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Sept. 26, 1901.] MINUTES. 137 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 

 HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOB PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XL. December, 1901. No. 107. 



Special Meeting, September £6, 1901. 



Vice-President Barker in the Chair. 



Present, 36 members. 



A special meeting was held at noon to take action upon 

 the death of the Hon. Frederick Fraley, LL.D., President of 

 the Society. 



The Secretaries announced the death, on Monday, Septem- 

 ber 23, 1901, in the ninety-eighth year of his age, of the 

 Hon. Frederick Fraley, the President of the Society. 



Vice-President Barker made some remarks on the loss sus- 

 tained by the Society in the death of its President. 



Prof. Albert H. Smyth offered the following minute and 

 resolution : 



In the death of Frederick Fraley, on the 23d of September, 1901, 

 the American Philosophical Society has lost its President, who had 

 held his office since January 2, 1880. 



Under the instant sense of bereavement it is not easy to record 

 our appreciation of his superb stability of character and of his 

 life-long devotion to duty. 



He was elected to this Society July 15, 1842, and for fifty-nine 

 years took a deep and fervid interest in its welfare and progress. 

 He was faithful in every duty and adequate in every trial. He 

 presided over the deliberations of the Society with wisdom and 

 dignity and judgment and grace. His tact was unerring and his 



PROC. AMER, PHILOS. SOC. XL. 167. J. PRINTED DEC. 16. 1901. 



