xxvi Annual Report of the CoiuiciL 



American Philosophical Society on the occasion of the celebra- 

 tion of the 2ooth anniversary (April 17-20, 1906) of the birth of 

 Benjamin Franklin, and that Dr. F. W. Clarke, Honorary 

 Member of this Society, be requested to act as its representa- 

 tive. The following is a copy of the address : — 



To The American Philosophical Society. 

 The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 

 sends greetings to its sister, The American Philosophical 

 Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, on the occasion 

 of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of its 

 founder, Benjamin Franklin. 



As philosopher, statesman and diplomatist, and as a 

 pioneer in the scientific fields of capillarity, acoustics, elec- 

 tricity and meteorology. Dr. Franklin will long be remembered, 

 and his intimate association with your Society is a circum- 

 stance of which you may be justly pioud. 



(Signed) W. H. Bailey, K.B., President. 



Francis Jones, 1 Hon. 

 Charles H. 'Le^s,) Secretaries. 

 April 6th, igo6. 



Sir J. S. Burdon-Sanderson, Bart., F.R.S. was born at 

 Jesmond near Newcastle-on-Tyne in December, 1828, and was 

 educated at home. His family on both sides bore names of 

 distinction which have formed a study in eugenics by Francis 

 Gallon. The border country made a strong appeal to Sanderson's 

 nature, and throughout life he revelled in moorland scenery 

 and wild life. 



Sanderson entered the University of Edinburgh as a medical 

 student, and soon displayed an inborn faculty for physiological 

 research. Whilst still an undergraduate he finished two papers 

 on vegetable irritability and on the metamorphosis of coloured 



