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Stated Meeting, November <20, 1891. 



Present, 26 members. 

 President, Mr. FKALEY, in the Chair. 

 On motion of Mr. Dudley, it was 



Resolved, nem. con., That the ordinary business of the Society should 

 be suspended, and that such matters as were set for this evening should 

 be postponed until the next regular meeting, and that the only business 

 that should be attended to to-night, should be the reading of a paper by 

 Mr. Henry C. Baird, on "Carey and Two of His Recent Critics Boehm- 

 Bawerk and Marshall," and the presentation of the portrait of Mrs. Seiler. 



Mr. Henry Carey Baird read a paper on " Carey and His 

 Recent Critics." 



Mr. Rosengarten read the following letter : 



FREDERICK FRALEY, ESQ., 



President American Philosophical Society. 



DEAR SIR : Some of the friends of the late Mrs. Emma Seiler, includ- 

 ing many of her pupils, desire to present to the Philosophical Society, of 

 which Mrs. Seiler was a member, a marble relief portrait of that lady, to 

 be placed in your Hall, as a memorial of her scientific labors and of her 

 success in elevating musical education, and of her contributions to a bet- 

 ter knowledge of the voice in speaking and singing. You are respect- 

 fully asked to request the Philosophical Society at its next meeting to 

 accept this gift, and to fix a time when it can be presented, and a memoir 

 of Mrs. Seiler, be read, to be preserved and printed in the record of the 

 Transactions of the Society. 

 We are very respectfully, etc., 



Mrs. Caspar Wister, Mrs. S. I. Lesley, 



Mrs. Brinton Coxe, Mrs. Marriott C. Smythe, 



Miss Roseugarten, Miss Maria Moss, 



Miss Bradford, Mrs. John W. Field, 



Miss Maria Hopper, Miss Ella C. White, 



Mrs. Messchert, Miss Mary A. Burnham, 



Miss Messchert, Miss Kate S. Gillespie, 



Miss Bennett, Miss B. M. Randolph, 



Miss Eliza B. Chase, Mrs. George McClellan, 



Mrs. Agnes G. E. Shipley, Rev. Dr. T. K. Conrad, 



Mr. William Ellis Scull, Mr. William Platt Pepper, 



Mr. M. H. Messchert, Mr. Edward H. Coates, 



Mr. Charles Platt, Mr. J. G. Rosengarten. 



Philadelphia, November 4, 1891. 



