Stated Meeting, October j, ipio. 

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



Letters were received accepting membership from : 



Prof. Francis G. Benedict, 



Hon. David Jayne Hill, and 



Mme. S. Curie. 

 Inviting the Society to be represented at the 



Tenth International Geographical Congress, to be held at Rome 

 in October, 191 1. 



Centenary of the Konigliche Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitet, 

 Berlin, in October, 1910. 



First Universal Races Congress, to be held at London, in July, 

 1911. 



Inauguration of Frank LeRend McVey, Ph.D., LL.D., as Presi- 

 dent of the University of North Dakota, in September, 191 o. 

 The decease was announced of : 



Prof. Mathaeus Much, at Vienna, on December 17. 1909, set. 78. 



Prof. William Phipps Blake, at Berkeley, Cal., on May 21, 1910, 

 set. 84. 



Prof. George F. Barker, at Philadelphia, on May 24, 1910, 

 aet. 74. 



Mr. Joseph S. Harris, at Philadelphia, on June 2, 1910, ast. 74. 



Prof. Giovanni Schiaperelli, at Milan, on July 4, 1910, aet. 75. 



Hon. Craig Biddle, at Andalusia, Pa., on July 26, 1910, set. 87. 



Sig. Paolo Mantegazzo, at Spezia, on August 28, 1910, aet. 79. 



Prof. Frederick Augustus Genth, at Lansdowne, Pa., on Septem- 

 ber 2, 1910, set. 55. 



Prof. William A. Lamberton, at Point Pleasant, N. J., on Sep- 

 tember 8, 1910, aet. 61. 



Mr. Richard Wood, at Philadelphia, on September 29, 1910, 

 set. 76. 

 The following papers were read : 



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