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Stated Meeting, October 5, 1888. 
Present, 20 members. 
President, Mr. FRALEY, in the Chair. 
Mr. Alexander Biddle, a newly-elected member, was: pre- 
sented to the Chair and took his seat. 
Correspondence was submitted as follows: 
A letter from Prof. Alphonse Favre, Geneva, accepting mem- 
bership. 
A letter from Capt. R. S. Baas New York, acknowledging 
receipt of diploma. 
A circular from the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, an- 
nouncing “ Awards for Meritorious Discoveries and Inven- 
tions.” 
A letter from Dr. D. G. Brinton, Philadelphia, accepting the 
appointment by the President to prepare an obituary notice of 
the late Philip H. Law. 
A letter from Prof. J.P. Lesley, Philadelphia, accepting the 
appointment by the President to prepare an obituary notice of 
the late Henry Carvill Lewis. 
Mr. Richard Vaux, at the request of the writer of the fol- 
lowing letter, communicated it to the Society, with some 
prefatory remarks, 
“* To the Honorable Frederick Fraley, President, 
and the Members of the American Philosophical Society : 
‘I herewith present to the American Philosophical Society the 
sum of Five Thousand Dollars as an endcwment fund, to be by its 
direction invested, and the income thereof devoted to the payment 
for a prize for the best Treatise on the Science and Philosophy of 
Jurisprudence, or any subject included in that term. 
“¢Tt is my wish that the rules regulating the management, by the 
American Philosophical Society, of Zhe Henry M. Phillips Prize 
Lssay Fund, which I hereby endow as a tribute to the memory of 
my brother, who was a member of the Society, shall be made by 
