780 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



of Henry H. Edes and Robert DeC. Ward, was appointed to con- 

 sider the amendment of the Statutes in such a way as to add to 

 the Council, ex officio, the Chairman of the House Committee and 

 such other Chairmen of Standing Committees as it may seem 

 desirable to have as members of the Council. 



The following communications were given : — 



Biographical notice of Professor iVbbott Lawrence Rotch. By 

 R. DeC. Ward. 



The Geographic Origin of Life in Newfoundland and the Mag- 

 dalen Islands. Bv M. L. Fernald. 



The following papers were presented by title : ■ — • 



"On the Scalar Functions of Hyper Complex Numbers." 

 Second Paper. By Henry Taber. 



" Thermodynamic Properties of Twelve Liquids between 20° 

 and 80° and up.to 12000 kgm. per Cm." By P. W. Bridgman. 



" The Action of Sulphur Trioxide on Silicon Tetrachloride." By 

 C. R. Sanger and E. R. Riegel. Presented by C. L. Jackson. 



One thousand and eighteenth Meeting:. 



December 11, 1912. 



The meeting was held at the House of the Academy. 



The President in the chair. 



There were Twenty-eight Fellows and guests present. 



The following letters were read : — from Elihu Root, accepting 

 Fellowship; from Richard Olney, declining Fellowship; from the 

 Secretary of the ninth International Congress of Zoology, to 

 be held at Monaco, INIarch 25-30, 1913, inviting delegates; from 

 the Secretary of The Colonial Society, thanking the Academy for 

 the offer of its building for the meetings of the Society. 



The President called attention to Count Rumford's study clock 

 just received as a bequest from ]\Irs. Griffith. 



The following death was announced by the chair: — Sir George 

 Howard Darwin, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I., Section 1. 



The following communication was given: — 



"Dana's Contribution to Darwin's Theory of Coral Reefs," 

 by Professor W. M. Davis. This was followed by discussion. 



