of man. Such are some of the teach- ings of science. But even the untutored eye sees enough in that mysterious vault that nightly spans for him life’s fleeting hour, lit up with the splendor of its myriad suns, and the star-strewn milky-way, to realize that no errata need be appended to the volume of nature. It may be that every star is the centre of a system of worlds, the abode of intelligences more gifted than we are to interpret the wondrous volume; but this at least we do know that they shine for us, lighted up from the same source which enkindles the central luminary of our own little group of planets; stirs our earth in its winter's sleep; quickens the buried seed, and the dormant animal life; and is but another aspect of that force which moves the worlds. Thus we recognize the indices of an all-pervading harmony, disclosing to every eye evidence of rule, of law, and so of the Divine law-giver, alike in the orderly movements of suns and planets, and in the mysterious wanderings of the comet that blazes in the splendor of its perihelion and then returns in darkness to unknown depths of space. This is for us a living present. But, so also, in another chapter of the volume of : 31 nature we learn of the same harmonious reign of law through countless ages. Geology is the record of the past; and with its aid I invite you to turn for a moment to that testimony of the rocks which the paleontologist has deciphered for us; testi- mony which embodies the history of life through all the zons back to the eozoic dawn. Biologist and paleontologist had alike recognized the orderly progression, as, in apt accordance with your metaphor, they turned over page after page of graven strata, till the record of life closed—or seemed to close,—in the azoic rocks. But the great naturalist, Charles Darwin, who so recently passed away, has revolutionized biological science with the demonstration of that process of evolution which has guided all the manifestations of life from the lowest to higher forms. Here accordingly a new reign of law appears, as we recognize one after another of the progressive steps through which, in the calm, unresting process of evolution, life has advanced onwards and upwards into ever more complex forms, through countless ages fashioning the present out of all the past. Yet here I, for one,—I know not how far others may sympathize with me,—but I am constrained to pause upon the threshold of that essentially distinct sphere of the psychologist where man, with reason as his distinctive attribute, stands apart from the whole irrational creation. It is not as a mere matter of sentiment, nor even because of any too literal read- ing of the narrative of creation, when man “ became a living soul,” that I feel constrained to withhold assent to the hypothe- sis of the evolution of mind. By no inductive process does it seem to me possible to find the genesis of reason in any mani- festations of intelligence in the brute creation. The difference between a Newton and an Australian savage is trifling when compared with the great gulf that separates the latter from the highest anthropoid. I look in vain in all the many mani- 32 festations of instinct or rationality in the latter for any germ ot a moral sense, of a spirit of religious worship, or the anticipa- — tions of that higher life and immortality, which Socrates, Plato, and the wisest of heathen philosophers shared with Paul and Augustine, and which are dimly present even in the savage mind. I feel constrained to reject, even as an hypothesis, the gift of reason, and the “living soul,” by any conceivable pro- cess of descent. All the arguments based on heredity and — environment, instead of helping to account for the exceptional genius of a Plato, an Aristotle, a Dante, a Shakespeare, or a Newton, only make more obvious the incompatibility of such manifestations with any evolutionary theory. Geology may reveal the onward march through countless ages, refashioning continents, and advancing in orderly progression from the low- est to ever higher organisms. One common plan of structure may be traced throughout geological time, amid all the mani- fold diversities of vertebrate life; even as one law is found to pervade and control the whole visible universe ; but “Though worlds on worlds in myriad myriads roll Round us, each with differing powers And other forms of life than ours : What know we greater than the soul ?”’ Life is as great a mystery as ever; and that which humanity comprehends as its immortal essence can have no relation to any progressive development of mere physical structure. The mind is the standard of humanity. Man alone, savage and civilized alike, looks before and after. Nature and expe- rience alike confirm the radical distinction between him and the irrational creation. Psychology can only know the physi- cal as subjective. Nevertheless in that faculty of reason: the distinctive essential of man, whereby he is able, not only to look forth on the visible heavens and realize in some 33 faint degree the cosmos, but to apprehend its lesson of hu- mility: we read the brightest of all the illumined pages of the book of nature, and find no flaw. The very fact that “this brave overhanging firmament; this majestical roof fret- ted with golden fire,’ expanded before our nightly vision, seems to us infinite in its compass, is in itself the index of an apprehension that enthrones reason apart from the high- est attributes of irrational life. The physicist and the meta- physician have diverse conceptions of space; but practically, for us, the impossible is to conceive of limits to the uni- verse. Imagination speeds from star to star through all the fields of space, guided by the strictest mathematical induction, and finds everywhere the same majestic harmony. No chaos lies behind the heavens, nightly revealed anew in all their mystery as evening draws her azure curtain athwart the sun. It is indeed the garish day, with its mundane round of petty cares, that curbs the wings of fancy, blinds the eye of faith, and shuts out heaven from our view. But who can set bounds to that mighty vision? If we sphere space, what lies beyond it? Still law, order, harmony; one overruling all-pervading influence, one Divine purpose. What can be behind it but God: “*One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.’’ Mr. Vaux: Dr. Wilson has given you a most able effort to discover errata, and I think all of you will agree that, after such a brilliant speech, full of so much science, philosophy, learning and culture, we will have to give up the idea that there is an erratum anywhere in the science of philosophy. But in order that you may have a counterpart in some degree to this PROC, AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131, E. PRINTED JAN. 28, 1890. 34 address, where the erratum has failed to be discovered, I propose to present to you now, another question which is somewhat akin to the one you have already heard discussed. It is found in these words, and it is the toast which I ask you to drink: “The successful pursuit of Science expunges error.” That is the reason why Dr. Wilson could not find the erratum. “THE SUCCESSFUL PURSUIT OF SCIENCE EXPUNGES ERROR: IT NEVER ANTAGONIZES TRUTH.” In order that you may hear an equally brilliant address upon this view of the subject I beg to call upon the Hon. Lyon G, Tyler, M.A., President of William and Mary College, to re- spond. Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN PHILO- SOPHICAL Sociery :—T*o be called upon to respond to a toast of the character of that just proposed is a compliment which I highly appreciate. Coming as a stranger among you, I might naturally feel appalled at the magnitude of the sentiment it con- veys. Rome, itis a trite and trae saying, was not built ina day, nor could [in a ten or fifteen or twenty minutes speech do justice to a sentiment which began its victorious crusade against error when the centuries were young, but which now stands upon — the starry summits of success, overlooking all human thought and human action. Yet, Mr. President, I am glad that this opportunity is pre- sented to me this evening. We, Virginians, are often accused of vanity, but I am ready here to-night to admit, while I claim that we are the best people, that the Philadelphians are the next best! I am even disposed to go further than that. I had a brother, Robert Tyler, who lived in your midst some twenty odd years as Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of the State; was Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of the 35 State of Pennsylvania ; was the fast and firm friend of that _ good old man, James Buchanan, and who did better than that in taking a wife from among the Pennsylvanians ; therefore, I canclaim to-have a kinship with the Philadelphians, and admit _ them into the Virginia fraternity along with me! The cordial reception which has been extended to me since ss my first arrival here; this feast of reason and flow of soul, where philosophy presides over the inner man, science holds the wine cup, and Philadelphia, the city of the gods, sacred to 3 independence and fraternal love, gives the welcome, are, in the _ _ language of the Irishman, sufficient to make my face one broad q smile from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot. I 7 am glad I stand here on this occasion, and say to you, as an q humble representative of William and Mary College; that that a ancient institution, which gave to the American Philosophical _ Society a President, which gave to science the precious gift of 4 _ her Jefferson, and to the country at large her Monroe and her Marshal, is full of fraternal greetings on this centennial occa- _ sion to the most ancient philosophical society in America. _ Veterans in a grand common cause, it is but right that they _ should meet around a common table and pledge each other's health now and forever. Although, Mr. President, the antecedents of William and bs Mary College go back to the year 1619, when the first project : ofa university was started in America, its charter was not _ obtained until the year 1698, just fifty years, a semi-centennial, _ ahead of the foundation of this association ; and in this age of eentennials and semi-centennials (and I understand that the _ American Philosophical Society has had a full share of them _ already in the past), it may be worth while to know that old _ Benjamin Franklin, the founder of this Society, on the oécasion of a personal visit to Williamsburg, received, in the semi-cen- 36 tennial year of his age, in 1756, the proud honor of Master of Arts from the College of William and Mary, the first degree ever conferred by that institution on any man. Thus Virginia and Pennsylvania united in doing honor to the man whom Lord Chatham pronounced “not only an honor to the English people but to human nature.” In Franklin’s diploma, a copy of which is preserved upon the college records, the faculty declared that their action had been taken in order to show to the Virginia youth an exam- ple of a truly noble man, or, as it is better expressed in the Latin, Juventuti Virginiensi exemplum valde eyregium. Nor, if we can judge by subsequent events, was that exam- ple lost upon those for whom it was intended. As Franklin was the first man to make science, which had been previously _ merely “an object of admiration in temples and palaces,” a handmaid to the common arts and uses of life; as he was the — first to teach that she should be made to minister to the wants and comforts of society ; as his whole life and his whole action enunciated a practical spirit ; so twenty years later, when the rebellion of the colonies ensued, that practical spirit was shown in thousands of Virginians formed upon the model of the illustrious Pennsylvanian’s example; in a Washington who led our army to victory, in a Jefferson who reformed our laws, and in a Marshal who construed them—all of them like Franklin eminently plain and eminently practical men. And that spirit thus set working, according to the sentiments of this toast, expunging error and maintaining truth, has gone on operating to the present day; it has produced a Fulton, a Morse, a Maury, a Bell and an Edison, until to-day we stand in not only what we may pronounce the age of centennials, but “an age of ages” whose common maxim in all the depart- : ments of life—in history, government, politics and poetry—is: — 4 37 “The greatest production in the shortest time and at the least cost, the best markets and the quickest returns.” ’ The marvels of our country’s progress have been, as we all know, the theme of constant oratory; but so unparalleled has that progress been that even the language of wise and sagacious statesmen has failed to portray the glorious and gorgeous des- tiny of the States. I remember two instances in our national history which conspicuously illustrate this failure to appreciate the giant forces at work in our midst. In 1824, as sagacious a statesman as President James Monroe, as much as he had seen of the progress of the country in hisday, proposed to col- onize the Indians of Western New York in Wisconsin, under the impression that it was a part of the country so remote that they would not be disturbed for many years to come; yet in eighteen years, Wisconsin, no longer naked in the savage aspect of her wilderness, but clad in the noble garments of a refined and pure civilization, was knocking at the doors of Congress for admittance as one of the free and sovereign States of this Union. And in 1825, Thomas H. Benton, a distin- guished Senator of the United States, who, like science, prided himself on being “an expunger ” in General Jackson’s time— you remember the resolution that he expunged in the Senate— pointed to the ridge of the Rocky mountains as “the conve- = nient, natural and everlasting boundary of the Union ;” yet in _ twenty-two years the eagle of the Union, like the true bird of Jove, had winged its flight across those majestic ranges, over boundless plains and endless forests, to rest his pinions upon the golden sands of California and bathe his royal plumage in the waters of the great Pacific. However much the men of America have differed in opin- __ lon upon the issues of politics and questions of party ; however much the New Englander condemned and disapproved the war 38 of 1812 declared by a Southern administration; however much the same New Englander disapproved and condemned the annexation of the imperial domain of Texas, opening up the great and noble West; and however much the men of the South condemned, in 1861, the action of the North in invading their firesides and carrying desolation on wings of fire far and wide through their borders, yet I thank God that in the result they are all of one opinion. The New Englander is proud of the fame won by the gallant Yankee tars upon the billowy deep in the war of 1812; his ships and his railroads have peopled the barren Mexican territory, won by the policy of annexation, with a busy, industrious and thriving popula- tion; and the men of the South rejoice to-day in the preserva- _ ‘e : tion of the Union of our fathers, and unite in the hope that God’s infinite mercy may preserve it for ages to come! At the bottom of all our progress is science, “the expunger _ 4 of error” and the maintainer of truth, whose laws are two- fold—first, that the operations of nature are regular and immutable, and, second, thatthey are one. Aye, there have been — ages, and those ages are not remote, when men groveled in the worst forms and orders of superstition ; when, as Buckle relates, in Scotland, two hundred yeats ago, to be in a constant state of affliction was considered to be the prime object of existence; — when the most innocent relaxations and amusements were pro- hibited ; when it was considered a sin to hold market on a — Saturday or Monday because the preacher said it was so near Sunday; when that innocent amusement of our youth, swim- — ming, was considered unlawful for Christians at any time, even on week-days, and cases were cited frorn the pulpit how God had shown His disapproval of this carnal practice by taking away the lives of divers reckless youths while engaged in it ; when a minister, in order to teach this doctrine of affliction and self-torture declared that David had never so sweet a time as when he was pursued like a partridge about the hedges by his beautiful son, Absalom; and when bear-baiting was prohi- bited, not because of the pain it gave the bear, but of the pleas- ure it gave the people. _ But those times have passed forever. Science took up the cause of suffering humanity, and by familiarizing men with the first of its laws, by familiarizing them with con- ceptions of order and regularity in the operations of nature, taught that God’s work was too infinitely grand, too majesti- eally perfect, to require His interference every day to keep the system going, and that “every gratification of sense and of intellect was justifiable which stopped short of injury to the » man or injury to others.” But it is the second characteristic of science that we are _ interested in more particularly—the unity of itslaws, manifest- _ ing itself in different forms and forces, which are all one, that holds the destiny of the future. The fact is, the great future which lies ahead of us is one grand unity of results; and, in words not original with me, this age is to go on growing better, purer and faster, building schools, doubling its power of machinery, trebling its exports of cotton and woolen goods, and “sending forth its freights as missionaries of truth to all lands,” until by the homely influences of modern trade, which laugh at the tinsel of ancient parade, by the interchange, if _ you please, of tender courtesies between corn and cotton, by the billing and cooing of account books, ledgers and bills of exchange, by the electric whispers of telephonic messages, the consummation of science is to be witnessed in the unification of all things, in the destruction of theologies of narrow, bigoted creeds, blood stained through the centuries, and in the knitting together of all men in one religion breathing the pure spirit of _ 40 God; in the quenching of local jealousies and sectional ani- 4 mosity—not by the obliteration of national or State lines, nor 2 4 by the destruction of man’s individuality, but rather by the growth of a public opinion which shall be crystallized in a universal law founded on the principle that no man can be benefited at the expense of another without in some measure injuring himself; and finally, gentlemen, in the confederation of all nations—and the sudden fall of Dom Pedro, in Brazil, gives color to the thought—into a grand, harmonious Republic formed upon the model of our own Union of indestructible States, flying a flag, not of forty-two stars, but one blazoned with all the stars of heaven, thus realizing that sublime and divine condition of the world which the rapt poet sees in his — a vision : aa ‘‘When the war drums throb no longer, And the battle flags are furled, In the Parliament of man, The federation of the world.’’ T have only now to thank you for the kind and cordial atten- — tion which you have given me, and tosay to you that old Wil- liam and Mary College has arisen in strength like the Phoenix from her ashes, and that she numbers upon her roll, in the second year after a suspension of seven, 172 students, and that __ her number will run up in the next two or three years, I pre- dict, to three and four hundred. I feel from the letters that we have received from all parts of the country—from the = pines of Maine to the magnolias of Alabama—that we have the heart of the Union with us. In three years hence, we cele- brate the bicentennial anniversary of William and Mary Col- — : lege, and my last words are to invite all here present to be 4 there on that occasion; and if we cannot show you any great a public halls like what you have here in Philadelphia, nor any 41 great public buildings, we can at least atone in great measure for the lack of these things by giving you a hearty old Vir- ginia welcome. Mr. Vaux: After the eloquent discourse which we have heard upon the preceding toast, it does seem that there should be now brought to your attention a rather different philosophical and scientific view of the reasons why Science and Philosophy have been thus apostrophized, explained and defended. As you all will admit, the task, which 1 propose now to present, in its accomplishment is one of difficulty and requires to be handled by a master-mind. The Committee, in view- ing the subject in this light, has to ask your atten- tion to the distinguished scholar who has been se- lected to reply to the toast now propounded to you: “ MENTAL ANALYSIS IS THE EFFICIENT SOLVENT OF MANY DIF- FICULTIES IN SCIENCE AND PutLosopny.” If there is one man in America who is competent, even in the few minutes which are allowed on this occasion, to perform this task with brilliant effect, it is the author of “ Ulti- mate Philosophy.” I call upon Rev.Charles W. Shields, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton College, to reply. MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE AMERICAN PHILO- SOPHICAL SociETy : When I accepted the invitation to this banquet I knew that it involved a rare privilege and a high honor, but I accepted it with some misgivings. I felt and still feel quite unable to respond in fitting terms to the sentiment which my learned and witty friend has announced so kindly in connection with my name. I am glad to find that he sympathizes with me fully in the difficulty of the theme. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 1381. F. PRINTED JAN. 28, 1890. 42 It is true that I have been an earnest student of Science and of that Philosophy which is the science of science during the time that has passed since I left Philadelphia—a city in which — my early labors found generous appreciation, to which I be- came attached by the strongest ties of my life and which I have ever remembered, as the exiled Greek remembered his dulcis Argos, as the home of art, and letters, and refinement. But of the studies of these past years it would not become me here to speak. If any difficulties in science and philosophy have been solved by them, they have not been in vain. | It is implied in the toast, to which I am speaking, that there are difficulties in Science and Philosophy and that mental analysis may help to solve them. It is certain that there are difficulties in Science. If we analyze it into its component elements we shall find that it involves much faith as well as knowledge ; it involves faith in the uniformity of nature, a uniformity which has never been proved and which ean never be proved except within the narrow limits of our own expe- rience, and which even there is disproved whenever you per- form the miracle of lifting a stone from the earth ; it involves faith in our own cognitive faculties, which the sceptie will claim to have been delusive and which, as a matter of fact, have misled mankind for ages; it involves faith in some ulti- mate Power or Principle upholding this assumed uniformity of nature and this assumed trustworthiness of our faculties, and our agnostic friends tell us that this ultimate Power or Principle is simply unknowable, inconceivable, a bundle of : a contradictions. <3 fe On the other hand, there are also difficulties in Philosophy. — If we analyze its various pretensions we find a large amount of ignorance as well as knowledge. The physical philosopher looks with wonder at the marvelous discoveries of modern 43 science in the realms of physical inquiry, but he soon sees that they are but as a vanishing point before the infinite unknown, a grain to the mountain, a drop from the ocean. The meta- physical philosopher dreams that he has solved the problem of i the universe in terms of mere logic, but this is a problem _ which, if solved at all, could only be solved by an infinite In- _ telligence. The theological philosopher claims to have pene- trated by means of revelation even to the secret counsels of the Creator Himself, but that very torch of revelation only shows him mysteries still unrevealed and unrevealable, and so our gnostic friend at last lands us in absolute ignorance and admits that the ever knowable is still the ever unknowable. Is it not evident that both parties, both schools, need more of the caution of true science and of the humility of true philosophy? The simple fact is that the Agnostic and the Gnostic are better friends than they know, and cannot do with- out each other; they are only at work upon opposite segments _ of the same arch, which now seem fragmentary and hostile, but may be destined to meet as in the keystone of perfectible science upheld by reasonable faith. _ Mr. President, I must not forget that I represent an institu- tion which like this one is devoted to the advancement of science. Princeton College aims and claims to be a contribu- tor to the existing stock of human knowledge as well asa dis- tributor of knowledge through the channels of education, and to-day it may well congratulate a kindred organization with _ which in former times it has had at least one magnetic link of communication. Its ever-honored professor, Joseph Henry, as you know, followed in the steps of your illustrious Frank- lin, pursuing and completing the same physical researches. If I mistake not, his splendid discoveries were first announced to this Society, and put on record in the beautiful hand-writing of 44 its Secretary, Judge Kane, who welcomed the new knowledge with all his intelligent enthusiasm. It was from the lecture- room of Professor Henry that the first telegraphic wire was carried across the college campus at Princeton, That wire has since been carried by other hands around the globe. It was reserved for him to enjoy only the fame of those researches from which the whole civilized world has received so many material benefits. Like Agassiz, he was so strict a votary of science that he could not merge the discoverer in the mere in- ventor. He ever sought knowledge for its own sake and with no selfish motive. Science in his view was the birthright of humanity. And his philosophy was broad enough to include religion as well as science within its scope. Without posing in any religious character (if I may so express it) among his scientific brethren, he ever exemplified that full accord of ex- act knowledge with rational faith which distinguishes other members of this philosophical body. If the American Philosophical Society has included in its ranks the self-sacrificing votaries of science, it has also included in them, and still includes, its munificent patrons as not less — worthy a place in the same goodly fellowship. We recognize one of them sitting at this feast of reason whose praises I must 2 speak wherever my tongue is loosed; a valued friend who has shown generously his appreciation of Professor Henry’s disin- terested services, as he has shown his appreciation of every- thing else that is noble and praiseworthy; a loyal Philadel- phian, without whom no assembly of Philadelphians intent on any good work would be complete—Mr. George W. Childs. What a noble monument does the American Philosophical Society present to us to-day! As we sat this afternoon, spell- bound listeners to the story of its origin and growth, so elo- quently and touchingly told, whoamong us could fail to perceive - 45 the imperishable worth of human science? Empires have risen and fallen in the Old World; the thirteen colonies have become the United States; the United States, surviving the shock of a civil war, have expanded over the continent; but this Society meanwhile has pursued its peaceful mission of ac- cumulating and diffusing knowledge, unchanged amid surround- ing changes. What wonderful stores of knowledge it has gathered into _ its garners during these past hundred years! The heavens, the very heaven of heavens, have been unveiled and the birth and growth of worlds exposed to our view. The earth in all its past history has been retraced, and its extinct dynasties of life recalled as in a marvelous resurrection. Man has been placed at the summit of living nature with his evolving races, languages and arts. The soul itself, turning its powers in scru- tiny upon itself, has been tracing the logical laws and pro- cesses by which it has accumulated this immense store of knowledge. Society, in the ranks of its humblest toilers, as well as in these higher circles of the learned, has begun to offer problems of which our wisest statecraft has not dreamed, and for the moral and religious solution of which the Protest- ant members of this philosophical association will welcome the aid of their Roman Catholic fellow-members, of whom I am glad to find we have a distinguished representative here to- night. Even theology is becoming the study of scientists as well as divines. And philosophy is collecting from all the sciences the materials for a complete system of knowledge. What illustrious names have been enrolled in the transac- tions of this Society during the century passed! The choicest and brightest intellects of all lands have been gathered from all the sciences and crowned with your laurel as kings in the realm of knowledge and benefactors of mankind. Permit me, 46 in closing my brief remarks, to join together two of these great names as alike worthy of immortal memory: BENJA- MIN FRANKLIN and JosEpH Henry—if the one, as it has been boldly said, seized the lightning in its course from heaven, the other has sent it forth as a vehicle of intelligence throughout the earth. Mr. Vaux: GENTLEMEN :—While you have been de- lighted, charmed and instructed by what you have heard from the oldest, and the uninterruptedly continued insti- tutions of learning by their representatives at our fes- tive board this evening, I think our feast of reason can- not well be concluded until you have had an opportunity to hear an equally learned address from the last-born of the learned institutions of the continent on which we live. Within the last few days, since this moon began to wane, there has been born in the Federal metropolis an institution of learning which, from all that we can know of its parentage and its purposes, is destined to be one of the most marvelous creations of this age, and in order that you may not go away to- night believing it is the old institutions which have the monopoly of science and philosophy, let me ask you to drink to the last toast: “THE LABORS AND ACHIEVE- MENTS OF GREAT TEACHERS IN SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY LIVE AFTER THEM ; THESE ARE THEIR MONUMENTS.” To sO appropriate a toast gathered from all the learning that has come down to us through the Latin race, marvelous in its character, splendid in its condition, wonderful in its elements, eternal in its truth, let me ask you to listen in reply to the Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, LL.D., President of the Catholic University of America. 47 Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN :—In the name of the Catholic University of America, I offer respectful homages and affectionate greetings to the American Philosophical Society, the youngest to the oldest of American institutions for the advancement of learning. In its name, I return heart- felt thanks for the broad-hearted liberality manifested by this invitation to your centennial celebration, and for the over-kind words with which my unworthy self has been introduced to you to-night. Such a spirit we honor as worthy of this City of Brotherly Love, and worthy of your great founder, Franklin, who was noted among all his contemporaries for the univer- sality of his human sympathies, and who numbered among his friends and among his colaborers for our country’s liberties our great patriot bishop, John Carroll. In the name also of our University, I heartily endorse the sentiment embodied in the toast to which I have been so kindly asked to reply. We welcome and hail every advance in philosophical research and in scientific discovery, and we pay homage to the great men whom God makes use of for their achievement. In the establishment of our own University, our purpose in ‘opening our work with the faculty of Divinity has been to place the great God, the all-creating Father, in the very centre, in order that around him all philosophical and scientific studies may be harmoniously grouped and may move in order like the planets around their central sun; and we are firmly con- vinced that he not only deserves well of his fellow-men, but deserves well of Almighty God, who in any way adds to the store of human knowledge, since of God it is said that “He is light and there is no darkness in Him.” | The inspired wise man has said that “ man has been made a little lower than the angels and has been crowned with glory 48 and honor, and placed over all the works of the Creator's hands.” He is therefore the divinely crowned monarch of creation; and whoever subjects to man any power of nature or brings under his dominion any of nature’s realms is car- rying out the behest of the Creator, is giving to man the monarchy that is his due, and should be numbered among the conquerors to whom the world pays homage. “The heavens show forth the glory of God and the firma- ment declareth the work of His hands.” He therefore who gave us the telescope that we might see deeper into those immensities; he who gave us the spectroscope that we might more intimately know their distances, their motions and the very mechanism of their construction; he who taught the pho- ~ tographic camera to fasten on an unfading retina what the great eye of the telescope beholds of solar convulsions or of © starry depths—all these are bards who, whether they advert to it or not, chant to mortal ears the glory of the Creator, and are honorable in His sight and in the sight of all men. The beneficent Father above has Himself united and almost identified well-doing to our fellow-men with love and dutiful- ness to Himself. Honored, therefore, of men and of angels should be those patient delvers in the realms of science, who teach us how to guard our health and our lives against the myriad enemies ever assailing them, and who cure or soothe any of the ills that humanity is heir to. alegs Man must learn from his fellow-men. Thought begets thought. He, therefore, is a benefactor whom all should bless who taught mankind to fasten thought in writing; and he 4 who, by the printing press, scatters it to the ends of the earth ; and what shall we say of that marvelous invention, on which your venerable President dwelt so eloquently to-day, which shall give us not only the stored-up thought, but even the a 49 human voice that, perhaps centuries before, gave it utter- ance? The good Father again has left to the intelligence and the free-will of His creatures, under the guidance of His Provi- " _ dence, the working out of the social problems which harmonize _and organize the living of men together in human society. He _ is therefore an agent of our Father's care, as well as a bene- factor to his fellow-men, who makes clear any great social principle that guides men in their social organization. Our Declaration of Independence is not only our country’s Magna _ Charta, earning for its framers and signers our country’s ever- _ lasting love, but it is an enunciation of social principles, stand- _ ing like a great beacon light on the pathway of man’s social _ advance, calling for the gratitude of mankind forever. Human action depends for its wisdom and its utility upon its agreement with the great principles of truth and of duty which are the bases of philosophy. Any brilliant genius who would lead astray from those great principles is an ignis - fatuus, who must lead men into the mire, whether it be social or domestic, or political organization that isin question. They, on the contrary, deserve all honor from God and from men who have power to declare those great principles with a voice that all must hear and heed, and who hold them up like a torch to guide the advance of mankind in those paths of morality and of religion in which alone, as our immortal _- Washington has warned us, can our country’s prosperity be hoped for. _ _ All honor therefore to the men who, in any realm of scien- tific, of philosophical, of ethical research, are doing something to increase the store of human knowledge, and all honor to this Association which gives to such men so efficient assist- ance. "PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVIT. 181, G. PRINTED JAN. 29, 1890. 