^:^-s^ ^^ l£39^H ^^w^^^ttl %^^> ^\ fSUBSm af^^Mhi^^H ;Q^ p /J /-I £ 'tbrarn of the Museum OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, AT HARVARD COLLEGE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. The gift of Ci^£ JT>rvMxxy5t/ru ^-^ \^ -k ^1 1 \$ 5V^ X Founded May 25 1743 Incorporated March 15 1780 First Occupation of Hall November 21 1789 PROCEEDINGS COMMEMORATIVE OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIfERSARI First Occupation of the Hall of the Society NOVEMBER 21 1889 Committee of Arrangements J. Sergeant Price Chairman William A. Ingham Richard Vaux Charles A. Oliver W. S. W. Ruschenberger Henry Phillips, Jr. (6: 3; 0 03 Si; O !• o '. COMMEMORATION OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY'S OCCUPATION OF ITS PRESENT HALL, NOVEMBER 21, 1889. At the stated meetings 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 exerci.-es 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. Proceedings at the Hall. On the afternoon of November 21, 1889, at 4 o'clock, Hon. Frederick Fraley, 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 a spot upon which to locate its dwelling-place, and it is 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 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 buildinof 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 enablinof 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 m.ade 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- 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 be a 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 have a 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. It may be appropriate in the progress of this address to make a brief reference to the history of the Society itself. When Benjamin FrankHn 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 such a 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 handwritinor are to a orreat o o 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, estabHshed 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 I 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- 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- motine Useful Knowledofe," and such has been its honored and honorable desig^nation 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 Flenry, 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- cutinof their labors in the various fields of human knowledore. It will be criminal, indeed, for us to hold 14 the purse-strings with a niggard hand when contribu- tions come to us for pubHcation 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 tields 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- lectine 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 espi^it du coj^ps 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 thouo^ht for men deemed fittinq- 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, arid that his name may be placed on this Golden Roll, which began in 1 743, and, coming down to the present day, contains a record of all those who have been elected to our membership. If I 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 heav- 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 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, I 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, v/hat 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 archaeology, geology, palaeontology, 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 time comes for our departure hence, I trust that we may all realize that we have been permitted to live in PKOC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. C. I'UINTED 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 v^isdom 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 Hotel Stratford, 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. Asbhurst, 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, 19 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, William B. Rogers, Charles E. Sajous, Furman Sheppard, Albert H. Smyth, Monroe B. Snyder, Charles W. Shields, Joseph B. Townsend, Keber 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 Toasts was presented to each guest: MENU. Regular Hock. Sherry. Champagne. Shrewsbuiys. Tortue Verte Claire. Escalopes a la Turque. Timbales a la Parisienne. Selle de Venaison. Chicoree au Jus. Pommes a la Brabant. Artichauts a la Bellevue. Sorbet Menthe. Faisans Rotis. Sauce au Pain. Piments D'Espagne Sautes. Terrapin a la Philadelphie. Salade Variee. Fromage. Ponding Glac6 a la Philosophical. Croquants. Liqueurs. Fruits. Caf6. Cigars. 20 REGULAR TOASTS The language of Science and Philosophy is universal, but adopts various dialectic forms to diffuse knowledge. Prof. John W. Mallet, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Representative from the Royal Society of London, All research into the Book of Nature has not discovered an errat2im. Sir Daniel Wilson, LL.D., F.R.S.E., etc., President of the University of Toronto. The successful pursint of Science expunges error : it never ajt- tagonises truth. Hon. Lyon G. Tyler, M.A., President of WiUiam and Mary College. Mental Analysis is the efficient solvent of many difficulties in Science and Philosopliy. Rev. Charles W. Shields, D.D., LL.D., of Princeton College. The labors and achievements of great teachers in Scietice and P/ulosophy live after them ; these are their monuments. Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, D.D., LL.D., Presi- dent of the Catholic University of America. 21 At 9 o'clock the Hon. Richard 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 penal- ties by stating that in a few minutes you will have some tobacco, the effect of which upon your intellectual 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 Language of 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 Eoyal Society to be jDresent 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 Eoyal 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 societies 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 Eoyal 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 tlic American Philo- sophical Society, and at a meeting of the latter, on April 18, 1788 (Franklin presiding), returned thanks for his election and communicated " A very curious account of pure iron in a met- alic {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 o, 1769. By William Smith, D.D., Provost of the College of Philadelphia, John Lukens, Esq., Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania, David Kittenhouse, A.M., of Norriton, and John Sellers, Esq., one of the Eepre- sentatives in Assembly from Chester county, the Committee appointed for that observation by the American Philosophical 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 Eoyal." And in the folloAving 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." I 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 In 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 the members of your Society 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 Eome had scarcely ceased to be recognized as the only univer- sal language of science and philosophy, requiring every one to come under its sway 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 sj^eak alike to every one who jiursues 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 })laced 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 wlictlier 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- cal succession in the history of science itself, the "Letter of Benjamin Franklin, Esq., to Mr. Peter Collinson, F.R.S., 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 is seen 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 iynota nobis sciet. Multa seculis tunc futuris^ quum memoria nostri exoleverit, reservantur. * * * Rerum natura sacra sua non simul tradit. Initiatos nos credimus : in vestibulo haeremus.^^ 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 D-reater 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 Soci- 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 I 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 be a 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 Philosophical Society : — 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 too brief for a review of the events of the cen+ury which to-day completes itscj^cle; 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 efibrt 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 tlieme invites our attention to it under the apt metaphor of a book ; no chance medlej 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 ^^leasant to recall 29 tlie community which we realize in the matchless literature of our mother tongue. With au altogether pecviliar 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 Yenice," 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- 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 coniident 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 palaeontologist has deciphered for us; testi- mony which embodies the history of life through all the eeons back to the eozoic dawn. Biologist and palaeontologist 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 intelhgence 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 raani- 32 festations of instinct or rationality in tlie 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 soal," 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 goul ?" 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- miUty : 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, seem's 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 faroflf 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 PliOC. 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 Society : — To 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, Eome, it is a trite and trae saying, was not built in a day, nor could I in a ten or fifteen or twenty minutes speech do justice to a sentiment which besjan 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 Philadclphians are the next best 1 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 Protlionotary 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 tliat good old man, James Buclianan, and wlio did better tlian that in taking a wife from among tlie Pennsy Iranians ; therefore, I can claim to have a kinship with the Philadelphians, and admit them into the Virginia fraternity along with me I The cordial reception which has been extended to me since my first arrival here; this feast of reason and flow of soul, where philosophy presides over the inner man, science liolds the wine cup, and Philadelphia, the city of the gods, sacred to independence and fraternal love, gives the welcome, are, in the language of the Irishman, sufficient to make my face one broad smile from the crown of my head to the sole of my foot. I am glad I stand here on this occasion, and say to you, as an humble representative of AVilliam and Mary College, that that ancient institution, which gave to the American Philosophical Society a President, which gave to science the precious gift of 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 Mary College go back to the year 1619, when the first project of a university was started in America, its charter was not obtained until the year 1693, just fifty years, a semi-centennial, ahead of the foundation of this association ; and in this age of centennials 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 occasion of a personal visit to Williamsburg, received, in the semi-cen- 36 teanial 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 be 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 Jefterson 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 maintainiyig 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 Ave may pronounce the age of centennials, but '' an age of ages " whose common maxim in all the depart- ments of life — m history, government, politics and poetry — is : 37 " The greatest production in tlie 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 his day, proposed to col- onize the Indians of Western ISTevv 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 Eocky 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- ion 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- 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 of error " and the maintainer of truth, whose laws are two- fold— first, that the operations of nature are regular and immutable, and, second, that they 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 years 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 from 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 39 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 }>assed 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- cally 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 its laws, 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 tlie quencliing of local jealousies and sectional ani- mosity— not by the obliteration of national or State lines, nor 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 Avith all the stars of heaven, thus realizing that sublime and divine condition of the world which the rapt poet sees in his vision : "When the war drums throb no longer, And the battle flags are furled, In the Parliament of man, The federation of the world." I have only now to thank you for the kind and cordial atten- tion which you have given me, and to say to j^ou 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 mj' last words are to invite all here present to be there on that occasion; and if we cannot show you any great public halls like what you have here in Philadelphia, nor an}'- 41 great public buildings, we can at least alone 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 precedino- 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 I 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 Philosophy." 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- sofhical 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. 131. 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 can 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 sceptic 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 contradictions. 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 pliysical 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 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 philosophj^ ? 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 as a dis- tributor of knowledge through the channels of education, and to-da}^ 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 tlie 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 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, who among us could fail to perceive 45 the imperishable worth of hiunan 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 daring 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 foul 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 mj 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 j^our 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 tlie 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. 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 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 i 49 human voice that, perhaps centuries before, gave it utter- ance? The good Father again has left to the intelhgence 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 Avould 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 is in 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. XXVII. 131. G. PRINTED JAN. 29, 1890. 50 In listening tliis 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 land 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 Friends: 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 51 hope that the years to come will be crowned with new triumphs of discovery, with new stores of accumulated knowledge. 