Hartshorne.] 6d±^ [May 3, 



and 1330 were read and spoken to, and the Society proceeded 

 to ballot. 



The Tellers having announced that their report on the 

 ballot was ready, the President instructed them to present it. 

 The report declared the following persons duly elected mem- 

 bers: 



2275. Albert P. Brubaker, M.P., Philadelphia. 



2276. Sara Yorke Stevenson, Sc.D., Philadelphia. 



The rough minutes were then read and the Society 

 adjourned by the President. 



Memoir of James E. Bhoads, 31. D., LL.D. 



By Dr. Henry Hartshorne. 



{Read before the American Philosophical Society, May S, 1895.) 



James E. Rhoads was born at Marple, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, 

 January 21, 1828. His parents, on both sides, were of recorded descent 

 from ancient families of rank and position in England and Wales. 

 From the earliest rise of the religious Society of Friends in Great Britain, 

 both the Rhoads and Evans (his mother's) families have been members of 

 that small but influential body ; and for several generations in Philadel- 

 phia, some of them have been among its most prominent ministers and 

 members. Seldom have the tendencies of heredity, under favorable con- 

 ditions, been more beneficially shown than in the history of such 

 families as these, through more than two hundred years. While in 

 Europe titled descent is not unfrequently attended by physical, mental 

 and moral degeneration, "blood tells ;" and few finer examples of human 

 development exist than those of men and women who, through a long 

 series of generations, have enjo^^ed, in town and country, the means of 

 comfortable though not luxurious living, with education, a measure of 

 social refinement, and the preservative atmosphere of religious motives 

 and contemplation. 



James E. Rhoads received his academic education at Westtown School, 

 Pennsylvania, a denominational institution of the Society of Friends. 

 He chose the medical profession for his vocation, and entered upon its 

 study with his uncle, Dr. Charles Evans, of Philadelphia. For one or two 

 years he also gave a portion of his time as a teacher in a Friends' school 

 in this city. 



Graduating in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1851, for 

 a short period he had charge of the Philadelphia Dispensary. 



