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On motion, it was 



Voted, To amend the Statutes in accordance with the report, 

 the amendment to Chapter 3, to take effect May 9, 1918. 



On motion of J. J. Putnam, it was 



Voted, That the President be authorized to sign the followins: 

 letter : 



"Dear Sir: 



Some of the personal friends and colleagues of Josiah Royce, who 

 believe that his work and his character made a deep impression upon 

 a wide circle of men and women, and that he became, in fact, the 

 centre of a large spiritual community, many of whose members were 

 unknown to him, as he was unknown personally to them, feel that the 

 reverence and affection which went out to him as a thinker and as a 

 man should be embodied in some appropriate memorial of him at 

 Harvard University, where he expressed himself in characteristic 

 speech and A\Titing for thirty years. 



It is proposed, M-ith this end in view, to create a fund of $20,000 to 

 be known as the Josiah Royce Memorial Fund, the income of which 

 shall go to Mrs. Royce during her lifetime, and thereafter to the 

 Department of Philosophy of Harvard College, to be used in such ways 

 as the Department shall decide from year to year. 



There are evident reasons why this appeal should not be delayed 

 until the return of normal conditions, natural as such postponement 

 might on some accounts appear to be. And further, the due honoring 

 of our moral heroes though a privilege under all circumstances is 

 especially a privilege and a duty in heroic times. 



If you desire to subscribe, please send your check to Charles Francis 

 Adams, Esq., Treasurer of Harvard College, 50 State Street. 



(signed) The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 



by Charles P. Bowditch, 



F resident." 



The following Communications were presented: 



Professor Clifford H. ^Nloore. "The Decay of Nationalism 

 under the Roman Empire." 



Professor W. 'SL Davis. "New Coast Survey Charts of the 

 Philippine Islands, and their bearing on the Coral-reef Problem." 



The following papers were presented by title: 



