RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and thirty-third Meeting. 



October 8, 1902. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that letters had 

 been received from Arthur James Balfour and W. E. H. Lecky, 

 acknowledging tlieir election as Foreign Honorary Members; 

 from the Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts, World's 

 Fair, St. Louis, inviting the Academy to make an exhibit of 

 the work of its members ; and from the International Botanical 

 Congress, regarding the organization of the session at Vienna 

 in 1905. Letters from the Trustees of Princeton University, 

 inviting the Academy to be represented by a delegate at 

 the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson as President of the 

 University, and from the Trustees and Faculties of North- 

 western University, requesting the Academy to appoint one 

 or more delegates to the installation of Edmund Janes James 

 as President of the University, were referred to the Executive 

 Committee. 



Letters were also received announcing the death of H. von 

 Wild and Gaetano Negri ; the institution of a section of ter- 

 restrial magnetism and seismology at the Royal Meteorological 

 Institute of tlie Netherlands ; tlie reorganization of the National 

 Museum at Buenos Ayres ; inviting the President and Secretary 

 to the Jubilee Meeting of the North of England Institute of 

 Mining and Mechanical Engineers. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — 



