RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and forty-first Meeting. 



June 17, 1903. — Special Meeting. 



The Recording Secretary in the chair. 



The Chair announced the death of Karl Gegenbaur, Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class II., Section 3. 



Letters were read from William F. Ganong, accepting Fellow- 

 ship ; from W. F. Osgood resigning Fellowship ; from the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Turin, announcing the death of its Vice- 

 President, Barnardino Peyron. 



Mr. Rotch moved that a Committee be appointed by the 

 Chair to confer with a Committee of the Boston Library Society 

 relative to leasing a portion of its house, 114 Newbury Street, 

 and to report in the autumn. 



The Chair appointed the President, Librarian, and Treasurer. 



On the motion of Professor Cross, it was 



Voted, That the Recording Secretary be an additional member 

 of this Committee. 



The vacancy occasioned by the resignation of W. F. Osgood 

 was filled by the appointment by the ("hair of 



Harry M. Goodwin, member of the Committee on the Library. 



On the motion of Professor Wright, it was 



Voted, To proceed to ballot for a Treasurer in place of Mr. 

 Samuel Cabot, who had been elected at the annual meeting but 

 had declined to serve. 



The result of the balloting was the unanimous election of 



Francis Blake, Treasurer. 



The following papers were presented by title: — 



