Addresses from Sister Societies 295 



SOCIEDAD CIENTIFICA "ANTONIO 

 ALZATE" 



Mr. President: 



The Sociedad Cientifica "Antonio Alzate" derives its 

 name from the distinguished Mexican Naturalist who 

 was born seventeen years after the object of our present 

 commemorative services, and died in the same year. 

 While Franklin was discovering atmospheric electricity 

 and assisting in the founding of a great nation, Antonio 

 Alzate, a corresponding member of the French and 

 Spanish Academies of Science, was publishing the 

 Gaceta de Literatura, and determining the limit of 

 perpetual snow on the Volcano of Popocatepetl, besides 

 making important contributions to Botany and Zoology. 

 The Society which has adopted his name for its own 

 is the most important Natural History Society on the 

 Continent south of the United States, and adds to the 

 Pan-American feeling which hails Franklin as a great 

 Western Continent patriot, also enthusiasm for the great 

 observer and master of research. Along with my two 

 colleagues, members of this Society, I am desired to ex- 

 press the satisfaction of the Society Antonio Alzate at 

 having been honored by the American Philosophical 

 Society with an invitation to participate in these cere- 



