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Baird, who told us of the Huguenots ; Frederick D. Stone, Hbrarian 

 of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, who did so much to make 

 the rich collections of that society accessible to scholars ; Justin 

 Winsor, of Harvard, editor of the " Narrative and Critical History 

 of America." And last, but not least, our fellow townsman, the 

 late Henry Charles Lea, whose portrait hangs in the north hall, one 

 of the greatest historians that America has given to the world, and 

 at the time of his death probably the most distinguished citizen of 

 Philadelphia, was a member of this society. 



Among economists we have had a number of well-known men : 

 Dupont de Nemours, one of the famous French school of physio- 

 crats, who finally settled in the neighboring state of Delaware, and 

 presented to the society a bust of Turgot ; Henry Carey, whose name 

 is known wherever the science of political economy is taught; Michel 

 Chevalier, who enlightened the world on many points of economy; 

 Leon Say, the notable French minister of finance and president of 

 the French senate, who by his able management of the French 

 finances added new luster to a name already made famous among 

 economists by his honored sire and grandsire and earned by his 

 works on economics, "I'Histoire de la Theorie de changes etran- 

 gers," " I'Histoire de la Caisse d'escompte," " La Vie de Turgot," 

 etc., election in 1886 to 1' Academic Franqaise; and Pierre Emile 

 Levasseur, amemberof I'Academie des sciences morales et Politiques 

 of France. 



The portals of the temple of letters had just opened before Albert 

 H. Smyth when he was carried ofif to the silent majority. Those 

 who were so fortunate as to hear his impromptu address in this hall, 

 prepared only upon thirty minutes' notice, to the "Americanists," 

 when they visited the society, a few years since, were impressed 

 with the admirable manner in which, on that occasion, he received 

 our guests. Every one who attended the annual dinner of the so- 

 ciety in 1907, will remember how well he acted as toastmaster, 

 drawing upon his abundant knowledge of Anglo-Saxon literature 

 for many an apt quotation. 



We have had noted poets, essayists and novelists, too : James 

 Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, 



