MINUTES. xvii 



"The Rev. James Madison, President of William and Mary 

 College, Virginia. 



"William Churchill Houston, Esq; Professor of Mathematics 

 of Nassau College, and Delegate in Congress for the State of New 

 Jersey. 



" Dr. William Brown, of Virginia. 



"Mons. [John] Tournon [Ternaut] Engineer of the Southern 

 Army. And 



" Robert Erskine, Esq ; Geographer of the United States." 



This is a particularly important historical discovery inasmuch 

 as the Society's Minutes show no record of that meeting, or of any 

 meeting in that year prior to February 25, and the announcement, 

 unquestionably, bears the internal evidence of having been furnished 

 to The Packet by some one in authority. 



Moreover, in its printed " List of Members " of the Society from 

 its foundation, eleven members are entered as having been " elected 

 between April 6, 1779, and January 19, 1781?" which covers the 

 period during which, apparently, the original records of the meet- 

 ings have been lost, but in this record in the Packet we find that 

 twenty-two members were elected on January 21, 1780, of whom 

 nine are not on the Roll, and four who were either previously or 

 subsequently elected are erroneously ascribed to that year, viz., 



Hon. John Jay (who appears to have been again elected to the 

 Society on January 19, 1787). 



His Excellency Henry Laurens (who had been previously elected 

 on i\pril 17, 1772). 



The Hon. John Adams (who was again elected on January 18, 

 1793, when Vice President of the United States). 



Col. Alexander Hamilton (who was again elected on January 

 21, 1791, when Secretary of the Treasury). 



And the following nine, none of whom appear in the Society's 

 " List " : 



Hon. William Carmichael. 

 Major General Arthur St. Clair. 

 Col. William Grayson. 

 Col. John Laurens. 

 Baron de Steuben. 

 Major Vallancey. 



