2.30 P.M. Lecture Room No. 226, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Frank J. Sprague, presiding. Dean Dexter S. Kimball, M.E., The College of Engineering, Cornell University, The Progress and Promise of Engineering." 46 Daniel E. Moran, M.Sc., Consulting Engineer, “Some of the Effects of Loading Granular Material." Brigadier General Edgar Jadwin, United States War Department, “Modern Military Engineering." 2.30 P.M. Lecture Room No. 314, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Director Arthur L. Day, presiding. Professor W. J. Humphreys, C.E., Ph.D., United States Weather Bureau, "The Way of the Wind." William D. Coolidge, Ph.D., General Electric Company, "Modern X-ray Tube Development." Professor William Lawrence Bragg, M.A., F.R.S., Victoria University, "Inorganic Crystals." THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH 10.00 A.M. Harrison Chemical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Willis R., Whitney, presiding. Professor F. Haber, Ph.D., Direktor, Institut für Physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie, Technical Results of the Theoretical Development in Chemistry." Director Arthur L. Day, Ph.D., Sc.D., Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution, "Some Causes of Volcanic Activity." Professor Wilder D. Bancroft, Ph.D., Cornell University, "The Development of Colloid Chemistry." Director C. E. K. Mees, D.Sc., Eastman Kodak Company, "Applied and Scientific Photography." 10.00 A.M. Lecture Room No. 214, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. General Guy E. Tripp, presiding. Professor P. W. Bridgman, Ph.D., Harvard University, "Some Aspects of High Pressure Research." Professor Dayton C. Miller, Sc.D., Case School of Applied Science, "The Phonodeik." Professor Charles E. Mendenhall, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin, “Electronic Phenomena at the Surface of Metals." Professor Sir William Henry Bragg, K.B.E., M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Royal Institution, "The Carbon Atom in Crystalline Structure." 10.00 A.M. Lecture Room No. 216, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Augustus Trowbridge, presiding. Irving Langmuir, Ph.D., D.Sc., LL.D., General Electric Company, "Electric Discharges in Gases at Low Pressures." Professor Charles Fabry, University of Paris, "Spectroscopy in Past and Present." Professor Augustus Trowbridge, Ph.D., Princeton University, Spectroscopy." 66 "Infra-red F. W. Peek, General Electric Company, Lightning." 10.00 A.M. University of Pennsylvania Museum. Doctor Samuel Insull, presiding. E. W. Rice, Jr., Sc.D., D.Eng., Honorary Chairman, General Electric Company, "The Field of Research in Industrial Institutions." Ralph Modjeski, Dr. Engr., Consulting Engineer, “Unusual Problems Encountered in the Design and Construction of Large Bridges." Sir Charles Algernon Parsons, K.C.B., M.A., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Newcastleon-Tyne, "Steam Turbines on Land and Sea." William LeRoy Emmet, Sc.D., General Electric Company, "Mercury Boiler." II.30 A.M. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH Harrison Chemical Laboratory, University of Pennsplvania. Professor Joseph S. Ames, presiding. Professor Pieter Zeeman, Ph.D., Sc.D., University of Amsterdam, "Radiating Atoms in Magnetic Fields." Professor John Sealy Edward Townsend, F.R.S., University of Oxford, "Motion of Electrons in Gases." Professor W. F. G. Swann, D.Sc., University of Chicago, "The Origin of the Earth's Electric and Magnetic Phenomena." J. Slepian, M.A., Ph.D., The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, "Electric Discharges Between High Resistance Electrodes." 11.30 A.M. Lecture Room No. 216, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Doctor Arthur D. Little, presiding. Director Charles L. Reese, Ph.D., Sc.D., E. I. du Pont de Neumours and Company, "Twenty-five Years' Progress in Explosives." Professor F. G. Donnan, C.B.E., M.A., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.I.C., F.R.S., University College, London, “The Influence of J. Willard Gibbs on the Science of Physical Chemistry." Provost Emeritus Edgar F. Smith, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., Chem.D., Litt.D., M.D., University of Pennsylvania, "Early Science in Philadelphia.” 11.30 A.M. Lecture Room No. 226, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Professor A. E. Outerbridge, Jr., presiding. Professor C. H. Mathewson, Ph.D., Yale University, "The Trend in Physical Metallurgy." George L. Kelley, Ph.D., Philadelphia, "The Restraint of Exaggerated Grain Growth in Critically Strained Metals." Professor Bradley Stoughton, Lehigh University, “Magnetic Analysis of Steel." T. D. Yensen, E.E., The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, "Magnetic Properties of Fifty Per Cent. Iron, Fifty Per Cent. Nickel Alloys." 