96i MINUTES. [May 16, 



to labor in the present and for the future, we should not be entirely 

 oblivious of those who have gone before. And as unless old papers 

 and books are properly housed in some collection like that of the 

 American Philosophical Society, they are pretty sure in the changes 

 and ups and downs of fortunes of their various succeeding owners 

 to be eventually destroyed, it is with peculiar pleasure, therefore, 

 that in behalf of my brother, Mr. Edwin Swift Balch and myself, 

 I am able to present to the Society the Account Book of the First 

 Assemblies kept by our great-great-great-uncle, John Swift, and so 

 insure its future preservation. 



Stated Meeting, May 2, 1902, 



President Wistar in the Chair. 



Present, 7 members. 



Mr. Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr., a newly elected member, 

 was presented to" the Chair, and took his seat in the Society. 

 Letters accepting membership were read from 



Mr. Grove K. Gilbert, Washington. 



Prof. Paul Haupt, Baltimore. 



Prof. Albert A. Michelson, Chicago. 



Mr. Benjamin C. Tilghman, Jr., Philadelphia. 



M. Gaston Darboux, Paris. 



Stated Meeting, May 16, 1902. 



President Wistar in the Chair. 



Present, 19 members. 



Prof. Hermann Collitz and Prof. Felix E. Schelling, ne^vl}^ 

 elected members, were presented to the Chair, and took their 

 seats in the Society. 



Letters accepting membership were read from 

 M. Henri Becquerel, Paris. 

 Prof. G. Johnstone Stoney, London. 



