iv OBITUARY NOTICES OF MEMBERS DECEASED. 



Through the generosity of Mr. Lea's family, two portraits, one 

 of Mr. Henry C. Lea, and the other of his father, Mr. Isaac Lea, 

 will be presented to the American Philosophical Society. 



As an illustration of the thoroughness with which Air. Lea pre- 

 pared for his work, I may cite the following little incident : 



While spending the winter of 1907-8 in Rome I saw in an anti- 

 quarian bookstore a catalogue of books on Witchcraft, a subject in 

 which I knew Mr. Lea was deeply interested and of which, though 

 he was then eighty-three years old, he contemplated writing a full 

 account. I sent the catalogue to him — a list of seventy or eighty 

 titles — some of them very rare, and offered to aid him in securing 

 any which he might wish to purchase. In reply I received a letter 

 of thanks, but he declined my proffered assistance for the very 

 good reason that he "already had all of them in his library." 



I have now the pleasure of introducing Edward P. Cheyney, 

 Professor of European history in the Llniversity of Pennsylvania, 

 and a co-worker with Mr. Lea, who will read a memoir on the Life 

 and Works of Mr. Lea. 



