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The following papers were read : 

 " The Origin of Our Alphabet and the Race of the Phenicians," 

 by Paul Haupt, Professor of Semitic Languages in the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 

 Symposium on Experimental Evolution : 



" Inheritance in Non-sexual and Self-fertilized Organisms," 

 by Herbert S. Jennings, Professor of Experimental Zoology 



in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. 

 " Germinal Analysis through Hybridization," by George H. 

 Shull, Resident Investigator, Station for Experimental 



Evolution, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Cold 



Spring Harbor, N. Y. (Introduced by Dr. Charles B. 



Davenport.) 

 " New Views about Reversion," by Charles B. Davenport, 

 Director of Station for Experimental Evolution, Carnegie 



Institution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. 

 " Experimental Modification of the Germ Plasm," by William 

 L. Tower, Assistant-Professor of Embryology in the 



University of Chicago. (Introduced by Dr. Henry H. 



Donaldson.) 



Stated Meeting, May 6, ipio. 



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

 Letters accepting membership were read from : 

 Simeon Eben Baldwin, LL.D., New Haven. 

 Francis G. Benedict, Ph.D., Boston. 

 Charles Francis Brush, Ph.D., LL.D., Cleveland, Ohio. 

 Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ph.D., Palo Alto, Cal. 

 George Byron Gordon, Philadelphia. 

 Harry Clary Jones, Ph.D., Baltimore. 

 Leo Loeb, M.D., Philadelphia. 

 James McCrea, Ardmore, Pa. 

 Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, F.R.S., LL.D. (Cantab.), Boston,. 



Mass. 

 Benjamin O. Peirce, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass. 

 Harry Fielding Reid, Ph.D., Baltimore. 