50 In listening this afternoon to the address of your honored President, I felt, as he truly expressed it, that I was lifted up - into another atmosphere from that which I had been breathing in the streets below. Never in my life did I feel more im- pressed with the sense of reverence than when carried back by the eloquence of this worthy venerable octogenarian to those who laid the foundations of our country’s liberty. I honor the man, and I honor the Association over which he presides. I thank them again and again for the pleasure and the honor bestowed upon me this evening, and in the name of our Uni- versity I pray that when your second centenary shall be celebrated you may have gathered around you, as you have to-day, the representatives of all the associations of this _ ‘and of other lands to pay you homage. Mr. Vaux: GENTLEMEN :—The duty which has been imposed upon me is now ended, and I deliver this — most imposing company over to the guidance of the President of the American Philosophical Society. In bringing the exercises of the evening to a close, President Fraley said: My Frienps: How shall I thank you for all that has occurred around me to-day? We have gathered in our ancient hall the resident members of the Society. We have brought around us our honored associates and friends from other States. We have shaken hands together over the memories of the past. We have in- dulged in the hopes of the future, and we are now about to separate in those fraternal relations which grow out of the common brotherhood of men, the participation in universal pursuit after knowledge, the indulgence of the — 4 51 - hope that the years to come will be crowned with new _ triumphs of discovery, with new stores of accumulated knowledge. a Looking forward to that ultimate consummation and __ bliss, which is promised to all those who look to the’ Supreme Intelligence that guides men in the paths of duty and in the performance of good works, glorious as the memories of the past are, bright as the hopes _ of the future are, I bid you now, in the name of our honored Society, a farewell for the present, and hope for many reunions of this brotherhood of friends ; and I pray that the blessing of that Great Creator and Pre- server of the Universe may rest upon you, and that we may realize in the great hereafter the fellowship that we have been permitted to enjoy on earth. The hour has now arrived for our temporary separation, and I bid you an affectionate farewell. | __ Bishop Keane proposed the health of Mr. Fraley, _ which was drunk standing. hos BS nse oe yee ye ren se otek Te < Ns mart LAWS ; REGULATIONS AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCLETY, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FUR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, As finally amended and adopted, Dec. 18, 1885. TOGETHER WITH THE CHARTER OF THE SOCIETY, AND A List of its Officers and Councilors. PREPARED BY HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., A Secretary of the Society. PHILADELPHIA: Printed for the Society. —1890— see # os aay THE LAWS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOUIETY. CHAPTER I. OF THE MEMBERS, AND MANNER OF THEIR ELECTION. Section 1. The election of members shall be by ballot, and shall form part of the stated business of the meetings on the third Fridays of February, May, October and December. 2. A member may, at any meeting, nominate in writing a candidate for membership, and the nomination so made may, in like manner, be concurred in by other members. The board of officers and council may also nominate candidates for membership; and such nominations shall be certified to the Society by minute thereof in writing, attested by the clerk of said board. 3. No person shall be balloted for, unless his nomination, with the names of the members proposing him, or the minute of the board of officers and council, made as aforesaid, shall have been publicly read to the Society at the two stated meetings preceding that at which the balloting takes place. Nor shall any person be deemed duly chosen unless three- fourths of the votes given shall be in his favor. 4, Before entering upon an election for members, one of the secretaries shall read the names of the several candidates; and any member may then, for the information of the So- ciety, speak to their character and qualifications for member- ship. 56 o. The names of the candidates and their places of abode shall be designated on the ballots, and the names of the officers shall be called in the order of their seniority by the acting — secretary, the members thereafter depositing their ballots. — The name of a candidate struck from a ballot or not voted for © a shall be considered as a vote adverse to that candidate. 6. After all the other business of the meeting shall have been — a disposed of, the ballot box shall be opened by the secretaries, or in their absence by two tellers, to be appointed by the pre- siding member, who shall then declare to the Society the result of the poll. oe 7. The members are mutually pledged not to mention out of the Society the name of any candidate proposed, nor of any withdrawn or unsuccessful candidate; and the papers containing the names of the unsuccessful candidates shall be — a destroyed immediately after the election. 8. Every member, upon his introduction into the Bedieny, a shall be presented to the presiding officer, and shall subscribe the laws. 9. Such members as reside within ten miles of the hall of © i‘. the Society, and such other members as desire to vote at the meetings and elections, shall pay an admission fee of ten dol- — lars, and annually thereafter, on the first Friday of January,a — contribution of five dollars, The payment of fifty dollars — at one time, by a member not in arrears, shall exempt him from all future annual payments. 10. Members-elect, residing within ten miles of the hall, shall lose the right of membership unless they subscribe the laws and pay their admission fee within one year after their election. Any member liable to an annual contribution, who shall neglect or refuse to pay the same for the term of two years, shall be notified by the treasurer in writing, on or before the second Friday in January after such default, that his rights as a member are suspended ; and, in case the said arrears, to- : gether with the contribution due on the first Friday in Jan- uary after such notice, shall not be paid to the treasurer on or before the said last-named day, the membership of such 57 _ defaulting member shall be forfeited, his name stricken from _ the roll, and reported to the Society by the treasurer. 11. On the Society being informed of the death of a mem- ber, the fact shall be entered on the records, and a member may be appointed to prepare an obituary notice of the de- ceased. 12. The obituary notices of members shall be read to the Society, and they shall be bound together whenever they are sufficiently numerous to form a volume. CHAPTER II. OF THE OFFICERS, AND MANNER OF THEIR ELECTION. Section 1. The officers shall be a patron, a president, three vice-presidents, four secretaries, three curators, a treasurer, and twelve councilors. 2. The governor of the State of Pennsylvania shall be, ex- _ officio, the patron of the Society. "3. On the first Friday of January in every year, between the hours of two and five in the afternoon, as many of the members as shall have paid up their arrears due to the So- ciety, and shall declare their willingness to conform to the laws, regulations, and ordinances of the Society, then duly in _ force, by subscribing the same, and who shall attend in the hall, or place of meeting of the Society, within the time aforesaid, shall choose by ballot, one president, three vice-presidents, four secretaries, three curators and one treasurer; and at the same time and place, the members, met and qualified as afore- said, shall in like manner choose four members for the council, to hold their offices for three years. 4. No person residing within the United States shall be _eapable of being president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, or member of the council, or of electing to any of the said offices, who is not capable of electing and being elected to civil offices within the State in which he resides. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be considered as intended PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. H. PRINTED JAN. 29, 1890. 58° to exclude any of the officers or councilors, whose time shall be expired, from being reélected, according to the pleasure of the Society. 5. No one shall be esteemed a qualified voter at the elec- tion, who has not subscribed the laws and paid the admission 4 fee, or who is in arrears to the Society, or has not attended a meeting during a whole year next preceding the election. 6. Of the day, hour, and place of election, notice shall be given by the librarian at least one week before the day of election, in such one or more of the public newspapers of the State of Pennsylvania, as the Society shall direct. 7. Before opening the election, the company that shall be met at half an hour after two, shall appoint three members of the Society as judges of the election, and also two clerks or secretaries for taking down the names of the voters. 8. In case of an equality of votes for the candidates for any office, the decision shall be by lot, to be drawn by one of the judges. CHAPTER III. OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENTS. Section 1. The president shall preside at the meetings, preserve order, regulate the debates, state and put questions agreeably to the sense and intention of the members, and an- nounce the determination of the Society thereupon. 2. In the absence of the president from a meeting, his duties shall devolve upon the vice-presidents in rotation; or, at his request when present, his duties may be performed by either of the vice-presidents. | 3. If the president and vice-presidents be absent, the mem- bers met shall appoint one of their number to take the chair for the time. 4. At some time, within the year, the president shall de- liver to the Society a discourse on some literary or scientific subject, accompanied by such suggestions, with regard to the affairs of the Society, as he shall judge proper. 59 CHAPTER IV. OF THE SECRETARIES. _ Section 1. The secretaries shall minute the proceedings of _the Society at the meetings, read all papers which are required to be read at the meetings, and preserve, in regular files, all documents presented to the Society. They shall give notice _ to members of their election, acknowledge in writing the reception of all communications, and generally conduct the correspondence. 2. Two of them, at least, shall officiate at every meeting; and unless a different arrangement shall be made and an- nounced by them at the beginning of the year, the first and third named on the list of secretaries shall be considered responsible for the performance of all the duties of the office during the first, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, and eleventh months of the year, and in like manner the second and fourth named on the list, during the alternate months. CHAPTER V. OF THE CURATORS. Section 1. The curators shall have charge of the cabinet of . the Society, and shall be responsible for its preservation and security. They shall classify and arrange the articles therein, _and shall preserve an exact list of them, with the names of the donors. ; _ 2. One of them, at least, shall be in attendance as curator at every meeting; and, unless a different arrangement shall be made and announced by them at the beginning of the year, they shall be considered severally responsible, in monthly -_Totation, for the performance of all the duties of the office. CHAPTER VI. OF THE TREASURER. Section 1. The treasurer shall collect and receive all moneys belonging to the Society, or entrusted to its care, unless other- 60 wise specially directed ; and he shall disburse or apply the : same upon the orders or according to the appropriations made by the Society, which orders and appropriations shall be duly certified to him by the presiding officer and secretary for the time. 2. He shall keep regular accounts; and on the first Friday of December in every year, and as much oftener as may be required, he shall present to the Society a full report on the state of its funds. 3. He shall preserve, for the use of the Society at slnctions and meetings, a catalogue of all the members, designating thereon as a distinct class those who have paid the admission fee and the annual contributions, and noting opposite to their names the several meetings at which they have attended during the year. 4. On the expiration of his office he shall deliver up to his successor the books, papers, vouchers of property, and moneys remaining in his hands. 5. To secure the faithful execution of all his trusts, he shall, before he enters upon his office, give bond and security to the Society in such amount as the committee of finance shall judge proper ; which bond shall, without renewal, apply to the several years for which he may be reélected treasurer. 6. He shall, as full compensation for his services, receive five per cent on the amount of the annual income of the Society collected by him. CHAPTER VII. OF THE OFFICERS AND COUNCIL. Section 1. The officers and council shall meet together statedly on the second Friday of February, May and Novem- ber respectively, at the same hour in the evening at which the stated meetings of the Society are appointed to be held; and specially at such times as they may judge proper. 2. They shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings, to — 4 if eae aN lh ot Sout ra cei ll Sr i omen CRE es 61 be laid before the Society at its stated meetings, on the third Friday of the same months respectively. 3. They shall, from time to time, lay before the Society such measures as in their judgment will conduce to the well- governing and ordering of the affairs of the Society, or pro- mote the objects of its institution; particularly, they shall recommend subjects for premiums in be offered by the Society, with the conditions on which they shall be awarded. 4, They shall also, from time to time, nominate to the _ Society as candidates for membership, such persons of our own _ or of foreign countries, as may in their judgment merit such a - distinction. Such nomination shall, as nearly as may be prac- | __ ticable, be agreed to by them in the manner pointed out by ___ law for the election of members, except that no previous notice of any intended proposal to them for their nomination shall be _ required; and the names of all persons duly nominated by them shall be certified to the Society by a minute thereof, " ___ made in writing and attested by their clerk. ____ 5. To them shall be submitted all communications from _ candidates for premiums, whether the Magellanic or those offered by the Society, all of which shall be immediately teferred to the standing committee on premiums. Reports on such communications shall be made without unnecessary delay. 6. They shall annually appoint a standing committee of seven members, to be called the committee on premiums, of which three members shall be a quorum. It shall be the duty of this committee to publish the terms on which the Magellanic and other premiums are to be granted by the Society, to consider and report upon all communications from candidates for premiums, and to recommend to the officers and council subjects for which new premiums shall be offered by the Society. _ 7. The president and senior secretary of the Society shall . be, ex officio, the president and clerk at their meetings; and three of their number shall be a quorum. s 8. The ex-presidents of the Society shall be mem bers of the _ board of officers and council. x, 62 CHAPTER VIII. OF THE LIBRARIAN. Section 1. A member of the Society shall be chosen at the stated meeting on the third Friday of January in each year, to be the librarian of the Society. Nominations for said office shall be made at the first stated meeting in January, and no person shall ‘be voted for who has not been so nomi- nated. 