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 standinof. LAW^S REGULATIONS AlllCil PBlLOSOPHlCiL SOCHI! HELD AT PHILADELPHIA. FOR PROMOTING USEFDL KNOWLEDGE, As finally amended and adopted, Dec. 18, 1885. TOGETHER WITH THE Chartkr of thb Socikty, A List of its Officers and Councilors. PREPARED BY HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., A Secretary of the Society. PHILADELPHIA : Printed, for the Society. THE LAWS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 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 shall be considered as a vote adverse to that candidate, 6. After all the other business of the meeting shall have been 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. 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 destroyed immediately after the election. 8. Every member, upon his introduction into the Society, shall be presented to the presiding officer, and shall subscribe the laws. 9. Such members as reside within ten miles of the hall of 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. CPIAPTER II. OF THE OFFICERS, AND MANISTEK 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 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 State in which he resides. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be considered as intended PROC. AMER, PHILOS. 80C. XXVII. 131. H. PRINTED JAN. 29,: 1890. 58 to exclude any of the officers or councilors, whose time shall be expired, from being reelected, 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 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 affiiirs 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 rotation, for the performance of all the duties of the office. CHAPTER YI. 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 lie shall disburse or apply tlie 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 elections 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 reelected 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 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 to 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 Societ}^ 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 referred 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. 8. The ex-presidents of the Society shall be members of the board of ofiScers and council. 62 CHAPTER YIII. 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 he 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 officer 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 not 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. lie 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 SOCIETV. Section 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 lawfal 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. 3. 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 G5 communication, they shall make sucli 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. Section 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 iu- PROC. AMER. PIIILOS. SOC. XXVII, 131. I. 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 tlie 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 jear. They shall also have power to remit the fees and contribu- tions of members, when they shall judge that circumstances make it proper. 3. The committee of publication shall superintend 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, witli 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 on the librarian for his assistance in the performance of their duties. 4. The committee on the hall shall have charge of the real estate of the Society, and shall direct all necessary repairs. They shall eftect insurance upon the property of the Society 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 the Society. 6. No committee appointed on any subject of deliberation shall consist of less than three members; but any other matter 67 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. 11. 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 Ilyacinth 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 annually disposed of in premiums, to be adjudged by them to the author of the best discovery, or most useful invention, 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 communication, description, or model, except the officer to whom it shall be entrusted ; nor shall such officer part with the same out of his custody, without a special order of the Society for that purpose. 6. The Society, having previously referred the several com- 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, 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 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 case 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 hole 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 one hundred 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 and laws. The treasurer shall, at the first stated meeting of the Society in the month of December annually, make a report of the state of said fund and of the investment thereof CHAPTEK 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, A.D. 1888 : First. The Prize Endowment Fund shall be called the " Henry M. Phillips' Prize Essay Fund." Second. The money constituting the Endowment Fund, viz., five thousand dollars, shall be invested by the Society in such securities as may be recognized by the laws of 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. (b) 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 tbe Standing Committee on tlie Henry M. Phillips' Prize Essay Fund. Sixth. 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, Frencli, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, or Latin ; but, if in any lan- guage except English, must be accompanied by an English translation of the same. Ei(jhth. No treatise or essay shall be entitled to compete for the prize that has been already published or printed, or for which the author has received already any prize, or profit, or honor, of any nature whatsoever. Ninth. All essays must be clearly and legibly written on only one side of the paper. 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. Twelfth. 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 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 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 business of such meeting. 2. 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 of&cers and council ; nor unless the same be voted by two- thirds of the whole body present, 3. 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 ordinances heretofore passed or made by the Society shall be and the same are hereby repealed. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. J. PRINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 74 RULES OF ORDER, &e. OP THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 1, The Order of Business at the ordinary meetings 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, and of any sub- sequent special meetings. 5. Correspondence read and acted on, unless giving rise to debate : . a. Acknowledgments of election to membership. b. Letters from learned societies. c. Other letters. 6. Donations and other additions announced and acted on : a. To the library. h. To the cabinet. 7. Reports on communications and subjects of science read and acted on : a. From standing committees and officers. b. From special committees. 8. Obituary notices of members read, and announcements of the decease of members made and acted on, 9. Stated business of the meetins;. 75 10. Communications for Magellanic premiums and commu- nications intended for the Transactions presented and acted on, 11. Communications not intended for the Transactions pre- sented. 12. Visitors from corresponding societies retire. 18. Pending nominations for membership announced and new nominations read. 14. Reports on business made and acted on : a. From standing committees and officers. 6. From special committees. 15. Deferred business : a. Of the meeting. 6. 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. 3. 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 by the presiding member, when he shall think fit to call him to order or to admonish him to a closer adherence to the ques- tion 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 obtaining leave of the Society. 7. Whilst any question or motion is under debate, no other motion shall be admitted, unless to divide the question, to 76 amend, to postpone, to adjourn, or to take the pending ques- tion. 8. No motion to reconsider a former vote can be made 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 proposes to reconsider. 9. A motion for adjournment shall at all times be deter- mined without debate. 10. The presiding member shall have no vote, unless in the 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 is taken by ballot. 11. Where a ballot is not required by the laws, the votes, if requested by three of the members present, shall be taken by ayes and noes, and shall be recorded among the proceedings of the meeting. 12. Any of the foregoing rules of order may, for the more convenient despatch of business at any meeting, be suspended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present. 77 AN ACT For Incorporating the American Philosopliical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting Useful Knowledge. Whereas, 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 richest 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 philosophical spirit is cherished, and youth stimulated to a laudable diligence and emulation in the pur- suit of wisdom. And, whereas, upon these principles, divers public-spirited gentlemen in Pennsylvania, and other Amer- ican 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 bv 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 originally in 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 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 Eegulations of the said Society, comprised in twe.lve 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 seveutj^-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 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- 79 ments, gifts, and bequests of what nature so ever, in fee simple, or for term of life, lives, years, or otherwise, and also to give, grant, let, sell, alien, or assign the same lands, tene- 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 capable 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 pleasuie 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 J'atron, 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 hours 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 State in 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 reelected 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 one 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 efi'ect 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 variance 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 communica- 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. 82 pursuits. Provided always^ That sucli correspondence of the said Society be at all times open to the inspection of the Su- preme Executive Council of this Commonwealth. (Signed) JOHN BAYARD, iSj^eaJcer. Enacted into a Law at Philadelphia, on Wednesday, the fifteenth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty. (Signed) THOMAS PAINE, Clerk of the General Assembly. (copy.) A LIST Officers and Councilors OF THE flmepiean Philosophical Society, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, From 1769 to 1890. COMPILED BY HENRY PHILLIPS, Jr., One of the Secretaries op the Society. 85 PRESIDENTS. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Elected 2d January, 1769 ; died 17th April, 1790. DAVID RITTENHOUSE, Elected 7th January, 1791 ; died 26th June, 1796. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Elected 6th January, 1797 ; resigned in January, 1815 ; died 1th July, 1.S26. CASPAR WISTAR, Elected Cth January, 1815; died 22d January, 1818. ROBERT PATTERSON, Elected 1st January, 1819 ; died 22d 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 2d Januarj', 1846 ; died 1st July, 1853. ROBERT M. PATTERSON, Reelected 5th January, 1849 ; died 5th September, 1854. FRANKLIN BACHE, Elected 7th January, 1853 ; died 19th March, 1864. ALEX ANDE R DALLAS BACHE , Elected 5th January, 1855 ; died 17th February, 1867. JOHN K. KANE, Elected 2d January, 1857 ; died 21st February, 1858. GEORGE B. WOOD, Elected 7th January, ls'59 ; died 30th March, 1879. FREDERICK FRALEY, Elected 2d January, 1880. 86 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 JaU' uary 19, 1779.J 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, R3V. John Ewing-, Samuel Vaug-han. 1786 to 1789, inclusive. Rev. Dr. William White, Rev. John Ewing-, David Rittenhouse. 1790. Rev. John Ewing, David Rittenhouse, Rev. Dr. William Smith. 1791 to 1794, inclusive. Rev. John Ew^ing, Rev. Dr. William Smith, Thomas Jefferson. 1795. 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. 1797, 1798. 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 EUicott, Robert Patterson. 1802 to 1814, inclusive. Caspar Wistar, M.D., Benjamin Smith Barton; M.D. Robert Patterson. 87 1815. Robert Patterson, Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. Jonathan Wilhams. 1845 to 1848, inclusive. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Alexander Dallas Bache, Franklin Bache. 1816 to 1818, inclusive. Robert Patterson, William Tilg-hman, Peter S. Duponceau. 1819 to 1824, inclusive. Robert Patterson, Peter S. Duponceau, Zaccheus Collins. 1825 to 1827, inclusive. Peter S. Duponceau, Zaccheus Collins, Robert M. Patterson, M.D. 1849 to 1852, inclusive. Franklin Bache, Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane. 1853, 1854. Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane, Robley Dung-lison, M.D. 1855, 1856. John K. Kane, Robley Dunglison, M.D., John F. Frazer. 1828 to 1830, inclusive. Zaccheus Collins, Robert M. Patterson, M.D., Nathaniel Chapman, M.D. 1857. John K. Kane, John F. Frazer, John C. Cresson. 1831, Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Hopkinson, Nathaniel Chapman, M.D. 1832 to 1835, inclusive. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Joseph Hopkinson, George Ord. 1836 to 1842, inclusive. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Joseph Hopkinson, Robert M. Patterson, M.D. 1858, Robley Dung-lison, M.D., John C. Cresson, Isaac Lea. 1859 to 1868, inclusive, John C. Cresson, Isaac Lea, George Sharswood. 1869 to 1876, inclusive, John C. Cresson, Isaac Lea, Frederick Fraley. 1843, 1844. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., Robert M. Patterson, M.D., Franklin Bache. 1877 to 1879, inclusive. Frederick Fraley, Eli K. Price, E. Otis Kendall, 88 1880 to 1883, inclusive. Eli K. Price, E. Otis Kendall, John L. LeConte, M.D. 1884. Eli K. Price, E. Otis Kendall, Pliny E. Chase. 1885, 1886. E. Otis Kendall, Pliny E. Chase, W. S. W. Ruschenberg'er, M.D. 1887 to 1890, inclusive. E. Otis Kendall, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D., J. Peter Lesley. SECRETARIES. 1769. Charles Thomson, Rev. William Smith, Thomas Mifflin, Rev. John Ewing. 1774, 1775. Rev. William Smith, Richard Wells, Robert Strettell Jones, Benjamin Rush, M.D. 1770. Rev. William Smith, Charles Thomson, Thomas MiflQin, S. Roberts. 1771. Rev. William Smith, David Rittenhouse, Rev. John Ewing, Robert Strettell Jones. 1772. Rev. William Smith, Charles Moore, M.D., William Shippen, Jr., M.D. Robert Strettell Jones. 