778 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Director of Congresses of the Panama-Pacific International Ex- 

 position, suggesting attendance at the Exposition; a notice of 

 the death of Eduard Strasburger, from his family. 



The foHowing deaths were announced by the chair: — Wilham 

 Watson Goodwin, Fellow in Class III., Section 2, and President 

 of the Academy from IVIay, 1903 to jNIay, 1908; Jean Leon Gerome, 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class III., Section 4 (died in 1904); 

 Lewis Boss, Fellow in Class I., Section 1; Eduard Strasburger, 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 2, Jules Henri 

 Poincare, Foreign Honorary ]\Iember in Class I., Section 1. 



The President appointed Mr. Henry H. Edes as delegate to 

 the celebration of the American Antiquarian Society. He also 

 appointed Professor G. L. Goodale to represent the Academy at 

 Amherst. 



The following communication was given : — 



Dr. Edwin H. Hall. A Brief Account of the Recent Royal 

 Society Celebration. 



One thousand and seventeenth Meeting. 



November 13, 1912. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty Fellows present. 



The following letters were read: — from Franz Boas, accepting 

 Fellowship; from the Secretary of the British Academy, inviting 

 the Academy to send a delegate to the third International Congress 

 of Historical Studies to be held in London, April 3-9, 1913; from 

 the President of the Accademia Reale delle Scienze di Torino, 

 giving the conditions of the Avogadro prize; from the Secretary 

 of the Iron and Steel Institute, giving the conditions of the Andrew 

 Carnegie Research Scholarship. 



The following deaths were announced by the chair: — Arthur 

 Tracy Cabot, Class II., Section 4 ; Oliver Clinton Wendell, Class I., 

 Section 1 ; Horace Howard Furness, Class HI., Section 4. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that the Council had 

 granted the use of the Academy Building to the Thursday Even- 



