=] 
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE FOUNDATION ‘OF THE 
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Monpay, May 22, 1893, 8 p.m. 
The Society was called to order by the President, Hon. 
Frederick Fraley, LL.D., who delivered the following address 
of welcome: 
United Brethren (for so I think I can appropriately address you), 
it gives me great pleasure to welcome this goodly company which 
has come to us from abroad to the State of Pennsylvania and the 
city of Philadelphia, and to the ancient edifice in which we are 
now assembled. 
I esteem it the crowning glory of a long life to be permitted to 
look upon this day. I have been a sojourner on earth for nearly 
ninety years, and I have looked upon this goodly world for the last 
seventy-five years with a full appreciation of what it contains and 
how much good it is possessed of to benefit mankind. Among 
those benefits I recognize the existence of our scientific institutions, 
which have gradually grown to be numerous in our territory, to be 
the correspondents of the older institutions abroad ; and to have the 
opportunities occasionally of mingling in such assemblies as this for 
the promotion of the common objects they have at heart, for the 
general promotion of useful knowledge. 
I hope that the occasion in which we have come to take part will 
be blessed, as our previous celebrations have been, with a unity of 
purpose, with the beginning of friendships that shall endure through 
life, with stimulus for the creation of new institutions of similar 
