136 APPENDIX C. 



to visit him." H. Roberts to Franklin. Hazard's 

 Register, XV, 184. 



September 14. Franklin arrived in Philadelphia, 

 after an absence in France of nearly nine years. 

 1 Sparks, 591. 



1791. March 1. The Franklin Junto, "after having 

 subsisted forty years, . . . became at last the foun- 

 dation of the American Philosophical Society, now 

 assembled to pay the debt of gratitude to his memory. 

 A book containing many of the questions, discussed 

 by the Junto, was, on the formation of the American 

 Philosophical Society, delivered into my hands, for 

 the purpose of being digested, and in due time pub- 

 lished among the transactions of that body." Rev. 

 Dr. William Smith's Eulogium on Franklin, delivered 

 on the above date, page 13. 



[The foregoing Eeport was received by the Society 

 and its consideration deferred to the Stated Meeting 

 of November 5th 1841, when the resolution appended 

 to the Eeport was adopted 



Mr. Du Ponceau stated that it was his wish to re- 

 vise his Paper on the early history of the Society, 

 and to withdraw it for that purpose. 



Dr. Isaac Hays offered the following resolution: 



Resolved, That Mr. Du Ponceau be permitted to 

 withdraw his papers from the Archives of the So- 

 ciety for the purpose of revision. Adopted. 



From the Minutes}. 



