RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



One thousand and eighty-third Meeting. 



October 8, 1919. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House at 8.15 p. m. 



The President in the Chair. 



Ninety-three Fellows and five guests were present. 



The CoiTesponding Secretary presented the following letters: — 

 from A. A. Blanchard, H. N. Brown, F. H. Fay, P. E. Goddard, 

 R. K. Hack, C. D. Hazen, F. G. Keyes, Joseph Lipka, G. A. 

 Miller, J. B. ^Vloore, F. R. INIoulton,' Edward Mueller, C. L. 

 Nichols, Raymond Pearl, W. T. Schaller, H. D. Sedgwick, Virgil 

 Snyder, Winslow Warren, R. S. Williams, and A. G. Woodman, 

 accepting Fellowship; from Charles Barrois, J. J. C. Joffre, H. L. 

 Le Chatelier, G. H. F, Nuttall, W. H. Perkin, Raymond Poincare 

 and G. W. Prothero, accepting Foreign Honorary ^Membership. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported for the Council that 

 E. V. Huntington had resigned as member of the Committee of 

 Publication, and that the Council had authorized the President 

 of the Academy to appoint a committee of three to present a name 

 to fill the vacancy. 



The President announced the death of the following Fellows 

 and Foreign Honorary ^Members: William Brewster, Class H., 

 Section 3; Walter Gould Davis, Class H., Section 1; William 

 Gilson Farlow, Class H., Section 2; Francis Barton Gummere, 

 Class HI., Section 4; Abraham Jacobi, Class H., Section 4; Wil- 

 liam Roscoe Livermore, Class I., Section 4; Charles Herbert 

 Williams, Class I., Section 2; Emil Fischer, Class I., Section 3; 

 Magnus Gustav Retzius, Class H., Section 3; John WilHam 

 Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, Class I., Section 2. 



