EECOKDS OF MEETINGS. 



New Vom^ 

 One thousand and ninety-third Meeting. 



October 13, 1920. — Stated Meeting. 



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



The President in the Chair. 



Eighty-two Fellows and four guests were present : 



The Transactions of the last Meeting were read and approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following letters: — ■ 

 from W. T. Bovie, B. P. Clark, W. E. Clark, T. H. Dillon, C. K. 

 Drinker, Franklin Edgerton, J. E. Lodge, C. H. Mcllwain, F. L. 

 Olmsted, Harlow Shapley, H. M. Smith, W. L. Underwood, and 

 Clark Wissler, accepting Fellowship; from Maurice Caullery and 

 J. S. Hadamard, accepting Foreign Honorary IMembership ; from 

 Cecil H. Peabody resigning Fellowship. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported the receipt of a biographi- 

 cal notice of Charles H. Williams by Louis Bell. 



The President announced the following deaths: Fellows, Frank 

 Shipley Collins, Class H., Section 2; William Crawford Gorgas, 

 Class H., Section 4; Bernadotte Perrin Class HL, Section 2; 

 Henry Morse Stephens, Class HL, Section 3; John Nelson Stock- 

 well, Class L, Section 1; Foreign Honorary Members, Joseph 

 Norman Lockyer, Class L, Section 1; Wilhelm Friedrich Philipp 

 Pfeft'er, Class H., Section 2; Adam Politzer, Class H., Section 4; 

 Augusto Righi, Class L, Section 2. 



The newly elected Fellows present were then introduced by the 

 President to the Academy. 



The following Communications were presented: 



Professor C. L. E. Moore. "Einstein's First Theory of Rela- 



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