300 MINUTES. I May 3 



Stated Meeting May j, 1907. 

 President Smith in the Chair. 



Dr. J. P. Crozer Griffith, Prof. John C. Rolfe and Dr. Allen J. 

 Smith, newly elected members, were presented to the chair and took 

 their seats in the Society. 



Acknowledgments of election to membership and acceptances of 

 the same were received from : 



J. J. Jusserand, LL.D., Washington. 



George Ferdinand Becker, Ph.D., Washington. 



Charles Benedict Davenport, Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. 



J. P. Crozer Griffith, M.D., Philadelphia. 



Frank Austin Gooch, Ph.D., New Haven. 



Herbert Spencer Jennings, Ph.D., Baltimore. 



James Playfair McMurrich, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Edward Laurens Mark, Ph.D., LL.D., Cambridge, Mass. 



John Bassett Moore, LL.D., New York. 



Francis Eugene Nipher, St. Louis. 



Horace Clark Richards, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



John C. Rolfe, Philadelphia. 



A letter was received from the New York Academy of Sciences 

 inviting the Society to be represented at its celebration of the two 

 hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus on May 23d. The 

 invitation was accepted and Dr. John W. Harshberger was appointed 

 to represent the Society. 



The following papers were read : 

 " The Proposed International Tribunal of Arbitration of 1623," 

 by Thomas Willing Balch, Esq. (see page 302), which was dis- 

 cussed by Prof. Lewis M. Haupt. 



" Greek Theories of Sound and Consonants," by William 

 RoMAiNE Newbold, Ph.D. 



The President announced the appointment of the following as 

 delegates to the Seventh International Zoological Congress: Profs. 

 E. G. Conklin, William Keith Brooks, and Henry H. Donaldson. 



