RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 733 



The following communication was given by Professor W. B. 

 Cannon : — 



" The Correlation of Gastric and Intestinal Digestive Pro- 

 cesses and the Influence of Emotions upon Them." 



The following paper was read by title : — 



' k A Photographic Study of Mayer's Floating Magnets." By 

 Louis Derr. 



Nine hundred eighty-eighth Meeting. 



March 10, 1909. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were twenty-nine Fellows present. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from Professor 

 Maxime Bocher, resigning Fellowship in the Academy. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair: — 



Frederick I. Knight, Resident Fellow in Class II, Section 4; 

 Julius Thomsen, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I, Section 3. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Gilbert Newton Lewis, of Boston, as Resident Fellow in 

 Class I, Section 3 (Chemistry). 



Herbert Wilbur Rand, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow 

 in Class II, Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology). 



William Morton Wheeler, of Boston, as Resident Fellow in 

 Class II, Section 3 (Zoology and Phj-siology). 



The Chair appointed the following Councillors to serve as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



James C. White, of Class II. 



William R. Ware, of Class III. 



Ira N. Hollis, of Class I. 



On motion of the Librarian, it was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the General Fund 

 the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) for House expenses, 

 and the sum of two hundred dollars (-$200) for the binding of 

 books. 



The following communications were given : — 



" Roman Calorifers." By Morris H. Morgan. 



" The Titles of Pali Texts and the Brief Designations of the 

 Same." By Charles R. Lanman. 



