THE F R A N K L I N INSTITUTE

Stated Monthly Meeting, February 16, 1944

The audience stood at attention while the National Anthem was played.

Mr. Charles S. Redding, President, then called the meeting to order and stated that, due to unforeseen difficulties, the January number of the JOURNAL had not come out in time to legitimately enable the members to vote on the December minutes of the Institute.

At this meeting it was therefore duly moved and seconded that the December minutes, as printed in the January number of the JOURNAL, be approved as printed.

Dr. Henry B. Allen, Secretary, was then called upon to make his report. He stated that ~ince the last meeting the following additions to membership have occurred:

Active . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IOI Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Student . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Library Sustaining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

157 Total Institute Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,824

Dr. Allen then proposed the names of the two Franklin Medalists for 1944, for Honorary Membership in The Franklin Institute, in accordance with custom:

Dr. William David Coolidge, Vice-President and Director of Research, General Electric Company, Schenectady, New Y{}rk and I)r. Peter Kapitza, The Institute for Physical Problems, Moscow, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Upon motion, duh' seconded and carried, tilese two gentlemen were elected to Honorary Membership.

Mr. Redding then introduced the speaker of the evening, Mr. Richard P. Price, Vice- President, Hammermill Paper Company, of Erie, Pennsylvania, and stated that his subject would be "Ancient and Modern Usage of Paper."

Mr. Price told of the material and methods used in making paper by the Chinese and other .'\siatic people. He discussed the advent of the process into Europe and the improvements there made. He explained the developments resulting in pulp being made from wood and tmally into paper which is so extensively used today for cultural and non-cultural purposes. After the paper, a number of questions were asked by a very interested audience.

The paper will be published in full in a subsequent number of the J~U~NAI.. The meeting adjourned at 9:4 ° P..~{.