610 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Nine hundred and forty-third Meeting. 



November 11, 1903. 



The Academy met at the house of President Goodwin. 



President Goodwin in the chair. 



The Chair announced the death of Theodor Mommsen, Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class III., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from T. de Azcarate 

 announcing his appointment as director of the Marine Observa- 

 tory of San Fernando, Cadiz, Spain. 



The following papers were read : — 



t; Medicine and Surgery in Ancient Rome." By Morris H. 

 Morgan. 



Remarks on this paper were made by Professors Bowditch, 

 Lanman, and Dr. William Everett. 



Biographical notice of the late William Sumner Appleton, by 

 Charles C. Smith. 



Nine hundred and forty-fourth Meeting. 



December 9, 1903. 



The President in the chair. 



Letters were received announcing the deaths of Professors 

 Theodor Mommsen and Karl Gegenbaur ; letters of acknowl- 

 edgment of election from K. A. R. von Zittel, Emile Picard, and 

 Joseph Larmor, Foreign Honorary Members. From the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Sweden, two letters, one from the 

 Nobel prize committee on Physics and one from the Nobel prize 

 committee on Chemistry, soliciting names of competitors. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary these two 

 letters were referred to the Rumford and C. M. Warren 

 Committees. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that an invitation 

 from the Schlesische Gesellschaft fur Vaterlandische Cultur in 

 Breslau to attend its jubilee on the 17th of December had been 

 received too late to name a delegate from the Academy to take 

 part in the celebration, and that the Society would be informed 

 of the regrets of the Academy at the delay. 