2. The librarian shall have, under the direction of the proper standing committees, the custody and care of the hall, and of the books and papers belonging to the Society, which lie shall dispose and arrange in such manner as shall be judged most convenient, and shall keep an arranged catalogue of them, with the names of the donors. He shall assist the curators in their charge of the cabinet. 3. He shall attend at the library at every meeting of the Society, and daily, excepting Sundays, from 10 a. M. to 1 P.M., except when allowed leave of absence by the presiding offices of the Society, and shall then, and at such other times as he may think proper, lend out to any resident member of the Society, who is not indebted to him for fines or forfeitures, any books belonging to the library, except the last volumes and loose numbers of periodical journals, and except recent dona- tions made to the Society, which shall not be lent out; taking from each member borrowing a book an obligation, with a sufficient penalty, to return the same uninjured, within one month thereafter, subject to a fine of fifty cents at every stated - meeting that shall occur after the limited period before he returns the book, and a forfeiture of double the value of the book, or of the set of which it is one, if uot returned in six months after being borrowed. | 4, He shall levy and collect these fines and forfeitures, and pay over the moneys thence arising to the treasurer, at the end of his official year, in aid of the appropriation for the library. 63 5. He shall give notice of the meetings of the Society and of the officers and council, and of all elections, and shall make _ all such publications on behalf of the Society as are not other- = wise devolved by law or special order. > ‘6. He shall, at the beginning of each year, cause tables to - __ be prepared for the use of the members, on which shall be _ noted the days for the meetings of the Society and of the __ Officers and council, the stated business to be transacted thereat, and the names of the officiating secretaries and curator. 7. He shall transcribe carefully and correctly the minutes _ of the Society, as made by the officiating secretaries. He shall acknowledge the reception of all donations made to the Society, and transmit copies of its Transactions and Proceed- ings as directed, and shall from time to time perform such other executive or ministerial duties as may be charged on _him by vote of the Society, given according to the laws. 8. He shall, under the direction of the secretaries, act as reporter of the proceedings of the Society, and shall cause _ such abstract of them to be published for the use of the mem- bers, and for distribution to correspondents, as the secretaries ‘may deem expedient or proper, or as the Society may direct ; but no expense shall be incurred, nor any contracts made for printing or publishing the same, beyond the sum appropriated by the Society for such purposes. 9. He shall receive an annual salary of seven hundred dol- lars, to be paid monthly from the treasury of the Society, and his services shall commence on the first Monday after his election. CHAPTER IX. OF THE MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY. Sxction 1. The ordinary meetings of the Society shall be on the first and third Fridays of every month from September to June, at eight o'clock in the evening. Special meetings may be called at any time by order of the president; or, in his absence, by order of a vice-president. And it shall not be 64 lawful to take up, consider or transact at such special meeting any business other than that which is specified in the call and the notice for the meeting. And no business shall be taken up, considered or transacted at such special meeting, except by such number of qualified voters as would be requisite for a quorum according to the laws and regulations of the Society. 2. The chair shall be taken by the presiding member at the time appointed for the meeting. 7 8. The qualified voters present at any stated or special meeting shall be a quorum, and be competent to elect mem- bers, dispose of property, appropriate money, and award pre- miums; but no property shall be alienated or encumbered, except by the vote of three-fourths of the qualified voters present, and given at two successive stated meetings. For the transaction of the ordinary business, the reception and reference of communications on literary, scientific, or other subjects, all other members present shall be deemed compe- tent to act, and, in the absence of qualified voters, shall form a quorum. 4. Those members shall be considered qualified voters at the meetings, who have subscribed the laws and paid the admission fee, and who are not in arrears to the Society. 5. No meeting shall be continued after eleven o’clock; nor shall any new matter be introduced after ten, unless in the transaction of business enjoined by the laws. 6. The hall of the Society shall be open at half-past seven o’clock on every Friday evening when a stated meeting of the Society is to be held. CHAPTER X. OF THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. Section 1. Every communication to the Society which may be considered as intended for a place in the Transactions, shall immediately be referred to a committee to consider and report thereon. 2. If the committee shall report in favor of publishing the 65 communication, they shall make such corrections therein as they may judge necessary to fit it for the press; or if they shall judge the publication of an abstract or extracts from the paper to be more eligible, they shall accompany their report with such abstract or extracts. But if the author do not ap- prove of the corrections, abstract, or extracts, reported by the committee, he shall be at liberty to withdraw his paper. 3. Communications not intended by their authors for pub- _ lication in the Transactions, will be received by the Society, __ and the title or subject of them recorded; and, if they be in writing, they shall be filed by the secretaries. _ 4, The Transactions shall be published in numbers, at as short intervals as practicable, under the direction of the com- mittee of publication, and in such a form as the Society shall from time to time direct; and every communication ordered _to be published in the Transactions shall be immediately sent to the printer, and fifty copies thereof be given to the author as soon as printed. _ 5. The order in which papers are read shall determine their places in the Transactions, unless otherwise ordered by the Society; priority of date giving priority of location. 6. The expenses of publishing the Transactions shall be de- _ frayed by subscriptions and sales, aided by such funds as the Society shall from time to time appropriate for that purpose. CHAPTER XI. OF STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES. _ Secrion 1. There shall be chosen, at the stated meeting on the third Friday of January in each year, three members of the Society to be a committee of finance, five to be a com- mittee of publication, three to be a committee on the hall, and five to be a committee on the library. _ 2. The committee of finance shall have the general super- intendence of the financial concerns of the Society. They shall consult with the treasurer, and authorize and direct in- PROC. AMER, PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131.1. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 66 vestments of its surplus funds. They shall always have access — to his books, accounts, and vouchers ; and they shall annually, — on the third Friday of December, make a full report on — ‘ the state of the treasury, particularly distinguishing the sev- — eral funds, and the income and disbursements of each, and — recommending the amounts which should be appropriated for different objects of expenditure during the ensuing year. They shall also have power to remit the fees and contribu- tions of members, when they shall judge that bis ssareeis” ; 2 make it proper. 3. The committee of publication shall seen the : printing and distribution of the Society’s Transactions. They — shall make all contracts for the same in the name of the So- ciety, but shall have no power to incur any debt, beyond the amount appropriated by the Society for said publication, or — derived from subscriptions. They shall audit and certify all bills for expenses attending the publication to the treasurer for payment, fix the price of the different numbers, and re- _ ceive subscriptions. They shall furnish the treasurer, imme- — diately after the publication of any number of the Transac- — tions, with a list of the subscribers, and the sum due from — each, to enable him to collect the amount thereof, and shall — annually, on the first Friday of December, make a full report — of their doings to the Society. They shall have power to call "4 on the librarian for his assistance in the performance of their — duties. di 4. The committee on the hall shall have charge of the real estate of the Society, and shall direct all necessary repairs, :. They shall effect insurance upon the property of the Somer = in such amounts as may from time to time be directed. = = 5. The committee on the library shall confer with — and : assist the librarian in the disbursement of the annual appro- — priations for the library, and in the disposition and arrange- ment of the books, charts, and documents belonging to ~ 4 Society. = 6. No committee appointed on any subject of deliberation 3 shall consist of less than three members; but any other matter _ may be committed to a single member. A majority of any - committee shall be a quorum. _ 7. All committees shall be chosen, unless otherwise directed __ by the Society, on nominations previously made and seconded, the question being put on each member separately. ___ 8. The member first elected of any committee shall be the _ chairman, and considered responsible for the discharge of the _ duties enjoined on the committee. __ 9. Committees shall report at the meeting next following their appointment, unless otherwise ordered by the Society. _ 10. All reports shall be in writing, and signed by the mem- bers agreeing thereto. _ il. The names of the committees, the time of their appoint- ment, the matter or business committed to them, the time at which they are to report, and the time at which their final report is presented, shall be entered by the secretaries in a book provided for that purpose. CHAPTER XII. OF THE MAGELLANIC FUND. Section 1. John Hyacinth de Magellan, in London, having in the year 1786 offered to the Society, as a donation, the sum of two hundred guineas, to be by them vested in a secure and permanent fund, to the end that the interest arising therefrom ‘should be anvaslly disposed of in premiums, to be adjudged ‘by them to the author of the best discovery, or most useful inveution, relating to Navigation, Astronomy, or Natural Philosophy (mere natural history only excepted), and the ‘Society having accepted of the above donation, they hereby ‘publish the conditions, prescribed by the donor and agreed to by the Society, upon which the said annual premiums will be awarded. CONDITIONS OF THE MAGELLANIC PREMIUM. | 1. The candidate shall send his discovery, invention, or im- provement, addressed to the president, or one of the vice-presi- 68 dents of the Society, free of postage or other charges; and shall distinguish his performance by some motto, device, or other signature, at his pleasure. Together with his discovery, invention, or improvement, he shall also send a sealed letter containing the same motto, device or signature, and subscribed with the real name and place of residence of the author. 2. Persons of any nation, sect, or denomination whatever shall be admitted as candidates for this premium. 3. No discovery, invention, or improvement shall be entitled to this premium which hath been already published, or for which the author hath been publicly rewarded elsewhere. 4, The candidate shall communicate his discovery, inven- tion, or improvement either in the English, French, German, - or Latin language. 5. All such communications shall be publicly read or ex- hibited to the Society at some stated meeting, not less than _ one month previous to the day of adjudication, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of such members as shall desire it. But no member shall carry home with him the a communication, description, or model, except the officer to whom it shall be entrusted; uor shall such officer part with the same out of his one, without a Special) order - the Society for that purpose. : 6. The Society, having previously referred the ee com- 2 munications from candidates for the premium then depending to the consideration of the twelve councilors and other officers _ of the Society, and having received their report thereon, shall, at one of their stated meetings in the month of December, a annually, after the expiration of this current year (of the time and place, together with the particular occasion of which - meeting, due notice shall be previously given, by public ad- vertisement) proceed to final adjudication of the said premium; and, after due consideration had, a vote shall first be taken on 7 this question, viz.: Whether any of the communications then under inspection be worthy of the proposed premium? If this question be determined in the negative, the whole busi- ness shall be deferred till another year; but if in the affirma- 69 tive, the Society shall proceed to determine by ballot, given by the members at large, the discovery, invention, or improve- ment most useful and worthy; and that discovery, invention, or improvement which shall be found to have a majority of concurring votes in its favor shall be successful; and then, and not till then, the sealed letter accompanying the crowned performance shall be opened, and the name of the author an- nounced as the person entitled to the said premium. _ 7. No member of the Society who is a candidate for the premium then depending, or who hath not previously de- clared to the Society that he has considered and weighed according to the best of his judgment, the comparative merits _ of the several claims then under consideration, shall sit in _ judgment, or give his vote in awarding the said premium. _ 8. A full account of the crowned subject shall be published by the Society as soon as may be after the adjudication, either in a separate publication, or in the next succeeding volume of their Transactions, or in both. : 9. The unsuccessful performances shall remain under con- sideration, and their authors be considered as candidates for the premium for five years next succeeding the time of their presentment; except such performances as their authors may, in the meantime, think fit to withdraw. And the Society shall annually publish an abstract of the titles, object, or sub- _ ject-matter of the communications, so under consideration ; such only excepted as the Society shall think not worthy of _ public notice. 10. The letters containing the names of authors whose per- _ formances shall be rejected, or which shall be found unsuccess- ful after a trial of five years, shall be burnt before the Society _ without breaking the seals. 11. In ease there should be a failure, in any year, of any - communication worthy of the proposed premium, there will _ then be two premiums to be awarded the next year. But no accumulation of premiums shall entitle the author to more than one premium for any one discovery, invention, or im- _ provement. 