162 MINUTES. [May 20, 



Mr. Dickson, Mr. Ingham, Dr. Hays, Dr. Jayne and Mr. 

 Pettit were appointed as the Committee. 



A report was presented from the Special Committee ap- 

 pointed on the paper of Mr. Rhoads, entitled " Contributions 

 to a Revision of the North American Beavers, Otters and 

 Fishes," in favor of its publication in the Transactions^ and it 

 was so ordered. 



Stated Meeting, May W, 1898. 

 Yice- President Pepper in the Chair. 



Present, 35 members. 



Donations to the Library were laid on the table, and thanks 

 were ordered for them. 



Prof. Albert H. Smyth, presenting the portrait of Mr. 

 Frederick Fraley, said : 



It had been the intention and the hope of Mr. J. G. Rosengarten 

 to be present this evening and in accordance with the request of the 

 subscribers, to present to the American Philosophical Society two 

 portraits, one of Mr. Frederick Fraley, our honored President, the 

 other of Prof. John Peter Lesley, for many years a Vice-President 

 of this Society. 



But Mr. Rosengarten is prevented from being here, and has 

 asked me to act in his stead. 



In the long and distinguished history of the American Philoso- 

 phical Society, fifteen Presidents, from Franklin to Fraley, have 

 successively presided over its meetings and guided its policy. 

 Portraits of all these — Franklin, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Wistar, 

 the Pattersons, the Baches, Tilghman, Duponceau, Chapman, Kane 

 and Wood — hang upon our walls, together with many of that illus- 

 trious company who have contributed to the scientific and the 

 literary glory of the Philosophical Society. 



A little while ago several of the friends of Mr. Fraley, within and 

 without this Society, desiring to express, as Hamlet says, their 

 **love and friending" to him, and to place in the Hall of the 

 Society over which he has presided with such zeal and success some 



