MINUTES. 



Stated Meeting, January j, ipiG. 

 William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



A communication was received from the Committee of Organi- 

 zation of the 3™® Congres International de Botanique announcing 

 that the Congress will be held in Brussels from the fourteenth to 

 the twenty-second of May and inviting the Society to be repre- 

 sented thereat. 



The decease was announced of: 

 Dr. Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, at Florence, on December i6, 



1909, jet. 64. 

 Mr. Israel W. Morris, at Philadelphia, on December 18, 1909. 



set. 76. 

 Dr. Charles Benjamin Dudley, at Altoona, Pa., on December 

 21, 1909, set. 67. 

 Prof. J. C. Branner read a paper on " The Geology of the Black 

 Diamond Regions of Bahia, Brazil." 



The judges of the annual election of officers and councillors 

 held on this day, between the hours of two and five in the afternoon, 

 reported that the following named persons were elected, according 

 to the laws, regulations and ordinances of the Society, to be the 

 officers for the ensuing year. 



President: 

 William W. Keen. 



Vice-Presidents: 

 William B. Scott, Albert A. Michelson, Edward C. Pickering. 



Secretaries: 

 I. Minis Hays, James W. Holland, 



Arthur W. Goodspeed, Amos P. Brown. 



