1893.] Editorials. 543 
As an illustration, in 1880, the Boston Society of Natural History 
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. A memorial 
volume was issued, which includes the papers read on that occasion, 
and it is a monumental work. The same course should have been pur- 
sued by the American Philosophical Society. There is no deficiency 
of workers or of work. The members of this Society produce original 
work in Prehistoric Archeology, Philology and Ancient and Modern 
History ; in Chemistry, Geology Biology; in Political Science, and 
in pure Philosophy. We emphasize the words original work. That 
none of these men and none ‘of this work appear in the programme 
will be cause of astonishment both in Philadelphia and out of it. 
