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To be Foreign Honorary Members : — 

 Henry H. Milman, the Dean of St. Paul's, London, in Class 

 III., Section 3, in place of Archbishop Whately, deceased. 

 Professor Max Miiller of Oxford, in Class HI., Section 2, in 



place of Jacob Grimm, deceased. 

 Frederick Overbeck of Rome, in Class HI., Section 4, in place 



of the late Christian Ranch. 

 Professor Thomas Graham, Master of the Mint, London, in 

 Class L, Section 3, in place of Professor Mitscherlich. 



To be Associate Fellows : — 

 Major-General George G. Meade, U. S. A., in Class L, Section 4. 

 Professor Ogden N. Rood of New York, in Class I., Section 3. 



To be Resident Fellows : — 

 Mr. Edward Pearce and Dr. "William Watson of Cambridge, 

 both in Class I., Section 1. 



Dr. H. R. Storer called attention to a matter that might be 

 considered as of general interest, the result of investigations 

 he had for some years been making into the causation of in- 

 sanity among^ women. From the facilities of observation 

 afforded him by a large special practice, and more lately by 

 his position as one of the State Commissioners on Insanity, he 

 had been irresistibly led to certain conclusions that were ap- 

 parently of scientific and practical value. They were not at 

 vai'iance with what had previously been enunciated upon the 

 subject, but they promised to open a new and fruitful field for 

 explanation and curative treatment. He proposed the follow- 

 ing as general laws : — 



"1. In women of insane tendency, accidental or by inheritance, the 

 access of insanity, its increase and its results, are more likely to occur 

 at times of uterine or ovarian excitement, whether periodical and nor- 

 mal, or from disease. 



" 2. In women, mental derangement, even of extreme chaft,cter, is 

 very commonly, indeed almost constantly, the consequence of uterine 

 or ovarian derangement, however trifling ; occurring at puberty, at the 

 grand climacteric, or at any point between them, during virginity, 

 during gestation, during or after labor, or during lactation, from ex- 

 cessive sexual gratification, or excessive sexual abstinence, from self- 

 abuse, from organic or functional local lesion. 



