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C. C. Hutchins, H. S. Jennings, F. D. Lambert, R. S. Lillie, B. E. 

 Livingston, Jacques Loeb, E. G. Merritt, D. C. Miller, R. A. 

 Millikan, H. N. Morse, H. V. Neal, T. B. Osborne, E. D. Peters, 

 S. C. Prescott, Alfred Render, G. A. Reisner, R. G. D. Richardson, 

 M. A. Rosanoff, Ellery Sedgwick, F. C. Shattuck, F. H. Verhoeff, 

 W. C. Wait, Eugene Wambaugh, G. C. Whipple and Owen Wister, 

 accepting Fellowship; from J. H. Wigmore, declining Fellowship; 

 from Otto Backlund, John Briquet, Viktor Goldschmidt, Fritz 

 Haber, Sir Sidney Lee, Max Planck, Ignatz Urban and Eugene 

 Warming, accepting Foreign Honorary Membership; from the 

 family of Hugo Kronecker, announcing his death; from the 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announcing the death 

 of F. W. True, the Assistant Secretary; from the nineteenth 

 International Congress of Americanists, to be held in La Paz, the 

 capital of Bolivia, in November. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — Abner Cheney 

 Goodell, Fellow in Class III., Section 3; Francis Humphreys 

 Storer, Fellow in Class I., Section 3; Gardiner Martin Lane, 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 4; Hugo Kronecker, Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class IL, Section 3. 



The following letter from Senator Lodge and others, in reply to 

 the letter of the Academy, dated February 4, 1913, addressed to 

 the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, 

 which was read to the Academy at the meeting of March 12, 1913, 

 was presented : — 



To the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 

 28 Newbury St., Boston. 



Gentlemen : 



The undersigned, members in common of the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 

 have learned with regret that the former organization has protested to 

 Congress against the bill, now pending, providing for a charter to the 

 latter. 



We beg to remind you, very respectfully, that the two institutions 

 are essentially different, covering only in small part similar ground: 



