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" The New Shakespeare Discoveries," by FeHx E. ScheUing, 

 Professor of EngHsh Literature in the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. 



Friday Morning, April 22. Executive Session — 10 o'clock. 

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

 Mr. Edwin Swift Balch, on behalf of the Committee on Antarctic 

 Exploration, presented the following report : 



At the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Society, 

 held on April 22, 1909, resolutions were passed, requesting the 

 cooperation of the scientific and geographical societies of the United 

 States to urge on the government to make sufficient appropriations 

 to send a vessel under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy 

 to reexplore Wilkes Land. 



These resolutions were embodied in a circular letter under date 

 of May 20, 1909, sent to a number of scientific organizations, and 

 they elicited favorable response by the following societies : 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston. 



The American Geographical Society, New York. 



The California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 



The New York Academy of Sciences. 



The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. 



The Geographical Society of Philadelphia. 



The American Museum of Natural History, New York. 



The Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



The Geological Society of America. 



The Association of American Geographers. 



The American Alpine Club. 

 At the meeting of the American Philosophical Society held on 

 November 5, 1909, a Committee on Antarctic Exploration was ap- 

 pointed consisting of the following: 



Edwin Swift Balch, Chairman. 



Henry Grier Bryant. 



Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus. 



Professor William Morris Davis. 



Rear Admiral George W. Melville, U.S.N. 



