Addresses Made at the Meeting Held in Memory of William Pepper, M.D., LL. D PDF Download

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ISBN: 9781332097074
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Excerpt from Addresses Made at the Meeting Held in Memory of William Pepper, M.D., LL. D: Held in the Chapel of the University of Pennsylvania, November 29, 1898 At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, held October 4, 1898, Mr. Samuel Dickson offered the following resolution: "Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed to make provision for a memorial meeting in reference to the death of Dr. William Pepper, with authority to invite the cooperation of other institutions and societies, with which he was connected." The Provost appointed as this committee Mr. Samuel Dickson, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, Dr. Horace Howard Furness, Mr. Joseph S. Harris, and Mr. Joseph G. Rosengarten. Similar committees were appointed as follows: From the American Philosophical Society: Dr. Persifor Frazer, Hon. George F. Edmunds, Dr. J. M. Da Costa, Gen. I. J. Wistar, and Dr. James Tyson. From the Franklin Institute: Dr. Coleman Sellers, Dr. Isaac Norris, and Mr. George Vaux, Jr. From the Academy of National Sciences: Rev. Dr. Henry McCook, Dr. Henry C. Chapman, and Mr. Joseph Willcox. A joint meeting of the committees was called at the University Club, to which were also invited Hon. Charles F. Warwick, Dr. William P. Wilson, Mr. Daniel Baugh, Mr. Hampton L. Carson, Hon. Frederick Fraley, and Mr. John Thomson; Mr. Dickson presiding. It was decided to hold the services in the Chapel of the University of Pennsylvania, on the evening of November 29, 1898, and to invite His Excellency Governor Hastings to preside as ex-officio President of the Board of Trustees of the University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.