572 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [Dec, 



preparation of a biographical notice which, it is hoped, will be ready 

 for presentation early the coming year. 



The birth of Charles Darwin and the publication of the Origin of 

 Species were fittingly commemorated by a well attended meeting on 

 February 16, at which addresses were made by the President, Dr. 

 Arthur Erwin Brown, and Dr. Edwin G. Conklin. 



A successful meeting of the American Museums Association was 

 held in the Academy, May 13. 



Edward J. Nolan, 



Recording Secretary. 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



During the year six correspondents of the Academy died and five 

 were elected. Those deceased are Prof. Jean Albert Gaudry, Prof. 

 Perceval de Loriol Le Fort, Prof. Rudolph Bergh, Dr. Robert E. C. 

 Stearns, Dr. Anton Dohrn and Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri; and those 

 elected, Dr. John Mason Clarke, Dr. Robert F. Scharff, Dr. Albert 

 Leon Charles Calmette, Dr. Sven A. Hedin and Prof. Oscar Drude. 



In accordance with the award of last year the Hayden Gold Medal 

 was, on December 11, transmitted to Dr. John Mason Clarke, and an 

 acknowledgment of the same duly received, together with an official 

 copy of a minute appreciative of the Academy's action passed by 

 Dr. Clarke's associates on the Board of Regents of the University of 

 the State of New York. 



Among the events of importance to the scientific world in which 

 the Academy was invited to participate were the following: The 

 presentation of an international testimonial in honor of Amedeo 

 Avogadro, the student of the molecular constitution of gases; the 

 Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Botanical Institute of 

 Brandenburg; the Three hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the 

 foundation of the University of Geneva; the Darwin Centenary exer- 

 cises of the New York Academy of Sciences ; the International Congress 

 of Mining, Metallurgy and Practical Geology; the Seventeenth Inter- 

 national Congress of Americanists; the dedication exercises of the 

 Lamarck Centenary memorial statue in Paris; the Jubilee of the 

 Geological Society of Glasgow, and the presentation by President 

 Taft of medals in recognition of their services to aeronautics to Wilbur 

 and Orville Wright. As delegates representing the Academy at the 

 Glasgow jubilee and the University of Geneva celebration, Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie and Dr. Auguste Forel, both correspondents, were respec- 



