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meetings, or at adjournments thereof regularly notified, or at 

 Special Meetings called for the purpose, shall appropriations of 

 money be made, or amendments of the Statutes or Standing 

 Votes be effected." 



"A meeting for receiving and discussing literary or scientific 

 communications mav be held on the fourth Wednesday of each 

 month, excepting July, August and September, but no business 

 shall be transacted at said meetings." 



In Chapter II., Article 5, paragraph 2, line 4, insert after the 

 word "due," the words, "except in the case of Fellows elected at 

 the January meetings, who shall be obliged to pay but one half of 

 such Annual Dues." 



On motion, it was, 



loted, That the amendments proposed by the Committee on 

 the Amendments of the Statutes be referred back to the Committee, 

 with instructions to report at a special meeting to be called for the 

 purpose of considering and acting on the amendments, on April 14, 

 1915. 



The Chair appointed the following Councillors to act as Nomi- 

 nating Committee : — 



Arthur G. Webster, of Class I., 

 Merritt L. Fernald, of Class II., 

 George F. Moore, of Class III. 



The following communications were given : — ■ 



Professor George D. Birkhoff. "The Restricted Problem of 

 Three Bodies." 



Professor John Trowbridge. "Note on a Prophecy in Regard 

 to the Future of the English Language." 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



" Geometry whose Element of Arc is a Linear Differential Form, 

 with Application to the Study of the Minimum Developable." 

 By C. L. E. Moore. 



