RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred seventj-flfth Meeting^. 



October 9, 1907. — Stated jMeeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present twenty-four Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary, pro tempore, read letters from 

 G. W. Pierce, accepting Fellowship ; from the California Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, thanking the Academy for the contribution of 

 its publications ; from Arthur McDonald, asking the Academy 

 to form resolutions regarding the establishment of laboratories 

 for the study of the criminal, pauper, and defective classes, and 

 transmitting a pamphlet on the subject; from C. van Over- 

 bergh, Directeur general de TAdministration de TEnsignment 

 Superieur des Sciences et des Lettres, enclosing a copy of the 

 report of the International Congress for the Study of the Polar 

 Regions, and requesting the publications of the Academy; from 

 St. C. Hepites and I. St. Murat, notifying the Academy of their 

 appointment as Directors of the Roumanian Meteorological In- 

 stitute and Service Central des Poids et Mesures ; from Vilh. 

 Thomsen, President of the International Congress of Orien- 

 talists, inviting the Academy to send delegates to the Fifteenth 

 Congress, in August, 1908; from President Capellini, two com- 

 munications relative to the celel)ration of the anniversary of the 

 death of Aldrovandi ; from the Societd G^ologique de Belgique, 

 notifying the Academy of the death of its Secretary, Henri- 

 Joseph Fourir; from the Astrophysical Observatory, Potsdam, 

 notifying the Academy of the death of H. C. Vogel ; from the 

 Kon. bohmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, notifying the 

 Academy of the death of Johann Gebauer, and also of the death 

 of J. Bohuslav, Freih. v. Rieger. 