70 12. The premium shall consist of an oval plate of solid standard gold, of the value of ten guineas. On one side thereof shall be neatly engraved a short Latin motto suited to the occasion, together with the words: “The Premium of John Hyacinth de Magellan, of London, established in the year 1786 ;” and on the other side of the plate shall be engraved these words: “ Awarded by the A. P.S. for the discovery of , A.D. .” And the seal of the Society shall be annexed to the medal by a ribbon passing through a small — at the lower edge thereof. Section 2. The Magellanic fund of two hundred guineas shall be considered as ten hundred and fifty dollars, and shall be invested separately from other funds belonging to or under the care of the Society, and a separate and distinct account of it shall be kept by the treasurer. The said fund shall be credited with the sum of oneusaeal dollars, to represent the two premiums for which the Society is now liable. The treasurer shall credit the said fund with the interest received on the investment thereof, and, if any surplus of said interest shall remain after providing for the premiums which may then be demandable, said surplus shall be used by the Society for making publication of the terms of the said pre- mium, and for such purposes as may be authorized by its char- ter atid laws. The treasurer shall, at the first stated meeting of the Society in the month of Decem bér annually, make a report of ge state of said fund and of the investment thereof. CHAPTER XIII. OF THE HENRY M. PHILLIPS’ PRIZE ESSAY FUND. Miss Emily Phillips, of Philadelphia, a sister of Hon. Henry M. Phillips, deceased, presented to the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowl- edge, on October 5, 1888, the sum of five thousand dollars for 71 _ the establishment and endowment of a Prize Fund, in memory _ of her deceased brother, who was an honored member of the Society. The Society, at a stated meeting, held October 5, _ 1888, accepted the gift and agreed to make suitable rules and _ regulations to carry out the wishes of the donor, and to dis- _ charge the duties confided to it. In furtherance whereof, the _ following rules and regulations were adopted by the Society at a stated meeting held on the seventh day of December, _ AD. 1888: First. The Prize Endowment Fund shall be called the : ere M. Phillips’ Prize Essay Fund.” Second. The money constituting the Endowment Fund, viz., five thousand dollars, shall be invested by the Society in aah _ Securities as may be recognized by the lawsof Pennsylvania, as _ proper for the investment of trust funds, and the evidences. of such investment shall be made in the name of the Society as _ trustee of the Henry M. Phillips’ Prize Essay Fund. _ Third. The income arising from such investment shall be _ appropriated as follows : : = (a) To making public advertisement of the prize and the _ sum or amount in United States gold coin, and the terms on _ which it shall be awarded. __ (6) To the payment of such prize or prizes as may from time _ to time be awarded by the Society for the best essay of real _ merit on the Science and Philosophy of Jurisprudence, and to _ the preparation of the certificate to be granted to the author of any successful essay. _ Fourth. Competitors for the prize shall affix to their essays - some motto or name (not the proper name of the author, how- _ ever), and when the essay is forwarded to the Society, it shall be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing within the proper name of the author, and, on the outside thereof, the motto or name adopted for the essay. Fifth. At a stated meeting of the Society, in pursuance of _ the advertisement, all essays received up to that time, shall be _ referred to a Committee of Judges, to consist of five persons, ___ who shall be selected by the Society from nomination of ten 72 persons made by the Standing Committee on the Henry M. Phillips’ Prize Essay Fund. _ Sivth., All amounts of interest accruing and unexpended on each and every occasion on which no prize shall be awarded, shall be considered and taken as accretions to the principal of the said fund. Seventh. All essays may be written in English, French, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, or Latin; but, if in any lan-— guage except English, must be accompanied by an English translation of the same, | Highth. No treatise or essay shall be entitled tocompete for the prize that has been already published or printed, or for — which the author has received already any prize, or 7 Ory honor, of any nature whatsoever. Ninth. All essays must be clearly and legibly written on only one side of the paper. ie: Tenth. The literary property of such essays shall be in their authors, subject to the right of the Society to publish the crowned essays in its Transactions or Proceedings. Eleventh. A Standing Committee, to consist of five members appointed by the president, and, ex officio, the president and the treasurer of the Society, shall continue in office during the pleasure of the Society, and any vacancies that may occur in said committee shall be filled by new appointment by the ~ president. : Twel/th. The said committee shall have charge of all mat- ters connected with the management of this endowment and the investment of the same, and shall make such general rules for publishing the terms upon which said prize shall be com- peted for, and the amount of the said prize, and, if it shall deem it expedient, designate the subjects for competing essays. It shall report annually to the Society, on the first Friday in — q December, all its transactions, with an account of the invest- ment of the Prize Fund, and of the income and expenditures thereof. 73 CHAPTER XIV. OF THE LAWS OF THE SOCIETY. Section 1. No statute, law, regulation, or ordinance shall ever be made or passed by the Society, or be binding upon the members thereof, or any of them, unless the same hath been duly proposed and fairly drawn up in writing, at one stated meeting of the Society, and enacted or pamed at a subsequent meeting, at least the space of fourteen days after e former meeting, and upon due notice in some of the public newspapers, that the enacting of statutes and laws, or the aking and passing ordinances and regulations, will be part of the business of such meeting. . Nor shall any statute, law, regulation, or ordinance be then, or at any time, enacted or passed, unless thirteen mem- bers of the Society be present in addition to the quorum of the officers and council; nor unless the same be voted by two- thirds of the whole body present. ___ 8. The laws contained in the fourteen foregoing chapters, shall be in force from and after the time of their adoption by the Society; and thereafter all other laws, regulations and ances heretofore passed or made by the Society shall be the same are hereby repealed. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. sOCc. xxviI. 131. J. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 74 RULES OF ORDER, &c. OF THE i AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 1. The Order of Business at the ordinary meniiae of the Society shall be as follows :— 1. The chair taken by the presiding officer. 2. Names of members present minuted. . . 3. New members presented, and visitors from correspond- ing societies introduced. = 4. Records read of last ordinary meeting, sill of any sub- sequent special meetings. | 5. Correspondence read and acted on, unless a sie: | to debate: g a. Acknowledgments of election to membership. b. Letters from learned societies. c. Other letters. = Donations and other additions announced and magic’ on: 4 a. To the library. b. To the cabinet. =a5 . Reports on communications and subjects of science read and acted on: : a. From standing committees and officers. b. From special committees. oO . Obituary notices of members read, and announcements of the decease of members made and acted on. . Stated business of the meeting. 2) 75. 10. Communications for Magellanic premiums and commnu- 3 nications intended for the Transactions presented and acted on. 11. Communications not intended for the Transactions pre- 12. Visitors from corresponding societies retire. 13. Pending nominations for membership announced. and re new nominations read. 14. Reports 6n business made and acted on: a. From standing committees and officers. b. From special committees. _ 15. Deferred business : a. Of the meeting. 7 b. Of former meetings. - 16. New business. 17. Minutes read, and submitted for correction. _ 18. The Society adjourned by the presiding member. _ 2. No debate shall ever take place in the Society but on _ motion duly made and seconded and afterwards stated by the presiding member. : __ 8. When a member speaks he shall stand up, addressing : himself to the presiding member; and, avoiding desultory remarks, he shall confine himself strictly to the merits of the question under consideration. _ 4, No member while speaking shall be interrupted, unless y the presiding member, when he shall think fit to call him to order or to admonish him to a closer adherence to the ques- on under discussion. _ 5. When a member speaking is called to order he shall _ instantly sit down or appeal from the call to the Society, who shall determine without debate. _ 6. No member shall speak more than twice to the same question without previously asking and es leave of the 7. Whilst any question or motion is under debate, no other motion shall be admitted, unless to divide the question, to 76 i amend, to postpone, to adjourn, or to take the pending ques tion. 8. No motion to reconsider a former vote can be a or- seconded except by a member who voted in the majority. Nor shall any such motion be entertained unless it be made forth- with or at the next stated meeting after the action which it a proposes to reconsider. 9. A motion for adjournment shall at all times be deter. ip mined without debate. 10. The presiding member shall have no vote, unio de : case of a tie or equality of votes among the other members, or where the act of incorporation or the laws require more than — a bare majority of the members present, or where the vote a taken by ballot. | 11. Where a ballot is not required by the laws, ha von : if requested by three of the members present, shall be taken — by ayes and noes, and shall be recorded among the reeeetiee aa of the meeting. 12. Any of the foregoing rules of order may, for the snore” convenient despatch of business at any meeting, be — _ by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. i; 17 AN ACT _ For Incorporating the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, : for promoting Useful Knowledge. _ Wueregas, The cultivation of useful knowledge and the advancement of the liberal arts and sciences in any country have the most direct tendency towards the improvement of agriculture, the enlargement of trade, the ease and comfort of life, the ornament of society, and the increase and happiness of mankind. And, whereas, this country of North America, which the goodness of Providence hath given us to inherit, from the vastness of its extent, the variety of its climate, the fertility of its soil, the yet unexplored treasures of its bowels, the multitude of its rivers, lakes, bays, inlets, and other con- veniences of navigation, offers to these United States one of the Tichest subjects of cultivation ever presented to any people upon earth. And, whereas, the experience of ages shows that improvements of a public nature are best carried on by socie- ties of liberal and ingenious men, uniting their labors, without regard to nation, sect, or party, in one grand pursuit, alike interesting to all, whereby mutual prejudices are worn off, a humane and sic loenphinal spirit is cherished, and youth stimulated to a laudable diligence and emulation in the pur- _ suit of wisdom. And, whereas, upon these principles, divers piiblic-spirited poailenen in Pennsylvania, and other Amer- jean States, did heretofore unite themselves, under. certain _ regulations, into one voluntary Society, by the name of “The _ American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for pro- _ moting Useful Knowledge,” and by their successful labors and _ investigations, to the great credit of America, have extended _ their reputation so far that men of the first eminence in the _ republic of letters in the most civilized nations in Europe _ have done honor to their publications, and desired to be en- rolled among their members. And, whereas, the Society, after 78 having been long interrupted in their laudable pursuits by the — calamities of war, and the distresses of our country, have found means to revive their design, in hopes of being able to prose- cute the same with their former success, and being further en- couraged therein by the public, for which purpose they have prayed us, the representatives of the freemen of the Common- wealth of Pennsylvania, that they may be created one body politic and corporate forever, with such powers, privileges, and immunities as may be necessary for answering the valuable purposes which the said Society had vid in 9 view : Wherefore, in order to encourage the said Society in the prosecution and advancement of all useful branches of knowl- edge, for the benefit of their country, and of mankind; be it enacted, and it is hereby enacted, by the representatives of the freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general — a assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That the members of the said American Philosophical Society hereto- fore voluntarily associated for promoting useful knowledge, and such other persons as have been duly elected members and officers of the same, agreeably to the Fundamental Laws and Regulations of the said Society, comprised in twelve sections, prefixed to their volume of Transactions, published in Phila- delphia by William and Thomas Bradford, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one; and who shall in all respects conform themselves to the said laws and regulations, and such other laws, regulations, and ordinances as shall hereafter be duly made and enacted by the said Society, according to the tenor hereof, be, and forever here- after shall be, one body corporate and politic in deed, by the © 4 name and style of The American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting Useful Knowledge, and by the same name they are hereby constituted and confirmed one body corporate and politic, to have perpetual succession, and by the same name they and their successors are hereby de- — . clared and made able and capable in law, to have, hold, receive, and enjoy lands, tenements, rents, franchises, heredita- — a 79 ments, gifts, and bequests of what nature so ever, in fee sim ple, or for term of life, lives, years, or otherwise, and also to give, grant, let, sell, alien, or assign the same lands, tene- e ments, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and premises, accord- ing to the nature of the respective gifts, grants, and be- quests made to them the said Society and of their estate therein. _ Provided, That the amount of the clear yearly value of such real estate do not exceed the value of ten thousand bushels of good merchantable wheat. _ And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That _ the said Society be, and shall be for ever hereafter able, and _ eapable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, _ answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all _ or any of the courts or other places, and before any judges, _ Justices, and other person and persons, in all manner of actions, _ suits, complaints, pleas, causes, and matters, of what nature or kind so ever, within this Commonwealth ; and that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Society, for ever here- after, to have and use one common seal in their affairs, and the same at their will and pleasure to break, change, alter, and renew. _ And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the well governing the said Society, and ordering their affairs, they shall have the following officers, that is to say, one ‘Patron, who shall be his Excellency the President of the Supreme Executive Council [now the Governor] of this Com- Monwealth, for the time being, and likewise one President, _ three Vice-Presidents, four Secretaries, three Curators, one _ Treasurer, together with a council of twelve members; and _ that on the first Friday of January next, between the ine of _ two and five in the afternoon, as many of the members of the _ said Society as shall have paid up their arrears due to the _ said Society, and shall declare their willingness to conform to __ the laws, regulations, and ordinances of the Society, then duly in force, according to the tenor hereof, by subscribing the Same, and who shall attend in the Hall, or place of meeting of 80. the said Society, within the time aforesaid, shall choose by ballot, agreeably to the Fundamental Laws and Regulations hereinbefore referred to, one President, four Secretaries, three Curators, and one Treasurer, and at the same time and place, the members met and qualified as aforesaid, shall in like man- ner choose four members for the council, to hold their offices for one year, four more members for the council to hold their offices for two years, and four more members for the council to hold their offices for three years. And on the first Friday in January, which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and so likewise on the first Friday of January, yearly and every year thereafter, between the hours of two and five in the afternoon, the members of the said Society met and qualified as aforesaid shall choose one President, three Vice-Presidents, four Secretaries, three Curators, and one Treasurer, to hold their respective offices — for one year, and four Councilmen, to hold their offices for three years. Provided, That no person residing within the ° United States shall be capable of being President, Vice- President, Secretary, Treasurer, or member of the council, or of electing to any of the said offices, who is not capable of electing and being elected to civil offices within the Statein — which he resides. Provided also, That nothing herein con- tained shall be considered as intended to exclude any of the said officers or councilors, whose times shall be expired, from being reélected according to the pleasure of the said Society ; and of the day, hours, and place of all such elections, due — notice shall be given by the Secretaries, or some of them, in one or more of the public newspapers of this State, agreeably to the said Fundamental Laws and Regulations before re- ferred to. . - And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the officers and council of the said Society shall be capable of exercising such power for the well governing and ordering the _ _ affairs of the Society, and of holding such occasional meetings for that purpose, as shall be described, fixed, and determined, by the statutes, laws, regulations, and ordinances of the said 81 Society, hereafter to be made. Provided always, That no Statute, law, regulation, or ordinance shall ever be made or passed by the said Society, or be binding upon the members _ thereof, or any of them, unless the same hath been duly pro- _ posed, and fairly drawn up in writing at oye stated meeting _ of the Society, and enacted or passed at a subsequent meeting, at least the space of fourteen days after the former meeting, and upon due notice in some of the public newspapers that the enacting of statutes and laws, or the making and passing ordinances and. regulations, will be part of the busi- ness of such meeting ; nor shall any statute, law, regulation, or ordinance be then or at any time enacted or passed, unless thirteen members of the said Society, or such greater number of members as may be afterwards fixed by the rules of this Society, be present, besides such quorum of the officers and - council as the laws of the Society for the time being may re- _ quire, and unless the same~be voted by two-thirds of the whole body then present; all which statutes, laws, ordinances and regulations, so as aforesaid duly made, enacted, and passed, shall be binding upon every member of the said. Society, and be from time to time inviolably observed, according to the tenor and effect thereof; provided they be not repugnant or contrary to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the time being in force and effect. And whereas, nations truly civilized (however unhappily at yariance on other accounts) will never wage war with the arts and sciences and the common interests of humanity ; Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Society by their proper officers, at all times, whether in peace or in war, to correspond with learned Societies, as well as individual learned men, of any nation or country, upon matters merely belonging to the business of the said Society; such as the mutual communiea- tion of their discoveries and proceedings in philosophy and science ; the procuring books, apparatus, natural curiosities, and such other articles and intelligence as are usually ex- changed between learned bodies for furthering their common PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. K. