xvi MINUTES. 



written by another hand and all at the same time, which leads to the 

 belief that they, too, were copied at a later date from contempora- 

 neous data and incorporated into the Minute Book. 



Miss Kirkpatrick also found in the issue of The Packet for 

 Thursday, Janviary 20, the following advertisement : 



" The American Philosophical Society are desired to meet at 

 the University next Friday evening, when it is intended to ballot for 

 such persons as have been proposed to be admitted as new members 

 into the Society, agreeable to' their Laws." 



And in the issue of January 27 appears the following record of 

 this meeting : 



Philadelphia, January 27th. 



"At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, the 21st 

 inst. the following Gentlemen were chosen Members, viz. 



" His Excellency George Washington, Esq ; General and Com- 

 mander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of North 

 America. 



" His Excellency the Chevalier de La Luzerne, Minister Pleni- 

 potentiary of France. 



" Monsieur Marbois, Secretary of the Embassy of France. 



" His Excellency Thomas Jefferson, Esq ; Governor of the State 

 of Virginia. 



" His Excellency John Jay, Esq ; Minister of the United States 

 at the Court of Madrid. 



"His Excellency Henry Laurens, Esq; late President of Con- 

 gress. 



" The Honorable John Adams, Esq ; late Member of Congress. 



" The Honorable William Carmichael, Esq ; Secretary of the 

 Embassy to the Court of Madrid. 



" Major General Arthur St. Clair. 



" Major General Anthony Wayne. 



" Col. William Grayson, of the Board of War. 



" Col. Hamilton, and Col. John Laurens, Aids du Camp to His 

 Excellency General Washington. 



" Baron de Steuben, Inspector General of the American Army. 



" Major Vallancey, Second Engineer of Ireland, and Secretary 

 to the Society of Antiquarians in Dublin. 



"Timothy Matlack, Esq; Secretary of the Supreme Executive 

 Council of the State of Pennsylvania. 



"The Rev. John C. Kuntze [Kunze], Rector of the German 

 Lutheran Congregation, Philadelphia. 



