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MINUTES. [April 19. 



His services as a surgeon in the Civil War covered nearly the 

 whole period of that struggle. 



His work as a teacher began in the Philadelphia School of 

 Anatomy in 1866, and ended only when he resigned in 1907, after 

 long and brilliant service in Jefferson Medical College. 



His contributions to medical and general literature have won for 

 him a place among our authors. 



Retired from the active practice of his profession, with the grate- 

 ful acknowledgments and regrets of his colleagues, his students and 

 his patients, he has given time and thought to his duties as President 

 of the American Philosophical Society. 



In acknowledgment of his great service in that office, his fellow 

 members, and some not members of the Society, join in presenting 

 his portrait to the Philosophical Society that it may take its place on 

 the walls of this Hall, with the long list of the portraits of his 

 predecessors. 



By his services to the world and to the Society, he has won the 

 affection and esteem typified in the portrait now presented to the 

 Society. 



The portrait was accepted on behalf of the Society by Vice-Presi- 

 dent Pickering, who said : 



To render a scientific society successful, it is necessary that at 

 least two or three of its members should devote a large part of their 

 time and energy to its administration. Even then it is not easy to 

 secure an annual meeting which many regard as the most interesting 

 of its kind in the country. While it is eminently fitting that the 

 oldest scientific society of America should maintain this position, 

 those of us who see something of the management each year, realize 

 how largely this is due to the successful administration of our 

 seventeenth President, supported as he is by the unwearied efforts 

 of other officers of the Society. This painting will always serve as 

 a reminder of the able and tactful services of Dr. Keen. 



The annual meetings are remarkable not only for the high grade 

 of the papers presented but, what is unusual, for their interest to 

 specialists in other departments of human knowledge. For this 



