Subject: Societies

Pamphlet containing the Constitution of the Numismatic Society of Philadelphia, published in 1865. Bound with this constitution are two 1867 papers by Henry Phillips Jr.: "Medicine & Astrology" and "The Pleasures of Numismatic Science." Also included is "A Historical Sketch of the National Medals" by Charles Henry Hart. Hart later served as a director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and chairman of the committee on retrospective American art at the World's Columbian Exposition.