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resident in this comtnunitj^ he was from first to last a good 

 and useful citizen. 



As a man among men, and in all the relations of life, he 

 was alike remarkable beyond most men for high principles of 

 thought and conduct unalloyed with consciousness, for broad 

 and unobtrusive kindness and sympathy, for native and ine- 

 radicable modesty. His was a type of humanity rare in any 

 society, and his death brings to the Institute and to the com- 

 munity a sense of distinct and irreparable loss. 



The following additions to the library were announced : 

 " Torrey Bulletin " and " Torreya " for two years, presented 

 by Mrs. Hannah B. Trainor ; "Smithsonian Annual Report 

 for 1906." Following the business of the meeting a general 

 scientific discussion took place. James G. Vail described the 

 new metallic filament incandescent electric lamps. The ques- 

 tion of the illumination of a snow-covered landscape on a 

 dark night, apparently greater than all the light the snow 

 could collect and reflect, was discussed. It was suggested 

 that there might be some phosphorescent action connected 

 with it. T. Chalkley Palmer described some experiments 

 concerning the motion of diatoms in darkness. A full account 

 of these investigations is published in this number of the 

 Proceedings. 



December 12, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Illustrated 

 lectui-e, " The Genesis and Development of Christian Church 

 Architecture," by Prof. William G. Casner, of the Central 

 High School, Philadelphia. 



December 19, 1907. — Adjourned meeting. Illustrated 

 lecture on " Brittany," by Elise Whitlock Rose and Vida 

 Hunt Francis. 



