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token of their admiration and respect, learned that an excellent 

 portrait of him had been painted. 



Subscriptions were promptly made to a fund for the purchase of 

 it and the portrait was obtained. 



Upon the twenty-eighth of this month, Mr. Fraley, whose extra- 

 ordinary activities cover well-nigh a century of time, will celebrate 

 his ninety-fourth birthday ; and this therefore being the meeting of 

 the Society nearest to that happy anniversary has been chosen for 

 the formal presentation. 



In behalf of the subscribers, I present to the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society this portrait of Mr. Frederick Fraley. 



Prof. Prime moved that tlie thanks of the Society be ten- 

 dered to those gentlemen who presented the portraits, and 

 that the said portraits shall be hung on the walls of the Hall, 

 and shall be under the care of the Curators. 



Hampton L. Cakson, Esq., in accepting the portrait of 

 Mr. Fraley, in behalf of the Society, said : 



The agreeable duty has been assigned to me of speaking in sup- 

 port of the Resolution of acceptance in behalf of the Society, and 

 I respond with peculiar pleasure ; first, because I am aware of the 

 value of the services rendered to us for so many years by our vener- 

 able and venerated President, and next, because I cherish for him 

 personally the most affectionate and reverential regard. I look 

 back over thirty years of my own recollections, and I see him fore- 

 most in all measures tending to promote the commerce, finance, 

 manufactures and mechanic arts of Philadelphia, and a leader in all 

 movements to extend her civic industrial and educational influence. 

 I look beyond into the history of the preceding forty years, and I still 

 see him conspicuous, even at an early age, among many honored 

 men who have long since passed to their reward. 



At the age of twenty he was one of the founders of the Franklin 

 Institute, and has been a member for seventy-four years. At the 

 age of thirty he was a member of our City Council, serving as 

 Chairman of the Finance Committee, a pilot standing at the helm 

 with clear head and steady hand, during the troubled period of 

 1837. He was an earnest advocate, in opposition to the views 

 of such men as Horace Binney, of the introduction of gas as a 

 means of lighting our City. He was at his post in the State Senate 



