380 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and ninety-seventh Meeting. 



January 12, 1921.— Stated Meeting. 



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



The President in the Chair. 



Sixty-three Fellows and one guest were present: 



The Transactions of the Meeting of December 8th were read and 

 approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary stated that the Council had 

 appointed C. B. Gulick to be Acting Recording Secretary during 

 the absence of the Recording Secretary; and W. J. V. Osterhout 

 to be a member of the Committee on Meetings during the absence 

 of G. H. Parker. 



The President announced the death of John Elliott Pillsbury, 

 Class XL, Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of the 

 Globe). 



Voted, That the following Report of the Special Committee on 

 Elections to the Academy be printed and sent to every Fellow, and 

 that each Fellow be requested to send in writing to the Secretary 

 his opinion with regard to the third topic, and that the Report be 

 made a special order for the next meeting of the Academy. 



Report of the Committee on Elections. 



Mr. President: 



Your Committee was appointed to consider in a broad way ques- 

 tions concerning election to the Academy, and in particular, 



I. General methods of improving the interest of the Academy in 



elections. 

 II Professional requirements for election, particularly for the 



younger men. 

 III. The question of the election of women. 



I. On the matter of general interest in the election your Com- 

 mittee believes that the present plan, which has been in operation only 

 a few years," of having the Council elect upon the basis of a preferential 



