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Stated Meeting February i, i^oy. 



President Smith in the Chair. 



The decease was announced of Sir ^Michael Foster, F.R.S., on 

 January 29, 1907, aet. 71. 



Prof. Edward P. Cheyney read a paper on *' The Roman Wall 

 in Britain." 



Stated Meeting February ij, 190J. 

 President Smith in the Chair. 



The following invitations were received: 



From the Chicago Historical Society inviting this Society to 

 be represented at the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of 

 its incorporation on February 7, 1907, and Prof. A. A. ]\Iichelson 

 was appointed as the Society's delegate on the occasion. 



From the Seventh International Zoological Congress inviting 

 the Society to be represented at the Congress to be held in Boston 

 on August 19-23, 1907. 



From the University of Upsala inviting the Society to be rep- 

 resented at the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the 

 birth of Carolus Linnaeus on May 22d and 23d next. Dr. W^illiam 

 W. Keen was appointed to represent the Society at this celebration. 



The following communications were received : 



From the Chancellor of the Smithsonian Institution announcing 

 the appointment of Dr. Charles D. Walcott as Secretary of the Insti- 

 tution to succeed the late Samuel Pierpont Langley, deceased. 



From the University of Aberdeen acknowledging the Society's 

 congratulatory address on the occasion of its Ouatercentenary. 



From Mr. John H. Harjes, of Paris, presenting two large 

 bronze plaques, and on motion the following minute was unani- 

 mously adopted : 



Mr. John H. Harjes, with great and generous kindness, has 

 presented to the Philosophical Societ}' two bas reliefs commemo- 

 rative of historic incidents in the life of Benjamin Franklin. One 

 represents his reception by the King of France, the other commemo- 

 rates the signing of the Treaty of Paris. Both are originals, of 



