Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
May,  1906. 
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The  Elimination  of  Velocity-Head  in  the  Measurements  of  Pres- 
sures in  a  Fluid  Stream  by  Prof.  Francis  E.  Nipher,  of  St.  Louis. 
Old  Weather  Records  and  Franklin  as  a  Meteorologist  by  Prof. 
Cleveland  Abbe,  of  Washington. 
Was  Lewis  Evans  or  Benjamin  Franklin  the  first  to  recognize  that 
our  Northeast  Storms  come  from  the  Southwest  ?  by  Prof.  William 
Morris  Davis,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Notes  on  the  Production  of  Optical  Planes  of  large  Dimensions 
by  Dr.  John  A.  Brashear,  of  Allegheny,  Pa. 
A  new  Mountain  Observatory  by  Prof.  George  E.  Hale,  Pasadena, 
Cal. 
Evening  Session,  Wednesday,  April  i8th,  at  Witherspoon  Hall. 
addresses. 
Franklin's  Researches  in  Electricity  by  Prof.  Edward  L.  Nichols, 
Ph.D.,  of  Ithaca. 
The  Modern  Theories  of  Electricity  and  their  Relation  to  the 
Franklinian  Theory  by  Prof.  Ernest  Rutherford,  F.R.S.,  of  Montreal. 
Thursday,  April  19TH,  at  the  American  Academy  of  Music, 
at  11  A.M. 
THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  PENNSYLVANIA. 
Conferring  of  honorary  degrees. 
Oration  by  the  Hon.  Hampton  L.  Carson,  Attorney-General  of 
the  Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania. 
AT  CHRIST  CHURCH  BURYING  GROUND,  4  P.M. 
Ceremonies  at  the  Grave  of  Franklin,  under  the  auspices  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Pennsylvania. 
reception  at  the  bellevue-stratford,  9  p.m. 
Friday,  April  2oth,  at  the  American  Academy  of  Music,  i  i  a.m. 
addresses  in  commemoration  of  benjamin  franklin 
As  Citizen  and  Philanthropist  by  Horace  Howard  Furness,  Litt. 
D.  (Cantab.). 
As  Statesman  and  Diplomatist,  by  the  Hon.  Joseph  Hodges 
Choate,  LL.D.,  D.C.L. 
As  Printer  and  Philosopher,  by  President  Charles  William  Eliot, 
LL.D. 
