RE( ORDS OF MEETINGS. 



One thousand and sixteenth Meeting. 



October 9, 1912. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were twenty-five Fellows and two guests present. 



The following letters were receiv^ed : — from G. R. Agassiz, S. E. 

 Baldwin, L. A. Bauer, W. II. Bixby, P. W. Bridgman, E. W. Brown, 

 H. L. Chapman, G. H. Chase, R. H. Chittendon, D. F. Comstock, 

 \y. H. Dall, A. L. Day, Frederic Dodge, Wilberforce Fames, A. W. 

 Evans, Irving Fisher, Desmond FitzGerald, Simon Flexner, G. W. 

 Goethals, L. J. Henderson, H. L. Higginson, ]\I. A. DeW. Howe, 

 E. P. Joslin, A. L. Kroeber, Waldemar Lindgren, L. S. Marks, 

 S. P. Mulliken, Hanns Oertel, G. H. Palmer, R. S. Peabody, C. P. 

 Putnam, A. P. Rugg, W. B. Scott, ]M. deKay Thompson, J. E. 

 Thayer, W. J. Tucker, Williston Walker, S. B. Wolbach, F. S. 

 Woods, J. H. Wright, accepting Fellowship; from Svante Arr- 

 henius, J. A. A. J. Jusserand, Augusto Rhigi, H. A. Lorentz, 

 accepting Foreign Honorary Membership; from Louis Cabot, 

 John Fritz, R. B. Richardson resigning Fellowship; from the 

 President and Trustees of the Rice Institute, inviting delegates 

 to the opening of the Institute on October 10, 11 and 12; from 

 the American Antiquarian Society, giving the order of exercises 

 at its centennial celebration to be held October 15 and IG, 1912; 

 from the Academic des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, 

 in\iting delegates to its centenary celebration, November 11 and 12, 

 1912; from the Secretary of the Societe de Pathologic Comj)aree, 

 inviting delegates to the first International Congress of Compara- 

 tive Pathology, to be held October 17-23, 1912 at Paris; from the 



