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Excerpt from Remarks on Cellular Separation: Read by Appointment of the American Association for the Improvement of Penal and Reformatory Institutions, at the Annual Meeting in New York, November 29, 1860 We take great pleasure in communicating to you the enclosed resolution, adopted unanimously by the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, on Thursday last. We feel persuaded that the publication of your valuable essay will greatly promote the cause which our Society has so much at heart, - the extension of the Pennsylvania system of prison discipline. At a stated meeting of the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, held 12th month 20, 1860, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved. That William Parker Foulke be requested to furnish a copy of the essay read at the late meeting of the American Association for the Improvement of Penal and Reformatory Institutions, held in New York, and that the same be stereotyped and published under the direction of the committee on the distribution of the Journal; and also that a copy be bound up and distributed with the January number of the Journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.