1773. Rev. William Smith, Robert Strettell Jones, Owen Biddle, Benjamin Rush, M".D. 1776. Robert Strettell Jones, Benjamin Rush, M.D., Richard W«lls, Thomas Bond, Jr. No elections till 1779. Rev. William Smith, Rev. John Ewing-, Rev. William White, OAven Biddle. (No Minutes of 1780.) 1781. Rev. John Ewing, Owen Biddle, Timothy Matlack, Rev. William White. 89 1782, Rev. John Ewingr, Rev. William White, Timothy Matlack, James Hvitchinson, M.D. 1795, 1796, "William Barton, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, ■John Bleakley. 1783. James Hutchinson, M.D. Timothy Matlack, Rev. James Davidson, Hug-h Shiell. 1797. William Barton, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Jonathan Williams, Jr, John Bleakley. 1784. James Hutchinson, M.D. Thomas Bond, Jr., Robert Patterson, Rev. John C. Kunzie. 1798, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Adam Seybert, Thomas C. James, 'Samuel H, Smith. 1785. James Hutchinson, M.D,, Thomas Bond, Jr., Robert Patterson, Rev. Samuel Maga^s^. 1786, 1787, 1788. James Hutchinson, M.D., John Foulke, Robert Patterson, Rev. Samuel Mag-aW. 1789, 1790. James Hutchinson, M.D., Rev, Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, John Vaugrhan. 1791, 1792, 1793. James Hutchinson, M.D., Rev. Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Jr, 1794. William Barton, Rev. Samuel Magaw, Robert Patterson, Rev. Nicholas Collin, 1799, James Woodhouse, Adara Seybert, Thomas C. James, -Samuel H. Smith. 1800. ■Joseph Clay, Adam Seybert, Thomas Peters Smith, Samuel H. Smith. leoi, Joseph Clay, Adam Seybert, Rev. Burgess Allison, Tench Coxe. 1S02. 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. I'KINTED JAN. 31, 1890. 90 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 C. 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. 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., Georg-e 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., George Ord, William H. Keating, M.D., Franklin Bache. 1827. George Ord, WilUam H. Keating, M.D., 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, 91 1830, 1831. (No record.) 1832. Franklin Bache, Clement C. Biddle, John K. Kane, William H. Keating, M.D. 1833 to 1837, inclusive, Franklin Bache, John K. Kane, Alexander Dallas Bache, Charles D. Meigs, M.D. 1833, 1839. Franklin Bache, John K. Kane, Alexander Dallas Bache, Joshua Francis Fisher. 1840 to 1842, inclusive. Franklin Bache, John K. Kane, Alexander Dallas Bache, Robley Dunglison, M.D. 1843, 1844. Alexander Dallas Bache, John K. Kane, Robley Dungiison, M.D., Joshua Francis Fisher. 1845 to 1847, inclusive. John K. Kane, Robley Dunglison, M.D., John F. Frazer, Alfred L. Elwyn. 1849 to 1852, inclusive. Robley Dung-lison, 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. 1848. John K. Kane, Robley Dunglison, M.D. John F. Frazer, Charles B. Trego. 1884, 1885. George F. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D.,, Henry Phillips, Jr., J. Peter Lesley. 92 1886. J. Peter Lesley, Georg-e F. Barker, Daniel G. Brlnton, M.D., Henry Phillips, Jr. 1887 to 1890, inclusive. Qeorg-e P. Barker, Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., Henry Phillips, Jr., George H. Horn, M.D. CURATORS. 1769. Adam Kuhn, M.D., John Morg-an, M.D., Lewis Nicola. 1770. Isaac Bartram, Benjamin Rush, M.D., O^wen 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 Duffleld, M.D. 1774, 1775. David Rittenhouse, Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Thomas Bond, Jr. 1776. David Rittenhouse, Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Pierre E. du Simitiere. 1779. Lewis Nicola, Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Pierii-e E. du Simitiere. 1780. (No Minutes.) 1781. Lewis Nicola, Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Pierre E. du Simitiere. 1782. Lewis Nicola, Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Isaac Gray. 1783 to 1785, inclusive. Lewis Nicola, Ebenezer Hazard, Isaac Gray. 1786, 1787. Samuel Duffleld, M.D., William Bradford, Barnahas Binney. 1788, 1789. Samuel Duffleld, M.D., William Bradford, Charles W. Peale. I 93 1790, 1791. Samuel Duffleld, M.D., Benjamin Smith Barton, Charles W. Peale. 1807 to 1810, inclusive. Charles W. Peale, Robert Hare, Jr., John R. Smith. 1792 to 1794, inclusive. Charles W. Peale, Benjamin Smith Barton, Caspar Wistar, M.D. 1811 to 1813, inclusive. John R. Smith, Robert Hare, Jr., Zaccheus Collins. 1795, 1796. Benjamin Smith Barton, Charles W. Peale, Thomas Parke, M.D. 1797, 1798. Charles "W. Peale, Benjamin Smith Barton, Robert Patterson. 1814, 1815. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, WiUiam Hembel, Jr. 1816. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, Samuel Calhoun, M.D. 1799. Charles W. Peale, Benjamin Smith Barton, Rev. Nicholas Collin. 1817, 1818. Zaccheus Collins, Joseph Cloud, Thomas Tickell Hewson. 1800. Charles W. Peale, Benjamin Smith Barton, George Turner. 1819, 1820. Joseph Cloud, Thomas Tickell Hewson, Reuben Haines. 1801, 1802. Charles W. Peale, Robert Leslie, John R. Smith. 1821, 1822. Joseph Cloud, Thomas Say, WUliam E. Homer, M.D. 1803. Charles Peale, Robert Leslie, William S. Jacobs, M.D. 1823. Thomas Say, William E. Homer, M.D., Jesse Lukens. 1804 to 1806, inclusive. Charles W. Peale, Robert Hare, Jr., John Church, M.D. 1824 to 1827, inclusive. Thomas Say, William E. Horner, M.D., James Mease, M.D. 94 1828. James Mease, M.D., William E. Horner, M.D., John Price "Wetherill. 1857, 1858. Franklin Peale, Elias Durand, Miers Fisher Long-streth. 1820. 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. 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. 1859 to 1870, inclusive. Franklin Peale, Elias Durand, Joseph Carson, M.D. 1871 to 1873, 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, M.D., 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. 95 1887, 1888. Charles G. Ames, John R. Baker, PhUip H. Law. 1889, 1890. John R. Baker, Patterson DuBois, J. Cheston Morris. TREASURERS. 1769, 1770. Philip Syng-, Sen. 1771 to 1776, inclusive. Thomas Coombe. 1779. Matthew Clarkson. [1780 uo minutes.] 1781 to 1790, inclusive. Francis Hopkinson. 1791 to 1841, inclusive. John Vaughan. [1832, qy. 1833, l>lank in minutes.] 1842 to 1847, inclusive. George Ord. 1848 to 1851, 'inclusive. Benjamin W. Richards. 1852 to 1874, inclusive. Charles B. Trego. 1875 to 1890, inclusive. J. Sergeant Price. COUNCILORS. 1781. For three years. George Bryan, Thomas McKean, Barbfe de Marbois, Charles Thomson. For two years. Rev. George DuflQeld, William Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Rev. John "Witherspoon. For one year. Rev. Ezra Stiles, Matthew Clarkson, Jonathan B. Smith, John Lukens. 1782. Joseph Reed, Jonathan B. Smith, Jared Ingersoll, Owen Biddle. 95 1783. Thomas Jefferson, Rev. John "Witherspoon, Samuel Duflaeld, David Rittenhouse. 1784. Thomas McKean, Barbe de Marbois, George Bryan, Charles Caldwell, M.D. 1785. Jared Ing'ersoll, Jonathan B. Smith, Joseph Reed, Rev. Robert Blackwell . 1786. David Rittenhouse, Benjamin Rush, M.D., John Jones, M.D., Rev. George Duffteld, Adam Kuhn, M.D., vice Joseph Reed, deceased. 1787. Thomas McKean, George Bryan, Charles Caldwell, M.D., Hugh Hodge, M.D. 1788. Jared IngersoU, Rev. Robert Blackwell, Adam Kuhn, M.D., Charles Pettit. 1789. Charles Pettit, Benjamin Rush, M.D., John Jones, M.D., Rev. George DuflQeld. 1790. Thomas McKean, Rev. Robert Blackwell, WiUiam Barton, M.D.^ Isaac Gray. 1791. For three years. Adam Kuhn, M.D., Jared IngersoU, Andrew Ellicott, Samuel P. Griffiths, M.D. For oue year. Rev. Nicholas Collin, vice Rev. George Duffleld, 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. WilUam White. 97 1796. Rev. Robert Black^vell, Thomas McKean, Rev. James Davidson, Adam Kuhn, M.D. 1797. Tench Coxe, Rev. James Abercrombie, Richard P. Smith. 1798. Jonathans. Smith, Rev. William Smith, Samuel Wheeler, Jonathan Williams, Jr., vice Richard P. Smith, dec'd. 1799. Thomas McKean, Rev. James Davidson, Rev. Robert Blackwell, Adam Kuhn, M.D. 1800. Jonathan Williams, Jr., Andrew EUicott, Tench Coxe, Rev. Samuel Mag-aw. For two years. Benjamin H. Latrobe, vice Thomas McKean, Became Patron of the Society [having been elected Governor of Pennsylvania]. 1803. Jonathan W^illiams, Jr., Andrew Ellicott, Rev. Samuel Magaw^, Rev. Nicholas Collin. 1804. Rev. William White, Jonathan B. Smith, Peter S. Duponceau, Adam Kuhn, M.D. 1805. James Woodhouse, M.D. Samuel DufQeld, William Shippen, M.D., Zaccheus Collins. 1806. Benjamin Rush, M.D., Andrew Ellicott, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Tilg-hman. 1807. Rev. William Wbite, Peter S. Duponceau, Jonathan Williams, Jr., William Short. 1808. William Shippen, M.D., James Woodhouse, M.D., Zaccheus Collins, John McDowell. 1801. Jonathan B. Smith, William Curry, M.D., Samuel Wheeler, Peter S. Duponceau. 1802. James Woodhouse, M.D., John Bleakley, Benjamin H. Latrobe, Samuel Duffield. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII, 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. 131. M. PRINTED FEB. 17, 1890. " 98 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 Bush, M.D., William Tilg-hman, 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 Serg-eant, 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 MacKire, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Meredith. 99 1825. Horace Binney, John Serg-eant, John Quincy Adams, William Rawle. 1826. Nathaniel Chapman, M.D., William Hembel, Jr., Robert Hare, Jr., Clement C. Biddle. 1827. William Meredith, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Maclure, Robert Walsh, Jr. 1828. John Quincy Adams, John Serg-eant, William Short, Samuel Moore, M.D. For one year. Robert Adrain. 1829. Robert Hare, Jr., William Rawle, William Hembel, Jr., Joseph Hopkinson. 1830. (No record.) 1831, Nicholas Biddle, Rev. Nicholas Collin, William Meredith. For one year. William H. Keating-, M.D., vice Joseph Hopkinson. 1832. William Hembel, Jr., William Rawle, Robert Hare, Jr., Charles D. Meig-s, 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., Eug-enius Nulty. 1836. William Short, Georg-e Ord, Wilham 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 Raw^le, deceased 1838. Robert Hare, Jr., William Meredith, William Hembel, Jr., Charles D. Meig-s, 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 Hemtael, Jr., Charles D. Meigs, M.D., Henry Vethake. For one year. Joseph Henry, vice William H. Keating M.D., deceased. 1842. Clement C. 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 W^illiam Hembel, Jr., de- ceased. 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. Isaac Hays, M.D., Charles D. Meig-s, M.D., Heni-y Vethake, Robert Bridges, M.D. 1857. George M. Justice, George Tucker, ■William Harris, M.D., Robert Patterson. 1858, re-elected 1861. Alfred L. Elwyn, John Bell, M.D., Henry Coppee, Edward King. 1859, re-elected 1862, 1865, 1868, 1871, 1874. Isaac Hays, M.D., Robert Bridges, M.D., Henry C. Carey, Robert E. Rogers, M.D. 1860. George M. Justice, George Tucker, Robert Patterson, Henry Vethake. 1861. Frederick Fraley, vice George M. Justice, resigned. 1863. Frederick Fraley, Robert Patterson, Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, William Parker Foulke. 1864. Alfred L. Elwyn, John Bell, M.D. , Henry Coppee, Oswald Thompson. 1866, re-elected 1869. Frederick Fraley, Robert Patterson, Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, Eli K. Price. 1867, re-elected 1870. Alfred L. Elwyn, John Bell, M.D., Benjamin H. Coates, M.D., Benjamin V. Marsh. 1872, re-elected 1875. Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, Eli K. Price, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, M.D., Henry Winsor. 1873. Alfred L. Elwyn, Benjamin Coates, M.D., Pliny E. Chase, Benjamin V. Marsh. 1876, re-elected 1879. Alfred L. Elwyn, Benjamin Coates, M.D., Benjamin V. Marsh, George H. Horn, M.D. 1877. Isaac Hays, M.D., Robert E. Rogers, M.D., Henry C. Carey, Robert Bridges, M.D. 1878, re-elected 1881, 1884. Rev. Daniel R. Goodwin, W. S. "W. Ruschenberger, M.D. Henry Winsor, William A. Ingham. 1880. Robert E. Rogers, M.D., Robert Bridges, M.D., Oswald Seidensticker, 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, Edw^ard D. Cope. For one year. Persifor Prazer, vice Robert E. Rogers, M.D., de- ceased. 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, Edw^ard D. Cope. 1889. Richard Wood, William V. McKean, Richard Vaux, Isaac C. Martindale. 1886. Oswald Seidensticker, Richard Wood, William V. McKean, Persifor Frazer. 1890. Daniel R. Goodwin, William A. Ingham, Thomas H. Dudley, Robert Patterson. insTDEx: Officers and Councilors, PAGE. Abercrombie, James 92, 97 Adams, John Quincy 98, 99 Adrain, Robert 99 Alexander, James 92 Allison, Burgess 89, 90 ' Ames, Charles G 94. 95 Andrews, John 96 Ashburner, Charles A 102 Bache, Alexander D 85, 87, 91 Bache, Franklin 85, 87, 90, 91 Baker, John R 94, 95 Barton, William 89, 96 Barton, W. P. C 90 Barton, Benjamin S 86, 87, 93 Barker, George F 91.92 Bartram, Isaac 92 Bell, John 100, loi Biddle, Clement C . . 90, 91, 98, 99, 100 Biddle, Nicholas 99, 100 Biddle, Owen 88, 92, 95 Biddle, Thomas 99, 100 Binney, Barnabas 92 Binney, Horace 98, 99 Blackwell, Robert 96, 97 Bleakley, John . 89. 97 Bond, Thomas 86 Bond, Thomas, Jr 88,89,92 Bradford, William 92 Brinton, Daniel G 91, 92, 94 Brinton, John H 98 Bridges, Robert 100, loi Bryan, George 95. 96 PAGE. Cadwalader, Thomas 86' Caldwell, Charles 96 Calhoun, Samuel 93, 98 Carey, Henry C loi Carson, Joseph 94 Chapman, Nathaniel . . 85, 87, 90, 98, 99 Chase, Pliny E 88,91,101 Church, John 93 Clarkson, Matthew 95 Clay, Joseph 89 Cloud, Joseph 90, 93 Coates, B. H loi Collin, Nicholas. 86, 89, 93, 96, 97, 98, 99 Collins, Z 87, 93, 97 Cope, E. D 102 Cope, T. P . 100 Coombe, Thomas 95 Coppee, Henry loi Coxe, John R 89 Coxe, Tench 89, 97 Cresson, C. M 94 Cresson, John C 87, 94 Currie, William 96, 97 Cooper, Thomas 98 Davidson, James 89, 96, 97 DeLancey, W. H 99 DeMarbois, Barbe 95, 96 Dickerson, Mahlon 98 Dorr, Benjamin 100 Dorsey, J. S 90 DuBois, Patterson 95 Dudley, Thomas H 102 104 PAGE. Duffield, George 95, 96 Duffield, Samuel 92, 93, 96, 97 Dunglison, Robley 87, 91 Duponceau, Peter S . . .85, 87, 97, 98 Durand, Elias 94 Du Simitiere, P. E 92 Ellicott, Andrew 86, 96, 97, 98 Elwyn, Alfred L. . . .91, 100, loi, 102 Emerson, Gouverneur 99, 100 Ewing, Rev. John 86, 88, 89 Fisher, Joshua Francis . . . 91, 99, 100 Foulke, John 89 Foulke, W. P loi Fraley, Frederick . . 85, 87, 91, 100, loi Franklin, Benjamin 85 Frazer, John F 87, 91 Frazer, Persifor 102 Galloway, Joseph . . ' 86 Gibson, James 98 Goodwin, Daniel R 101,102 Gray, Isaac 92, 96 Griffith, R. E., Jr 94 Griffiths, S. P 96 Haines, Reuben 9°. 93 Hare, Robert, Jr 93, 100 Harris, William loi Hazard, Ebenezer 92 Hays, Isaac 94, 100, loi Henry, Joseph 100 Hembel, William, Jr . . 93., 98, 99, 100 Hewson, T. T 89, 90, 93 Hodge, Hugh 96 Hopkinson, Francis 95 Hopkinson, Joseph 87, 89 Horn, George H 92, 94, loi Horner, W. E 93, 94 Hutchinson, James 89 Ingersoll, Jared 95, 96 Ingham, W. A loi, 102 Jacobs, William S 93 James, Thomas C 89, 90 Jefferson, Thomas. . . 85, 86, 95, 96, 98 Jones, R. S 88 PAGE. Jones, John 96 Justice, G. M 100, loi Kane, John K 85, 87, 90, 91 Keating, W. H 90, 91, 99, 100 Kendall, E. Otis 87, 88, 91 King, Edward loi Kuhn, Adam 92, 96, 97 Kuhn, Hartman 100 Kunzie, John C 89 Latrobe, Benjamin H 97 Law, Philip H 94, 95. 102 Lea, Isaac 87, 94, 100 LeConte, John L . 88, 91 Lesley, J. P 88, 91, 92 Leslie, Robert 93 Livingston, William 95 Longstreth, W. F 94 Lukens, Jesse 93 Lukens, John 95 Maclure, \V^illiam 98. 99 Magaw, Samuel 89, 97 Marbois, Barbe de 95. 96 Marsh, B. V loi, 102 Martindale, Isaac C 102 Matlack, T 88, 89 Mease, James 93, 94, 99 Meigs, C. D . . . . 