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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XVII. No. 435. 



Besidents of the United States. — Edward 

 E. Barnard, Sc.D., Williams Bay, Wis.; 

 Carl Hazard Barus, Ph.D., Providence, 

 R. I. ; Franz Boas, Ph.D., New York ; Wil- 

 liam W. Campbell, Sc.D., Mt. Hamilton, 

 Cal. ; Eric Doolittle, Philadelphia ; Basil 

 Lanneau Gildersleeve, LL.D., Baltimore; 

 Francis Barton Gummere, Ph.D., Haver- 

 ford, Pa.; Arnold Hague, Washington, 

 D. C. ; George William Hill, LL.D., Nyack, 

 N. Y. ; William Henry Howell, Ph.D., Balti- 

 more ; Edward W. Morley, Ph.D., Cleve- 

 land ; Harmon N. Morse, Ph.D., Baltimore ; 

 Edward Rhoads, Haverf ord, Pa. ; Alfred 

 Stengel, M.D., Philadelphia; William Tre- 

 lease, Sc.D., St. Louis. 



Foreign Residents.— Anton Dohm, 

 Naples; Edwin Ray Lankester, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., London; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S., D.C.L., London; Joseph John 

 Thomson, D.Sc, F.R.S., Cambridge, Eng.; 

 Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam. 



Action was also taken at this session look- 

 ing to the adequate celebration of the 

 two hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Franklin, the founder of the organization. 

 This was expressed in the following pre- 

 amble and resolution which were unani- 

 mously adopted: 



Inasmuch as the two hundredth anniversary 

 of the birth of Benjamin Pranklin occurs in Jan- 

 uary, 1906, it is proper that the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, which owes its existence to his 

 initiative and to which he gave many long years 

 of faithful service, should take steps to commem- 

 orate the occasion in a manner befitting his emi- 

 nent services to this society, to science and to the 

 nation. Therefore be it 



Resolved, That the president is authorized and 

 directed to appoint a committee of such number 

 as he shall deem proper to prepare a plan for the 

 appropriate celebration of the bi-centennial of the 

 birth of Franklin, and to report the same to this 

 society. 



The president appointed the following 

 members to constitute the committee : Hon. 

 George F. Edmunds, Chairman; Professor 



Alexander Agassiz, Boston; President 

 James B. Angell, Ann Arbor; Professor 

 George F. Barker, Philadelphia; Professor 

 A. Graham Bell, Washington ; Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie, New York; Professor C. F. 

 Chandler, New York; Hon. Grover Cleve- 

 land, Princeton; President Charles W. 

 Eliot, Cambridge ; President Daniel C. Gil- 

 man, Baltimore ; President Arthur T. Had- 

 ley, New Haven; Provost C. C. Harrison, 

 Philadelphia; Hon. John Hay, Washing- 

 ton ; Dr. I. Minis Hays, Philadelphia ; Pro- 

 fessor Samuel P. Langley, Washington; 

 Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N.; Dr. S. 

 Weir Mitchell, Philadelphia; Professor 

 Simon Newcomb, Washington ; Governor S. 

 W. Pennypacker, Harrisburg; Professor E. 

 C. Pickering, Cambridge; Professor 

 Michael I. Pup in. New York ; President Ira 

 Remsen, Baltimore; Professor John Trow- 

 bridge, Cambridge ; Dr. Charles D. Wal- 

 cott, Washington ; Hon. Andrew D. White, 

 Ithaca ; President Woodrow Wilson, Prince- 

 ton. 



On Friday evening the annual dinner of 

 the society was held at the Hotel Bellevue, 

 at which about eighty members were pres- 

 ent, the occasion being a most enjoyable 

 one and a fitting climax to the social side 

 of the meeting. Professor W. B. Scott 

 acted as toastmaster and the following 

 toasts were responded to : 



'The Memory of Franklin,' Professor 

 Albert H. Smyth, of Philadelphia. 



'Our Sister Societies,' Rear Admiral 

 Melville, of Washington, and Professor 

 Henry F. Osborn, of New York. 



'Institutions for the Promotion of 

 Knowledge, ' Dr. Cyrus Adler, of Wash- 

 ington. 



'The American Philosophical Society,' 

 Mr. J. G. Rosengarten, of Philadelphia. 



The opinion was freely expressed, by 

 many members who had come from a dis- 

 tance, that the entire meeting was one of 

 the most enjoyable and profitable which 



