EEC0ED8 OF MEETINGS. 



One thousand and fifty-eighth Meeting. 



October 11, 1916.— Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were fifty-two Fellows and two guests present : — 



The following letters were presented by the Corresponding 

 Secretary: from J. W. Baird, W. B. Clark, L. H. Gray, A. B. Hart, 

 Ellsworth Huntington, C. K. Leith, F. T. Lewis, W. A. Setchell, 

 P. G. Stiles, W. C. Sturgis, accepting Fellowship; from Thomas 

 Hardy, accepting Foreign Honorary Membership. 



The Chair announced the deaths of the following Fellows and 

 Foreign Honorary ]\Iembers: Emory McClintock, Class I., Sec- 

 tion 1; Eugene Waldemar Hilgard, Class I., Section 3; Josiah 

 Royce, Class HI., Section 1; Elie Metchnikoff, Class H., Section 

 3; Sir Victor A. H. Horsley, Class H., Section 4; Sir Thomas 

 Lauder Brunton, Class H., Section 4; Arthur Sampson Napier, 

 Class HL, Section 2. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the receipt of bio- 

 graphical notices of deceased Fellows, as follows: — Class L, 

 Erasmus Darwin Leavitt, by G. R. Agassiz; Simon Newcomb, 

 by E. W. Brown; Sir Henry Roscoe, by Ira Remsen; William 

 Thomson, Lord Kelvin, by Elihu Thomson; Class H., Thomas 

 Jonathan Burrill, by W. G. Farlow; George Edward Davenport, 

 by F. S. Collins, Sir Michael Foster, by Alexander Forbes, Class 

 HL, ^Melville Weston Fuller, by Moorfield Storey. 



On the recommendation of the Council, it was 



Voted, To appropriate three hundred ($300) dollars from the 

 income of the General Fund for Library expenses, and two hundred 

 ($200) dollars for the use of the Publication Committee in printing 

 biographical notices of deceased jVIembers in the Proceedings. 