90, 91, 99, 100, loi Meredith, William 98, 99 Mifflin, Thomas 88 McDowell, John 97 McKean, Thomas 95, 96, 97 McKean, W. V 102 Moore, Charles 88 Moore, Samuel 98 Morehouse, G. R 102 Morgan, John 92 Morris, J. Cheston 95 Morris, Jacob G 100 Nicola, Lewis 92 Nicklin, P. H 100 Nulty, Eugenius 99 Ord, George .... 87, 90, 95, 99, 100 Parke, Thomas 93 Patterson, Robert . 85,86,87,89,93,101,102 Patterson, Robert M 87, 90 105 PAGE. Peale, C. W 92, 93 Peale, Franklin 94 Penington, John 98 Pettit, Charles 96 Phillips, Henry, Jr 91.94 Price, Eli K 87, 88, loi Price, J. S 95 Rawle, William 98, 99 Reed, Joseph 95. 96 Reed, Henry 100 Rhoads, Samuel 86 Richards, B. W 95 Rittenhouse, David . . 85, 86, SB, 92, 96 Roberts, S 88 Rogers, R. E loi, 102 Ruschenberger, W. S. W . . . . 88, loi Rush, Benjamin . .86, 88, 92, 96, 97, 98 Ruston, Thomas 86 Say, Thomas 93 Seidensticker, O ...... . loi, 102 Seybert, Adam 89, 90, 98 Sergeant, John 98, 99 Sharswood, George 87 Shiell, Hugh 89 Shippen, William 86, 97 Shippen, William, Jr 88, 92 Short, William 97, 99, 100 Smith, Aubrey H 102 Smith, Jonathan B . . . . 95, 96, 97, 98 Smith, John R 93 Smith, Richard P 97 Smith, S. H 89 PAGE. Smith, Thomas P 89 Smith, Rev. William ... 86, 88, 96, 97 Stiles, Ezra 95 Syng, Philip, Sr 95 Thornton, J 96 Thompson, Oswald loi Thomson, Charles 88, 95 Tilghman, William .... 85, 87, 97, 98 Trego, C. B 91, 95 Tucker, George 100, loi Turner, George 93, 100, loi Tyndall, Hector 94 Vaughan, John 89, 95 Vaux, Richard 102 Vaughan, Samuel 86 Vethake, Henry 100, loi Wagner, Samuel 102 Walsh, Robert, Jr 90. 99 Wells, Richard 88 Wetherill, John P 94 Wheeler, Samuel 97 White, William . . 86, 88, 89, 96, 97, 98 Wilson, Rev. James 86 Williams, Jonathan. . . .87, 96, 97, 98 Williams, Jonathan, Jr 89 Winsor, Henry 101,102 Wistar, Caspar 85, 86, 93 Witherspoon, John 95. 96 Wood, George B 85 Wood, Richard loi, 102 Woodhouse, James 89, 97 PKOC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. N. PRINTED FEB. 17, 1890. LIST OF SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE jlMERicAN Philosophical Society, HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. Corrected to January 17, 1890, BY HKNRY PHILLIPS, JR, A Secretary of tlie Society. List of surviving Members of the American Philosophical Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge. The addresses here given so far as known are at the present time. Cor rections of this list are respectfully solicited. A name printed in italics indicates that the Society is uncertain as to whether such member is still living and desires information on the subject. The Society will be happy to receive photograpJis of such of its members as have not already sent. Xame. Date of Election. 16S7. Abbe, Cleveland July 21, 1871, 2170. Abbott, Charles C Dec. 20, 1889, 1463. Abbott, Henry L April 18, 1862, 1809. ACKERMAN, Richard July 21, 1876, 1713. AcLAND, Henry W Jan'y 17, 1873, 2128. Ada.m, LuciEN . Dec. 17, 18S6, 2081. Adams, H. B May 21, 1886, 1238. Adams, John Couch Jan'y 21, 1848, 1381. Adamson, Rev. John C. July 13. 1856. 17T9. Agassiz, Alexander April 16, 1875, 1642. Agassiz, Elizabeth Oct. 15, 1S69, 1701. Agnew. D. Hayes April 19. 1872, 1886. Airy, George Biddle, Sir . . . July 18, 1879, 2091. Albrecht, Paul May 21, 1886, 1812. Alcantara, Dom Pedro d'. . . Oct. 20, 1876. 1860. Alison, Robert H May 3, 1878, 1869. Allen, Joel Asaph Sept. 20, 1878, 1.571. Allen, Harrison Jan'y 18, 1837, 1776. Allison, Joseph April 16, 1875, 1927. Ames, Charles G Jan'y 21, 1881, 2064. Anderson, George B Feb'y 19, 1886, 1655. Anderson, George \V Oct. 15, 1869, 1576. Anderson, M. B Jan'y 18, 1867, 2104. Angell, James B Oct. 18, 1889, 1122. Angelis, Pedro de Jan'y 17, 1840, 2102. Argyll, Duke of May 21, 1886, 1761. Armstrong, \Vm. George, Sir . July 17, 1874, 1996. Ashhurst, John Jan'y 18, 1884, 2012. Ashhurst, Richard L April 18, 1884, Present Address. Army Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C. Trenton, N. J. New York City, N. Y. Stockholm, Sweden. Oxford, England. Rennes, France. Baltimore, Md. Cambridge, England. Cambridge, Mass. Philadelphia. Greenwich, England. Hamburg, Germany. Ardmore, Pa. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. Boston, Mass. West Point, N. Y. Bryn Mawr, Pa. Rochester, N. Y. Ann Arbor, Mich. Buenos Ayres. London, England. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Philadelphia. 110 Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 1993. Bache, Richard Meade .... Jau'y 18, 1884, 1832. Bache, Thomas Hewson .... Feb'y 2, 1877 1630. Baied, Henry Carey Jan'y 15, 1869, 1991. Baird, Henry M Jan'y 18, 1884, 2015. Baker, John R April 18, 1884 2075. Baker, William S. ...... . May 21, 1886, 1157. Bancroft, George July 16, 1841, 1936. Barber, Edwin Atlee April 15, 1881, 1818. Barcena, Mariano Feb'y 2, 1877 1741. Barker, George F April 18, 1873, 2011. Barker, Wharton April 18, 1884 2144. Barnard, William T May 20, 1887 1902. Bartholow, Roberts April 16, 1880 1133. Bartlett, W. H. C AprU 17, 1840^ 2119. Bastian, Adolph Dec. 17, 1886 1934. Beaulieu, Paul Leroy April 15, 1881 1968. Bell, Alexander Graham. . . July 21, 1882, 1966. Bell, Joseph Snowden July 21, 1882, 1802. Bell, Lowthian, Sir April 21, 1876, 2149. Biddle, Alexander' Feb'y 17, 1888, 2154. Biddle, Arthur Dec. 21, 1888, 2173. Biddle, A. Sydney Dec. 20, 1889, 1920. Biddle, Cadwalader Oct. 15, 1880, 1831. Biddle, Craig Feb'y 2, 1877 2134. Billings, John S Feb'y 18, 1887 1951. Blades, William Jan'y 20, 1882, 2157. Blair, Andrew A May 17, 1889 1554. Blair, Thomas S Jan'y 19, 1866, 1669. Blake, William Phipps .... Oct. 21, 1870, 1790. Blasius, William Oct. 15, 1875, 1700. Blodget, Lorin April 19, 1872 1905. Boardman, George Dana . . . April 16, 1880 1444. Bohtlingk, Otto Jan'y 17, 1S62, 2047. Bonwill, W J. a Oct. 16, 1885 852. Borgnis, J. A Oct. 20, 1820 1126. BoYic, Martin H Jan'y 17, 1840, 1826. Brackett, Cyrus Fogg Feb'y 2, 1877 2083. Branner, John C May 21, 1886, 2195. Brezina, Aristides May 21, 1886, 1636. Brinton, Daniel G April 16, 1869, 2009. Brinton, John H Feb'y 19, 1886 1745. Britton, J. Klodgett Oct. 17, 1873, 2080. Brooks, William Keith .... May 21, 1886, 1881. Brown, Arthur Erwin .... April 1 8, 1879, 1333. Brown-Sequard, E Jan'y 20, 1854, 1614. Brugsh, Henri Jan'y 15, 1869 1517. Brush, George J Jan'y 20, 1865 1653. Bullock, Charles Oct. 15, 1869, 1452. Bunsen, Robert W Jan'y 17, 1862 2008. BuRK, Isaac Jan'y 18, 1884, 2007. BuRK, Jesse Y Jan'y 18, 1 1-378. BURMEISTER, HERMANN April 18, 1856, 1938. Butler, William April 15, 1881 Philadelphia. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. Washington, D. C. West Chester, Pa. Mexico. Philadelphia. Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia. Yonkers, N. Y. Berlin, Germany. Paris, France. Washington. Philadelphia. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Philadelphia. Washington, D. C. London, England. Philadelphia. Pittsburgh, Pa. New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia. Leipzig, Germany. Philadelphia. Paris, France. (?) Coopersburg, Pa. Princeton, N. J. Little Rock, Ark. Vienna, Austria. Philadelphia. Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia. Paris, France. Berlin, Prussia. New Haven, Conn. Philadelphia. Heidelberg, Germany. Philadelphia. Buenos Ayres, S. A. West Chester, Pa. Ill Name. Date c 17S8. Campbell, John Lyle July 1606. Canby, Willi.oi Makriatt . . . Oct. 2051. Cannizzaro, Tommaso Oct. 1731. Capellini, Giovanni April 1628. Carlier, Augusts Jan'y 15 1796. Carll, J. B. F Oct. 2130. C.^^rrillo, Crescencio Dec. 1911. Carson, Hampton L April 1707. Cassatt, Alexander Johnson . Oct. 2147. Castner, Samuel, Jr Dec. 2152. Cattell, J. McKeen May 1675. Cattell, AVilliam C Jan' y 1908. Chance, Henry Martyn . . . April 1783. Chandler, C. F April 1778. Chapman, Henry C April 2132. Charency, Hy'acinth de . . . Dec. 1522. Chase, Thomas Jan'y 2111. Childs, George W Dec. 2158. Clark, Cl.^rence H May 1717. Clarke, Thomas C. Jan'y 1983. Claypole, E. W Jan'y 2048. Cleemann. T. M-. Oct. 1999. Cohen, J. Solis Jan'y 2005. Coleridge, Lord Jan'y 1555. Cope, Edward D Jan'y 1367. CoppfeE, Henry Jan'y 2129. Cora, Guido Dec. 1474. Cornelius, Robert Oct. 1867. CouES, Elliott Sept. 1662. Cox, J. D April 1672. CoxE, Eckley B Oct. 1836. Crane, Thomas F Feb'y 1393. Cresson, Charles M April 2100. Crookes, William May 2172. Cruz, Fernando (of Guatemala) Dec. 1439. CURWEN, John April •El edion Present Address. 16, 1875, Crawfordsville, Ind. 16, 1868, Wilmington, Del. 16, 1385, Messina, Italy. 18, 1873 Bologna, Italy. 15, 1869 Paris, France. 15, 1875, Pleasantville, Pa. 17, 1886 Merida, Yucatan. 16, 1880, Philadelphia. 18, 1872 " 16, 1887 " 18 1888 Media, Pa. 20, 1871 Philadelphia. 16, 1880 New York, N. Y. 16, 1875 " 16, 1875, Philadelphia. 17. 1886, St. Maurice les Charency France. 15, 1864 Providence, R. I. 17, 1886, Phihidelphia. 17, 1889, " 17, 1873, New York, N. Y. 19, 1883, Akron, Ohio. 16, 1885 Pliiladelphia. 18, 1881, " 18, 1884 London, England. 19, 1866 Philadelphia. 18, 1856 Bethlehem, Pa. 17, 1886 Milan, Italy. 17, 1862 Philadelphia. 20, 1878, Washington, D. C. 15, 1870 Toledo, 0. 21, 1870 Driflon, Pa. 2 1877 Ithaca, N. Y. 17, 1857, Philadelphia. 21, 1886, London, England. 20, 1889, Washington, D. C. 18, 1861, Warren, Pa. JD 1567. Da Costa, J. M Oct. 19, 1866, 1354. Dana, James D July 21, 1854, 1803. D.annefeld, C. Juhlin April 21, 1876, 1516. Daubree, A .' . . July 17, 1863, 1811. Davenport, Samuel Oct. 20, 1876, 1557. Davidson, George Jan'y 19, 1866, 1980. Davis, William M Jan'y 19, 1883, 1923. Dawkins, WILLIA3I B Oct. 15, 1880, 1468. Dawson, John W April 18, 1862, 2131. Delgada, Juan de Di.as de la Rada y Dec. 17, 1886, 991. Del Rio, Andres Oct. 15, 1830, 854. De Mmtg&ry Oct. 20, 1820. Philadelphia. New Haven, Conn. Stockholm, Sweden. Paris, France. Adelaide, S. Australia. San Francisco, Cal. Philadelphia. Manchester, England. Montreal, Canada. Madrid, Spain. Mexico. 112 iVawie. Date of Election. Present Address. ]9li4. De Rosny, LfeoN July 21, 1882, Paris, France. 1876. Des Cloizeaux, A Oct. 18, 1879, 2045. De Vere, M. Schele Oct. 16, 1885, University of Virginia. 2013. Dickson, Samuei April 18, 1884, Philadelphia. 1341. DOHEN, C. A Jan'y 20, 1854, Stettin, Prussia. 2108. Dolley, Charles S Dec. 17, 1886, Philadelphia. 2089. DoNNEii, Otto May 21, 1880, Helsingfors, Finland. 1946. DooLiTTLE, C. L. . . . ; . . . Oct. 21, 1881, Bethlehem, Pa. 18?9. Douglass, James, Jr April 20, 1877, Spuytenduyvil, N. Y. 1924. Draper, Daniel Oct. 15, 1880, New York, N. Y'. 1787. Drown, Thomas M July 16, 1875, Boston, Mass. 1918. Du Bois, Patterson Oct. 15, 1880, Philadelphia. 1878. Dudley, Charles Benjamin . . Jan'y 17, 1879, Altoona, Pa. 1921. Dudley, Thomas H Oct. 15, 1880, Camden, N. J. 1615. Dumichen, Johannes Jan'y 15, 1869, Strasburg, Germany. 2063. Duncan, Louis Feb'y 19, 1886, U. S. Navy. 1573. Dunning, George F Jan'y 18, 1867, Farmington, Conn. 1727. DUPONT, Edouard April 18, 1873, Brussels, Belgium. 2086. Duruy, Victor May 21, 1886, Paris, France. 1679. DuTTON, CL.A.RENCE E Jan'y 20, 1871, Washington, D. C. OB 1560. Earle, Pliny April 20, 186G, Northampton, Mass. 2105. Easton, Morton W Dec. 17, 18S6, Philadelphia. 1917. EciCFELDT, Jacob B Oct. 15, 1880, " 1825. Eddy, Henry T Feb'y 2, 1877, Cincinnati, O. 1686. Eliot, Charles W April 21, 1871, Cambridge, Mass. 1981. Emmons, S. F Jan'y 19, 1883, Washington, D. C. 1799. Etting, Fr.\NK M April 21, 1876, Concordville, Pa. 1405. £vans, Edmund C Jan'y 21, 1859. 1913. Evans, John Oct. 21, 1881, llemel Hempstead, Eng IF 1273. Farnuni, Joseph W. Jan'y 17, 1851, Camden, N. J. 2153. Favre, Alphonse May IS, 1888, Geneva, Switzerland. 1901. Flint, AUSTIN, J R April 16, 1880, New York, N. Y'. 1621. Flower, Wm. Henry Jan'y 15, 1869, London, England. 1875. FoGGo, Edward A Oct. 18, 1879, Philadelphia. 1170. Fkaley, Frederick July 15, 1812, " 191/. Fr.\ley, Joseph C April 16, 1880, 1551. Francis, James B April 21, 1865, Lowell, Mass. 1695. Frazer, Persifor Jan'y 19, 1872, Philudelphia. 2171. Friebis, George Dec. 20, 1889, " 1459. Fkoudp:, J. A Jan'y 17, 1862, London, England. 1739. Pulton, John April IS, 1873, Johnstown, Pa. 1914. FuRNEss. Horace Howard . . . April 16, 188 >, Philadelphia. O- 1063. Galvcz, Mariano Oct, 21, 1836, Guatemala, C. A. 1988. Garrett, Philip C April 2.1, 1883, Philadelphia. 2014. Garrison, Joseph F April 18, 1884, Camden, N. J. 2079. G.vtes, M. E May 21, 1886, New Brunswick, N. J. 1025. GAT.SCHET, Albert S Oct, 17,188-1, Washington, D. C. 1897. Geikie, Archibald Jau'y 16, ISSO, Loudon, England. 1803. Geikie, James April 21, 1876, Edinburgh, Scotland. 113 Name. Bate of Election. Present Address. 1339. Genth, Fred. Augustus Jan'y 20, 1854, Philadelphia. 2067. Genth, F. a., Jr Feb'y 19, 1886, " 1355. GiBBS, OiJVEU WoLCOTT July 21, 1854, Cambridge, Mass. 1587. Gill, Theodore Nicholas . . . July 19, 1867, Washington, D. C. 1800. GiLMAN, Daniel C April 21, 1876, Baltimore, Md. 19i0. Giraldes, J. P. C. Cassado de. .. July 20,1827, Lisbon, Portugal. C!) 1950. Gladstone, Wm. Ewaht .... Oct. 21, 1881, London, England. 2162. Goode, G. Brown Oct. IS, 1889, Washington, D. C. 1^35. GooDELL, WiLLi.4J« Feb'v 2, 1877, Philadelphia. 1680. GOODFELLOW, EDWARD Jan'y 20, 1871, Washington, D. C. 1435. Goodwin, Daniel R Jan'y IS, 18G1, Philadelphia. 1271. GoiLD, Ben. Apthorpe Jan'y 17, 1851, Cambridge, Mass. 1599. Graff, Frederick Jan'y 17, 1868, Philadelphia. 1851. Gray, Elisha Jan'y 18, 1878, Chicago, 111. 1605. Green. Tr.ull Oct. 16, 1868, Easton, Pa. 1504. Green, William Henry .... April 17, 1863, Princeton, N. J. 1880. Greene, William H April 18, 1879, Philadelphia. 2155. Gregorio, II Maechese Antonio DE Dec. 21, 1888, Palermo, It;\ly. 2159. Gregory, Henry D May 17,1889, Philadelphia.' 1229. Grimaldi, Ceva Oct. 16, 1846, Naples, Italy. 1939. Griscom, Wm. Woodnutt . . . April 15, 1.881, Haverford, Pa. 1815. Grote, Augustus Radcliffe . . Oct. 20, 1876. 2090. Gubernatis, Angelo de . . . . May 21, 1886, Florence, Italy. 1438. Guya^gos, Pascual de April 19, 1861, Madrid, Spain. 2054. Haeckel, Ernest Oct. 16, 1885, Jena, Prussia. 2066. Hagan, H. a. . . . Feb'y 19, 1886. Cambridge, Mass. 1658. Hale, Edw. Everett Jan'y 21, 1870, Roxbury, Mass. 1709. Hale, Horatio Oct. 18, 1872, Clinton, Canada. 1853. Hall, Asaph Jan'y 18, 1878, Washington, D. C. 1795. Hall, Chables Edward .... Oct. 15, 1875, Westport, N. Y. 1356. Hall, James July 21, 1854, Albany, N. Y. 2027. Hall, Lyman B Jan'y 16, 1885, Haverford, Pa. 1412. Hammond, Willlui A Oct. 21, 1859, New York, N. Y. 1337. Harding, George Jan'y 20, 1854, Philadelpliia. 2136. Harris, Joseph S May 20, 1887, 1827. Hart, James Morgan Feb'y 2, 1877, Cincinnati, O. 1510. Hartshorne, Henry July 17, 1863, Philadelphia. 1764. Hauer, Franz Ritter von. . . Oct. 16, 1874, Vieuna, Austria. 1681. Haupt, Hermann April 21, 1871, Washington, D. C. 1862. Haupt, Lewls M May 3, 1878, Philadelphia. 2082. Hayes, R. Somers May 21, 1886, New York, N. Y. 2071. Hays, J. Minis Feb'y 19, 1886, Philadelphia. 2165. HAZLEHUR.ST, Henry Oct. 18, 1889, " 1985. Heilprin, Angelo April 20, 1883, '• 1734. Helmholtz, Heinrich April 18, 1873, Berlin, Prussia. 1497. HiLGARD, J. E April 17, 1863, Washington, D. C. 1963. Hill, Hamilton Ant)rews . . . April 21, 1882, Boston, Mass. 1501. Hill, Thomas April 17, 1863, Portland, Me. 2110. Hilprecht, HERM.iNN V Dec. 17, 1886, Philadelphia. 1768. Himes, Charles Francis . . . Oct. 16, 1874, Carlisle, Pa. 1663. Hitchcock, Charles Henry . . April 15, 1870, Hanover, N. H. 2040. Hockley, Thomas Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. PROC. AMER, PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. O. PRINTED FEB. 21, 1890. 114 Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 2160. HoFraiAX, AValter J Oct. 18, 1889, Washington. D. C. 1453. HoF.MANX, August William. . . Jan'y 17, 1862, Berlin, Prussia. •2068. Holland, James W Feb'y 19, 1886, Philadelphia. 