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In listening this afternoon to the address of your honored 

 President, I felt, as he truly expressed it, that I was lifted up 

 into another atmosphere from that which I had been breathing 

 in the streets below. Never in my life did I feel more im- 

 pressed with the sense of reverence than when carried back by 

 the eloquence of this worthy venerable octogenarian to those 

 who laid the foundations of our country's liberty. I honor 

 the man, and I honor the Association over which he presides. 

 I thank them again and again for the pleasure and the honor 

 bestowed upon me this evening, and in the name of our Uni- 

 versity I pray that when your second centenary shall be 

 celebrated you may have gathered around you, as you have 

 to-day, the representatives of all the associations of this land 

 and of other lands to pay you homage. 



Mr. VAUX : GENTLEMEN : The duty which has been 

 imposed upon me is now ended, and I deliver this 

 most imposing company over to the guidance of the 

 President of the American Philosophical Society. 



In bringing the exercises of the evening to a close, 

 President Fraley said: 



MY FRIENDS: How shall I thank you for all that has 

 occurred around me to-day? We have gathered in 

 our ancient hall the resident members of the Society. 

 We have brought around us our honored associates 

 and friends from other States. We have shaken hands 

 together over the memories of the past. We have in- 

 dulged in the hopes of the future, and we are now about 

 to separate in those fraternal relations which grow out 

 of the common brotherhood of men, the participation in 

 universal pursuit after knowledge, the indulgence of the 



