stated meeting following date of receipt, and shall be affirmed only by a vote of two-thirds of a quorum for final action, in which case a re-investigation shall be made.

ARTICLE XI.-Institute Reports

SECTION I. Reports issued by the Institute shall begin and end substantially as in Form C appended. They shall be written upon an official form provided by the Institute.

SEC. 2. Reports when issued shall state that they are the action of The Franklin Institute by its Committee on Science and the Arts. They shall be attested by the President and the Secretary of the Institute and by the Chairman of the Committee, and shall be impressed with the seal of the Institute; and they may also bear the names of the members who signed the subcommittee's report.

SEC. 3. On the completion of an investigation, the applicant shall be provided with a certified copy of the Institute's report.

ARTICLE XII.-Amendments to Regulations

SECTION 1. Proposals to amend these regulations shall be presented to the Committee in writing, signed by at least two members. They may be considered when presented, but shall not be acted upon until the next stated meeting after presentation, and shall then be adopted if agreed to by two-thirds of the required quorum.

SEC. 2. Notice of proposed amendments shall be sent to each member on the programme for the meeting at which they may be acted upon.

Since much latitude is allowed by the terms of the several medal bequests and no rules for the making of Institute awards conflicting with the purpose and intent of the donors can be made, it is obviously not the part of wisdom to attempt too much in the way of definition. It is suggested that future awards be made with the following general understanding:

1. That the Certificate of Merit be awarded for meritorious inventions and physical processes.

2. That the Edward Longstreth Medal be awarded for invention of high order and for particularly meritorious improvements and developments in machines and mechanical processes.

3. That the John Price Wetherill Medal be awarded for discovery or invention in the physical sciences, or for new and important combinations of principles or methods already known.

4. That the Howard N. Potts Medal be awarded in recognition of important discoveries in physical science.

5. That the George R. Henderson Medal be awarded in recognition of meritorious inventions or discoveries in the field of railway engineering.

6. That the Elliott Cresson Medal be awarded in recognition of inventions of signal value and fundamentally important in the arts and industries.

7. That the Louis Edward Levy Medal be awarded in recognition of papers contributed to the JOURNAL of the Institute, which are of superior excellence and descriptive of a field in science or engineering to which the author has contributed fruitful research.

8. That the Franklin Medal continue to be awarded to those whose efforts have contributed most to a knowledge of physical science and its applications.

REPORT FORMS OF COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS

FORM A

(Application for Investigation)

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

OF THE

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

FOR THE

PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS

In the matter of your application to The Franklin Institute for a consideration of your invention or discovery entitled

.... the following data are requested for the information of the Committee on Science and the Arts:

1. What is the specific purpose of the invention?

2. What is the condition of the prior art in this regard?

3. What improvement is claimed to be effected by the invention?

4. How is the improvement effected?

5. What patents, if any, have been issued for this invention?

6. What citations, if any, were made in this regard by the Patent Office before allowance of patent claims?

7. Is the invention now in actual use?

8. If so, since when?

9. Where may it be seen in operation?

10. Are you prepared to submit drawings of the apparatus or device? 11. Are you prepared to submit a model of the apparatus or device?

12. If the invention is a composition of matter, are you prepared to submit specimens of the ingredients and of the compound sufficient for the purpose of experiments?

13. If the invention is a chemical process, are you prepared to give a demonstration of the same?

IMPORTANT TO APPLICANT

This application carefully filled in and other available matters descriptive of the invention or process, together with two copies of each of the United States patents issued to applicant, must be returned promptly to the Secretary of The Franklin Institute, 15 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

(A copy of Form A, above, may be obtained from the Secretary of the Institute and must be filled in, signed and promptly returned by an applicant for an examination of and a report upon an invention or discovery.)

FORM B

(Sub-committee Report Form)

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

OF THE

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

FOR THE

PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS

S. & A. Case No.

REPORT OF SUB-COMMITTEE, dated

Investigating

TO THE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND THE ARTS:

Your sub-committee appointed to investigate the above subject reports

FORM C

(Institute Report Forms)

THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

OF THE

STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA

FOR THE

PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS

HALL OF THE INSTITUTE,

Philadelphia,...

S. & A. Case No.

The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, acting through its

Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts.

PRESIDENT'S REPORT AND REPORTS OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE INSTITUTE AND THE COMMITTEES OF ITS BOARD OF MANAGERS

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1926

To the Members of The Franklin Institute:

The end of the year brings to the President an opportunity to review, in his annual report, the activities of The Institute, and to record his appreciation of the work which has been so well carried on by the various Committees.

COMMITTEE ON MUSEUM

The Committee on Museum, Mr. Hugo Bilgram, Chairman, reports that the following additions have been made to the Institute's historical collections: A clock with compensating pendulum devised by Mr. G. Morgan Eldridge and presented to the Institute by his stepdaughter, Miss L. S. Hawley, 3815 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Mr. Eldridge was a member of the Institute from 1874 to 1898, and served on the Board of Managers 1885-1890.

The Mond Nickel Company's 25th Anniversary Medal, given by The Mond Nickel Company, Limited, Victoria Station House, Victoria Street, London, S.W. 1, England.

Nine original drawings and two lithographs of locomotives formerly the property of Mr. Enoch Lewis, member of the Board of Managers 1868-1894, given by Mr. Theodore J. Lewis, Room 505 Morris Building, 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

Portrait of Mr. Thomas Fletcher, Treasurer of the Institute 1824-1825, Member of the Board of Managers, 1826–1827, given by Mrs. Adeline Gardiner Clark, 502 Morton Avenue, Ridley Park, Penna.

Collotype print of Independence Hall, Philadelphia, given by the George Arthur Wonfor Company, 203 Mickle Street, Camden, N. J.

"The Declaration of Independence," painted by John Trumbull, engraved and printed by Illman Brothers, given by Illman Brothers, 296 East Bringhurst Street, Germantown, Philadelphia.

The Institute highly values these accessions, and records its thanks to the donors. It is timely to repeat and emphasize the statements in previous Annual Reports, that the present lack of space and facilities prevents the proper display and protection of the many notable exhibits in the Institute's historical collections. This condition will exist until a thoroughly equipped museum is provided. Active efforts are now being made to secure a suitable site on the Parkway, so that a museum worthy of the Institute's great traditions may be erected.