1898. Holmes, Oliver Wendell . . . Jan'y 16, 1880, Boston, Mass. 1624. Hooker, Joseph D Jau'y 15, 1869, London, England. 1652. Hopper, Edward Oct. 15. 1869, Philadelphia. 1607. Horn, George Henry Oct. 16, 1868, " 2070. Horner, Inman . . . Feb'y 19, 1886, " 1257. Horsford, Eben Norton .... Jan'y 19, 1849, Cambridge, Mass. Iil41. HoTCHKiss, Jedediah Oct. 21, 1881, Staunton, Ya. 1696. Hough, George W Jan'y 19, 1872, Chicago, 111. 1698. Houston, Edwin J Jan'y 19, 1872, Philadelphia. 2143. Houston, Henry H May ' 20, 1887, " " 2084. Hovelacque, Abel May 21, 1886, Paris, France. 1843. Humphrey, H. C July 20, 1877. 2116. HuNFAL\"i-, Paul Dec. 17, 18S6, Buda-Pesth, Hungary. 1441. Hunt, Thom.vs Sterrv April 19, 1861, New York, N. Y. 1623. Huxley, Thomas Henry .... Jan'y 15, 1869, London, England. 1420. Hyrtle, Joseph July 20, 1860, Vienna, Austria. I 2052. IM Thurn, EvER.iRD F Oct. 16, 1885, Georgetown, British Guiana 1773. iNGH.ui, W.M. Armstrong. . . . April 16, 1875, Philadelphia. 2010. James. Edml'nd J . 1933. Jannet, Cl audio . 2049. Jayne, Horace . . 1954. Jefferis, William W 1942. Jones, Charles C, Jr 2017. Jordan, Francis, Jr. April 18, 1884, April 15, 1881, Oct. 16, 1885, Jan'y 20, 18S2, Oct. 21, 1881, April 18, 18&4, Philadelphia. Paris, France. Philadelphia. Augusta, Ga. Philadelphia. IC 1989. Kane, Elisha Kent. 2169. Keane, John J. . . 1348. Keating, William V 2021. Keen, Williaji W. . 1962. Keim, Geo. de Bennev 2118. Keipert, Henki. . 1161. Kendall, E. Otis . 1708. King, Clarence . 1537. Kirk, John Foster 1284. KiRKWooD, Daniel 1767. KoNiG, George A . 1971. Kopp, Hermann. . 2167. Krauss, Friederich S April 20, 1SS3, Kane, Pa. Dec. 20, 1889, Washington, D. C. April 21, ia>4. Philadelphia. July 18, 1884, " April 21, 1882, " Dec. 1", 1886, Berlin, Prussia. Jan'y 21, 1842. Philadelphia. Oct. 18, 1872, New York, N. Y. July 15, 1864, Philadelphia. April IS, 1851, Bloonilngton, lud. Oct. 16, 1874, Philadelphia. Oct. 20, 1SS2, Heidelberg, Germany Dec. 20 1889, Vienna, Austria. 1026. Labouderie, J. April 19, 1833, Paris, France. 1691. Lambert, Guillaume Jan'y 19, 1872, Louvain, Belgium. 1858. Landreth, Burnet Jan'y 18, 1878, Bristol, Pa. 115 Name. Date of Election. 1781. Langley, Samuel P April 16, 1775, 17-21. La Roche, C. Percy Jau'y 17, 1873, i;Ht. L.VTKLtBE, Jons H. B Jau'y 20, 18J4, 1711. Lauth, Franz Joseph Oct. 18, 1872, 1974. Lawes, John Bennett, Sir . . . Jau'y 19, 18S3, 1595. Lea, Henry Charles Oct. 18, 1867, 1738. Le Conte, John April 18, 1873, 1737. Le Conte, Joseph April 18, 1873, 1177. Lee, Thom.\s Jefferson ... Oct. 17, 1802, 2125. Leemans, Conrad Dec. 17, ISSfi, 1986. Lehman. A_mbrose E April 20, 18S3, 1263. Leidy, Joseph Oct. 19, 1819, 2171. Le Moine, J. M Dee. 20, 1889. 1382. Lesley, J. Peter July 13, 1856, 1376. Letchworth, Albert S Jau'y 18, 1856, 2085. Levasseuk, Emil May 21, 1886, 1706. Le\is, Richard J July 19, 1872, 1415. Lewis, Francis W Jau'y 20, 1860, 1953. Lewis, Samuel S.4.vage Jau'y 20, 1882, 1383. Leyburn, John July 13, 1856, 1756. Lockyer, Joseph Norman. . . . April 17, 1874, 1728. LoNGCHAMPS, Selys de April 18, 1873, 1'255. Longstreth, Miers Fisher . . April 21, 1848, 1872. Longstreth, Morris Sept. '20, 1878, 101.5. Lorin, Theodore April 20. 1832, 1926. Lovering, Joseph Jau'y 21, 1881, 1977. Lowell, J.vmes Russeli Jau'y 19, 1883, 2019. Lubbock, John July 18, 1884, 2003. Ludlow, Williaji Jau'y 18, 1884, 1629. Lyman, Benjamin Smith .... Jan'y 15, 1869, Present Addrcx''. Washiugton, D. C. Rome, Italy. Baltioiore, Md. Muuich, Bavaria. Rotharastead, Herts, Eug. Philadelphia. Berkeley, Cal. Washiugton. D. C. Leydeii, HoUaud. Philadelphia. Quebec, Canada. Philadelphia. Paris, France. Philadelphia. Cambridge, Euglaud. Baltimore, Md. London . England. Liege, Belgium. Sharon Hill. Philadelphia. Paris, France. Cambridge, Mass. Loudon, England. U. S. A. Philadelphia. nyc 10 J8. Macedo, J. L. DaCosfa April 1994. Maisch, John M Jan'y 1970. Mallery, Garrick, Jr Oct. 2042. Mallet, John Wm Jan'y 1847. Mansfield, Ira Franklin . . . Jan'y 1837. March, Francis Andrew . . . Jan'y 1861. Maeks, WILLIA3I D May 1604. Marsh, Othniel C Oct. 2078. Marshall, John May 1922. Martlndale, Isaac C Oct. 1018. Marline:, Juan Jos& April 18S5. Martins. Charles July 1572. Mason, Andrew Jau'y 1929. May, Addison Jan'y 1654. M-iYER, Alfred M Oct. 2107. MC.A.LISTER, J.^jies Dec. 192S. McC.vuLEY, Edward Y Jan'y 1685. McCosH, James April 18->8. McCreath, Andrew S July 1821. McKE.iN, William V Feb'y 1507. Maclune. James April 2004. McM.v-STER, John Bach Jan'y 1677. Meehan, Thomas' Jan'v 15, 1836, Lisbon, Portugal. 18, 1884, Philadelphia. 20. 1882, Washiugton, D. C. 16, 1885, University of Virginia, Va 18. 1878, Canneltou, Pa. 18, 1878, Easton, Pa. 3, 1878, Philadelphia. 16, 1868. New Haven, Conn. 21. It' 86, Philadelphia. 15. 1880. Camden, N. J. 20, 1832. Spain. 18, 1879, Moutpellier, France. 18, 1867, New York. N. Y. 21 1881, West Chester, Pa. 15, 1869, Hobokeu, N. J. 17, 1886, Philadelphia. 21, 188 L " 21, 1871. Princeton. N. J. 18, 1879, Harrisburg, Pa. 2 1877, Philadelphia. 17 isf,3, •' 18 ISSI, '• 20 1871, " IIG Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 1335. Meigs, Montgomery C Jan'y 20, 1854, Washington, D. C. 1903. Merrick, John Vaughan . . . April 16, 18S0, Philadelphia. 1947. Merriman, Mansfield . , . . . Oct. 21, 1S81, Bethlehem, Pa. 1744. Messchert, Mathew Huizinga. Oct. 17, 1873, Douglassville, Pa. 2142. Michael, Helen Abbott. . . . May 20, 1887, Philadelphia. 1461. Mitchell, S. Weir Jan'y 17, 1862, " 17.35. Mommsen, Theodore April 18, 1873, Berlin, Prussia. 2114. Monier-Williams, Monier . . . Dec. 17, 1886, London, England. 1791. Moore, Gideon E Oct. 15. 1875, New Yorlc, N. Y. 2029. Moore, James W Jan'y 16, 1885, Easton, Pa. 1841. Morehouse, George R .... April 20, 1877, Philadelphia. 1054. MoreUi Jan'y 15, 1836, Naples, Italy. 1976. Morris, J. Cheston Jan'y 19, 1883, Philadelphia. 1577. Morton, Henry Jan'y 18, 1867, Hoboken N. J. 2121. Much. Matth^us Dec. 17, 1886, Vienna, Austria. 1866. Muhlenberg, F. A S^'pt. 20. 1878, Philadelphia. 2120. Mueller, Friederich Dec. 17, 1886, Vienna, Austria. 1486. Mueller, F. Max Jan'y 16, 1863, Oxford, England 1892. Muoni, Damiano Jan'y 16, 1880, Milan, Italy. 2062. MURDOCK, J. B Feb'y 19, 1886, U. S. Navy. 1937. MURR.4.Y, James A. H April 15, 1881, Oxford, England. 2087. Nadaillac, Marquis de May 21,1886, Paris, France. 1575. Newberry, John S Jan'y 18, 1867, New York, N. Y. 1852. Newcomb, Simon Jan'y 18, 1878, Washington, D. C. 1582. Newton, Hubert Anson .... April 19, 1809, New Haven, Conn. 1703. Nichols, Starr Hoyt July 19, 1872, New York, N. Y. 2060. Nikitin, Serge Feb'y 19, 1866, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1805. Nordenskiold, Adolf Eric . . April 21, 1876, Stockholm, Sweden. 1712. NoRRis, Isaac, Jr. Oct. 18, 1872, Philadelphia. 2106. NoRRis, William F Dec. 17, 1886, 2046. North, Edward Oct. 16, 1885, Clinton, N. Y. O 2072. Oliver, Charles A Feb'y 19. 1886, Philadelphia. 1715. Oliver, James E Jan'y 17, 1873, Ithaca, N. Y. 2135. OsBORN, Henry F Feb'y 18, 1887, Princeton, N. J. 1.5S1. OsBORN, Henry S Jan'y 18, 1867, Oxford. O. 2039. OsLER, William Jan'y 16, 1885, Baltimore, Md. 1801. Owen, P. Cunliffe, Sir April 21, 1876, London, England. 1212. Owen, Richard Jan'y 17, 1845, " IE' 1868. Pack.\rd, A. S., JR Sept. 20, 1878, Providence, R. I. 1578. Packard, John H Jau'y 18, 1867, Philadelphia. 1331. Paget, James, Sir Jan'y 20, 1854, London, England. 1984. Panco.ast, William Henry .. . Jan'y 19,1883, Philadelphia. 1.593. Pardee, Ario Oct. 18, 1867, Ilazleton, Pa. 1673. Parieu, Esquiron de Jan'y 20, 1871, Paris. France. 2036. Parvin. Theophilus Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. , 2056. P.4.STEUR, Louis Oct. 16, 1885, Paris, France. 2035. Patterson, C. Stuart Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. 1282. Patterson, Robert April 18, 1851, " 117 Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 1320. Patterson, Thomas L April 15, 185S. Cumberland, Md. \~T2. Pearse, JoHxB Jiin'y 15, 1875, Boston, Mass. 1722. Pemberton, Henry Jaii'y 17, 1873, Philadelphia. 2101. Pexafiel, Antonio May ?], 1886, Berlin, Prussia. 1777. Penington, Edward April 16, 187o, Philadelphia. 2073. Pennypacker, Samuel W. . . May 21, 1880, " 1518. Penrose, R. A. F July 17, 1863, 2059. Pepper, Edward Feb'y 19, 1886, Paris. 1066. Pepper, William July 15, 1870, Philadelphia. 951. Per eir a, Jose Maria Dailies . . . . April 18, 1828, Lisbon, Portugal. 1705. Peter, Robert July 19, 1872, Lexington, Ky. 1855. Peters, C. H. F Jan'y 18, 1878, Clinton, N. Y. 1824. Phillips, Henry, JR Feb'y 2, 1877,. Philadelphia. 1859. Pierce, C. Newlin May 3, 1878, " 1760. Pl.\tt, Franklin July 17, 1874, Philadelphia. 2127. Platzman, Julius. ....... Dec. 17, 1886, Leipzig, Germany. 2053. POMIALOWSKY, John Oct. 16,1885, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1539. Porter, Thom.\s Conrad . . . . Oct. 21, 1864, Easton, Pa. 1!044. Potts, Willi,v.m John Oct. 16, 1885, Camden, N. J. 2097. Postgate.J. P May 21, 1886, Cambridge, England. 1216. Poussin, William Tdl Jan'y 17, 1882, Paris, France. 2161. Powell, J. W Oct. 18, 1889, Washington, D. C. 1619. Prestwich, Joseph Jan'y 15, 1869, Shoreham, England. 1592. Price, J. Sergeant Oct. 18, 1867, Philadelphia. 1780. Prime, Frederick, Jr April 16,1875, 2088. PULZSKY, Francis May 21, 1886, Buda-Pesth, Hungary. 1758. Pumpelly, R/IPHAEL April 17, 1874, Newport, R. I. Q, 973. Quadi-ada, Francisco dc Paolo . . Oct. 16, 1829, Madrid, Spain. 1143. Quaranta, Barnardo Jan'y 15, 1841, Naples, Italy. 1448. Ramsay, Andrew C Jan'y 17,1862, London, England. 1736. Rand, Theodore D April 18, 1873, Philadelphia. 1819. Randall, F. A Jan'y 18,1878, Warren, Pa. 1644. Rawlinson, George Oct. 15, 1869, Oxford, England. 1765. Rawson, Rawson. W Oct. 16, 1874, London, " 2099. Rayleigh, Lord May 21, 1886, Essex, England. 1784. Raymond, Rossitter W .... April 16, 1875, New York, N. Y. 1585. Raynolds, William F April 19,1867, Detroit, Mich. 1591. Read, John Meredith July 19, 1807. 2077. Reed, Henry May 21, 18S6, Philadelphia. 1842. Reed, Thomas B April 20, 1877, 1889. Remsen, Ira July 18, 1879, Baltimore, Md. 1485. Renan, Ernest Jan'y 16, 1863, Paris, France. 1918. Renard, A Oct. 21,1881, Brussels, Belgium. 1343. Renard, Charles Jan'y 20, 1854, Moscow, Russia. 1890. Reneviers, E . July 18, 1879, Lausanne, Switzerland. 181C. Reuleaux, F Ftrb'y 2, 1877, Berlin, Prussia. 2122. Reville, Albert Dec. 17, 1886, Paris, France. 1500. Richardson, Ben. Ward . . April 17,1863, London, England. 1808. Riley, Charles V April 21, 1876, Washington, D. C. 2038. Roberts, George B Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. 1957. Robins, James M April 21, 1882, " 118 Name. Date of Elect hn. 1025. Robinson, Moncure Jan'y 18, 1833, 1384. Rogers, E. P April 20, 1855. 1390. Rogers, Fairman Jan'y 16, 1857, 1906. Rogers, William B., Jr .... April 16, 18S0, 1162. RoHEiG. F. L. O April 18, 1862, 2050. RoLLETT, Hermann Oct. 16, 1885, 1907. Rood, Ogden N April 16, 1880, 1732. Rossi, Giovanni Battista. . . . April 18, 1873, 1718. ROTHERMEL, PETER F Jau'y 17, 1873, 1S3S. ROTHROCK, Joseph T April 20, 1877, 1264. RrSCHENBERGER, Wm. S. W.. . . Oct. 19, 1849, 1620. RiJTiMEYER, Carl L Jan'y 15, 1869, 2109. Ryder, JOHN A Dec. 17, 1886, Present Address. Philadelphia. Newport, R. I. Philadelphia. Los Angeles, Cal. Vienna, Austria. New York, N. Y. Rome, Italy. Limerick P. O., Pa. Philadelphia. Basel, Switzerland, Philadelphia. 17C6. Sadtler, Samuel Philip .... Oct. 16, 1874^ 2148. Sajols, Charles E Feb'y 17, 1888 2103. Sanchez, Jesus May 21, 1886, 1563. Sandberger, Fridohn April 20, 1866 1033. Santarem, Viscount July 19, 1833 1958. Sargent, Charles Sprague . . April 21, 1882 1730. Saussure, Henri de April 18, 1873 1877. SCHORLEMMER, C Oct. 18, 1878 1498. ScHOTT, Charles Anthony . . . April 17,1863, 1864. Schurz, Carl Sept. 20, 1878, 1725. ScL.\TEE, Phillip Lutley. . . . April 18, 1873 1919. ScoTT, Lewis A Oct. 15, 1880, 2112. ScoTT, W. H Dec. 17, 1886 1870. ScuDDER, Samuel Hubbard. , . Sept. 20, 1878 1656. Seidensticker, Oswald Jan'y 21, 1870 1883. Seiler, Carl April 18, 1879 1704. Sellers, Coleman July 19, 1872, 1,533. Sellers, Willi.\m April 15, 1864 1770, Selwyn, Alfred R. C Oct. 16, 1.874 1333. Sequard, E.Brown Jan'y 20, 1851 2057. Sergi, Giuseppe Oct. 16, 1885 196.5. Seve de Bar, Edouard July 21, 1.882 2076. Sharp, Benjamin May 21, 1.886 1944. Shakples, Philip Price .... Oct. 21,1881 1960. Sharples, Stephen Paschall. . April 21,1882 2002. Sharpless, Isaac Jan'y 18, 1884 1514. Sheafer, Peter WenriCH . . . July 17, 1863 1792. Sheppard, Furman Oct. 15, 1875 1797. Sheravood, Andrew Oct. 15, 1875 1822. Shields, Charles W Feb'y 2, 1877, 1532. Shinz, Carl April 15, 1864 2124. Simeon, Remi Dec. 17, 1.880 1414. Smith, Aubrey H Jan'y 20, 1860 2146. Smith, Edgar F Oct. 21, 1887 1544. Smith, GoLDWiN Jan'y 20, 1865 1789. Smith, Stephen Oct. 15, 1875, 2141. Smyth, Albert H May 20, 1887 1742. Snowden, a. Loudon Oct. 17, 1873 2009. Snyder, Monroe B Jau'y IS, 1884, 1720. Spofford, a. H Jan'y 17, 1873, Philadelphia. Mexico, Mexico. Wiirtzburg, Bavaria. Lisbon, Portugal. Brookliue, Mass. Geneva, Switzerland. Manchester, England. Washington, D. C. London, England. Philadelphia. Princeton, N. J. Cambridge, Mass. Philadelphia. Montreal, Canada. Paris. France. Rome, Italy. Brussels, Belgium. Philadelphia. West Chester Pa. Boston, Mass. Haverford, Pa. Pottsville, Pa. Philadelphia. Mansfield, Pa. Princeton, N. J. Strasburg, Germany. (?) Paris, France. Philadelphia. New York, N. Y. Philadelphia. Philadelphia. Washington, D. C. 119 Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 1919. Stallo, JohnB Oct. 21, 18Si, Cincinnati, O. 1441). Steenstrup, J. J. S Jiin'y 17, 18G2, Copenhagen, Denmark. 1990. Stevens, Walter LeConte . . . Jan'y 18, 1884, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1840. Stevensox, John James April 20, 1877, New York, N. Y. 2168. Stokes, Sir George G Dec. 20. 1889, London, England. 1167. Storer, D. Hujiphreys April 15, 1842, Boston, Mass. 1834. Str.wvbridge, George Feb'y 2, 1877, Philadelphia. 1559. Strong, William Jan'y 19, 1866, Washington, D. C. 1820. Stuart, George Feb'y 2, 1877, Philadelphia. 1527. Studer, Bernard April 15, 1864, Berne, Switzerland. 2093. Stuee, Dionys May 21, 1886, Vienna, Austria. 2094. Suess, Edward Jlay 21, 1880, " " 2023. Syle, E. W July 18, 1884, Philadelphia. 1844. Sy'LVESter, J.J July 20, 1877, Oxford, England. 2092. Szombathy, Josef May 21, 1886, Vienna, Austria. T 1786. Tatham, William P April 16, 1875, Philadelphia. 1846. Taylor, Williaji B Oct. 19, 1877, Washington, D. C. 2098. Temple, Richard Carnac . . . May 21, 1886, Upper Burmah, India. 2006. Thom.^s, Allen C Jan'y 18, 1884, Haverford, Pa. 1807. Thompson, Elihu . , April 21, 1876, Lynn, Mass. 1993. Thompson, Heber S Jan'y 18, 1884, Pottsville, Pa. 1726. Thompson, Henry April 18, 1873, London, England. 1755. Thojipson, Robert Ellis .... April 17, 1874, Philadelphia. 1754. Thomson, Fbank April 17, 1874, Philadelphia. 1723. Thomson, Willi.am April 18, 1873, London, England. 1909. Thomson, William April 16, 1880, Philadelphia. 1530. Thury, a April 15, 1864, Geneva, Switzerland. 1688. TiLGmiAN. Benjamin C July 21.1871, Philadelphia. 1233. Tilghman. Richard A . . . . April 16, 1847, " 1657. Tilghman, William M Jan'y 21, 1870, •' 2123. ToPiNARD. Paul Dec. 17, 1886, Paris, Prance. 2065. TOPPAN, Robert NoxoN Feb'y 19,1886, Cambridge, Mass. 1597. Townsend, Joseph B Jan'y 17, 1868, Philadelphia. 1955. Townsend, Washington .... Jan'y 20, 1882, West Chester, Pa. 1691. Trowbridge, William P . . . . Jan'y 19. 1872, New York. N. Y. 2024. Trumbull, Henry Clay .... July 18, 1881, Philadelphia. 1973. Tschermak, Gustaf Oct. 20, 1SS2, Vienna, Austria. 2166. Tuttle. David K Oct. 18, 1889, Philadelphia. 