546 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec.,. 



founding of the Academy. The event was considered memorable 

 by t he entire learned world, as evinced by the reception of 405 letters, 

 telegrams and cards of acknowledgment and congratulation from 

 institutions and correspondents and the appointment of 194 dele- 

 gates by learned societies at home and abroad. 



A lull report of this most interesting event in the history of the 

 Academy has been printed and distributed as the first part of the 

 fifteenth volume of the quarto Journal. The entire volume has 

 been specially prepared and is now placed before the meeting in a 

 form befitting in its dignity the culmination of the Academy's dis- 

 tinguished contributions to science since 1817, when the publication 

 of the unpretentious first number of the octavo Journal was 

 evidence of the sustained faith of the founders in the dignity of 

 their mission. The contrast of the struggling Academy of 1817, 

 meeting in the little house up Gilliam's Court, with the society as 

 now established and endowed is scarcely greater than that of the 

 first issued volume with the sumptuous quarto just completed. 



The centenary meeting was addressed by the Mayor, the President, 

 the Recording Secretary, and twenty-four members and correspondents. 

 Nearly all of the communications, presented also as contributions 

 to the commemorative quarto, were epitomized for the preliminary 

 report in the Proceedings of last March. The celebration cul- 

 minated in a banquet attended by 160 delegates, members, and 

 guests, at which eight congratulatory addresses were made after 

 the discussion of an elegant and sufficient bill of fare. 



The permanent memorials of the event will consist of the volume 

 of the Journal now on the table, an index to the publications of the 

 Academy brought to the end of 1910, and a history of the society 

 by the Recording Secretary. The commemorative quarto is now 

 before the meeting. The index consists of a record of all the con- 

 tributions to the Journal and Proceedings during the period 

 defined, and a reference to every scientific name occurring in the 

 volumes. The alphabetical arrangement of the latter has been 

 completed and about two-thirds of the list is in type, forming the 

 second section of the volume, the first consisting of the catalogue 

 of papers and "verbals." The entire volume will contain about 

 thirteen hundred pages. While the history requires only the 

 final chapter (an account of the centenary celebration) for com- 

 pletion, no arrangement has yet been made for the publication of 

 the volume, as the preparation of the other works referred to has 

 been so engrossing during the year that it would have been impossible 



