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like the company. Some of the members of the young Junto^ have 

 met every Friday night for two or three years past. All the Trus- 

 tees of the College [of Philadelphia] are included in the twenty- 

 five or thirty balloted in by Dr. Bond, but he is persuaded that 

 they desire to avail themselves of their assistance to increase the 

 reputation of the College. He would rather stand alone than join 

 them, because it is preposterous to associate in philosophical disqui- 

 sitions, which require the utmost precision and veracity, with [Wil- 

 liam] Smith, [Francis] Alison, [John] Ewing, and [Hugh] Wil- 

 liamson, whom they know have stuck at no lies to injure them. The 

 Assembly is puzzled what to do with the Dutchman who killed the 

 Indians below Shamokin. The young Junto, ever since last September, 

 have been fabricating a plan to forward their design and several of our 

 friends are disposed to favor it, but Edmund Physic [k], a proprietary 

 officer, and some other of the company are rather for junction. A. L. 

 4 p. (Incomplete and mutilated.) LVIII, 52. 



* [The American Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.] 



From W[illia]m Franklin to Cadwalader Evans. 

 1768. January 23. 



Is obliged for the account of the two new [American] Philosophical 

 Societies; but the printed proposals, to which he was referred, were 

 not sent. Is at a loss to know with what propriety they can talk of 

 reviving the old Society begun by his father. The papers, etc., were, 

 and he thinks are now, in possession of his father. Thinks they should 

 have summoned a meeting of all the old members and consulted them. 

 Questions whether any of the persons who met to revive it were 

 ever members, except Dr. [Thomas] Bond and S[amuel] Rhoads. 

 Thinks their scheme of calling this a revival of the old [American 

 Philosophical] Society is to induce his father to countenance it or, by 

 using his name, to engage his old friends and connections to join them, 

 The bait won't take with him, and he is glad it has not with Dr. Evans. 

 A. L. S. I p. XLVII, 43. 



List of Papers Read at the Royal Society in 1768, January and Feb- 

 ruary, and 1772, July 9 and November 19, and 1773, March 4, 

 II, 18, 25, and April i. 

 Memorandum. 5 p. LXIX, 102; XLIX, 51. 



