will report the same direct to the officer commanding defenses. As the honor and safety of Lancaster County depends upon a prompt obedience to this order, the commanding officer trusts that it may be forth- with respected. By command of EMLEN FRANKLIN, Colonel Commanding Defenses of Lancaster County

families in Lancaster and adjoining counties. A number of the clocks are in the possession of the descendants of the Gorgas family. Among members of the family who have such clocks are Harry S. Gorgas of Garden City, N. Y., William S. Pilling of Germantown, Pa., Mrs. Mary Embree Thompson of Germantown, Pa

of the earliest and most ardent collectors and observers of nature, a resident of Darby, then Chester County, Pa., contributed many papers on entomology which appeared between the years 1746 and 1751. Timothy Mattlock, born in New Jersey but a resident of standing in Lancaster, presented in 1780 an

Never before has the Lancaster County Historical Society been called upon to enter into a dual ceremony such as commemorated today—at Lititz, Pennsylvania, and simultaneously at Sacramento, California; communities separated by the breadth of our country. At Lititz, in the town center, before the General