ON ME. DU PONCEAU'S HISTOKY. 95 



that he published pieces in his newspaper, which he 

 had read before the Junto; and that we had written 

 papers for the Junto on the irregularities of the 

 Watch, and on Fires. 1, Sparks, 123, and 132-33. 

 He also speaks of the members having, at his sug- 

 gestion, clubbed their books in a common Library, 

 though afterwards they were separated. 1, Sparks, 

 96. See also Chronological Statement. 



The suggestion thrown out by Mr. Fisher, that 

 Philip Syng of the Society-Junto, was a son of Philip 

 Syng of the Franklin Junto, is perfectly correct. 

 He died in November, 1760, and his death is referred 

 to, incidentally, in the minutes of the Society-Junto, 

 about July 1761. See Minutes, part 1, p. 81. 



Mr. Fisher is in error in stating that it was by the 

 Philosophical Society "that the proposal was first 

 made for an incorporation with the American So- 

 ciety." The first proposition came from the Amer- 

 ican Society, in the shape of a motion, passed unani- 

 mously on the 26th of January 1768, that a union 

 with the Philosophical Society, on an equal footing, 

 and on terms equally honorable to both was desirable, 

 and would conduce to the public good. The next 

 day, Dr. Morgan communicated this motion to Dr. 

 Bond of the Philosophical Society; and the action 

 taken by the latter Society upon it was to elect, by 

 a general vote on the 2nd February following, the 

 whole of the members of the American Society into 

 their body. 



