The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April IL
Scientists and statesmen of note, both
from the United States and other coun-
tries will pay homage to the WORKS and
memory of Benjamin Franklin at the
general biennial meeting of the Amer
lean Philosophical Society for Promot-
ing Useful knowledge, which will open
here tonight for a four-days' session.
Special efforts have been made to make
this session of the society the most
successful in its history. The society
was founded in l743, and Benjamin
Franklin was one of the prime movers
and founders of it.
The meetings will begin this even
ing with a reception to the delegates
at Witherspoon hall. Mr.. Edgar F.
Smith, the presdent-and vice-presi-
dent of the University of Pennsyl-
vanit-will deliver the principal ad-
dress of the evening. The address will
form the first part of the program;
then the delegates Of foreign scientific
societies will be introduced and an
informal reception will conclude the
evening.
Tomorrow there will be three ses-
cir
the morning and the afternoon,
papers on various scientific sub
will be held at the society's hall on
South Fifth street Among the pa
pers to be read will be the following:
"Heredity and Variation" Prof Will
lam Keith Brooks, of Baltimore; "On
a Possible Reversal of the Deep Sea
Circulation, and It's Effect on Geologi-
cal Climates" Prof Thomas G.. Cham
berlain, of Chicago; 1.-The Statistical
Method in Chemical Geology" Frank
Wiggesworth Clarke. of Washington,
D. c.; 1.-THE Figure and Stability of a
Liquid Satellite" Sir George Darwin,
K. c. B., F. R. S, of Cambridge, Eng
land; "Was Lewis Evans or Benjamin
Franklin the First to Recognize that
the Northeast Storms Come from the
Prof William Morris Da-
Wis, of Cambridge, Mass; Repetition
and Variation in Poetic Structure,
Prof. Francis Barton Gummare, of
Haverford; The Herodotean Proto-
type of Esther and Scheherezade,"
Prof. Paul Haupt, of Baltimore; IAN
Southern Observatory"
Prof. Edward c. Pickering, of Cam
bridge; "The Present Position of the
Problem Concerning the First Princi-
pies of Scientific Theory" by Prof
Josiah Royce of Cambridge; Notes on
a Collection of Fossil Mammals from
Natal" Prof. William B. Scott, Of
Princeton, and Elementary Specits in
by Prof. Hugo de Vries,
Of Amsterdam, Holland.
Other papers will be read by David
Starr Jordan. president of Stanford
and Prof. Albert A. Niche
con, of Chicago
An executive session will follow in
he evening. Prof. Edward L. Nichols.
If Cornell university, will deliver an
address in Witherspoon hall on
'Franklin's Researches for Electricity"
Prof. Ernest Rutherford, F. R. S., of
will deliver an address on
The Modern Theories of Electricity
nd Their Relation to the Franklinian
Theory"
Thursday morning honorary degrees
will be conferred by the University of
at the Academy of Mu-
ic; on Friday morning, the following
ddresses referring to Franklin will be
elivered: LAS Citizen and Philan-
hropist," by Horace Howard F'urness:
AS a Printer and Philosopher" by
President Elliott, of Harvard, and "As
Statesman and Diplomatist," by Jo-
eph H. Choate. Secretary of State
loot will then present the Franklin
MEDAL. In the evening there will be a
inner at the Bellevue Stratford.
Services of an unusual nature will
re held in Christ Church Burying
round at Fifth and Arch streets on
he afternoon of Thursday The dele
ates and members will assemble in the
all of the society and march to the
title cemetery. where ceremonies I'M
er the auspices Of the Grand Lodge
f F & A NJ. of Pentss ivania will be
cid over the modt=t slab of marble
nder which rests the remains of the
reat statesman, scientist, philosopher
nd inventor.
Special importance will be lent to the |
netting in the Academy of music on
'riday morning, when. by direction of