514 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Eight hundred and ninety-seventh Meeting. 



February 9, 1898. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of John C. Ropes. 



The Recording Secretary in the chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



The most recent Babylonian Explorations. By David G. Lyon. 



The Seven Days' Battles near Richmond, By John C. Ropes. 



Eight hundred and ninety-eighth Meeting. ' 



March 9, 1898. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from George Edward 

 Davenport, Douglas H. Campbell, John M. Coulter, and El. 

 Metschnikoff, acknowledging election into the Academy ; and 

 from F. W. Taussig, resigning his Fellowship. 



The chair announced the death of Alonzo Smith Kimball, 

 Resident Fellow ; William Augustus Rogers, Associate Fellow ; 

 and Rudolf Leuckart, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles Rockwell Lanman, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archseology). 



Albert Heim, of Zurich, to be a Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class II., Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the 

 Globe). 



Friedrich von Recklinghausen, of Strassburg, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class II., Section 4 (Medicine and Surgery). 



Ferdinand Brunetiere, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class HI., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts). 



The President appointed the following Councillors to act as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, of Class I., William M. Davis, of Class 

 II., and John E. Hudson, of Class III. 



