These 12 essays reflect Dr. Bell's interests not only as a distinguished scholar of Benjamin Franklin & of the cultural & scientific life of early Amer., but also as Librarian & Exec. Officer of the APS. Contents: Remarks by Jonathan Rhoads, Biographical Sketch of Dr. Bell, with Selected Biblio., Benjamin Franklin, "The Old England Man" by Esmond Wright, Frustration & Benjamin Franklin's Medical Books, by Edwin Wolf 2nd, William Byrd Reports on His Mission to the Cherokee in 1758, by W. W. Abbot, The Men of '68: Graduates of Amer's. First Medical School, by Randolph Klein, The Search for the State House Yard Observatory, by Silvio Bedini, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "Learned Engineer, " The APS, & the Promotion of Useful Knowledge & Works, 1798-1809, by Edward Carter II, The Phila. Soc. For Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1787-1829, by Marvin Wolfgang, Cotton Textiles & Industrialism, by Thomas Cochran, The Amer. Industrial Revolution Through its Survivals, by Brooke Hindle, A Catalog of Books Belonging to Benjamin Smith Barton, by Joseph Swan, Foreign Membership of Biological Scientists in the APS During the 18th & 19th Cent., by Bentley Glass, & Louis Agassiz as an Early Embryologist in Amer., by Jane Oppenheimer. Illus.