1914. J NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 651 



volume of incoming correspondence as a result of the diminished 

 activities of European scientific institutions since the out))reak of 

 the war. 



Correspondents reported deceased during the year were Albert 

 Guenther, Carl Chun, Edward Suess, Frederick W. True, Theodore 

 Gill, August Weismann and Charles Sedgwick Minot. Those 

 elected were Edgar A. Mearns, Frank M. Chapman, Charles W. 

 Richmond, Edmund Heller, Gerrit S. Miller, Nathaniel Charles 

 Rothschild, Marie Curie, Charles T. Ramsden, Shibasaburo Kitasato, 

 Frank Dawson Adams and Alfred Werner. 



While a large number of scientific congresses in which the Academy 

 was invited to take part had been scheduled for the year, all of those 

 of an international character were either abandoned or postponed. 

 In those cases in which the Academy was asked to express an opinion 

 upon the advisability of so doing, our vote was cast in favor of 

 postponement, as conditions in Europe seemed likely to preclude the 

 attendance of a representative body of foreign delegates. In cases 

 where delegates had been already appointed they were requested to 

 allow their names to stand as the representatives of the Academy 

 until the postponed meetings shall have convened. At the Atlanta 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 

 held in the early part of the fiscal year. Dr. Henry Skinner and 

 Dr. Philip P. Calvert were the Academy's delegates. Dr. John 

 Mason Clarke served as a delegate to the exercises inaugurating 

 John Huston Finley as President of the University of the State of 

 New York, and Professor J. G. Hidalgo was appointed to a like 

 position in connection with 150th anniversary of the National 

 Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. 



As usual, a considerable number of requests for information were 

 replied to by the Corresponding Secretary or referred to other mem- 

 bers of the Academy staff. Statistics of the correspondence follow: 



Communications received: 



Acknowledging receipt of the Academy's publications 154 



Transmitting publications to the Academy 67 



Requesting exchanges or the supply of deficiencies 6 



Invitations to learned gatherings, celebrations, etc L5 



Notices of deaths of scientific men 16 



Circulars concerning the administration of scientific and educational 



institutions, etc 21 



Photographs and biographies of correspondents 11 



Letters from coiTespond^nts IS 



Miscellaneous letters 90 



Total received 398 



43 