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. said Hare be : all times open ‘to the ‘preme Executive omm«¢ | fifigenth. ay ok March, “Anno "Domi one he x ‘hundred ne es Pewee ate | od "HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, From 1769 to 1890. , COMPILED BY - HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., ONE OF THE SECRETARIES OF THE Socrery. PRESIDENTS. _ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Elected 2d January, 1769; died 17th April, 1790. DAVID RITTENHOUSE, __ Elected 7th January, 1791; died 26th June, 1796. HOMAS JEFFERSON, _ Elected 6th January, 1797 ; resigned in January, 1815 ; died 4th July, 1826. CASPAR WISTAR, a Elected 6th. ecules 1815; died 22d iecaberih 1818. ROBERT PATTERSON, ___ Elected Ist January, 1819; died 224 July, 1824. WILLIAM TILGHMAN, Elected 7th January, 1825; died 29th April, 1827. PETER STEPHENSON DUPONCEAU, ___ Elected 4th January, 1828; died 1st April, 1844. ROBERT M. PATTERSON, ; Elected 3d January, 1845 ; declined accepting the position. NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, Elected 24 January, 1846 ; died Ist July, 1558. ROBERT M. PATTERSON, ea Reélected 5th January, 1849; died 5th September, 1854. FRANKLIN BACHE, _ Elected 7th January, 1853 ; died 19th March, 1864. ALEXANDER DALLAS BACHE, -_ Elected 5th January, 1855 ; died 17th February, 1867. JOHN K. KANE, oh Elected 2d January, 1857; died 2ist February, 1858. ‘GEORGE B. WOOD, ‘ Elected 7th January, 1°59 ; died 30th March, 1879. FREDERICK FRALEY, ___. Elected 24 January, 1880. VICE-PRESIDENTS. 1769. Thomas Cadwalader, M.D., Thomas Bond, M.D., © Joseph Galloway. 1770 to 1775, inclusive. Joseph Galloway, Thomas Bond, M.D., Samuel Rhoads. 1776. Thomas Bond, M.D., Samuel Rhoads, Rev. Dr. William Smith. (No records from January 5, 1776, to Jan- uary 19, 1779.) 1779, 1780, Thomas Bond, M.D., David Rittenhouse, William Shippen, M.D. 1781, 1782. Thomas Bond, M.D., David Rittenhouse, Rev. James Wilson. 1783, 1784. Thomas Bond, M.D., Rev. Dr. William White, Rev. John Ewing. 1785. Rev. Dr. William White, Rev. John Ewing, Samuel Vaughan. 1786 to 1789, inclusive. - Rev. Dr. William White, Rev. John Ewing, David Rittenhouse. 1790. Rev. John wie: David Rittenhouse, a Rev. Dr. William Smith. 1791 to 1794, incl Rev. John Ewing, Rev. Dr. William asec. Thomas Jefferson, 1795. es Rev. Dr. Nicholas Collin, _ Thomas Ruston, M.D., | Caspar Wistar, M.D. 1796. Rev. Dr. Nicholas Collin, Rev. Dr. William Smith, __ Caspar Wistar, M.D. on ae 1797, 1798. “4 Rev. Dr. Nicholas Collin, — Benjamin Rush, M.D., Caspar Wistar, ‘M.D... 1799, 1800. Caspar Wistar, M.D., Benjamin Rush, M.D., Robert Patterson. 1801. Caspar Wistar, M.D., Andrew Ellicott, Robert Patterson. Ses 1802 to 1814, inclusive. — Caspar Wistar, M.D., . ia Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., 2 Robert Patterson, | Wiiacicl Chatmnen, M.D., Joseph Hopkinson, 1836 to 1842, inclusive. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., : Joseph Hopkinson, Robert M. Patterson, M.D. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert M. Patterson, M.D., 87 1845 to 1848, inclusive. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Alexander Dallas Bache, Franklin Bache. 1849 to 1852, inclusive. Franklin Bache, Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane. 1853, 1854. Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane, ‘Robley Dunglison, M.D. 1855, 1856. John K. Kane, Robley Dunglison, M.D., John F. Frazer. 1857. Robley Dunglison, M.D., John C. Cresson, Isaac Lea. 1859 to 1868, inclusive. 88 1880 to 1883, inclusive. 1885, 1886. Eli K. Price, E. Otis Kendall, E. Otis Kendall, ; Pliny BE. Chase, John L. LeConte, M.D. W. 8S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D. 1884. 1887 to 1890, inclusive. Eli K. Price, BE. Otis Kendall, E. Otis Kendall, W.S. W. Ruschenberger, Ma Pliny E. Chase. . J. Peter Lesley. 1769. 1774, 1775. Charles Thomson, Rev. William Smith, Rev. William Smith, Richard Wells, Thomas Mifflin, Robert Strettell Jones, Rev. John Ewing. Benjamin Rush, M.D. 1770. Rev. William Smith, 1776. Charles Thomson, Robert Strettell Jones, Thomas Mifflin, Benjamin Rush, M.D., es oe S. Roberts. - Richard Wells, “age ae he 1771. Thomas Bond, Jr. Rev. William Smith, No elections till David Rittenhouse, , Rev. John Ewing, i 1779. Robert Strettell Jones, Rev. William Smith, 17°72. Rev. John Ewing, Rev. William White, Rev. William Smith, Owen Biddle. Charles Moore, M.D., William Shippen, Jr., M.D., Robert Strettell Jones. (No Minutes of 170)) 1773. 1781. Rev. William Smith, Rev. John Ewing, Robert Strettell Jones, Owen Biddle, Owen Biddle, Timothy Matlack, Benjamin Rush, M.D. Rev, William White. _ James Hutchinson, M.D., _ Timothy Matlack, _ Rev. James Davidson, 1786, 1787, 1788. Rev. Samuel Magaw, _ Rev. Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, _ Rev. Nicholas Collin, 89 1795, 1796. William Barton, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, John Bleakley. 1797. William Barton, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Jonathan Williams, Jr., John Bleakley. 1798. Rev. Samuel Magaw, Adam Seybert, ‘Thomas C. James, Samuel H. Smith. 1799. rs James Woodhouse, Adam Seybert, Thomas C. James, Samuel H. Smith. 1800. Joseph Clay, Adam Seybert, Thomas Peters Smith, Samuel H. Smith. 1801. Joseph Clay, Adam Seybert, Rev. Burgess Allison, Tench Coxe. 1802. Joseph Clay, Tench Coxe, Thomas C. James, Adam Seybert. 1803 to 1807, inclusive, Adam Seybert, John Redman Coxe, Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson. _ PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. L. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 1808. Adam Seybert, Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D. 1809. Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D. 1810, 1811. Thomas Cc. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Rev. Burgess Allison. 1812. Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Joseph Cloud. 1813. Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert M. Patterson. 1814. Thomas C, James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Reuben Haines, Robert M. Patterson. 1815, 1816. Thomas C. James, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert M. Patterson. 1817, 1818. Thomas C. James, Robert M. Patterson, John Syng Dorsey, M.D., W.P. C. Barton, M.D. 90 . 1819. Thomas C. James, Robert M. Patterson, W. P. C. Barton, M.D., -Robert Walsh, Jr. 1820. Thomas C. James, Robert M. Patterson, Robert Walsh, Jr., George Ord. 1821, 1822. Thomas Tickell Hewson, Robert M. Patterson, — Robert Walsh, Jr., George Ord. 1823, 1824. Robert M. Patterson, Robert Walsh, Jr., George Ord, ; : William H. Keating, M.D. 1825, 1826. Robert Walsh, Jr., aes George Ord, William H. Keating, M.D., Franklin Bache. ' 1827. George Ord, — 3 William H. Keating, pepo i Franklin Bache, » Clement C. Biddle. 1828. Franklin Bache, Clement C. Biddle, John K. Kane, Charles D. Meigs, M.D. 1829. George Ord, Franklin Bache, Clement C. Biddle, John K. Kane. un | Charles D. Meigs, M.D. Robley Dunglison, M.D., John F. Frazer, 91 1849 to 1852, inclusive. Robley Dunglison, M.D., John F. Frazer, Charles B. Trego, E. Otis Kendall. 1853, 1854. John F. Frazer, Charles B. Trego, _E. Otis Kendall, Frederick Fraley. 1855 to 1858, inclusive. Charles B. Trego, E. Otis Kendall, Frederick Fraley, John LeConte. 1859 to 1874, inclusive. Charles B. Trego, E. Otis Kendall, John LeConte, J. Peter Lesley. 1875, 1876. E. Otis Kendall, John LeConte, Pliny E. Chase, J. Peter Lesley. 1877 to 1879, inclusive. John LeConte,: Pliny E. Chase, George F. Barker, J. Peter Lesley. 1880 to 1883, inclusive. _ Pliny E. Chase, - George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., J. Peter Lesley. -1884, 1885. George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D... Henry Phillips, Jr., J. Peter Lesley. 1886. J. Peter Lesley, George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., Henry Phillips, Jr. 92 1887 to 1890, inclusive. George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., Henry Phillips, Jr., George H. Horn, M.D. CURATORS. 1769. Adam Kuhn, M.D., John Morgan, M.D., Lewis Nicola. 1770. Isaac Bartram, Benjamin Rush, M.D., Owen Biddle. 1771. Benjamin Rush, M.D., Adam Kuhn, M.D., William Shippen, Jr., M.D. 1772. Benjamin Rush, M.D., James Alexander, David Rittenhouse. 1773. David Rittenhouse, James Alexander, Samuel Duffield, M.D. 1774, 1775. David Rittenhouse, Samuel Duffield, M.D., Thomas Bond, Jr. 1776. David Rittenhouse, Samuel Duffield, M.D., Pierre E. du Simitiere. 1779. Lewis Nicola, Samuel Duffield, M.D., Pierre E. du Simitiere. 1780. (No Minutes.) 1781. Lewis Nicola, ; Samuel Duffield, M.D., Pierre E. du Simitiere. 1782. Lewis Nicola, Samuel Duffield, M.D., Isaac Gray. 1783 to 1785, inclusive. Lewis Nicola, Ebenezer Hazard, Isaac Gray. 1786, 1787. Samuel Duffield, M.D., | William Bradford, Barnabas Binney. 1788, 1789. Samuel Duffield, M.D., William Bradford, Charles W. Peale. i 1790, 1791. Samuel Duffield, M.D., Benjamin Smith Barton, Charles W. Peale. Charles W. Peale, 1792 to 1794, inclusive. 93 1807 to 1810, inclusive. Charles W. Peale, Robert Hare, Jr., John R. Smith. 1811 to 1813, inclusive. John R. Smith, Robert Hare, Jr., Zaccheus Collins. 1814, 1815. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, William Hembel, Jr. 1816. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, — Samuel Calhoun, M.D. 1817, 1818. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, Thomas Tickell Hewson. 1819, 1820. Joseph Cloud, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Reuben Haines. 1821, 1822. Joseph Cloud, Thomas Say, William E. Horner, M.D. 1823. Thomas Say, William E. Horner, M.D., Jesse Lukens. 1824 to 1827, inclusive. Thomas Say, William E. Horner, M.D., James Mease, M.D. 1828. James Mease, M.D., William E. Horner, M.D., John Price Wetherill. 1829. James Mease, M.D., John Price Wetherill, R. E. Griffith, Jr., M.D. 1830. (No Minutes.) 1831 to 1836, inclusive. R. E. Griffith, Jr., M.D., John Price Wetherill, Isaac Lea. 1837. Isaac Lea, John Price Wetherill, Isaac Hayes, M.D. 4 1838. Isaac Lea, John Price Wetherill, Franklin Peale. 1839 to 1845, inclusive. Isaac Hays, M.D., John Price Wetherill, Franklin Peale. 1846. Isaac Hays, M.D., John Price Wetherill, John C, Cresson, 1847 to 1850, inclusive. Franklin Peale, John Price Wetherill, John C. Cresson. 1851 to 1856, inclusive. Franklin Peale, John C. Cresson, Miers Fisher Longstreth. 94 1857, 1858. Franklin Peale, Elias Durand, Miers Fisher Longstreth. 1859 to 1870, inclusive. Franklin Peale, Elias Durand, Joseph Carson, M.D. 1871 to 18°73, inclusive. Hector Tyndall, Elias Durand, Joseph Carson, M.D. — 1874 to 1876, inclusive, Joseph Carson, M.D., Hector Tyndall, Charles M. Cresson, M.D, 1877 to 1879, inclusive. Hector Tyndall, Charles M. Cresson, M.D., Daniel G. Brinton, M.D. 1880. Hector Tyndall, Charles M. Cresson, M. D., Henry Phillips, Jr. 1881 to 1883 inclusive. Charles M. Cresson, ws perdeail Henry Phillips, Jr., George H. Horn, M.D. 1884, 1885. ' George H. Horn, M.D., Philip H. Law, Charles G. Ames. 1886. George H. Horn, M.D., Charles G. Ames, John R. Baker. — iy 1887, 1888. 1889, 1890. Charles G. Ames, John R. Baker, _ John R. Baker, Patterson DuBois, H. Law. J. Cheston Morris. TREASURERS. 1769, 1770. [1832, qy. 1833, blank in minutes.] Syng, Sen. i 1842 to 1847, inclusive. , "erage eb ae gece nab Ond. : Coombe. 1779 1848 to 1851, inclusive. Matthew Clarkson. Benjamin W. Richards. | SRE oe ape 1852 to 1874, inclusive. __ 1781 to 1790, inclusive. AIRE ae 1791 to 1841, i en 1875 to 1890, inclusive. John Vaughan. : J. Sergeant Price. COUNCILORS. eo 1781. For one year: 2 ; For three years. Rev. Ezra Stiles, fe au a 5 Matthew Clarkson, Geor ‘ge Bryan, Jonathan B. Smith, Thomas McKean, John Lukens. Charles Thomson. For two years. TT62. George Duffield, Joseph Reed, - William Livingston, — Jonathan B. Smith, ~ i 1s Jefferson, Jared Ingersoll, Owen Biddle. 1783. Thomas Jefferson, Rev. John Witherspoon, Samuel Duffield, David Rittenhouse. 1784. Thomas McKean, Barbé de Marbois, George Bryan, Charles Caldwell, M.D. 1785. Jared Ingersoll, Jonathan B. Smith, Joseph Reed, Rev. Robert Blackwell. 1786. David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, M.D., John Jones, M.D., Rev. George Duffield, Adam Kuhn, M.D., vice Joseph Reed, deceased. 1787. Thomas McKean, George Bryan, Charles Caldwell, M.D., Hugh Hodge, M.D. 1788. Jared Ingersoll, Rev. Robert Blackwell, Adam Kuhn, M.D., Charles Pettit. 1789. Charles Pettit, Benjamin Rush, M.D., John Jones, M.D., Rev. George Duffield. 1790. Thomas McKean, Rev. Robert Blackwell, William Barton, M.D., Isaac Gray. * on 1791. For three years. Adam Kuhn, M.D., Jared Ingersoll, Andrew Ellicott, Samuel P. Griffiths, M.D. For one year. Rev. Nicholas Collin, vice Rev. George Duffield, de- ceased. For unexpired terms. Thomas McKean, Rev. Robert Blackwell, William Barton, M.D., Charles Pettit, Isaac Gray, Benjamin Rush, M.D., John Jones, M.D. 1792. Charles Pettit, Rev. Nicholas Collin, Benjamin Rush, M.D., Rev. William White. 1793. J. Thornton, M.D., Thomas McKean, William Barton, M.D., Rev. Robert Blackwell. 1794, Jonathan Williams, Jr., Rev. John Andrews, Andrew Ellicott, Samuel P. Griffiths, M.D., Rev. James Davidson, vice William Barton, M.D. 1795. Rev. William Smith, Jonathan B. Smith, » William Curry, M.D., Rev. William White. 97 1796. 1803. Rev. Robert Blackwell, Jonathan Williams, Jr., Thomas McKean, Andrew Ellicott, Rev. James Davidson, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Adam Kuhn, M.D. Rev. Nicholas Collin. 1797. 1804. ‘Tench Coxe, - Rev. James Abercrombie, _ Richard P. Smith. d 1798. _ Jonathan B. Smith, _ Rev. William Smith, Samuel Wheeler, Jonathan Williams, Jr., " vice Richard P. Smith, dec’d. 1799. - Rev. James Davidson, Rev. William White, Jonathan B. Smith, Peter S. Duponceau, Adam Kuhn, M.D. 1805. James Woodhouse, M.D., Samuel Duffield, * William Shippen, M.D., Zaccheus Collins. 1806. Benjamin Rush, M.D., Andrew Ellicott, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Tilghman. 1807. Rev. William White, Peter S. Duponceau, Jonathan Williams, Jr., William Short. 1808. William Shippen, M.D., James Woodhouse, M.D., Zaccheus Collins, John McDowell. 1809. Rev. Nicholas Collin, Andrew Ellicott, Benjamin Rush, M.D., William Tilghman. For two years. Jonathan B. Smith, vice William Shippen, M.D., de- ceased. PROC, AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII, 131. M. PRINTED FEB. 17, 1890. 1810. Peter S. Duponceau, Jonathan Williams, Jr., Rev. William White, Mahlon Dickerson. 1811. Adam Seybert, M.D., Jonathan B. Smith, James Gibson, John H. Brinton. 1812. Rev. Nicholas Collin, Benjamin Rush, M.D., William Tilghman, Andrew Ellicott. 1813. Rev. William White, Peter S. Duponceau, Jonathan Williams, Jr., Horace Binney. 1814. Thomas Cooper, James Gibson, John Penington, M.D., Robert Hare, Jr. For one year. William Meredith. 1815. Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Tilghman, Andrew Ellicott, William Meredith. 1816. Rev. William White, Horace Binney, John Sergeant, William Rawle. 