XX MINUTES. 



Stated Meeting, May 6, ip2i. 

 William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. Charles J. Rhoads, a newly elected member, subscribed the 

 Laws and was admitted into the Society. 



Letters accepting membership were received from : 

 Herman V. Ames, A.M., Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 George David Birkhoff, A.M., Ph.D., Cambridge. 

 John J. Carty, D.Sc, LL.D., Short Hills, N. J. 

 Henry Crew, Ph.D., Evanston, 111. 

 Benjamin M. Duggar, A.M., Ph.D., St. Louis. 

 John Marshall Gest, A.M., LL.B., Philadelphia. 

 Charles Homer Haskins, Ph.D., LL.D., Cambridge. 

 J. Bertram Lippincott, Philadelphia. 

 Hideyo Noguchi, M.D., New York. 

 Thomas B. Osborne, Ph.D., Sc.D., New Haven. 

 Charles J. Rhoads, A.B., Philadelphia. 

 David White, B.S., Washington. 



The following letter was read from Miss Elizabeth S. Kite, of 

 Philadelphia, in reference to the confusion regarding the names of 

 the brothers Gerard : 



" May I call attention to an error, found in the Index to the MS. 

 Department of the American Philosophical Society, as well as in 

 that of the MS. Department of the Library of Congress, regarding 

 the names of the brothers Gerard, one of whom, Conrad Alexandre 

 Gerard, was the accredited Minister of France to America in 1778, 

 and the other, Joseph Mathias Gerard de Raynevalle, occupied the 

 post of Secretary to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, the 

 Comte de Vergennes. 



" The confusion seems to be due to a misunderstanding on the 

 part of the author of that excellent work, ' New Material for the 

 History of the American Revolution.' The writer, John Durand, 

 took this material in great part from the Gerard correspondence to 

 be found in the Archives of Foreign Affairs in Paris. In the vol- 

 umes preserved there both signatures continually recur, since the 

 replies to the letters from the French Minister in America were 

 written and signed by his brother, the Secretary of Vergennes, and 



