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note is almost certainly correct because in the manuscript list of 

 members, made in 1792, Dr. Samuel Powel Griffitts is entered as 

 having been elected on January 22, 1785. Then, too, the treasurer's 

 books for 1786 show an entry on January 18: "By Dr. Samuel 

 Griffiths his deposit and subscription £1," and Samuel Powel Griffitts 

 signed the Laws about that time — all of which seems to definitely 

 determine that it was Dr. Samuel Powel Griffitts who was intended 

 to be elected in January, 1785, and who actually became a member 

 in consequence thereof. ^Moreover, no such person as Dr. William 

 Griffiths is now known to have existed at that time, nor does his name 

 appear upon the rolls of the Society at anytime ; nor does Dr. Sam- 

 uel Powel Griffitts appear by the official ]\Iinutes to have been elected 

 on any other date. 



I may also incidentally call your attention to the fact that the 

 transcribed ]\Iinutes incorrectly give the date of the meeting as 

 January 22, whereas the loose inset heretofore referred to gives it 

 as January 21, which was Friday evening, the regular meeting night 

 of the Society. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Officers and 

 Council the Society ordered 



1. That in order to make a more complete record of the Proceed- 

 ings of the Society the Secretaries be instructed to interleave in the 

 Minutes all notices of calls for meetings which have appeared in the 

 newspapers issued during the time in which the Society's IMinutes 

 do not appear to have been original records, with the name and date 

 of the newspapers in which said notices have appeared. 



2. That the Minutes of the meeting of January 21, 1780, be ac- 

 cepted as a correct minute of that date and be interleaved in the 

 Minutes as the record of that meeting, with the reference to the 

 Pennsylvania Packet of January 2/, 1780, as authority for the 

 same. 



3. That the roll of members be corrected in accordance with the 

 data thus obtained. 



4. That the loose sheet signed " Samuel Magaw one of the Sec- 

 retaries " be interleaved in the IMinute book under its proper date 

 and that Charles Pettit's name be inserted in the roll of members as 

 having been elected on January 21, 1785. 