1817. Thomas Cooper, James Gibson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Samuel Calhoun, M.D. 1817. For one year. William Hembel, Jr. 1818. Thomas Jefferson, William Maclure, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Meredith. 1819. William Rawle, Horace Binney, John Sergeant, John Quincy Adams. 1820. James Gibson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr. 1821. Thomas Jefferson, William Maclure, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Meredith. 1822. Horace Binney, John Quincy Adams, John Sergeant, William Rawle. 1823. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr., Clement C. Biddle. 1824. Thomas Jefferson, William Maclure, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Meredith. 99 1832. William Hembel, Jr., William Rawle, Robert Hare, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D. For two years. James Mease, M.D. 1833. William Short, Clement C. Biddle. 1834. Nicholas Biddle, Rev. William H. DeLancey, Thomas Biddle, James Mease, M.D. 1835. William Rawle, Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr., Eugenius Nulty. 1836. William Short, George Ord, William H. Keating, M.D., Clement C. Biddle. 1837. Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Biddle, James Mease, M.D., Gouverneur Emerson, M.D. For one year. Joshua Francis Fisher, vice William Rawle, deceased Robert Hare, Jr., William Meredith, William Hembel, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D. 100 1839. William Short, William H. Keating, M.D., George Ord, Clement C. Biddle. 1840. Nicholas Biddle, Thomas Biddle, Gouverneur Emerson, M.D., Joshua Francis Fisher. 1841. Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Henry Vethake. For one year. Joseph Henry, vice William H. Keating M.D., deceased. 1842. Clement ©. Biddle, William Short, Joseph Henry, Philip H. Nicklin. 1843. Thomas Biddle, Gouverneur Emerson, M.D., Isaac Lea, Hartman Kuhn. For one year. Rev. Benjamin Dorr, vice Philip H. Nicklin, deceased. 1844. Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Henry Vethake. 1845, re-elected 1848. Clement C. Biddle, William Short, Joseph Henry, Rev. Benjamin Dorr. 1846. Thomas Biddle, Isaac Lea, Thomas P, Cope, Hartman Kuhn. 1847, re-elected 1850. Robert Hare, Jr., William Hembel, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Henry Vethake. 1849, re-elected 1852. Thomas Biddle, Hartman Kuhn, Isaac Lea, Alfred L. Elwyn. 1850. George M. Justice, vice William Short, deceased. 1851, re-elected 1854. Clement C. Biddle, George M. Justice, Frederick Fraley, Henry Reed. 1852. Isaac Hays, M.D., ' vice William Hembel, Jr., de- ceased. ‘i 1853. Isaac Hays, M.D., Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Henry Vethake, Jacob G. Morris. _ 1855. Thomas Biddle, Isaac Lea, Alfred L. Elwyn, John Bell, M.D., George Tucker, vice Henry Reed, deceased, Robert Bridges, M.D., vice Jacob G. Morris, deceased. 101 1856. 1866, re-elected 1869. Isaac Hays, M.D., Frederick Fraley, Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Robert Patterson, Henry Vethake, Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, Robert Bridges, M.D. Eli K. Price. 1857. 1867, re-elected 1870. George M. Justice, Alfred L. Elwyn, George Tucker, John Bell, M.D., William Harris, M.D., Benjamin H. Coates, M.D., Robert Patterson. Benjamin V. Marsh. Alfred L. Elwyn, Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, en e- Pi “ sy a henbe M.D Henry Coppée, ee -D., Edward King. enry insor. 1859, re-elected 1862, 1865, 1868, 197s. 1871, 1874. Alfred L. Elwyn, Isaac Hays, M_D., rary Coates, M.D., Robert Bridges, M.D., Pliny E. Chase, Henry C. Carey, mbar B. Rogers, M-D. ; 1876, re-elected 1879. 1860. Alfred L. Elwyn, George M. Justice, Benjamin Coates, M.D., : Benjamin V. Marsh, George Tucker, io abe Robert Patterson, George H. Horn, M.D. Henry Vethake. 1877. 1861. Isaac Hays, M.D., Robert E. Rogers, M.D., Frederick brasns ; Henry C. Carey, vice George M. Justice, resigned. poy ort Bridges, M.D. 1863. 1878, re-elected 1881, 1884. Frederick Fraley, Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, Robert Patterson, W. 8S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D., Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, Henry Winsor, William Parker Foulke. William A. Ingham. 1864. 1880. Alfred L. Elwyn, Robert E. Rogers, M.D., John Bell, M.D., Robert Bridges, M.D., Henry Coppeée, Oswald Seidensticker, Oswald Thompson. Richard Wood. 102 1882. Alfred L. Elwyn, Benjamin V. Marsh, Aubrey H. Smith, George R. Morehouse, M.D. 1883. Robert E. Rogers, M.D., Richard Wood, | Oswald Seidensticker, Philip Howard Law. 1885. Aubrey H. Smith, George R. Morehouse, M.D., Charles A. Ashburner, Edward D. Cope. For one year. Persifor Frazer, vice Robert E. Rogers, M.D., de- ceased. 1886. Oswald Seidensticker, Richard Wood, William V. McKean, Persifor Frazer. 1887. Daniel R. Goodwin, ‘Henry Winsor, William A. Ingham, Thomas H. Dudley. For two years. Richard Vaux, vice Oswald Seidensticker, re- signed. 1888. Aubrey H. Smith, George R. Morehouse, M.D., Samuel Wagner, Edward D. Cope. 1889. Richard Wood, William V. McKean, Richard Vaux, Isaac C. Martindale. ; 1890. Daniel R. Goodwin, William A. Ingham, Thomas H. Dudley, Robert Patterson. iL I dD 2 OF OFFICERS AND COUNCILORS. : PAGE. Abercrombie, James. . . . . . . 92,97 » Adams, John Quincy. . - . - - 98,99 Adrain, Robert ...... PS ORR * _ Alexander, James. ..... ea Oe Allison, Burgess . . 2... - . 89, 90 Ames, Charles G. . 2... 3 + 94,95 pmerewe: Jobe... . sk. 96 _ Ashburner, CharlesA..... . . 102 Bache, Franklin ..... 85, 87, 9°, 91 Meee SOB oes 03 5 5 bs OFF OS Barton, William ..... . .-. 89,96 “opal are eer a . 90 Barton, BenjaminS .... - 86, ys "Barker,GeorgeF........ 91, 92 - Bartram, Isaac. . See ION SS ee 100, Ior _ Biddle, Clement C . . 90, 91, 98, 99, 100 Biddle, Nicholas... - - . . . 99, 100 Biddle, Owen. . . . . . . . 88,92, 95 - Biddle, Thomas. . . . . . . .99, 100 _ Binney, Barnabas Eig eeer iat aa eee 92 _ Binney, Horace . eee ee BO _ Blackwell, Robert. . ...... 96, 97 Bleakley, John. .....-..-- 89, 97 ed SONS oe ae es 86 Bond, Thomas, Jr... . . 88, 89,92 Bradford, William........-.- 92 Brinton, Daniel G. . . . . . 91, 92,94 _ Brinton, JohnH. awe _ Bridges, Robert... . . . . . 100, Ior _ Bryan,George ....... - - 95,96 er ee PL ce, ie SB PAGE. Cadwalader, Thomas. . 2 6 65 86 Caldgell; Charles ‘07 .c 5.) 35 oe ge Calhoun, Samuel... .... « « 93, 98 Carey; Henry Con: oe be SON Catson; Joseph: oo se ee 94 Chapman, Nathaniel . . 85, 87, 90, 98, 99 Ghase; Pliny 3.2 6c ie 88, 91, IO Chie, Youn eran ere Sg ee 93 Clarkson, Matthew... 2-2. 2 2 62's 95 Clay, Joseph <2... tees NRT Tous OSCR i a eee 9°, 93 Crates dl a si ee ey Ior Collin, Nicholas. 86, 89, 93, 96, 97, 98. 99 Ore 1 a AR aa ales Woo ees 87, 93, 97 CS aI ah ai aia ees ge ot Oe ee OT OSE SER EER CN ag ea ale Career ey 100 Coombe; Thomas 66.56 si iS ie Coppee, Menry, 6 os 1or ‘Coxe, JohnR..... bea! A) 5 ss df SERS 18, SRSEERE ERE RoR S SRRBERSPRRERES April Jan’y 16, 1835, Princeton, N. J. Philadelphia. Palermo, Italy. Philadelphia. , Naples, Italy. Haverford, Pa. Florence, Italy. Madrid, Spain. Jena, Prussia. Cambridge, Mass. Roxbury, Mass. Clinton, Canada. Washington, D. C. Westport, N. Y. Albany, N. Y. Haverford, Pa. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. ae Cincinnati, O. Philadelphia. Vienna, Austria. Washington, D. C. Philadelphia. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. Berlin, Prussia. e Washington, D. C. Boston, Mass. Portland, Me. Philadelphia. Carlisle, Pa. Hanover, N. H. Philadelphia. PRINTED FEB. 21, 1890. be - Name, 2160, HOFFMAN, WALTER J... . . 1453. HOFMANN, AUGUST WILLIAM, 2068. HOLLAND, JAMES W. .... 1898, HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL . 1624. HooKER, JosepH D,...... 1652. Hopper, EDWARD. ..... 1607. HORN, GEORGE HENRY .. . 2070. HORNER, INMAN. .... 2s 1257. HorsForD, EBEN NORTON. . 1941. HoTcHKIss, JEDEDIAH. . . 1696. HouGH, GkoraeE W...... 1698. Houston, EDWIN J... ... 2143. Houston, HENRY H..... 2084. HOVELACQUE, ABEL. .... 1843. Humparey, H.C...... 2116. HUNFALVY, PAUL. ....... 1441. Hunt, THOMAS STERRY... 1623. HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY. . 1426. HYRTLE, JOSEPH, ...... 2052. IM THURN, EVERARDF.. .. 1773, INGHAM, WM. ARMSTRONG. . 2010. JAMES, EDMUNDJ...... 1933. JANNET, CLAUDIO, ..... 2049. JAYNE, HORACE. ....... 1954. JEFFERIS, WILLIAM W.... 1942. JONES, CHARLES C., JR. , . .. 2017. JORDAN, FRANCIS, JR... . . 1989. KANE, ELISHA KENT. ...... 9160; KEANE JOBN SC 66 2.6 8S 1348. KEATING, WILLIAMV..... 2021. KEEN, WILLIAM W....... 1962. KEIM, GEO. DE BENNEVILLE.. . . 2118. KEIPERT, HENRI... ..... 1161. KENDALL, E: OTIS. 2) 5.6 os 1708. KING, CLARENCE ... .. 1537. KIRK, JOHN FOSTER ..... 1284. KirKWoop, DANIEL. ...... 1767. KONIG, GEORGE A. .... he 1971. Kopp, HERMANN. ..... 2167. Krauss, FRIEDERICHS.. . 1026. Labouderie, J... . 2 2 2 ve 1694, LAMBERT, GUILLAUME. .. . 1858, LANDRETH, BURNET. .... Pe to wah et en Lak ee Jan'y 16, 1885, 16, 1875, 20, 1883, 20, 1889, 21, 1854, 18, 1884, 21, 1882, 17, 1886, 21, 1842, 18, 1872, 15, 1864, 18, 1851, 16, 1874, 20, 1882, 2, 1889, 19, 1833, 19, 1872, 18, 1878, Present Address. Washington, D. C. Rome, Italy. © Baltimore, Md. Munich, Bavaria. Rothamstead, Herts, Eng. Philadelphia. Berkeley, Cul. Washington. D. C. Leyden, Holland. ba Philadelphia. Quebec, Canada. Philadelphia. Paris, France. Philadelphia. Cambridge, England. Baitimore, Md. London, England. U. S.A. Philadelphia. Lisbon, Portugal. . Philadelphia. Washington, D.C. . University of Virginia, Va. Cannelton, Pa. Easton, Pa. Philadelphia. New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia. Camden, N. J. Spain. Montpellier, France. New York. N. Y. West Chester, Pa. - Hoboken, N. J. Philadelphia. Princeton, N. J. Harrisburg, Pa. Philadelphia. i 1335. 1903. 1947. 1744, 2142, 1461, 1735. 2114. 1791. 2029, 1841. 1054. 1976. 1577. 2121. 1866. 2120, 1486. 1892. 2062. 1937. 2087. 1575, 1852. 1582. 1703. 2060. 1805. 1712. 2106. 2046. . PARVIN, THEOPHILUS . PASTEUR, LOUIS .52o ae nave . PATTERSON, C. STUART. . . 2. . PATTERSON, ROBERT . Name. MEIGS, MONTGOMERY C..... MERRICK, JOHN VAUGHAN ... MERRIMAN, MANSFIELD . Pid aw .. MESSCHERT, MATHEW HUIZINGA. MICHAEL, HELEN ABBOTT. .. . MITCHELL, 8S. WEIR... 6. 2 MOMMSEN, THEODORE. ..... MONIER-WILLIAMS, MONIER . . . Moore, GIDEONE. . ¥ Moere, JAMES W ‘ MOREHOUSE, GEORGER .... 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Hoboken N. J. Vienna, Austria, — Philadelphia. Vienna, Austria. — Paris, France. New York, N. Y. Washington,D.C. New Haven, Conn, _ New York, N.Y. St. Petersburg, Russia, Stockholm, Sweden, Philadelphia, Clinton, N. Y. Philadelphia. Ithaca, N.Y. Princeton, N. J. Oxford, O. Providence,R. 2. Philadelphia. ee London, England. Philadelphia. = = Hazleton, Pa, Paris, France. ane. Philadelphia. Ras al Paris, France. Eis Philadelphia. — “ 17, 1874, 16, 1829, 15, 1841, Lisbon, Portugal. Name. 1025, ROBINSON, MONCURE . ++ 1364, Rogers, E..P ... 1390. Rogers, FAIRMAN. ’ 1906. RoGeRs, WILLIAM B.,JR . . 1462. Réurie, F. L. O. 2050. ROLLETT, HERMANN . 1907. Roop, OGDEN N 1732. Rossi, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. . . . . ROTHERMEL, PETER F. ..... . RoTHROCK, JOSEPH T . Se . RUSCHENBERGER, WM. s. W. et RUTIMEYER, CARL... 4... « i CAN od IN Ae gs cat ne yc . Sasous, CHARLES E, . . SANCHEZ, JESUS... 1563. SANDBERGER, FRIDOLIN.. . . . 1033. Santarem, Viscount... .-.. « ne 1958. SARGENT, CHARLES SPRAGUE . . 1780. 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BPOFFORD, “Aj Ha pic's ss ae 17, 1873, - Los Angeles, Cal. Montreal, Canada. Present ‘Addechi: ae Philadelphia. © oe Newport, R. I. Philadelphia. Vienna, Austria. | New York, N. Y. Rome, Italy. % Limerick P. O., Pa. Philadelphia. — asi A " Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Mexico, Maxton: aS Wiirtzburg, Seas a Lisbon, Portugal. Brookline, Mass, tay Seales Geneva, Switzerland. Manchester, England. — Washington,D.C. London, England, Philadelphia. Princeton, N. J. Cambridge, Mass. Philadelphia. te “ee Paris, France. Rome, Italy. - e Brussels, Belgium. Philadelphia... 4 West Chester Pa. Boston, Mass. | Haverford, Pa, Pottsville, Pa. — Philadelphia. | Mansfield, Pa. Prineceton,N. J. Strasburg, Germany. O. Paris, France. Philadelphia. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. Philadelphia. ee Washington, D.C. — aetaM, WILIAM Po os 6's « 307. THompson, ELIHU ....... 2065. Toppan, RoBeRT Noxon... . . 7. 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LIST OF THE MEMBERS Awenican ParLosopHicaL Socter, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, : FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, Formed on the 2d of January, 1769, by a Union of the “Ameri- ~ can Philosophical Society,” and the “American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.” JANUARY 17, 1890. LIST OF THE MEMBERS AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, } : Formed on the 2d of Fanuary, 1769, by a Union of the “ Ameri- can Philosophical Society,” and the “ American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.” ORIGINAL MEMBERS OR MEMBERS AT THE TIME OF UNION. I. Members common to the two Component Socteties. x. Benjamin Franklin. Original member of the A. P.S.1743. Elected mem- os ber of the A. S. Feb. 19, 1768. Died April 17, 1790, zt. 84. _ 2. John Bartram, F. R.S.and Botanist to his Majesty. Orig. mem. A. P.S. F 1743. Mem. A.S. Feb. 19, 1768. Died Sept. 1777, zt. 76. _ 3. Dr. Cadwalader Evans. A. P. S. Nov. 1767. A. S. Jan. 19,1768. Died 1773, xt. 57- 4. John Lukens, Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania. A. P. S. Jan. 12, 1768. A. S. Oct. 3, 1766. Died 1789. 5. Joseph Galloway, Speaker of the Assembly of Pennsylvania. A. P. S. Jan. 19, 1768. A.S. Dec. 2, 1768. Died Aug. 20, 1803, xt. 74. 6. Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. A. P. S. Jan. 19, 1768. A. S. Oc SE Died Nov. 14, 1779, xt. 72. 7. Dr. John Redman. A. P. S. au; 30; 1768. A. S. Oct. 14, 1768. Died _ March 19, 1808, zt. 86. 8. John Dickinson. A. P.S. Jan. 19, 1768. A.S. Jan. 19, 1768. Died Feb. 14, 1808, zet. 75. _ 9. Dr. Charles M. Moore. A. P.S. Jan. 26,1768. A.S. April 8, 1768. Died Dec. 15, 1778, zt. 66. 10. it, T2. 13. T4. 15. 16. 17. 18, 19. 20. 2i. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. II. 27. 28. 29. 30. oi: 32. 33- 34 124 Francis Hopkinson. A. P. S. Jan. 26, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died May 9, 1791, et. 53. Dr. Alexander Garden, Charleston, S. C. A. P. S. Jan. 26, 1768. A.S. April 15, 1768. Died April 15, 1792, zt. 64. John Kidd, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. A. P. S. March 8,1768. A.S. April 1, 1768. Died William Franklin, Governor of New Jersey. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. Orig. mem. A. S. 1758. Died Nov, 17, 1813, zt. 82. Stephen Watts. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A.S. April 8, 1768. Died 1788, eet. SI. Rev. Jacob Duché. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died Jan. 3, 1798, zt. 60. John Foxcroft. 2070. Inman Horner, Philadelphia. 2071: I, Minis Hays, M.D., Philadelphia. 2072. Charles A. Oliver, M.D., Philadelphia. - Elected May 21, 1886. 2 2073. Samuel W. Pennypacker, Philadelphia. 2974. John T. Napier, Glasgow, Scotland. Died May, 1887, zt. 29. 2075. William S. Baker, Philadelphia. 2076. Benjamin Sharp, M.D., Philadelphia. . 2077. Henry Reed, Philadelphia. . 2078. John Marshall, M.D., Philadelphia. a 2979. Merrill Edwards Gates, New Brunswick, N. J. e 2080. William K. Brooks, Baltimore, Md. 2081. Herbert B. Adams, Baltimore, Md. 2082. R. Somers Hayes, New York city, N. Y. 2083. John C. Branner, Bloomington, Ind. (Present address, Little Rock, Ark.) 2084. Abel Hovelacque, Paris, France. 2085. Emil Levasseur, Paris, France. Pa ee Se te gy PA, ee SRE =F eS GL ee ee eee eS ae _ ‘ Veit ae Ww. i ae 185 2086. Victor Duruy, Paris, France. 2087. Marquis de Nadaillac, Paris, France. 2088. Francis Pulzsky, Buda-Pesth, Hungary. 2089. Otto Donner, Helsingfors, Finland. 2090. Angelo de Gubernatis, Florence, Italy. 2091. Paul Albrecht, Hamburg, Germany. 2092. Josef Szombathy, Vienna, Austria. 2093. Dionys Stur, Vienna, Austria. 2094. Edward Suess, Vienna, Austria. 2095. Aristides Brezina, Vienna, Austria. 2097. J. P. Postgate, Cambridge, Eng. 2098. Richard Carnac Temple, Mandalay, Upper Burma, India. 2099. Lord Rayleigh, Tirling Place, Witham, Eng. 2100. William Crookes, London, Eng. 2to2z. Duke of Argyll, London, Eng. 2103. Jesus Sanchez, Mexico, Mex. 2104. Antonio Pefiafiel, Mexico, Mex. (Present address, Berlin, Prussia.) Elected December 17, 1886. 2105. Morton W. Easton, Philadelphia. 2106. William F. Norris, M.D., Philadelphia. 2107. James MacAlister, Philadelphia. 2108. Charles S. Dolley, M.D., Philadelphia. 210g. John A. Ryder, Philadelphia. 2110. Hermann V. Hilprecht, Philadelphia. 2trr. George W. Childs, Philadelphia. 2112. William B. Scott, Princeton, N. J. 2113. Sir Henry Sumner Maine, London, Eng. Died Feb. 3, 1888, zt. 69. 2114. Sir Monier Monier-Williams, London, Eng. 2115. Hugo Von Meltzel, Koloszvar, Hungary. 2116. Paul Hunfalvy, Buda-Pesth, Hungary. 2117. G. Weil, Heidelberg, Germany. 2118. Henri Kiepert, Berlin, Germany. 2ttg. Adolph Bastian, Berlin, Germany. 2120. Friederich Mueller, Vienna, Austria. 2121. Mattheeus Much, Vienna, Austria. 2122. Albert Réville, Paris, France. 2123. Paul Topinard, Paris, France. 2124. Rémi Siméon, Paris, France: 2125. Conrad Leemans, Leyden, Holland. 