RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and seventeenth Meeting. 



May 9, 1900. — Annual Meeting. 



The Academy met at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 

 Cambridge. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



A quorum not having been present at the adjourned stated 

 meeting of April 11, 1900, on the motion of the Recording 

 Secretary, it was 



Voted, That the votes then proposed be now confirmed and 

 approved. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Arlo Bates 

 and L. H. Bailey, accepting Fellowship in the Academy. He 

 also read a letter from Seabury C. Mastick, Secretary of the 

 Committee on the Modification of the Federal Legacy Tax, 

 enclosing a new petition intended as a substitute for the one 

 sent out in January and requesting signatures. On the motion 

 of the Recording Secretary, it was 



Voted, That the President be authorized to sign this peti- 

 tion on behalf of the Academy. 



The Chair announced the death of Frederick Edwin Church, 

 Associate Fellow in Class III., Section 4. 



The Annual Report of the Council was read by the Cor- 

 responding Secretary.* 



The Treasurer presented his annual report, of which the fol- 

 lowing is an abstract: — 



* See Proceedings, XXXV. 623. 