2163. Tyler, Ly'on G Oct. 18, 1889, Williamsburg, Va. 1529. Tunnek, Peter April 15, 1864, Leoben, Austria. 1602. Tyndall. John April 17, 1868, London, England. 2138. Tyson, James May 20, 1887, Philadelphia. 2000. V.AUX, Richard Jan'y 18, 1884, Philadelphia. 1475. Virchow, Rudolph Oct. 17, 1862, Berlin, Prussia. 1646. Vogt, Carl Oct. 15, 1869, Geneva, Switzerland 2115. Von Meltzel, Hugo Dec. 17. 1886, Koloszvar, Hungary. 1670. Vose, George Leonard Oct. 21, 1870, Boston, Mass. 2031. W.\GNER, Samuel Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. 1748. Wahl, William H Jan'y 16, 1874, 120 Name. Date of Election. Present Address. 1724. Wallace, Alfred R April 18, 1873, Croydon, England. 2156. Ward, Lester F. May 17, 1889, Washington, D. C. 2033. Weil, Edward Henky .Tan'y 16, 188), Philadelphia. 2117. Weil, G Dec. 17, 1886, Heidelberg, Germany. 2028. Weisbach, Albin Jan'y 16, 1885, Freiburg, Saxony. 20I7.*Welsii, Herbert . April 18, 1884, Philadelphia. 1975. Westwood, John O Jan'y 19, 1883, Oxford, England. 1639. Wharton, Joseph April 16, 1869, Philadelphia. 1637. White, Andrew D April 16, 1869, Ithaca, N. Y. 1818. White, I. C Jan'y 18, 1878, Morgantown, W. Va. 1487. Whitney, Josiah Dwight . . . Jan'y 16, 1863, Cambridge, Mass. 1502. Whitney, Wilijam Dwight. . . April 17, 18i3, New Haven. Conn. 1639. WiiiTTiEE. John Greenleaf . . Jan'y 21, 1870, Amesbury, Mass. 1863. Wilder, Buet Green May 3, 1878, Ithaca, N. Y. 2151. Williams, Talcott May 18, 1888, Philadelphia. 1489. Wilson, Daniel Jan'y 16, 1863, Toronto, Canada. 2150. Wilson, Edmund B Feb'y 17, 1888, Bryn Mawr, Pa. 2041. Wilson, James C Jan'y 16, 1885, Philadelphia. 1747. Wilson, Joseph M Jan'y 16, 1874, " 2137. Wilson, William Powell . . . May 20, 1887, " 1545. Winchell, Alexander Jan'y 20,1865, Ann Arbor, Mich. 1896. WiNTHROP, ROBEET C Jan'y 16, 1880, Boston, Mass. 2140. WiREMAN, Henry D. ..... . May 20, 1887, Philadelphia. 1561. WisTER, Owen Jones April 20, 1866, 1884. Wood, Richard April 18, 1879, 1762. Woodward, Heney July 17, 1874, London, England. 1751. WooTTEN, J. E Jan'y 16, 1874, Reading, Pa. 1854. WoRMLEY, Theodore G Jan'y 18, 1878, Philadelphia. 1488. WORTHEN, A. H Jan'y 16, 1863, Springfield, 111. 1932. Wdets, Charles Stewart . . . Jan'y 21, 1881, Philadelphia. 2061. Wyckoff, a. B Feb'y 19, 1886, U. S. Navy. IT 1904. Yarnall, Ellis April 16, 1880, Philadelphia. 1759. Young, Charles Augustds . . . April 17, 1874, Princeton, N. J. LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE AMEI^ICAN PfllLOSOPHICiJlL SOCIETY, 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 OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY HELD AT PHILADELPHIA, FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, Formed on the 2d of jfannary, lySg, by a Union of the " Ameri- can PliilosopJucal Society," and the " American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Usefid KnoivledgeT ORIGINAL MEMBERS OR MEMBERS AT THE TIME OF UNION. I. Members common to the two Component Societies. 1. Benjamin Franklin. Original member of the A. P. S. 1743. Elected mem- ber of the A. S. Feb. 19, 1768. Died April 17, 1790, set. 84. 2. John Bartram, F. R. S. and Botanist to his Majesty. Orig. mem. A. P. S. 1743. Mem. A. S. Feb. 19, 1768. Died Sept. 1777, nst. 76. 3. Dr. Cad-TO-alader Evans. A. P. S. Nov. 1767. A. S. Jan. 19, 1768. Died 1773. set. 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, set, 74. 6. Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. A. P. S. Jan. 19, 1768. A. S. Oct. 14, 1768. Died Nov. 14, 1779, ast. 72. 7. Dr. John Redman. A. P. S. Jan. 19, 1768. A. S. Oct. 14, 1768. Died March 19, 1808, set. 86. 8. John Dickinson. A. P. S. Jan. 19, 1768. A. S. Jan. 19, 1768. Died Feb. 14, 1808, set. 75. 9. Dr. Charles M. Moore. A. P. S. Jan. 26, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died Dec. 15, 1778, Eet. 66. 124: 10. Francis Hopkinson. A. P. S. Jan. 26, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died May 9, 1791, JBt. 53. 11. Dr. Alexander Garden, Charleston, S. C. A. P. S. Jan. 26, 1768. A. S. April 15, 1768. Died April 15, 1792, aet. 64. 12. John Kidd, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April i, 1768. Died 13. ■William Fr-anklin, Governor of New Jersey. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. Orig. mem. A. S. 1758. Died Nov. 17, 1813, aet. 82. 14 Stephen Watts. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died 1788, £et. 51. 15. Bev. Jacob Duche. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died Jan. 3, 1798, aet. 60. 16. John Foxcrofb. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died 17. John Sellers, Surveyor, Derby, Chester Co., Pa. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. April I, 1768. Died Feb. 2, 1804, aet. 76. 18. Dr. Thomas Graeme. A. P. S. March 8, 1768. A. S. Oct. 14, 1768. Died Sept. 4, 1772, a?t. 84. (1794?) 19. Capt. Oswell Eve. A. P. S. March 22, 1768. A. S. Feb. 26, 1768. Died 20. James Wrig-ht, Lancaster Co., Pa. A. P. S. May 18, 1768. A. S. April 8, 1768. Died 21. Hon. Charles Read, Esq., Burlington, N. J. A. P. S. May 18, 1768. A. S. June 3, 1768. Died 22. John Smith, Burlington, N. J. A. P. S. May 18, 1768. A. S. June 3, 1768. Died March 26, 1771, ast. 49. 23. Hon. Edward Antill, Esq., New Jersey. A. P. S. Aug. 16, 1768. A. S. April 8. 1768. Died 24. Dr. Benjamin Gale, Killingsworth, Conn. A. P. S. Aug. 16, 1768. A. S. ' Aug. 13, 1768. Died 1790, ast. 75. 25. Dr. Ashton Warner, Antigua. A. P. S. Aug. 16, 1768. A. S. April 15, 1768. Died 26. Wilham Cullen, M.D., Edinburgh. A. P. S. Oct. 18, 1768. A. S. April 15, 1768. Died II, Members belonging exclusively to the American Philosophical Society. 27. William Coleman, Ass. Justice, S. C. Original member. Died Jan., 1769. 28. Dr. Thomas Bond. Original member. Died March 26, 1784, aet. 72. 29. Dr. Phineas Bond. Original member. Died June, 1773, ^^- 5^- 30. Samuel Rhoads. Original member. Died April (?) 29, 1784. 31. Hon. Cadw^alader Colden. Lt. Governor of New York. Original member. Died Sept. 28, 1776, xl. 88. 32. Rev. Francis Alison. Vice-Provost of the College of Philadelphia. Orig- inal member. Died Nov. 28, 1779 (1780?), ast. 72. Elected November, 1767. 33. Dr. William Shippen. Died Nov. 4, 1801, net. 89. 34. Dr. William Shippen, Jr., Prof. Anat. Coll. Phil. Died July 11, 1808. 125 Elected January 12, 1768. 35. Philip Syng, Sen. Died May 8, 1789, a;t. 85. 36. Rev. William Smith, Provost C. Phila. Died May 14, 1803, set. 76. 37. George Bryan, Esq. Died Jan. 28, 1791, set. 60. 38. Rev. John E-wing. Died Aug. 28, 1802, net. 70. 39. Edward Shippen, Jr., Esq. Died April 16, 1806, oet. 77. Elected January 19, 1768. 40. David Rittenhouse. Died June 26, 1796, tet. 64. 41. Hugh Roberts. Died July 23, 1786, aet. 80. 42. Israel Pemberton. Died April 22, 1779, ast. 64. 43. James Tilg-hman, Esq. Died Aug. 24, 1793, set. 76. 44. William Log-an, Esq. Died Oct. 28, 1776, aet. 58. 45. Joseph Shippen, Jr., Esq. Died Feb. 11, 1810, aet. 78. 46. Thomas Willing', Esq. Died Jan. 19, 1821, ast. 89. 47. Benjamin Chew, Esq. Died Jan. 10, 1810, ast. 87. 48. Dr. Adam Kuhn, Prof. Hot. and M. M. C. Phila. Died July 5, 1817, ast. 75. 49. James Pemberton. Died Feb. 9, 1809, set. 86. 50. Thomas Pryor. Died 51. Dr. Hugh Williamson. Died May 22, 1819, set. 85. 52. Hon. John Penn, Esq. Died February, 1795, set. 66. 53. Hon. James Hamilton, Esq. Died Aug. 14, 1783. 54. Hon. William Allen, Esq., Chief justice Penna. Died September, 1780, set. 70. Elected Jatniary 26, 1768. 55. Rev. Ebenezer Kinnersley, Prof. Eng., etc., Coll. Pennsylvania. Died July 4, 1778, ast. 67. 56. John Reynell. Died Sept. 3, 1784. 57. Lynford Lardner, Esq. Died Oct. 6, 1774, a3t. 59. 58. Joseph Richardson, Merchant. Died 59. Richard Penn, Esq. Died Jan. 29, 1771, ast. 67. 60. John Ross, Esq. Died May 8, 1776, ast. 62. 61. Andrew Allen, Esq. Died March 7, 1825, set. 85. 62. Thomas Coombe, Esq. Died Sept. 29, 1799, set. 78. 63. James Allen, Esq. Died Sept. 18. 1778. 64. Jonathan B. Smith. Died June 16, 1812, set. 71. 65. John Allen, Esq. Died Feb., 1778. 66. Alexander Stedman, Esq. Died 67. Daniel Dulany, Esq., Annapolis, Md. Died March 19, 1797, ast. 76. 68. Dr. Arthur Lee, Virginia. Died Dec. 14, 1792, set. 42. 69. Rev. Ezra Stiles. Died May 12, 1795, ast. 68. 70. John Winthrop, Esq., F. R. S., Hollis Prof. Math. Cambridge, N. Eng. Died May 3, 1779, set. 65. Elected March 8, 1768. 71. Edward Duffield. Died July 12, 1803, ast. 73. 72. Samuel Mifflin, Esq. Died 73. David Hall, Printer. Died 1773. 12(3 74- Rev. Thomas Barton, Lancaster, Pa. Died May 25, 1780, ast. 50. 75. Robert Smith, Architect. Died 76. Thomas Smith. Died May 23, 1795, set. 84, ■jj. Thomas Barnsley, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Died 78. Thomas Bond, Jr. Died (between 1777 and 1789?) 79. WilUam West. Died (1791, ast.62?) 80. Robert Proud. Died July 5, 18 13, tet. 86. 81. Joseph Fox, Esq. Died Dec. 9, 1779, set. 70. 82. James Dickinson. Died 83. John Rhea. Died (1829, set. 74?) 84. Isaac Jones, Esq., Presiding Justice C. P. Died Oct. 18, 1773, set. 58. 85. Robert Strettell Jones. Died March 16, 1792, cet. 65. 86. Samuel Cald-well. Died 1794. 87. Ed-ward Shippen, Esq., Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Died 88. Thomas McKean, Esq., Newcastle, Del. Died June 24, 1817, aet. 83. 89. Rev. Rich. Peters, Rector of Christ Church and St. Peter's, Philadelphia. Died 1776, aet. 72. 90. John Kearsley, Sen. Died Jan. 11, 1772, cet. 88. 91. Samuel Purviance, Jr. Died Elected May 18, 1768. 92. Rev. Robert Harding'. Died Sept. i, 1772, set. 71. 93. Thomas Potts, Philadelphia Co. Died March 22, 1785. 94. Alexander Wilcocks, Esq. Died July 22, 1801, set. 59. 95. Thomas Bradford. Died May 7, 1838, set. 93. 96. James Biddle, Esq., Presiding Judge C. P. Died June 14, 1797, set. 69. 97. Hon. William Smith, Esq., N. Y. Died Nov. 22, 1769, set. 93. 98. William Livingston, Esq., N. Y. Died July 25, 1790, set. 67. 99. John Morin Scott, Esq., N. Y. Died Sept. 14, 1784. 100. Richard Stockton, Esq., N. J. Died Feb. 28, 1781, set. 50. loi. William Peartree Smith, Esq., N. J. Died Nov. 20, 1801, set. 78. 102. Hon. Samuel Smith, Esq., Burlington, N. J. Died 1776. 103. Joseph Reed, Esq. Died March 5, 1785, aet. 44. 104. Richard Hockley, Esq. Died 105. Rev. James Davidson, Prof. Lang. C. Phil. Died June 28, 1809, set. tj. Elected August 16, 1768. 106. William Rumsey, Esq., Maryland. Died 1831 ? 107. Henry Holiday, Esq., Maryland. Died 108. Rsv. John Davis, Piiiladelphia Co. Died Dec. 13, 1772, set. 36. 109. Dr. James Anderson, Maryland. Died Dec. 8, 1820, set. 69. no. Dr. Ed. Holyoke, Massachusetts Bay. Died March 21, 1829, set. loi. 111. Dr. Sandiford, Barbadoes. Died Elected October 18, 1768. 112. Dr. John A. DeNormandie, Bristol, Pennsylvania. Died 1803. 113. Joseph Kirkbride, Esq., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Died 114. Dr. Peter Bargius, Prof. Nat. Hist., Stockholm. Died 115. Rev. Ch. Magnus Wrang'el, Sweden. Died 12 ii6. Christian Magee, LL.D., Heidelberg. Died 117. Monsieur BuSfon, Paris. Died April 16, 1788, ast. 8r. 118. Rev. Ferdinand Farmer, Philadelphia. Died Aug. 17, 1786, ret. 66. Elected December 20, 1768. 119. Gen. Gage, Commander-in-Chief of H. M. F. in N. A. Died April, 1787. 120. Sir William Johnson, Bart. Died July 11, 1774, set. 60. 121. William Log-an, Jr., Bristol, Pennsylvania. Died 1776. 122. Gilbert Hicks, Esq., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. -Died in exile after 1776. ? 123. Matthias Aspden. Died Aug., 1824. 124. Dr. Samuel DuflBeld. Died Nov. 27, 1814, tet. 82. 125. Rev. Chauncey Whittlesey, New Haven. Died 1787. 126. Rev. Nathaniel Hooker, Hartford. Died 1770. 127. Rev. Samuel West, Dartmouth. Died April 10, 1808, aet. 69. 128. Col. Francis Lig'htfoot Lee, Virginia. Died 1797, aet. 63. III. Members belonging exclusively to the American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knoivledge. Elected September 22, 1758. 129. Charles Thomson. Died Aug.. 16, 1824, ast. 95. Existing Members. 130. Isaac Paschall. Died 1775, aet. 47. 131. Edmund Physick, Esq. Died 1804. 132. Joshua Howell, Esq. Died 133. William Hopkins. Died Time of Election unknown. 134. Moses Bartram. Died 1810 (1811 ?), aet. 78 (79 ?). 135. Jos. Paschall. Died 1795, set 55 ?. 136. Owen Biddle. Died March 10, 1799, cet. 61. 137. Paul Fooks, Prof. French and Spanish, College Penn. Died 1781. 138. Hon. John Vining-, Esq., Dover on the Delaware. Died Nov. 13, 1770, set. 46. 139. Dr. Ch. Ridgley, Dover on the Delaware. Died Aug. 25, 1785, it. 48. Elected February 9, 1759. 140. Isaac Bartram. Died 141. James Pearson. Died Aug. 20. 1813, ast. 78. Elected March 7, 1760. 142. Samuel Powel. Died Sept. 29, 1793. Elected September 19, :766. 143. William Bettle. Died 144. Samuel Eldridge. Died 145. Benjamin Davis. Died 146. Nicholas Wain. Died Sept. 29, 1813, ast. 72. 128 Elected October 3, 1766. 147. Clemsnt Biddle, Philadelphia. Died x\ug. 11, 1814, set. 74. Elected December 5, 1766. 148. John Morgan, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic in the Coll. Penn. Died Oct. 15, 1789, cet. 53. Elected March 27, 1767. 149. William Henry, Lancaster Co., Pa. Died Dec. 15, 1786, set. 58. 150. William Johnson, Charleston, S. C. Died 151. Charles Mason, Surveyor, London. Died Feb., 1787. 152. Dr. Sam. Bard, Prof. Prac. Phys., K. C. N. Y. Died May 24, 1821, aet. 80. Elected January 19, 1768. 153. David Evans. Resigned April 6, 1770. 154. Tliomas MifBin. Died Jan. 21, 1800, ast. 56. Elected February 12, 1768. 155. George Roberts. Died Sept. 17, 1801, ast. 64. 156' John Morris, Jr., Esq., Attorney-General. Died March 9, 1785. Elected February'!!^, 1768. 157. William Bartram, son of John Bartram. Died July 22, 1823, ast. 84. 158. Dr. John Chapman, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Died Jan. 27, 1780. Elected February 26, 1768. . 159. Isaac Jamineau, Esq., British Consul at Naples. Died 160. Rev. Jonathan Odell, Burlington, N. J. Died 1818. 161. Richard Wells, Burlington, N. J. Died 162. Dr. Hug-h Mercer, Virginia. Died Jan. 3, 1777, aet. 56. 163. Benjamin Rush, Philadelphia. Died April 19, 1813, set. 67. 164. Samuel Eliot, Boston. Died 1820, set. 81. Elected March 4, 1768. 165. James Alexander. Died Elected April i, 1768. 166. Samuel Robinson. Died 167. Steplien Hopkins, Esq., Gov. Rhode Island. Died July 13, 1785, ast. 77. 168. Joseph Harrison, Boston. Died 169. Peter Harrison, Rhode Island. Died 170. Dr. Charles Bensell, Germantown. Died 171. Pierre Eugene du Simitiere, Geneva. Died Philadelphia, 1788. 172. Hon. Andrew Oliver, Lieut. Gov. Massachusetts Bay. Died March 3, 1774, ret. 67. 173. Hon. Jonathan Belcher, Esq., Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. Died March, 1776, ast. 65. 174. Jeremiah Dixon, Surveyor, London. Died 1777. 129 Elected April 8, 1768. 175. Abe James. Died Oct., 1790, cet. 64. 176. Michael Hilleg-as. Died 1804. 177- Georg-e Morg-an. Died March 10, 1810, tet. 69. 178. Thomas Fisher. Died 179- Lewife Nicola, Northampton, Pennsylvania. Died Aug. 9 1807 set 90 180. William Whits. Died ( Bishop of Penna.) July 17, 1836, ajt. 88 ' 181. Peter Miller, Ephrata, Pennsylvania. Died 182. Humphrey Marshall, West Bradford, Chester Co., Pennsylvania Died Nov. 5, 1801, net. 79. 183. Benjamin Jacobs, Chester Co., Pennsvlvania. Died 184. James Webb, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania. Died 185. Chr. Fred. Post, of the Mosquito Shore. Died May i, 1785, ret. 75. 186. John Okely, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Died Elected April \i^ 1768. 187. Sir George Saville, Bart., York, Eng. Died Jan. 9, 1784, ret. 58. 