RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and twenty-fifth Meeting. 



May 8, 1901. — Annual Meeting. 



Vice-President Thayer in the chair. 



The CoiTesponding Secretary read letters from Frank S. 

 Collins, accepting Fellowiship ; from Franklin P. Mall, ac- 

 knowledging his election as Associate Fellow; from VI. Mark- 

 ovnikoff, thanking the Academy for its message of congratulation ; 

 from the Johns Hopkins University, announcing the death of Pro- 

 fessor Henr\' A. Rowland ; from tlie Royal Lyncean Academy, 

 of Rome, announcing the death of its President, Professor 

 Angelo Messedaglia ; from the Royal Academy of Sciences of 

 Turin, announcing the death of Professor Giulio Bizzozero ; 

 from V. Pissaroff, Vice-President of the Ural Society of Natural 

 Sciences of Ekaterinburg, announcing the proposed establish- 

 ment of an ophthalmological hospital, and asking for gifts of 

 works or instruments ; from Arthur MacDonald, of Washington, 

 regarding the establishment of a Psycho-Physical Laboratory in 

 the Department of the Interior ; from S. C. Mastick, secretary 

 of the committee on the modification of the Federal legacy tax, 

 announcing that the desired changes have been incorporated in 

 the Statutes of the United States and that the committee has 

 adjourned sine die. 



The Chair announced the death of William Stubbs,of Oxford, 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class III,, Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the Annual Report of 

 the Council. 



The Treasurer presented his annual report, of which the 

 following is an abstract : -^ 



