1907. J MINUTES. 301 



Stated Meeting May lyjgoy. 



Mr. Horace C. Richards, a newly elected member, was presented 

 to the chair and took his seat in the Society. 



Acknowledgments of election to membership and acceptances of 

 the same were received from : 



George Carey Foster, F.R.S., D.Sc, LL.D., Rickmansworth, 

 Herts, England. 



John C. Kepteyn, Groningen, Holland. 

 Sir William Turner, K.C.B., D.Sc, D.C.L., F.R.S. 

 The decease of the following members was announced : 

 Prof. Albert Henry Smyth, at Philadelphia, on May 4, 1907, 



aet. 44. 

 Prof. Albert Reville, of Paris. 

 Dr. J. G. Rosengarten read an obituary notice of the late Prof. 

 Albert H. Smyth. 



The following papers were read : 

 " The Mating Habits of Dragon-Flies," by Dr. Philip P. Calvert. 

 " A Comparative Review of the East Indian Pitcher Plants or 

 Nepenthes," by Prof. John M. Macfarlane. 



" New Derivatives of Columbium," by Dr. Edgar F. Smith. 