188. Professor Famitz, Naples. Died 189. Thomas Warner, Solicitor-General of Antigua. Died 190. Sir Alex. Dick, M.D., Bart., Edinburgh. Died 191. John Martin Butt, M.D., Kingston, Jam. Died 192. Sidney Georgre, Esq., Maryland. Died 193. Rev. Samuel Stillman, Boston. Died March 13, 1807. eet. 70. 194. Samuel Warner, Councillor of Antigua. Died 195. Paul Bedford, Esq., Barbadoes. Died 196. John Francis Oberlin, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Died 197- Lionel Chalmers, M.D., Charleston, S. C. Died 1777, cet. 62. Elected April -zi, 1768. 198. Ralph Izard, Esq.. Charleston, S. C. Died May 30, 1804, ret 62 199. Rev. Eliot, Boston. Died Sept. 13, 1778, ret. 59. 200. David Jameson, M.D., Yorktown, Pennsylvania. Died Elected April 29, 1768. 201. Stephen Paschall. Died 1802, ret. 88. 202. John Gill, M.D., Kinsale, Ireland. Died Elected May 18, 1768. Rev. Bacon, of Maryland. Elected June 3, 1768. 203. Dr. John Paschall, Derby, Pennsylvania. Died 1779, ^t- 73- Elected Jinte 10, 1768. 204. Benjamin West, London. Died March 10, 1820, ret. 82. 205. Samuel Miles, Philadelphia. Died Dec. 29, 1805, ret. 66. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. Q. PRINTED FEB. 17, 1890. 130 Elected July i, 1768. 206. Dr. John Tweedy, Newport, R. I. Died 207. Rowland Evans, Philadelphia Co., Penna. Died Aug. 18, 1789, cet. 72. 208. "William Poole, Wilmington, Newcastle Co. Died Elected September 23, 1768. 209. Joseph Bring-hurst. Died Elected October 14, 1768. 210. Dr. John Kersley, Jr. Died 1777. 211. Dr. Gerardus Clarkson. Died Oct., 1790, set. 53 (Sept. 19, oet. 51 ?). 212. Dr. James A. Bayard. Died June 8, 1770. 213. Dr. Robert Harris. Died 214. Dr. Peter Sonmans. Died March 15, 1776, ast. 67. 215. Dr. George Glentworth. Died. 216. Dr. Jonathan Potts. Died Oct., 1781. 217. James Span, M.D., Prof. Mat. Med. Univer., Dublin. Died 218. James Dick, M.D., Charleston, S. C. Died 219. Richard Thick, M.D., F.R.S., London. Died 220. "Williams Smitaert, Boston. Died 221. John Arbo, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Died Dec. 11, 1772, ast. 60. 222. "William Scull, Reading, Pennsylvania. Died 223. Joseph Hutchins, Barbadoes. Died April 29, 1833, ast. 86. 224. John Himili, Charleston, S. C. Died 225. John Deas, Charleston, S. C. Died Elected October 2.^, 1768. 226. Thomas Foxcroft. Died June 18, 1769, set. 72. Elected October 28, 1768. 227. John Benezet. Died 1780. Elected November 4, 1768. 228. Dr. Isaac Smith, Trenton. Died Aug. 28, 1817, aet. 68. 229. John Walker, "Virginia. Died. Elected November 11, 1768. 230. Lambert Cadwalader, Trenton. Died Sept. 13, 1823, ret. 80. Elected November iZ, jj6Z. 231. John Cadwalader. Died Feb. 10, 1786, set. 45. 232. John Murg-atroyd. Died June 24, 1782, aet. 233. James "Wilson, Esq., Reading, Penna. Died Aug. 28, 1798, ast 55. 234. "William Hewson, Anatomist, London. Died May i, 1774, set. 35. 235. Edward Biddle, Esq., Attorney-at-Law, in Reading. Died Sept. 5, 1779, set. 30. 131 Elected November 2^, 1768. 236. Jacob Duche. Died 1798, set* 61. 237. Edward Pening-fcon. Died Sept. 30, 1796, ret. 70. 238. Capt. Valentine Gardiner, of Lord Howe's Regulars. Died 239. Dr. Mim, Yorktown. Died Elected Dccernber 2, 1768. 240. Henry Drinker. Died Aug. 14, 1809. 241. Matthew Clarkson. Died Oct. 5, 1800, ret. 67. 242. Capt. Joseph Stiles. Died 243. Thomas Livezey, Esq., Philadelphia Co. Died Sept. 9, 1790, ret. 74. 244. Samuel "Wharton. Died March, 1800, ret. 68. Elected December 20, -L-jb^. 245. Benjamin "Wynkoop. Died Sept. 2, 1803, ret. 69. 246. John Drinker. Died July, 1800, ret. 247. Thomas Gilpin. Died March 3, 1778, ret. 248. Thomas Clifford. Died 249. Levi HoUing-sworth. Died March, 1824, ret. 85. 250. James Worral. Died 251. Isaac Wharton. Died ^L1rch 31, 1808, ret. 63. Members elected since the itJiion. Elected April 2.1^ 1769. 252. Rev. John Witherspoon, President of the College of New Jersey. Died Nov. 15, 1794, ret. 72. 253- Rev. Myles Cooper, Pres. of King's College, New York. Died May 178^ ret. 50. !'/:>< 254. Col. Landon Carter, Virginia. Died May i, 1785, ret. 50. 255. Dr. Otto, Bethlehem. Died April 29, 1793. 256. Daniel Clark. Died 257. Dr. John Lorimer, West Florida. Died 258. Dr. Brooke, Maryland. Died 259. Dr. Ebenezer Prime, New York. Died 260. Dr. John Jones, New York. Died June, 23, 1791, ret. 63. 261. Samuel Bowen, South Carolina. Died 262. Samuel Shoemaker, Esq., Philadelphia. Died Oct. 10, 1800, ret. 79. Elected between April '^i, 1769, and Jan. 18, 1771. 263. Sir Charles a Linne, M.D., K. P. S., etc.. Upsal. : Died Jan. 10, 1778, ret. 71. Elected January 19, 1770. 264. Dr. John Fotherg-ill, London. Died 1780, ret. 69. 265. Lord Stirling- (William Alexander), New Jersey. Died Jan. 15, 1783, ret. 57. 132 266. Dr. John David Hahn, Prof. Chem. Uni. Utrecht. Died 1784, ;et. 55. 267. Ed-ward Nairne, London. Died 268. James Ferg-uson, London. Died 1776, ret. 66. 269. John Morell, Georgia. Died 270. Mr. Georg-e Guald, Surveyor of West Florida. Died 271. Joel Bailey, Cliester Co., Pennsylvania. Died 1797. 272. Joseph EUicotfc, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. Died Oct. 15, 1780. 273. Joseph Gilpin, Cecil Co., Maryland. Died March 30, 1790. Elected January 18, 1771. 274. Dr. Morton, Jamaica. Died 275. Dr. James Lloyd, Boston. Died March, 1810, set. 82. 276. Richard Thomas, Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Died Jan. 19, 1832, cet. 87. 277. Henry Hill. Died 1793. 278. William Parr, Esq. Died 279. Samuel Rhoads, Jr. Died 280. Dr. Thomas Preston. Died 281. Henry Bembridg-e. Died about 1820. 282. John Baynton, Esq. Died March 17, 1788, cet. 32. 283. Dr. Samuel Preston Moore. Died 284. Joseph Otoleng'e, Esq., Georgia. Died 285. Nevil Maskelyne, Ast. Roy. Greenwich. Died Feb. 9, 1830, ret. 79. 286. Samuel Filsted, Jamaica. Died 287. Dr. Archibald Gloucester, Antigua. Died 288. Frederick Marshall, North Carolina. Died 1802. Elected April I"] , 1772. 289. Lieut. Stephen Adye, of the Royal Artillery. Died 290. Jesse Lukens, Philadelphia. Died 291. Daniel Coxe, Trenton. Died 1827 or 1828. 292. Mr. Lane, London. Died 293. Lieut. Thomas Hutchins, 60th Regiment. Died April 28, 1789. 294. Peter DoUand, London. Died July 2, 1820, ret. 90. 295. Arch. McClean, York Co. Died 296. Gerard Bancker, New York. Died 1798, nst. 58. 297. Capt. John Montresor, New York. Died 298. Col. Henry Laurens, South Carolina. Died Dec. 8, 1792, a;t. 69. 299. Rev. Samuel Williams, Mass. Bay. Died January, 1817. ret. ']■},. 300. Dr. George Milleg-an, South Carolina. Died Elected January 15, 1773. 301. Timothy Baron de Kling'stedt, St. Petersburg. Died 302. M. Le Roy, Vice-Direc. Acad. S. Paris. Died Aug. 25, 1785, ret. 68. 303. Hon. Andrew Oliver, Boston. Died Dec, 1799, ^t- ^8. 304. Dr. Torbern Berg-mann, Pr. Math. Stockholm. Died July 8, 1784, ret. 49. 305. Alexander Small, London. Died 306. Dr. James Tilton, Dover, Delaware. Died May 14, 1822, ret. •]■]. I 133 307. Dr. Nicholas Way, Wilmington, Delaware. Died •308. Rev. William Ludlam, Leicester. Died 309. Rev. Thomas Coombe, Philadelphia. Died Aug. 15, 1822, cet. 75. Elected January 21, 1774. 310. Right Hon. Earl of Stanhope. Died Dec. 14, 1816, a;t. 63 311. Rig-ht Hon. Lord Mahon. Died 312. Dr. Andrew Duncan, Edinburgh. Died 313. Samuel Moore, Esq., London. Died 314. Georg-e Gauld, Esq., Pensacola. Died 315. Bernard Romans, Esq., Pensacola. Died 1784, jet. 64. 316. Hon. Bryan Edwards, Esq. Died 1806, eet. 63. 317. Hon. John Ellis, Esq., Jamaica. Died 1776, eet. 65. 318. Dr. William Wrig-ht, Jamaica. Died Sept.', 1819, ret. 84. 319. Dr. Walter Jones, Virginia. Died 320. Dr. James McClurg-, Virginia. Died [uly, 1823, ret. 77. 321. Dr. Jonathan Elmer, New Jersey. Died 1817, ret. 72. " 322. Dr. William Bryant, New Jersey. Died about 1783 (?). 323. John Jones, Esq., Maryland. Died 324. Dr. John Perkins, Boston. Died 325. Sharp Delany, Philadelphia. Died May, 1799, ret. 326. James Bringhurst, Philadelphia. Died'1794 (1799 ?). 327. Benjamin Morg-an, Philadelphia. Died 328. Dr. Thomas Parke, Philadelphia. Resigned. Elected January 28, 1775. 329. Dr. Adams, Barbadoes. Died 330. Marquis of Condorcet, Paris. Died March 28 1794 ret 331. M. Daubenton, Jr., K. King's Cab., Paris. Died Dec. 31 1799 ret 8. 332. M. J. Barbeu Dubourg-, Paris. Died Dec, 1779. 333. M. Le Roux, Paris. Died Feb. 9; 1795, ret. 71. 334- M. Macquer, Paris. Died 1770 (?), ret. 52. 335- Abbe Reynall, Paris. Died March 6, 1796, ret. 83. 336. M. Lavoisier, Paris. Died May 8, 1794, ret. 51. 337. Abbe Rozier, Paris. Died Sept. 29, 1793, ret. 59. 338. Capt. Holland, London. Died 339- Rev. Thomas Gibbons, London. Died 1785, ret. 65. 340. Fortunatus de Warris, Esq., ALD. Died 341. Dr. Benjamin Mosely, Jamaica. Died June 15, 1819, ret. 80. Elected April \b, 1779. 342. Hon. M. Conrad A. Gerard, Min. Plen. from France. Died 1790. 343. Dr. James Hutchinson. Died 1793, ^«t- 41. 344. Rev. Georg-e Duffield. Died Feb. 2, 1790, ret. 58. Elected bctiveen April 16, 1779, and January 19, 1781 ? 345- His Ex. Thomas Jefferson, Min. Plen. Died July 4, 1826 ret 83 346. Rev. J. C. Kunze, New York. Died July 24, 1807, ret. 78. ' 347. Chev. de la Luzerne, Paris. Died Sep. 14, 1791, xt. 348.^M. Barbe de Marbois, Int. of St. Domingo. Died Jan. 14, 1837, vet. 91. 349. Timothy Matlack. Died April 15, 1829, pet. 99. 350. Rev. James Madison, President of the College of William and Mary, Virginia. Died March 6, 1812, agt. 62. 351. Charles Pettit. Died Sept. 6, 1806, cet. 69. 352. M. Sue, Professor Royal of Anatomy, etc., at Paris. Died 353. John Ternaut. Died Jan., 1834. 354. His Ex. General Washing-ton. Died Dec. 14, 1799, ast. 68. 355. Gen. Anthony Wayne, U. S. A. Died Dec, 1796, eet. 51. Elected January 19, 1781. 356. Marquis de la Fayette, Maj. Gen. U. S. A. Died May 20, 1834, nst. 76. 357. Ebenezer Hazard, Esq., Post M. Gen. Died June 13, 1817, ast. 73. 358. Hon. Thomas Bee, Esq., South Carolina. Died 359. Dr. Hugh Shiell, Philadelphia. Died 360. Isaac Gray, Philadelphia. Died 361. Chev. de Chastellux, Field Marshal of France. Died 1788, nst 82. 362. Jared Ingersoll, Esq. Died Oct. 31, 1822, aet. 71. Elected Janua>-y 18, 1783. 363. Samuel Huntingdon, Esq., Connecticut. Died Jan. 5, 1796, ret. 63. 364. John Beale Bordley, Esq., Maryland. Died Jan. 26, 1804, ast. 76. 365. Abbe Fontana. Died March 9, 1805, ret. 76. 366. Chev. D'Armours, Baltimore, Cons, of France for the S. Dept. Died 367. Dr. Coste. Died 368. Robert Patterson, Prof Math. Univ. Pa. Died July 22, 1824, set. 81. 369. Rev. Robert Davidson, Prof. Hist. Univ. Pa. Died Dec. 13, 1813. Elected January 16, 1784. 370. Count de Campomanes, Fiscal of the Council of Castile. Died 371. Rev. Samuel Magaw. Died Dec. i, 1812, aet. 77. 372. Samuel Vaughan, Esq. Died Dec. 4, 1802, a;t. 83. 373. John Vaug-han. Died Dec. 30, 1841, set. 86. 374. Rev. Jeremy Belknap, New Hampshire. Died June 20, 1798, ret. 54. 375. Maj. Ferd. J. S. de Brahm. Died 376. Arch. Gamble, Prof Eng. Orat., University of Pennsylvania. Died 1784. 377. Rev. J. H. C. Helmuth, Prof Ger. Un. Pa. Died Feb. 5, 1825, set. 79. 378. James Six, Canterbury. Died 379. Marquis d'Aug-eville, Paris. Died 380. Count de Vergennes. Died Feb. 13, 1787, ast. 70. 381. John Dunlap. Died Nov. 27, 1812, ast. 66. 382. Peter J. Van Berckel, Min. Plen. from the Netherlands. Died 383. George Fox. Died 384. Dr. John Foulke. Died 385. Dr. Barnabas Binney. Died July, 1787, ret. 36. 386. Rev. Robert Blackwell. Died Feb. 12, 1831, ret. 82. 135 jS;. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant, Esq., Newark, N. J. Died Oct. 26, 1793, ;vt. 47. ^88. George Gray. Died Gen. Washington in a letter to President Joseph Reed under date of February 15, 1780, acknowledges the receipt of notice of his election to membership in the Society. (Sparks, vol. vi. page 466.) 402. Joseph Mandrillon, Merchant, Amsterdam. Died Jan. 7, 1799, xt. 403. Br. Gen. Tliad. Kosciozko. Died Oct. 16, 1817, xt. 65. 404. "William Herschel, F. R. S., Bath. Died Aug. 23, 1822, a^t. 83. 405. Dr. James McHenry, Baltimore, Md. Died May 8, 1816, xt. 63. 406. James Madison, Virginia. Died June 28, 1836, xt. 85. 407. Rev. Henry E. Mahlenburg, Lancaster. Died June 24, 1817, xt. 61. 408. Chr. Fred. Michaelis, M.D., Gottenberg. Died 409. William Parker, London. Died 410. Hon. Mann Pag-e, Fredericksburg, Va. Died 411. Thomas Paine, Auth. of Common Sense. Died June 8, 1809, set. 72. 412. Dr. Robert Perceval, Prof. Chem. Tnnity College, Dublin. Died 413. Rev. Richard Price, F. R. S., London. Died March 19, 1791,36!. 68. 414. Rev. Joseph Priestley, F. R. S., Birmingham. Died Feb. 6, 1804, xt. 71. 415. Rev. Samuel Stanhope Smith, V. P. Coll., Princeton. Died Aug. 21, 1819, ait. 69. 416. Jean Baptiste Sue, Jr., Professor of Anatomy, Paris. Died 417. Col. George Wall, Jr., Sup. E.x. Council of Pennsylvania. Died 418. Benjamin Workman, Teacher of Math. Univ. Penna. Died Elected July 21, 1786. 419. Hon. Robert Morris. Died ;May 8, 1806, xt. 72. 420. Jonathan Hoge, Mem. Sup. £.■<. Council, Pennsylvania. Died 421. George Clymer. Died Jan. 23, 1813, aet. 73. 422. William Temple Franklin, Esq. Died May 25, 1823, xt. 63. 423. Samuel Vaughan, Jr., Jamaica. Died 424. Rev. John Andrews. Died March 30, 1813, cet. 67. 425. Charles W. Peale. Died 1827, xt. 86. 426. Robert Edge Pine. Died Nov. 19, 1788. 427. Dr. Benjamin Duffield. Died Dec. 13, 1799, xt. 46. 428. Dr. John Morris. Died Sept. 8, 1793, set. 34. 136 429- William Rawle. Died April 12, 1836, set. 76. 430. Duke de Rochefoucauld, of the Acad. Sciences, Paris. Died 431. Marquis de Condorcet, Sec. of the Acad. Sciences, Paris. Died 432. M. Le Roy, Member of the Academy of Sciences, Paris. Died 433. Abbe Soulavie. Died March, 1813, set. 62. 434. Dr. Jean Ingenhousz, Vienna. Died Sept. 7, 1799, ast. 69. 435. M. Gastellier, M.D., Montargis. Died 436. M. Grivel. Died Oct. 17, 1810, set. 75. 437. M. Charley Lecturer in Experimental Phil, and early aeronaut, Philadel- phia. Died 438. M. Cabanis, M.D. Died 1807, set. 51. 439. M. Le Veillard. Died 440. M. Thibert Garbier, M.D. Died 441. M. Feutry, Meclianician. Died 442. Lorenz Crell, M.D., Helmsted in Brunswick. Died 443. Count de Castilione, Milan and Philadelphia. Died 444. Dr. Noel, Paris. Died 445. Chev. de Grancbain, Paris. Died 446. Richard Kir'wan, London. Died June 22, 1812. 447. John Whitehurst, London. Died 1788, set. 73. 448. Benjamin Vaug-han, London. Died Dec. 8, 1835, xt. 85. 449. Dr. James Beattie, Pr. Mor. Ph. U., Aberdeen. Died Aug., 1803, set. 68. 450. Dr. Thomas Percival, Manchester. Died Aug. 30, 1804, ast. 64. 451. Dr. Thomas Henry, Manchester. Died June 18, 1816, set. 82. 452. Rev. Charles H. "Wharton, Newcastle. Died July, 1833. • Elected Janua)y 19, 1787. 453. William Bingham, Philadelphia. Died Feb. 7, 1804, ost. 52. 454. Benjamin Chew, Jr., Philadelphia. Died April 30, 1844, tet. 86. 455. Francis Johnston, Philadelphia, Rec. Gen. Land Off. Died Feb. 22, 1815 set. 66. 456. Joseph James, Philadelphia. Died 457. Robert Millig'an, Philadelphia. Died Nov. 25, 1806. 458. William Barton, Philadelphia. Died 459. Dr. Thomas Ruston, Philadelphia. Died 1804. 460. Major Isaac Craig', Pittsburgh. Died 461. Simeon De Witt, New York. Died Dec. 3, 1834, Kt. 78. 462. His Ex. James Bowdoin, Gov. Mass. Died Nov. 6, 1790, aet. 63. 463. Le'wis W. Otto, French Charge d'Affaires. Died Nov. 9, 1817, set. 63. 464. Hon. John Jay, Sec. For. Affairs, N. Y. Died May 17, 1829, set. 83. 465. M. Cadet de Vaux, Paris. Died 466. M. Cadet, Paris. Died 467. Hon. John LoMrell, Judge of .\pp., Boston. Died May 6, 1802, a;t. 58. 468. Sir Ed-ward Ne"wenham, Baronet, Ireland. Died 469. His Grace the Duke of Richmond. Died March. 5, 1785, set. 55. 470. Dr. John Coakley Letsom, London. Died March i, 1815, set. 72. 471. Robert Barclay, London. Died 472. Dr. William Thornton, London. Died 473. Dr. George Spence, Jamaica. Died I 137 Elected July 20, 1787. 