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Engineers' Club of Philadelphia. 



Address. 1122 Girard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



History. Organized Dec. 17, 1877; incorporated June 9, 1892. Main- 

 tains a reference library. 



Ref. : Proceedings, v. 18, p. 61-67; v. 20, p. 7-9. 



Object. Promotion of the arts and sciences connected with engineering. 



Meetings. ist and 3d Saturdays of each month, except between June 14 and Sept. 

 14- 



Membership. 459 active, 10 junior, and 20 associate (entrance fee, $5; annual dues 

 of resident active members and all associates, $15; of resident junior members, 

 $10 ; of non-resident active and junior members, $5); 7 honorary. 



Publications. 



PROCEEDINGS . . . v. I-XXIII (i. e. no. 1-102), Jan. i879-Oct. 1906. 

 Philadelphia, 1880-1906. 8. 



1879-1890 (v. 1-7) irreg. ; 1891-1906 (v. 8-23) i vol. year!" containing from 



4 to 6 numbers. 

 Price: $2 per vol.; soc. per number. 



Annual directory containing charter, by-laws, lists of members, etc. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the society at the above address. 



The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion 

 of the Mechanic Arts. 



Address. 15 S. 7th Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Address the Resident 

 Secretary. 



History. Founded Feb. 5, 1824; incorporated March 3 following; act 

 of incorporation amended 1864. The Institute has occupied its own 

 building at the above address since 1826. Library of about 60,500 

 volumes, 44,000 pamphlets and 4,800 maps, charts, photographs, etc. ; 

 cabinets of minerals, models, etc. Sections : Chemical, electrical, 

 physical and astronomical, mining and metallurgical, photographic and 

 microscopic, mechanical and engineering. The Institute maintains 

 popular scientific lecture courses and schools of drawing, machine 

 design, and naval architecture. 



Ref. : Address of Hon. Frederick Fraley. (In Commemorative exercises 



at the soth anniversary. Philadelphia, 1874, p. n, ff.) The Franklin 



institute. A sketch of its organization and history, by W. H. Wahl. 



Philadelphia, 1895. 



Object. Promotion and encouragement of manufactures, and the mechanical and 



useful arts. 



Meetings. General meetings of the Institute, 3d Wednesdays, Sept. to June; meet- 

 ings of the Committee on Science and the Arts, ist Wednesdays, Sept. to June. 

 General section meetings on Thursday evenings of each week, Oct. to June. 

 Lectures on Friday evenings, Oct. to Feb. 



