later paper will deal with the history of many individual clocks, and the story of the famililes that have had them for generations, as I have uncovered many very interesting facts along these lines that would make good material for an historical paper. HOFFS—Among the clockmakers of Lancaster City who

, West Reading, Pa., who spoke in place of Judge Benjamin C. Atlee, absent through illness, knew his subject well, and told many interesting stories about Sutter's life in Lititz. In his monograph on Sutter, printed in our Proceedings in 1913 (see Vol. XVII, p. 279), Rev. Landis expressed a hope which he

Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor

SITE The first activity of the new manufacturing concern, known as the Lan- caster Locomotive Works, was the selection of a suitable site, and that was conditioned upon the location of the railroad tracks. About April 13, 1853, "the lot of John H. Duchman, adjoining William F. Millar's lumber yard, in