474. Sir Jos. Banks, Pies. R. Soc, London. Died June 19, 1820, tct. 77. 475. John Hunter, Surgeon, London. Died Oct. 16, 1793, oet. 64. 476. Georg-e Vaux, Surgeon, London. Died May 23, 1820, uigi, Pancoast, Jos. 1331 1085 411 553 1409 1733 1281 Pancoast, William H. 1984 Pardee, Ario, I593 Parieu. Esquiron de, 1673 Park, Roswell, 1 152 Parke, Thomas, 328 Parker, William, 409 Parkes, Samuel, 871 Parr, William, 278 Parrish, Dilwyn, 1987 Parrish, Joseph, 784 Parvin, Theophilus, 2036 Paschall, Isaac, 130 Paschall, John, 203 Paschall, Joseph, 135 Paschall, "Stephen, 201 Pasteur, Louis, 2056 Patterson, Carlile P. 1910 Patterson, C. Stuart, 2035 Patterson, Robert, 368 Patterson, Robert, 1283 Patterson, Robert M. 738 Patterson, Thos. L. 1320 Patterson, Wm. 501 Patterson, Wm. 636 Paulding, James K. iioi PaykuU, Gustavus, 655 Peace, Prince of, 690 Peacock, George, 1171 Peale, Charles W. 425 Peale, Franklin, 1035 Peale, Titian R. 1034 Pearse, John B. 1772 Pearson, Alexander, 903 Pearson, James, 141 Pease, Calvin, 1508 Peck, Wm. D. 606 Pedersen, P. 870 Peirce, Benjamin, 1173 Pemberton, Henry, 1722 Pemberton, Israel, 42 • Pemberton, James, 49 Penafiel, Antonio, 2104 Penington, Edward, 237 Penington, Edward, 729 Penington, Edward, 1777 Penington, John, 549 Penington, John, 1109 Penn, Granville, 1060 Penn, John, 52 Penn, Richard, 59 Pennant, Thomas, 543 Pennypacker, Samuel W. 2073 Penrose, R. A. F. 1518 Pepper, Edward, 2059 Pepper, William, 1277 Pepper, William, 1666 Perceval, Robert, 412 Percival, Thomas, 450 Perkins, Jacob, 836 Perkins, John, 324 Peter, Robert, 1705 Peter, William, 1155 Peters, C. H. F. 1855 Peters, Richard, 89 Pettit, Charles, 35i Peyrolan, Francisco, 662 Phillips, Henry, Jr. 1824 Phillips, Henry M. 1676 Phillips, John, 1625 Physic, Edmund, 131 Physic, Philip S. 673 Pickering, Charles, 949 Pickering, John, 856 Pickering, Timothy, 589 Picot, Charles, 1251 Pictet, F. T. 1526 Pierce, C. Newlin, 1859 Pinckney, C. C. 503 Pinckney, Thomas, 629 Pine, Robert Edge, 426 Plante. Gaston, 1967 Piatt, Franklin, 1760 Platzmann, Julius, 2127 Plitt, John, 881 Poinsett, Joel R. 932 Pole, Thomas, 509 Poletica, Peter, 869 Pollok, George, 760 Pomialowsky, John, 2053 Pool, William, 208 Porter, T. C. I539 Post, Frederick, 185 Postgate, J. P. 2097 Potter, Alonzo, 1200 Potts, Jonathan, 216 Potts, Thomas, 93 Potts, William John, 2044 Pouchet, F. A. 1254 Pougens, Charles, 972 Poussin, Wm. Tell, 1216 Powel, Samuel, 142 Powel, Samuel, 1362 Powell, J. W. 2161 Prescott", William H. 1092 Preston, Thomas, 280 Prestwich, Joseph, 1619 Price, Eli K. 1352 Price, J. Sergeant, 1592 Price, Richard, 413 Prichard, James C. 1069 Priestly, Joseph, 414 Prime, Ebenezer, 259 Prime, Frederick, 1780 Prince, John, 700 Prinsep, James, 1093 Proctor, Richard A. 1757 Proctor, Wm., Jr. 1234 Prosperin, Eric, 682 Proud, Robert, 80 Pryor, Thomas, 50 Pugh, Evan, 1472 Pulzsky, Francis, 2088 Pumpelly, Raphael, 1758 Purviance, Sam., Jr. 91 Quadrada, F. de P. 973 Quaranta, Bern. 1143 Quetelet, A. 1099 Quincy, Edmund, 1614 Quincy, Josiah, 966 Rafn, Carls Chris. 961 Raguet, Condy, 878 Ramirez, Ale.vander, 650 Ramsay, A. C. 1448 Ramsay, David, 684 Rand, B. Howard, 1392 Rand, Theodore D. 1736 Randall, F. A. 1849 Randolph, Edmund, 527 Randolph, Jacob, 1028 Randolph, Nathaniel A. 2022 Randolph, Thos. M. 580 Ranke, Leopold von, 2058 Rask, R. K. 969 Rath, Gerhard vom, 2026 Rau, Charles, 1969 Rawle, William, 429 Rawle, William, 1146 Rawle, William H. 2139 Rawlins, Charles E. 1961 Rawlinson, George, 1644 Rawson, Rawson W. 1765 Rayleigh, Lord, 2099 Raymond, R. W. 1784 Raynall, 335 Raynolds, Wm. F. 1585 Read. John M. 1495 Read, J. Meredith, 1591 Reade, Charles, 21 Reade, Joseph, 103 Real, Count, 912 Redfield, W. C. 1197 Redick, David, 486 Redman, John, 7 Reed, Henry, 1081 Reed, Henry, 2077. Reed, John, 1246 Reed, "Joseph, 791 Reed, T. B. 1842 Reed, William B. 1374 Reese, John J. 1301 Reeves^ Samuel J. 1631 Regnault, Victor, 1361 Reid, Lt. Col. Wm. 1177 Reinwardt, C. G. C. 1052 Remsen, Ira, 1889 Remusat, J. P. Abel, 979 Renan, Ernest, 1485 198 Renard, A. 1948 Rozier, 337 Renard, Charles, 1343 Rudder, William, 1871 Reneviers, E. 1890 Rumford, Count, 678 Renwick, James, 956 Rumker, Charles, mi Reuleaux, F. 1816 Rumsey, James, 513 Reville, Albert, 2122 Rumsey, William, 106 Reynell, John, 56 Ruschenberger, W. S. Reynolds, Joel B. 1268 W. 1264 Rezius, John And. 758 Rush, Benjamin, 163 Rhea, John, 83 Rush; James, 941 Rhoads, Edward, 1600 Rush, "Richard, 801 Rhoads, Samuel, 30 Ruston, Thomas, 459 Rhoads, Samuel, Jr. 279 Riitimeyer, Carl L. 1620 Richards, Benj. W. 1 103 Ryder, John A. 2109 Richardson, B. W. 1500 Richardson, Joseph, 58 Riche, George I. 2037 Sabine, Edward, 1150 Richmond, Duke of, 469 Sadtler, Samuel P. 1766 Ridgley, Charles, 139 Sajous, Charles E. 2148 Riley, Charles V. 1808 Sakharoff, Bazile, 1325 Ritlenhouse, Benj. 508 Salazar, Jose Maria, 946 Rittenhouse, David, 40 Sanchez, Jesus, 2103 Rives, William C. lOOI Sandberger, Fridolin 1563 Roberts, George, 155 Sanderson, John, "37 Roberts, George B. 2038 Sandiford, III Roberts, Hugh, 41 Sansom, Joseph, 714 Roberts, Joseph, 968 Santarem, Viscount, 1033 Roberts, Sol. W. 1180 Sargent, Charles S. 1958 Roberts, W. Milnor, 1814 Sargent, Winthrop, 515 Robins, James W. 1957 Saussure, Henri de. 1730 Robinson, Moncure, 1025 Saville, George, 187 Robinson, Samuel, 166 Saxe Weimar, Duke of, 984 Rochefoucauld, de, 430 Saxton, Joseph, 1074 Roebuck, Jarvis, 664 Say, Jean Baptiste Roenne, Baron de, "59 Leon, 1699 Roepper, W. T. 1674 Say, Thomas, 810 Rohrig, F. L. O. 1462 Scandella, J. B. 637 Rogers, E. P. 1364 Schaeffer, Fred. C. 841 Rogers, Fairman, 1390 Schaffer, George C. 1552 Rogers, Henry D. 1038 Scheie de Vere, M. 2045 Rogers, Tames B. 1227 Schimper, Wm. P. 1564 Rogers, John R. B. 478 Schinz, C. 1532 Rogers, R. E. 1365 Schoolcraft, H. R. 1032 Rogers, William B. 1048 Schorlemmer, C. 1877 Rogers, William B.,Jr .1906 Schott, C. A. 1498 Rokitansky. K. 1479 Schultze, Gottlob E. 877 Rolleston, George, 1622 Schumacher, H. C. 891 Rollett, Hermann, 2050 Schurz, Carl, 1864 Romans, Bernard, 31S Schwann, Theo. 1482 Romanzoff, Nich. de. 908 Schweinitz, Lewis, 813 Rood, Ogden N. 1907 Sclater. Philip L. 1725 Rose, H. 1428 Scott, John Morin, 99 Rosny, Leon de, 1964 Scott, John M. 782 Ross, Andrew, 547 Scott, "Lewis A. 1919 Ross, James, 529 Scott, William B. 2112 Ross, John, 60 Scudder, Samuel H. 1870 Rossi, Giovanni B. 1732 Scull, William, 222 Rothermel, Peter F. 1718 Secchi, P. Angelo, 1413 Rothrock, J. T. 1838 Sedgewick, A. 1419 Rouelle, John, 562 Seidensticker, O. 1656 Roume, Philip Rose, 671 Seller, Carl, 1883 Roux de Rochelle, 1062 Seller, Emma, 1660 Roxburgh, William, 666 Sellers, Coleman, 1704 Sellers, John, Sellers, "W. Selwyn, Alfred R. C. Sequard. E. Brown-, Sergeant, John, Sergeant, Jona D. Sergeant, Thomas, Sergi, Giuseppe, 17 1533 1770 1333 763 387 1014 2057 Seve de Bar, Edouard,i965 Sewell, Jonathan, 987 Seybert, Adam, 620 Seybert, Henry, 900 Shaler, William, 930 Sharp, Benjamin, 2076 Sharpies, Philip P. 1944 Sharpies, Stephen P. i960 Sharpless, Isaac, 2002 Sharswood, George, 1286 Sheafer, P. 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Virginia Historical Society, Richmond. WEST VIRGINIA. West Virginia University, Morgantown. WISCONSIN. Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison. AFRICA. South African Philosophical Society, Cape Town. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Museo Publico, Buenos Ayres. AUSTRALIA. Linnean Society of New South Wales, Sydney. New Zealand Public Library, Wellington, New Zealand. Royal Mint, Melbourne. Royal Society Hobartstown, Hobartstown. Royal Society of New South Wales, Sydney. Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne. AUSTRIA. Academic des Sciences, Cracow. Accademia degli Agiati, Rovereto. Anthropologische Gesellschaft, Vienna. K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna. K. K. Central-Anstalt fiir Meteorologie, Vienna. K. K. Geographische Gesellschaft, Vienna. 208 K. K. Geologische Reiclisanstalt, Vienna. K. K. Universitats Sternwarte, Prague. K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellscliaft, Vienna. Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia, Buda-Pesth. Naturforschender Verein, Briinn. Section fiir Naturkunde O. T. C, Vienna. BELGIUM. Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique, Bruxelles. Academie Royale, Liege. Bibliotheque Royale de Belgique, Bruxelles. Ministere de I'lnterieur, Bruxelles. Observatoire Royale, Bruxelles. Societe Entomologique de Belgique, Bruxelles. Sociele Liegeois de Litteralure Wallonne, Liege. Socieie 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. DENMARK. 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. Chemical Society of London, London. Editors of Nature, London. Geological Society of London, London. Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, Leeds. Linna^an Society, London. Literary and Philosophical Society, Liverpool. Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester. London Board of Trade, London. London Institution, London. 209 London Statistical Society, Loudon. INIeteorological Office, London. Meteorological Society, London. Natural History Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society, Plynioulh. Radcliife 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 Horti(tultural 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. Zoological Society, London. FINLAND. La Societe Litteraire Finnoise, Helsingfors. Societe Zoologique et Botanique de Finlande, Helsingfors. FRANCE. Academic des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Caen Academic des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres, Dijon. Academic des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts, Bordeaux. Bureau des Longitudes, Paris. Cosmos, Paris. Ecole Nationale des Mines, Paris. Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. L' Academic Franqaise, Paris. La Societe Polymathique de Morbihan, Vannes. Musee d'Historie Naturelle, Paris. Musee Guimet, Paris. Societe Academique, Troyes. Societe d' Agriculture. Historic Naturelle et Arts Utiles, Lyon. Societe d'Anthropologie, Paris. Societe de Borda, Dax. Societe d' Emulation, Abbeville. Society de Geographic, Paris. Societe d'Histoire de France, Paris. Societe des Antiquaires de la Morinie, Saint-Omer. Societe des Sciences de I'Agriculture et des Arts, Lille. PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXVII. 131. 2a. PRINTED MAY 31, 1890. 210 Societe des Sciences Naturelles et Archeologiques de la Creuse, Gueret. Societe des Sciences Pliysiques et Naturelles, Bordeaux. Societe Geologique de France, Paris. Societe Historique, Literaire, Artistique et Scientifique du Cher, Bourges. Societe Linneene de Bordeaux, Bordeaux. Societe Nationale des Antiquaires de France, Paris. Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles, Cherbourg. Societe Philologique, Paris. Societe Sericicole, Montpellier. Societe Zoologique de France, Paris. GERMANY. Astronomical Society, Heidelberg. Berliner Gesellschaft fiir Antliropologie, Ethnologie, etc., Berlin. Centralblatt fiir Physiologic, 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. S. K. Baierische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich. Konigliche Bibliothek, Berlin. Konigliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Gottingen. K. Geologische Landes-Anstalt und Bergakademie, Berlin. K. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. K. Preuss. Meteorologisches Institut, Berlin. K. Siichsisclier Alterthums-Verein, Dresden. K. Siichsische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Leipsic. Konigliche Sternwarte, Munich. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Strasbourg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Altenburg. Naturforscbende Gesellschaft, Bamberg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Emden. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Freiburg im Breisgau. Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Hannover. Naturhistorische Gesellschaft, Niirnberg. Naturhistorischer Verein, Wiesbaden. Nat. Hist. Verein der Preuss. Rheinlande und Westphalens, Bonn. Naturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, Chemnitz. 211 N"atur\vissenschaftlicl\e Gesellschaft'" Isis," Dresden. Naturwissenscliaftllcher Verein, Bremen. Xaturwissenschafteu-Vereiu, Frankfurt a. O. Oberhess. Gesellschaft ftir Natur- uud Heilkunde, Giesseii. Ober-Lausitzer Gesellschaft der Wisseaschaften, Gorlitz. Ost-Preussische Physik.-ffikonom. Gesellschaft, Konigsberg. Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin. Fhysikalisch-Medizinische Societiit, Erlangen. Physiologische Gesellschaft, Berlin. Senkenburg. Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfort a. M. Universilats-Bibliothek, Bonn. Verein ftir Erdkuude, Dresden. Verein ftir Erdkunde, Halle a. S. Verein fiir Erdkunde, Metz. Verein ftir Erdkunde, Stettin. Verein fiir Geographic 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 fiir Thiiringische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Jena. Verein fiir Vaterlandische Naturkunde, Stuttgart. Voigtliiudischer Alterthumsforschender Verein, Hohenleuben. Voigtlandischev Verein fiir Naturkunde, Reichenbach. Zoologischer Mineral- Verein, Regensburg. Zoologischer Anzeiger, Leipsic. Zoologische Gesellschaft, Frankfort a. M. HAYTI. Societe des Sciences et de Geographic, Port-au-Prince. HOLLAND. Fondation de P. Teyler Van der Hulst, Haarlem. Friesch Genootschap Oudheid-en-Taalkuude, Leeuvvarden. 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. Ministere de I'lnterieur, Haarlem. Nederlandsche Letterkunde Maatschappij, Leiden. ICELAND. Islenzka Fornleifarfjelag, Reykjavik. INDIA. Geological Survey of India, Calcutta. Royal Asiatic Society ot Bengal. 212 IRELAND. Dublin Geological Society, Dublin. Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. ITALY. Accademia Reale delle Scienze, Torino. Biblioteca Ceutrale Nazionale, Firenze. R. Accademia dei Lincei, Rome. R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettei'e ed Arti, Padova. R. Accademia di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Modena. R. Comitate Geologico d'ltalia, Firenze Reale Istituto Lombardo, MiJano. R. Istituto di Studi Superiori, Firenze. R. Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice. 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. Comit6 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. Ministere de la Marine Imperiale Administration Generale 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 IMoiizey. Moscow. Soci^te des Naturalistes, Kieft. Societe des Naturalistes de la Nouvelle Russia, Odessa. Soci^le Imperiale des Amis des Sciences Naturelles, d'Authropologie et d' Ethnographic, 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 Economica, Valencia. STTVEDEN. 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. Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva. Societe Helvetique, Zurich. Societe Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles, Lausanne. INDEX TO VOL. XXVII. PAGE Proceedings at the Hall 4 Address by the President 4 Proceedings at the Dinner 18 Remarks of Mr. Richard Vaux ... 31, 26, 33, 41, 46, 50 Address by Prof. John W. Mallett 21 Sir Daniel Wilson 27 Prof. Lyon G. Tyler 34 Rev. Charles W. Shields 41 Right Rev. John J. Keane 47 Remarks by Mr. Fraley 50 Laws and Regulations of the Society 53 Rules of Order 74 Charter 77 List of Officers and Councilors of the Society 83 Index to Same .' 103 List of Surviving Members, corrected to January 17, 1890 107 List of Members of the American Philosophical Society, 1743-1890 121 Alphabetical Index to Same 189 List of Exchanges and Presentations of American Philosophical Society 201 3 2044 093 310 613 a.:^- -#^i5..^ i^ , tr' r^ '-i(#'r>.