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In closing, I should like to express my thanks for this oppor- 

 tunity of calling the attention of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety to this unpublished diary of one of its former members/" who 

 must have spent, as indeed its proceedings show, many delightful 

 evenings in its halls and who with pride placed after his name upon 

 the title pages of his well-known works " Member of the American 

 Philosophical Society." 



When he sailed upon the voyage which was to take him back to 

 the country and to the people he loved, Moreau de Saint-Mery 

 must have left in this society many friends who thoroughly appreci- 

 ated his great talents and who had been attracted by his interesting 

 personality. It is fortunate that such a man left for us a record of 

 his sojourn in America and that it is possible to rescue it from the 

 dust of archives.^^ 



^* Moreau was elected to the society on January i6, 1789, before he left 

 France. The records show that he attended its meetings regularly after his 

 arrival in Philadelphia in the fall of 1794. 



" The diary will be published in the near future at the Yale University 

 Press. 



