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supernatural in Elizabethan and 

 Jacobean plays. We give these titles, 

 as it is not usual to combine in one 

 program papers in the natural and ex- 

 act sciences and in the philological 

 and historical sciences. The whole 

 question of the relation of these two 

 great groups of sciences to each other 

 requires solution, and it is of interest 

 to note that they were successfully 

 combined at Philadelphia. The fol- 

 lowing new members were elected: 



Residents of the United States — Ed- 

 ward E. Barnard, Sc.D., Williams Bay, 

 Wis.; Carl Hazard Barus, Ph.D., 

 Providence, R. I.; Franz Boas, Ph.D., 

 New York; William W. Campbell, 

 Sc.D,. Mt. Hamilton, Cal.; Eric Doo- 

 little, Philadelphia; Basil Lanneau 

 Gildersleeve, LL.D., Baltimore; Francis 

 Barton Gummere, Ph.D., Haverford, 

 Pa.; Arnold Hague, Washington, D. 

 C; George William Hill, LL.D., Nyack, 

 N. Y.; William Henry Howell, Ph.D., 

 Baltimore; Edward W. Morley, Ph.D., 

 Cleveland; Harmon N. Morse, Ph.D., 

 Baltimore; Edward Rhodes, Haverford, 

 Pa.; Alfred Stengel, M.D., Philadel- 

 phia; William Trelease, Sc.D., St. 

 Louis. 



Foreign Residents. — Anton Dohrn, 

 Naples; Edwin Ray Lankester, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., London; Sir Henry E. Roscoe, 

 F.R.S., D.C.L., London; Joseph John 

 Thomson, D.Sc, F.R.S., Cambridge, 

 Eng. ; Hugo de Vries, Amsterdam. 



Action was also taken looking to 

 the adequate celebration of the two 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of 

 Franklin, the founder of the organiza- 

 tion. This was expressed in the fol- 

 lowing preamble and resolution which 

 were unanimously adopted : 



Inasmuch as the two hundredth an- 

 niversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin occurs in January, 1906, it is 

 proper that the American Philosoph- 

 ical Society, which owes its existence 

 to his initiative and to which he gave 

 many long years of faithful service, 

 should take steps to commemorate the 

 occasion in a manner befitting his emi- 

 nent services to this society, to science 

 and to the nation. Therefore be it 



Resolved, That the president is au- 

 thorized and directed to appoint a com- 

 mittee of such number as he shall deem 

 proper to prepare a plan for the ap- 

 propriate celebration of the bi-centen- 

 nial of the birth of Franklin, and re- 

 port the same to this society. 



SCIENTIFIC ITEMS. 



Professor J. Peter Lesley, the 

 eminent geologist, died at Milton, 

 Mass., on June 1, aged eighty-three 

 years. 



The freedom of the city of Rome 

 has been conferred on Mr. G. Marconi. 

 — The German Chemical Society has 

 conferred its gold Hofmann medals on 

 Professor Henri Moissan and Sir Wil- 

 liam Ramsay. 



Dk. a. C. Abbott, professor of 

 hygiene at the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, has been appointed chief of 

 the Bureau of Health at Philadelphia. 

 — James Harkness, A.M., since 188S 

 professor of mathematics at Bryn 

 Mawr College, has been appointed by 

 the board of governors Redpath Pro- 

 fessor of Mathematics at McGill Uni- 

 versity. — Dr. W J McGee has been 

 appointed chairman of the committee 

 of the International Geographical 

 Congress of 1904, succeeding General 

 A. W. Greely, who has resigned owing 

 to ill health and the pressure of official 

 duties. — Dr. A. Graham Bell has re- 

 signed the presidency of the National 

 Geographic Society. 



At the meeting of the board of trus- 

 tees of the Leland Stanford Junior 

 University held on June 1, Mrs. Leland 

 Stanford resigned and surrendered all 

 the powers and duties vested in her 

 by the terms of the grant founding the 

 imiversity, under which she had com- 

 plete control. That control is now 

 vested in tlie board. Mrs. Stanford 

 will be elected a trustee, and will be 

 elected president. 