2126. George Curtius, Leipzig, Germany. 2127. Julius Platzmann, Leipzig, Germany. 2128. Lucien Adam, Rennes, France. 2129. Guido Cora, Milan, Italy. 2130. Bishop Crescencio Carrillo, Merida, Yucatan. 2131. Juan de Dias de la Rada y Delgada, Madrid, Spain. 2132. Vicomte Hyacinthe de Charency, St. Maurice les Charency, France. 2133. Gustav Adolph Hirn, Colmar, Alsace. Died Jan. 14, 1890, zt. 75. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. xxvit. 131. x. PRINTED MARCH 10, 1890. 2134. 2135. 2136. *2137. 2138. 2139. 2140. 2141. Albert H. Smyth, Philadelphia. s if 2142. Helen C. de S. Abbott, Philadelphia. (Present address, Mrs. Helen 2143. 2144. 2145. 2146. 2147. 2148. 2149. 2150. 215i. 2152. 2153. 2154. 2155. 186 Elected February 18, 1887. John 8S. Billings, M.D., Washington, D, C. Henry F. Osborn, Princeton, N, J. Elected May 20, 1887. Joseph S. Harris, Philadelphia, William Powell Wilson, M.D., Philadelphia. James Tyson, M.D., Philadelphia. William Henry Rawle, Philadelphia. Died April 19, 1889, at. 66. Henry D. Wireman, Philadelphia. i Abbott Michael.) Henry H. Houston, Philadelphia. William T. Barnard, Baltimore, Md. Giuseppe Meneghini, Pisa, Italy. Died Edgar F. Smith, Springfield, Ohio. Elected December 16, 1887. Samuel Castner, Jr., Philadelphia. Elected February 17, 1888. Charles E. Sajous, M.D., Philadelphia. Alexander Biddle, Philadelphia. Edmund B. Wilson, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Elected May 18, 1888. Talcott Williams, Philadelphia. J. McKeen Cattell, Philadelphia. (Present address, Media, Pa.) Alphonse Favre, Geneva, Switzerland. Elected December 21, 1888. Arthur Biddle, Philadelphia. Marchese Antonio di Gregorio, Palermo, Italy. Elected May 17, 1889. 2156. Lester F. Ward, Washington, D.C. ’ 2157 2158 . Andrew A. Blair, Philadelphia. . Clarence H. Clark, Philadelphia. 2159. Henry D. Gregory, Philadelphia. 2160 2161 2162 Elected October 18, 1889. . Walter J. Hoffman, M.D., Washington, D. C. . J. W. Powell, Washington, D. C: . George Brown Goode, M.D., Washington, D. C. i se a eet Pk, 187 _ 2163. Lyon G. Tyler, Williamsburg, Va. ene sames B. Angell, Ann Arbor, Mich. 2165. Henry Hazlehurst, Philadelphia. eo Philadelphia. Elected December 20, 1889. _ 2167. Friederich S. Krauss, Vienna, Austria. 2168. Sir George G. Stokes, London, Eng. — 2169. Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, Washington, D. C. 2170. Charles C. Abbott, M.D., Trenton, N. J. _:2m71. George Friebis, M.D., Philadelphia. 2172. Fernando Cruz, Minister of Guatemala, Washington, D. C. _ 2173. A. Sydney Biddle, Philadelphia. 2174. J. M. LeMoine, Quebec, Canada. INDEX OF MEMBERS. Abbé, Cleveland, Abbot, H. L. 1463 Abbott, Charles C. 2170 Abbott, Helen C. deS.2142 1687 Abercrombie, Jas. 612 Abert, J. J. 1017 Abrahamson, J. N. B. 970 Acland, Henry W. 1713 Adam, Lucien, 2128 ‘Adams, Dr. 329 Adams, C. Francis, 1893 Adams, Herbert B. 2081 Adams, John, 573 Adams, John Q. 815 Adams, Jf. C. 1238 Adamson, John C. 1381 Addison, Alexander, 528 Adelung, Fred. Von, 815 Adet, P. A. 605 Adrain, Robert, I57 Adye, Stephen, 289 Afzelius, Peter, 864 Agardh, Charles H. 1050 Agassiz, Alexander, 1779 Agassiz, Mrs..E.C. 1642 Agassiz, Louis, 1175 Agnew, D. Hayes, 1701 Airy, Sir George B. 1886 Akerman, Richard, 1809 _ Alaman, Lucas, 1270 Albers, J. A. 844 Albrecht, Paul, 2091 Alexander, James, 165 Alexander, Stephen, 1115 Alexander, J. A. 1217 Alexander, John H. 1306 Alison, Francis, 32 Alison, Robert H 1860 , Andrew, 61 Allen, Benjamin, 756 Allen, George, 1368 Allen, Harrison, 1571 Allen, Joel Asaph, = 1869 Allen, James, 63 Allen, John, 65 Allen, William, 54 Allen, William H. 1490 Allison, Burgess, 507 - Allison, Joseph, 1776 Allison, N. S. 772 | Bancker, Charles N. 916 Ames, Charles G. 1927 | Bancker, Gerard, 296 Anderson, Alex. 34 | Bancroft, George, II57 Anderson, George B. 2065 Banks, Joseph, 474 Anderson, G. W. 1655 Anderson, Henry J. 952 Anderson, Jas. 109 Anderson, J. 581 Anderson, Jas. 539 Anderson, M. B. 1576 Andradae Silva, J. de, 876 Andreani, Paul, 556 Andrews, E. B. Andrews, John, 424 Angelis, P. de, II22 Angell, James B. 2164 Anthon, Charles E. 1603 Antill, Edward, 23 Arbo, John, 221 Archer, Thomas C. 1804 Arfwedson, Chas. D. 1329 Argyll, Duke of, 2102 Armstrong, Sir W. G. 1761 Arthaud, M. 497 Ashburner, Chas. A. 1895 Ashhurst, John, 1996 Ashhurst, Richard, 2012 Aspden, Matthias, 123 Audubon, John Jas. 1005 Bache, Alex. Dallas, 963 Bache, Franklin, 847 Bache, Hartman, 1006 Bache,Richard Meade,1995 Bache, Thos. H. 1832 Bache, William, 631 Bailey, Joel, 271 Bailey, J. W 1297 Baird, Absalom, 530 Baird, Henry Carey, 1630 Baird, Henry M. 1991 Baird, Robert, 1236 Baird, Spencer F. 1358 Baker, John R. 2015 Baker, William, 477 Baker, William S. 2075 Balbo, Pros. Count, 993 Baldwin, Matt. W. 1023 Baldwin, Henry, Iogt Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1936 Barca, Cald’n dela, 1253 Barcena, Mariano, 1818 Barclay, Robert, 471 Bard, Samuel, 152 Barker, George F. 1741 Barker, Wharton, 2011 Barlow, Joel, 734 Barnard, F. A. P. 1683 Barnard, William T. 2144 Barnes, Albert, 1366 Barnes, Thomas, 483 Barnsley, Thomas, Gea Barnwell, William, 665 Barrande, Joachim, 1451 Bartholow, Roberts, Igo2 Bartlett, W. H.C. 1133 Barton, Benj.Smith, 496 Barton, Richard P. 563 Barton, Thomas, 74 Barton, William, 458 — Barton, W. P.C. 765 Bartram, Isaac, 140 Bartram, John, 2 Bartram, Moses, 134 Bartram, William, 157 Bastian, Adolph, 2119 Baumhauer, E.H.Von,1819 — Bayard, James A. 212 Bayard, John, 481 Baynton, John, 282 Beach, Samuel, 518 Beadle, E. R. 1667 Beasley, Frederick, I73* Beattie, James, 449 Beaufort, Francis, EI3I Beaulieu, Paul Leroy, 1934 Beauvois, Palisotde, 56r Beck, T. Romeyn, 1106 Beck, Charles F. I2Ir Beckley, John, 550 Bedford, Dr. 595 Bedford, Paul, 195 Bee, Thomas, 358 Belcher, Jonathan, 173° Belknap, Jeremy, 374 Bell, Alex. Graham, 1968 Bell, I. Lowthian, 1802 Bell, John, 1o1l Bembridge, Henry, 281 Benezet, John, 227 Bennett, John H, 1260 Bensell, Charles, 170 Bentley, William, 750° Bergius, Peter, 114 Bergmann, Torbern, 304 Bernard, Claude, 1434 Bertholff, Baron de, 391 Berzelius, John J. 851 Bessel, F. W. 1128 Bethune, George W. 1104 Bettle, William, 143 Betton, Samuel, 954 Betton, Thomas F, 1386 Biddle, Alexander, 2149 Biddle, Arthur, 2154 Biddle, A: Sydney, 2173 Biddle, Cadwalader, 1920 Biddle, Clement, 147 Biddle, Clement C, 861 Biddle, Craig, 1831 Biddle, Edward, 235 Biddle, James, 96 Biddle, John, 1509 Biddle, John B. 1322 Biddle, inte G. 779 Biddle, Nicholas, 764 Biddle, Owen, 136 Biddle, Thomas, 957 Bigelow, Jacob, 826 Bigsby, John J. gio Billé, Steen, 1013 Billings, John S. 2134 Bingham, William, 453 Binney, Barnabas, 385 Binney, Horace, 730 Binney, Horace, Jr. 1634 Bird, Robert M. 1314 Birch, Samuel, 1617 Bischoff, T. L. W.' 1423 Blades, William, 1951 Blackmore, William, 1635 Blackwell, Robert, 386 Blackwell, T. E. 1499 Blagden, 493 Blainville, H. M. de, . 831 Blair, Andrew A. 2157 Blair, Samuel, 628 Blair, Thomas S. 1554 Blake, William P. 1669 Blanchet, Francis, 657 Blasius, William, 1790 Bleakley, John, 516 Blodget, Lorin, 1700 Blum, J. Reinhardt, 1972 Blumenbach, J. 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Universitiits Sternwarte, Prague. K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, Vienna. Magyar Tudomainyos Akademia, Buda-Pesth. Naturforschender Verein, Briinn. Section fir Naturkunde 6, T. C., Vienna. BELGIUM. Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, Bruxelles. Academie Royale, Liége. Bibliothéque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. Ministére de l’Interieur, Bruxelles. Observatoire Royale, Bruxelles. Société Entomologique de Belgique, Bruxelles. Société Liégeois de Littérature Wallonne, Liége. Socié:é Royale Malacologique de Belgique, Bruxelles. CHILI. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Santiago de Chili. CHINA. Royal Asiatic Society, North China Branch, Shanghai. COLOMBIA. Sociedad de Naturalistas Colombianos, Bogota. DENMARE. Kong. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, Copenhagen. Kong. Nordiske Oldskrift Selskab, Copenhagen. EGYPT. Institut Egyptienne, Cairo ENGLAND. Bath and West of England Agricultural Society, Bath. British Association for the Advancement of Science, London. Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge. Chemica} Society of London, London. Editors of Nature, London. Geological Society of London, London. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds. Linnean Society, London. Literary and Philosophical Society, Liverpool. Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester. London Board of Trade, London. London Institution, London. 209 London Statistical Society, London. Meteorological Office, London. Meteorological Society, London. Natural History Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Plymouth. Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, London. Royal Astronomical Society, London. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, Falmouth. Royal Geographical Society, London. Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, Penzance. Royal Horticultural Society, London. Royal Institution of Great Britain, London. Royal Society, London. Society of Antiquaries of London, London. Society of Arts, Manufactures, etc., London. University Library, Cambridge. Victoria Institute, London. Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society, Halifax. Zodblogical Society, London. FINLAND. La Société Litteraire Finnoise, Helsingfors. Société Zoologique et Botanique de Finlande, Helsingfors. FRANCE. Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Caen Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Dijon. Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts, Bordeaux. Bureau des Longitudes, Paris. Cosmos, Paris. Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. L’ Academie Frangaise, Paris. La Société Polymathique de Morbihan, Vannes. Musée d’ Historie Naturelle, Paris. Musée Guimet, Paris. Société Academique, Troyes. Société d’ Agriculture, Historie Naturelle et Arts Utiles, Lyon. Société d’ Anthropologie, Paris. Société de Borda, Dax. Société d’Emulation, Abbeville. Société de Géographie, Paris. Société d’ Histoire de France, Paris. Société des Antiquaires de la Morinie, Saint-Omer. Société des Sciences de ]’Agriculture et-des Arts, Lille. PROC. AMER. PHILOS, SOC. XXVII, 131. 24. PRINTED May,21, 1890. . i 9 ee i ts 3 210 Société des Sciences Naturelles et Archeologiques de la Creuse, Guéret. Société des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles, Bordeaux. Société Géologique de France, Paris. Société Historique, Litéraire, Artistique et Scientifique du Cher, Bourges. Société Linnéene de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, Paris. Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles, Cherbourg. Société Philologique, Paris. Société Sericicole, Montpellier. Société Zoologique de France, Paris. GERMANY. Astronomical Society, Heidelberg. Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Anthropologie, Ethnologie, etc., Berlin. Centralblatt fiir Physiologie, Berlin. Der Aachener Geschichts-Verein, Aachen, Prussia. Die Wissenschaftliche Wochenschrift, Berlin. Deutsche Geologische Gesellschaft, Berlin. Gartenbau-Verein, Darmstadt. Geographische Gesellschaft, Hannover. Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde, Berlin. Gesellschaft zur Beforderung der Gesammten Naturwissenschaften, Marburg. Horticultur-Gesellschaft, Berlin. Kaiser. Leop. Caro. Akademie der Deutschen Naturforscher, Halle a. 8. K. Baierische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich. KGnigliche Bibliothek, Berlin. K6énigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Géttingen. K. Geologische Landes-Anstalt und Bergakademie, Berlin. K. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. K. Preuss. Meteorologisches Institut, Berlin. K. Siachsischer Alterthums-Verein, Dresden. K. Sachsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipsic. K6nigliche Sternwarte, Munich. Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle, Strasbourg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Altenburg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Bamberg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Emden. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau. Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Hannover. Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Nurnberg. Naturhistorischer Verein, Wiesbaden. Nat. Hist. Verein der Preuss. Rheinlande und Westphalens, Bonn. Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Chemnitz. 211 Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft ‘‘ Isis,’’ Dresden. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Bremen. Naturwissenschaften-Verein, Frankfurt a. O. Oberhess. Gesellschaft fiir Natur- und Heilkunde, Giessen. Ober-Lausitzer Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gérlitz. Ost-Preussische Physik.-CEkonom. Gesellschaft, Kénigsberg. Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin. Physikalisch-Medizinische Societat, Erlangen. Physiologische Gesellschaft, Berlin. Senkenburg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfort a. M. Universitats-Bibliothek, Bonn. Verein fiir Erdkunde, Dresden. Verein fir Erdkunde, Halle a. S. Verein fiir Erdkunde, Metz. Verein fir Erdkunde, Stettin. Verein fir Geographie und Statistik, Frankfort a. M. Verein fiir Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Erfurt. Verein fiir Kunst und Alterthum in Oberschwaben, Ulm. Verein fiir Naturkunde, Offenbach a. M. Verein fir Thiiringische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Jena. Verein fiir Vaterlandische Naturkunde, Stuttgart. Voigtlindischer Alterthumsforschender Verein, Hohenleuben. Voigtlandischer Verein fiir Naturkunde, Reichenbach. Zoologischer Mineral-Verein, Regensburg. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic. Zoologische Gesellschaft, Frankfort a. M. HAYTI. Société des Sciences et de Géographie, Port-au-Prince. HOLLAND. Fondation de P. Teyler Van der Hulst, Haarlem. Friesch Genootschap Oudheid-en-Taalkunde, Leeuwarden. Institut Luxembourgeois Section des Sciences Naturelles, Luxemburg. K. Bataafsch Genootschap, Rotterdam. Koninklijke Bibliothek, La Hague. Koninklijke Instituut, Amsterdam. K. Zoologisch Botanisch Genootschap, ’S Gravenhage. K. Zoologisch Genootschap, Amsterdam. Ministére de |’Interieur, Haarlem. Nederlandsche Letterkunde Maatschappij, Leiden. ICELAND. Islenzka Fornleifarfjelag, Reykjavik. INDIA. Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal. 212 IRELAND. Dublin Geological Society, Dublin. Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. ITALY. Accademia Reale delle Scienze, Torino. Biblioteca Centrale Nazionale, Firenze. R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Padova. R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Modena. R. Comitato Geologico d'Italia, Firenze Reale Istituto Lombardo, Milano. R. Istituto di Studi Superiori, Firenze. eee R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice. veces R. Osservatorio dell’ Universita, Torino. R. Societa Italiana D’Igiene, Milan. Universita di Pisa. JAPAN. Asiatic Society of Japan, Yokohama. Tokyo Library, Tokyo. MEXICO. Sociedad Cientifica ‘‘ Antonio Alzate,’’ Mexico Observatorio Astronomico National, Chapultepec NORWAY. K. N. F. Universitetet, Christiania. PORTUGAL. Academia Real das Sciencias, Lisboa. RUSSIA. Central Phy. Observatory, St. Petersburg. , Comité Geologique Institut des Mines, St. Petersburg. Imp. Akademia Naouk, St. Petersburg. Imp. Poublitschnaia Biblioteka, St. Petersburg. Imp. Rouss. Geogra. Obschestvo, St. Petersburg. Imp. Rouss. Mineralog. Obschestvo, St. Petersburg. Ministére de la Marine Impériale Administration Générale de la Hy- drographie, St. Petersburg. Obschestvo Estestvo Ispytately, Moscow. Obschestvo Estestvo Ispytately, Riga. Observatoire Astronomique, Taschkent. 213 Physical Section of the Chemical-Physical Society of the Imperial University, St. Petersburg. Publitchnoy Mouzey, Moscow. Société des Naturalistes, Kieft. Société des Naturalistes de la Nouvelle Russia, Odessa. Société Imperiale des Amis des Sciences Naturelles, d’ Anthropologie et d’Ethnographie, Moscow. SCOTLAND. Geological Society, Glasgow. Philosophical Society, Glasgow. Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Edinburgh. SPAIN. Real Academia de Ciencias, Barcelona. Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid. Real Sociedad Econémica, Valencia. SWEDEN. Kongliga Universitetet, Lund. Kong. Vetenskaps Societetet, Upsal. K. Svenska Vetenskaps Academien, Stockholm. Statistik Central Byran, Stockholm. SWITZERLAND. Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, St. Gall. Schweizerische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Berne. Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle, Geneva. Société Helvétique, Zurich. Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne. INDEX TO VOL. XXVII. PAGE ereepeeuage £6 LG Hal... cc cecnkacacuvsccs seuss sejs0s hake ems 4 prees DY ThG Present. oi. isi esse soos cies este nse cases 4 Sreeeentunes £6 tam- DINO, 5 iain ec ces ascend tv ibesees vivaguens 18 Remarks of Mr. Richard Vaux................- . «2.21, 26, 33, 41, 46, 50 Address by Prof. John W. Mallett ...............- Peery on 21 4 Pet, SIORIOE WEMON os ca veweenac hac poe OC ks oes sc shes 27 as ST, AO MAT IEE os ea kns co eens enalsesawvieee xc yet 34 = Rev. Charita. W. Bhiida. o.oo 5 ccs csacivccaccecccess 41 = PENS TOE: POUT. 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