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Academy (ROYAL ACANTHUS and a valuable)

ROYAL ACANTHUS and a valuable scientific library. It has published "Journals" since 1817, and "Proceedings" since 1841.

ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND William Crary Brownell, Basil Lanneau ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCI- Gildersleeve, Woodrow Wilson, Arthur ENCES OF PHILADELPHIA, an insti- Twining Hadley, Henry Cabot Lodge, tution founded in 1812. It has one of the Edwin Howland Blashfield, Thomas best natural history collections in the Hastings, Brander Matthews, Thomas world-especially rich in stuffed birds- Nelson Page, Elihu Vedder, George Edward Woodberry, George Whitefield Chadwick, Abbott Henderson Thayer, George de Forest Brush, William Rutherford Mead, Bliss Perry, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul Wayland Bartlett, Owen Wister, Herbert Adams, Augustus Thomas, Timothy Cole, Cass Gilbert, William Roscoe Thayer, Robert Grant, Frederick MacMonnies, William Gillette, Paul Elmer More, Barrett Wendell, Gari Melchers, Elihu Root, Brand Whitlock, Hamlin Garland, Paul Shorey, Charles Platt, Maurice Francis Egan, Archer Huntington.

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