-cancels, post marks, first-day covers — all considered specialized collections. "Lives of great men, thus remind us" so says the poet, Longfellow. During the term of Calvin Coolidge, the thirty-first president of the United States, a proclamation was issued that from February twenty-second until November

elsewhere. Unless we keep in mind the fact that the election of 1860 was prior to the radio, telephone and daily mail in many sections, and that there were only a few dailies in the United States, we may not be able to appreciate fully the widely extended influence of Mr. Fell's efforts in securing Mr

interested in the drawing of birds, and conceived a plan to illustrate the ornithology of the United States. In 1804, largely for the purpose of collecting material, he, with two friends, walked to Niagara Falls, an inter- esting account of which outing he gave in a poem called "The Foresters." Two years

An Anti-Slavery Reminiscence The Society is indebted to Dr. Geo. L. Cassel for the priviiege of abstract- ing from the diary of his father, the late Abraham Cassel, of Marietta, an interesting account of his experience as a juror in the United States Court in a famous civil case, growing out of the

AN ARTISTIC AFTERMATH I am indebted to Mr. John D. Chal- fant, artist, of Wilmington, Deh, for an opportunity to see a catalogue of the "First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Artists of the United States." which was held in Philadelphia, under the auspices of what is now the Academy of Fine

not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey

its possibilities were brought into mind, by accidentally running across the report of the debate in the United States Senate in 1836, the last year of Jackson's Administration, when the award of a monumental work in front of the Capitol building, in Washington, to a particular Italian sculptor, was