PROCEEDINGS 
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 
HELD AT PHILADELPHIA 
FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE 
Vou. XLII. JANUARY-APRIL, 1903. No. 172. 
Stated Meeting, January 2, 1903. 
President WISTAR in the Chair. 
The list of donations to the Library was laid on the table 
and thanks were ordered for them from the Chair. 
Messrs. Joseph C. Fraley, Patterson DuBois and Harold 
Goodwin, the Judges of the annual election for Officers and 
Councillors, reported that the same had been held on this 
day, between the hours of 2 and 5 in the afternoon, and that 
the following named persons were elected, according to the 
laws, regulations and ordinances of the Society, to be the Offi- 
cers for the ensuing year: 
President. 
Edgar F. Smith. 
Vice- Presidents. 
George F. Barker, Samuel P. Langley, William B. Scott. 
Secretaries. 
I. Minis Hays, Edwin G. Conklin, Morris Jastrow, Jr., 
Arthur W. Goodspeed. 
Treasurer. 
Henry LaBarre Jayne. 
