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the Will, does net carry out what I know to have been the wishes of the 
testatrix. I would respectfully suggest that an arrangement could prob- 
ably be made with the Academy of Natural Sciences to receive the collec- 
tion as a deposit by the Society. If that can be done, I would cheerfully 
bear the necessary expense of making the transfer and: setting the relics in 
the cases. 
Yours respectfully, 
ROBERT PATTERSON, 
Huecutor.”’ 
On motion of Dr. Cresson, it was then 
Resolved, That the Curators be directed to transfer the collection of 
Stone-age Relics, received from Mrs. C. E. G. Peale, to the custody of the 
Academy of Natural Sciences, in accordance with their recommendation 
of this date. 
Dr. Rogers made an explanation in behalf the Coal Slack 
Premium Committee, stating that the absence of members 
of Committee during the summer holidays had made a full 
meeting of the Committee difficult to obtain; that conse- 
quently no action had been taken by the Committee on the 
Society’s resolution of August 17, to advertise the Premium ; 
that, nevertheless, Mr. Briggs, one of the Committee, had 
given extensive publicity to the intentions of the Society 
through his own private correspondence and by an article in 
the Iron Age, which he read; and he desired therefore to 
know whether further advertisement would be deemed 
necessary. 
In the course of the debate which ensued, and at one 
stage of which Mr. Fraley left the chair for the purpose of 
participating in it, Mr. Price taking the chair for the rest of 
the evening, Mr. Briggs offered the following resolution : 
Resolved, That the following advertisement be made public, signed by 
the Secretaries : 
*‘Premium for the successful utilization of Anthracite Coal Dust. 
““The American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia having voted to 
offer a premium of $500 ‘for the successful utilization of anthracite coal 
dust, to be competed for under rules of the Society,’ public notice is hereby 
given that applications for the premium will now be received, and that all 
such as may be presented within three months of the date of this adver- 
tisement will be considered as competing for the same. 
“In considering the award for premium the Society will not only require 
that the process presented shall successfully accomplish the result, but that 
