RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 809^ 



Arthur Auwers, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I., Section 1. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the receipt by the 

 Council of the following biographical notices of deceased Fellows: 

 A. T. Cabot, by F. C. Shattuck, W. R. Ware, by H. L. Warren, 

 Friedrich Kohlrausch, by A. L. Day, S. F. Emmons, by Waldemar 

 Lindgren, L. P. di Cesnola, by Arthur Fairbanks. 



On the recommendation of the Council, Professor Farlow was 

 invited to represent the Academy at the tenth anniversary of the 

 Illinois Academy of Science. 



The presentation by Dr. B. L. Robinson, of a portrait print of 

 the Kruell etching of Dr. Asa Gray, President of the Academy, 

 1863-73, was announced. 



The following communications were presented: 



Mr. Arthur Foote. "On the Composition of Music," with 

 piano illustrations. 



Professor Wm. M. Davis. "Sublacustrine Glacial Erosion of 

 the Mission Range, Montana," illustrated by lantern slides. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



One thousand and sixty-first Meeting. 



January 10, 1917. — Stated Meeting. 



The i\.cademy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were forty-three Fellows and three guests present: 



The Council reported that the Treasurer had caused the follow- 

 ing advertisement of the Francis Amory Fund to be published, in 

 accordance with the terms of the will, in the Boston Transcript 

 and the Boston Daily Advertiser of December 30, 1916. 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 



Francis Amory of Boston, who died on the tenth day of November, 1912, 

 bequeathed to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a sum of money 

 for the purpose of establishing a Septennial Prize and a Gold Medal to encour- 

 age the invention and discovery of measures for the rehef of maladies peculiar 

 to the bladder and the various organs connected with it. 



In default of such invention or discovery, the prize and medal may be 

 awarded for any treatise of exceptional value upon the anatomy of these organs 

 or upon the treatment of these diseases. 



