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pattern itself is conventional. It has no conscious model, but is 
woven by the artistic imagination, as the tufted Persian carpet 
upon which one flies from Bagdad to Bassorah. The minds of 
educated persons, poets and painters, should be directed to pretty 
moths, such as our cloth of gold Gortyne. 
Stated Meeting, May 18, 1900. 
Vice-President Wistar in the Chair. 
Present, 22 members. 
A letter was read from the K. K. Geologische Reichsanstalt 
of Vienna, announcing the fiftieth anniversary of its found- 
ing and inviting this Society to be represented on the date set, 
June 9, of this year. 
A letter was also read from the Royal Saxon Antiquarian 
Society of Dresden, announcing the seventy-fifth anniversary 
of its founding and inviting this Society to be represented 
on the date set, September 26 next. 
It was ordered that the receipt of these communications be 
acknowledged by the Secretary with thanks. 
The following were elected members of the Society : 
Dr. Cyrus Adler, of Washington. 
Dr. H. F. Keller, of Philadelphia. 
Hon. Edward Patterson, of New York. 
Hon. George Gray, of Wilmington. 
Wharton Sinkler, M.D., of Philadelphia. 
Mr. Sachse presented to the Society a facsimile of the 
first German newspaper published in North America, printed 
by Benjamin Franklin in 1732., The thanks of the Society 
were tendered Mr. Sachse for the gift. 
