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PHILADELPHIA, Wednesday, May 24, 1893, 11 a.m. 
The Society was called to order at 11 a.m. by President 
Fraley, who presented Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, President of 
the Johns Hopkins University, who read an address on the 
“ Present Aspects of Science in America.” 
After presenting the congratulations of the Johns Hopkins 
University to the American Philosophical Society, he pro- 
ceeded to discuss the various agencies which are concerned in 
the advancement of knowledge, namely, museums and libra- 
ries, universities and colleges, scientific instruments and ap- 
paratus, agencies for the encouragement of research, and 
publications. Under each of these five heads, the speaker 
considered the actual condition of science in America, adding 
occasional historical illustrations. The paper included a sketch 
of the contributions made to each of the principal branches of 
natural science by American investigators. 
President Fraley next introduced Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, 
President of the Catholic University of America, at Washing- 
ton, who addressed the Society upon the subject of “ Philoso- 
phy’s Place Among the Sciences,” as follows: 
Mr. President and Fellow-members of the American Philosophical 
Society, Ladies and Gentlemen :—In the name of one of the very 
youngest of our American institutions of learning, I offer the tribute 
of my respect and reverence to the first association of the kind in 
our country. In our New World a century anda halfisa very hoary 
old age, and a society that has with honor lived during that period 
can very well look down in a spirit of patriarchal dignity and superi- 
ority on every other institution that sets to work under its guidance 
and in pursuance of its example. 
I say in the name of our young institution in Washington that to 
follow that guidance shall be our constant endeavor and our highest 
ambition. We have long since come to the conviction, so well 
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