384 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and ninety-eighth Meeting. 



February 9, 1921. — Stated Meeting. 



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



The President in the Chair. 



Fifty-seven Fellows were present. 



The Transactions of the last Meeting were read and approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented an invitation from the 

 University of Virginia to the Academy, requesting the presence of 

 a delegate to the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the 

 Universitv to be held ]Mav 31 to June 3, 1921. 



The President announced the death of the following Fellows: 

 Henry Andrews Bumstead, Class I., Section 2 (Physics) ; Lincoln 

 Ware Riddle, Class H., Section 2 (Botany); William Thompson 

 Sedgwick, Class H., Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology) ; Barrett 

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



Voted, That $400 be appropriated from the General Fund for 

 General -and-Meeting Expenses. 



Voted, That a committee be appointed to consider a change in 

 the number of Fellows for any one class. 



The report of the Committee on Elections with regard to the 

 election of women was read, and an informal ballot of those present 

 at the meeting was taken with the result of 39-15 against the 

 admission of women. 



Voted, That the Council be instructed that the election of women 

 is inadvisable. 



Voted, To lay on the table the question of Resident Associates. 



The following Communication was presented: 



Professor George H. Chase. "Excavations at Sardis, 1910- 

 1914." 



The following paper was presented by title: 



" Observations on Army Ants in British Guiana." By W. M. 

 Wlieeler. 



The Meeting was then dissolved. 