11.30 A.M. Lecture Room No. 314, Engineering Building, University of Pennsylvania. Major General George O. Squier, presiding. Dean Harold Pender, Ph.D., Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, "A New Type of Non-inductive High Resistance." Professor A. A. Michelson, Ph.D., Sc.D., LL.D., The University of Chicago, "Velocity of Light." Major General C. C. Williams, United States War Department, "Modern Ordnance." CHARTER AND BY-LAWS THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS An Act, to incorporate The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the subscribers to the association called The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, and all such persons as may hereafter be admitted members of the same, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS," to have perpetual succession, to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in all courts of record or elsewhere, to use a common seal, and break, alter, and renew the same at pleasure, and to take, hold, and enjoy lands, tenements, and hereditaments; Provided that the yearly income of the real estates held by them shall not exceed two thousand dollars. SEC 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the objects of the said corporation shall be the promotion and encouragement of manufactures and the mechanic and useful arts, by the establishment of popular lectures on the sciences connected with them, by the formation of a cabinet of models and minerals, and a library, by offering premiums on all objects deemed worthy of encouragement, by examining all new inventions submitted to them, and by such other measures as they may judge expedient. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of the said corporation shall consist of manufacturers, mechanics, artisans, and persons friendly to the mechanic arts; they shall pay such sum annually, or in gross, as shall be required by the by-laws of the said corporation for an annual, or life, subscription; Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the said corporation from electing honorary or corresponding members, who may be exempted from such payments and other duties of membership, in such manner and to such extent as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the said corporation. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the officers of the said corporation shall be a president, two vice-presidents, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, and twenty-four managers, who shall, together, constitute a board of managers of the said corporation, and such other officers as the said corporation shall deem needful; two-thirds of the managers shall be manufacturers or mechanics; the said officers shall be elected at an annual meeting of the said corporation, to be held on the third Thursday of January; if an election shall not take place on that day, the corporation shall not for that cause be dissolved, but an election shall be held as soon afterwards as may be, and until such election the officers in place shall continue to act; public notice of all elections shall be given in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws of the said corporation; the present officers of the said association are hereby constituted the officers of the corporation hereby created and shall continue to hold their respective offices till otherwise elected under the provisions of this act; Provided always, that the said corporation shall have power to increase the number of vice-presidents and managers hereinbefore mentioned, to such number as may be deemed advisable and convenient at a stated meeting of the said corporation, the same public notice of such intended alteration being previously given as may be required to be given of the election of officers of the said corporation. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the duties and rights of the members of the said corporation, the powers and functions of the members of the said corporation, the powers and functions of the officers thereof hereinbefore mentioned, and of such others as may hereafter be added, the mode of supplying vacancies in office, the times of meeting of the said corporation, and of the board of managers, the numbers which shall constitute a quorum at any such meetings, the mode of electing members, the terms of their admission, the causes which shall justify their suspension or expulsion from the corporation, and all other concerns of the said corporation shall be regulated by the by-laws and ordinances of the said corporation hereafter to be made, which the said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to make and alter, in the manner which may be therein mentioned; Provided that the said by-laws or ordinances shall not be repugnant to, or inconsistent with, the constitution or laws of the United States or of this Commonwealth. OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE SENATE OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, March 30th, 1824. I certify that the foregoing Bill passed both branches of the Legislature, and received the signature of the Governor on this day. As witness my hand the day and year above written. (Signed.) JNO. DUPUY, Clerk. An Act to amend and alter the Act incorporating The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts. WHEREAS, The Act approved March thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, incorporating The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, has been found insufficient and inconvenient for accomplishing the objects of said corporation, and the said corporation has applied for alteration and amendment thereof. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is |