RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 447 



A number of Fellows, and guests upon their invitation, were 

 present. 



The President introduced Professor Lorentz who spoke on some 

 features in the work of the late Josiah Willard Gibbs, Professor of 

 Mathematical Physics in Yale College, and Fellow of the Academy. 



At the close of the address an hour was spent socially in the 

 upper room where tea was served. 



One thousand one hundred and fourteenth Meeting. 



April 12, 1922. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House at 8.15 p.m. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were thirty-six Fellows present: 



The Transactions of the meetings of March 8 and April 8 were 

 read and approved. 



The President announced the death of John Wilkes Hammond, 

 Fellow in Class HI., Section 1. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported the receipt of a bio- 

 graphical notice of William Thompson Sedgwick by Edmund B. 

 Wilson. 



The President announced the appointment of C. H. Haskins and 

 A. E. Kennelly to represent the Academy at the 150th anniversary 

 of Academic Royale de Belgique, on May 24th; and of C. H. 

 Haskins and C. H. Moore at the 700th anniversary of the Uni- 

 versity of Padua. 



The following amendments to the Statutes were adopted: 



Chapter H., Article 2, last line, add the words "and ten" so as 

 to read " nor shall there be more than Two hundred and ten in any 

 one Class." 



Chapter IX., Article 1, paragraph 3, strike out the words "of 

 the same Class." 



The following Communications were presented ; — 



Mr. Elihu Thomson. "Laboratory Products." 



]\Ir. John L. Lowes. "A Neglected Note Book of Coleridge." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



