142 MINUTES. [April 15, 



Stated Meeting^ April 15^ 1898. 



Vice-President Sellers in the Chair. 



Present, 12 members. 



Donations to the Library were announced and thanks were 

 ordered for the same. 



Letters were received from Mr. Eobert Patterson, presenting 

 a volume of photographs of the Peale collection of Indian 

 relics in the possession of the Society. It was moved that 

 the best thanks of the Society be given to Mr. Patterson for 

 his gift of the photographs of the Peale collection. Carried. 

 From Mr. Rosengarten, donating portraits of the Hon.. 

 Frederick Fraley and Prof. J. P. Lesley, on behalf of C. C. 

 Harrison, John B. Gest, J. E. Gillingham, Charles Harts- 

 horne, A. T. Freedley, M. H. Messchert, C. H. Clark, John 

 S. Jenks, J. Y. Merrick, James P. Townsend, Frank Thom- 

 son, Charles Wharton, Alfred C. Harrison, George C. Thomas, 

 Alexander Biddle, Henry N. Paul, W. D. Winsor, W. P. 

 Tatham, Samuel Dickson, Herbert M. Howe, W. W. Frazier^ 

 Fanny Rosengarten, Lincoln Godfrey, N. Parker Shortridge, 

 "W. y. McKean, John Wanamaker, James C. Brooks, Maria 

 Blanchard, C. S. Wurts, C. A. Griscom, Helen C. Jenks, 

 Coleman Sellers, Robert Patterson, George F. Edmunds, 

 James W. Paul, Jr., and J. G. Rosengarten. 



On motion it was Resolved^ That the best thanks of the 

 Society be presented through Mr. Rosengarten to the donors 

 of the portraits of the Hon. Frederick Fraley and Prof. J. 

 Peter Lesley, and that Friday evening. May 20, be assigned 

 for their formal presentation and acceptance. 



Mr. Edmunds, by unanimous consent, presented the report 

 of the Committee appointed on December 3, 1897, to revise 

 the Laws of the Society, ^and offered the following motion : 

 " Ordered^ That at the next stated meeting of the Society, 

 the subject of the revision and amendment of the Laws^ 

 Regulations and Ordinances of the Society shall have priority 

 of all other business except the reading and approval of the 

 minutes, and if not completed shall have the same priority 

 until disposed of." Carried. 



