RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred eighty-third Meeting. 



October 14, 1908. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-four Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that letters had been 

 received from Lady Evans, notifying the Academy of the death 

 of Sir John Evans ; from C. H. Warren, accepting fellowship ; 

 from Emil Fischer, accepting Foreign Honorary Membership ; 

 from William W. Goodwin, thanking the Academy for the 

 resolution expressing its appreciation of his services as Presi- 

 dent ; from Charles Gross, resigning Fellowship ; from the 

 Physikalisch-medizinische Sozietat, of Erlangen, inviting the 

 Academy to attend its centennial celebration, June 27, 1908 ; 

 from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 inviting the Academy to meet with them at Baltimore, Dec. 28, 

 1908, to Jan. 2, 1909 ; from the University of Cambridge, in- 

 viting the Academy to participate in the commemoration of the 

 centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin ; from the Comite 

 Technique contre l'lncendie, enclosing the program of the Second 

 International Congress ; from the Nobel Prize Committee for 

 Physics, and for Chemistry, inviting competition ; from the 

 Reale Universita di Catania, inviting the Academy to attend 

 the inauguration of a monument to the naturalist, Giuseppe 

 Gioeni, July 19, 1908; from Dr. H. Morize, of the Rio de 

 Janeiro Observatory, notifying the Academy of his appointment 

 as Director ; from the Kb'nigliche bohmische Gesellschaft der 

 Wissenschaften, announcing the death of Johann Kvicala, and 

 Karl Pelz ; from the Service Ge*ologique du Portugal, announc- 

 ing the death of its president, J. F. Nery Delgado ; from the 



