i9o6] MINUTES. 13- 



" Repetition and Variation in Poetic Structure," by Prof. Fran- 

 cis Barton Gummere, of Haverford, Pa. 



'* The Herodotean Prototype of Esther and Sheherazade," by 

 Prof. Paul Haupt, of Baltimore, Md. 



" Heredity and Variation, Logical and Biological," by Prof. Wm. 

 Keith Brooks, of Baltimore. 



'' Notes on a Collection of Fossil Mammals from Natal," by 

 Prof. William B. Scott, of Princeton. 



" The Use of Dilute Solutions of Sulphuric Acid as a Fungi- 

 cide," by Prof. Henry Kraemer, of Philadelphia. 



Prof. Arthur G. Webster and Prof. Charles R. Lanman, newly 

 elected members, were presented to the Chair and took their seats 

 in the Society. 



Letters of acceptance of membership were read from Dr. Henry 

 A. Donaldson, Mr. Russell Duane, Dr. David L. Edsall and Prof. 

 Franklin P. Mall. 



It was ordered that a message of condolence be sent to Madame 

 Curie, on the death of her husband. 



The following resolution, offered by Dr. Hays, was unanimously 

 adopted : 



As the Society has heard with profound grief of the appalling 

 disaster that has befallen San Francisco and its neighboring towns, 

 it desires to express its deep sympathy for their citizens, and par- 

 ticularly for its sister society, the California Academy of Sciences, 

 and as a slight evidence of its sympathy, the Secretaries be in- 

 structed to send to the California Academy of Sciences a complete 

 set of the Transactions and the Proceedings of the American Philo- 

 sophical Society, so far as the same may be available, so soon as the 

 California Academy of Sciences is prepared to re-form its library.. 



