MINUTES 



Stated Meeting, January 5, iqis. 



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



Invitations were received : 

 From the Eighth International Congress of AppHed Chemistry 

 to be held in Washington and New York, September 4 to 13, 

 1912, to participate in its proceedings. 

 From the Committee of Organization of the Second Congress 

 of Chemistry and of Pure and Applied Physics, in memory 

 of Professor -IMendeleefif, to be held at St. Petersburg on 

 January 3 to 10, 1912, to participate. 

 From the Sociedad Astronomia de Barcelona to participate in 

 the Exposition of Lunar Studies to be held from May 15 to 

 June 15, 1912. 

 The decease was announced of: 

 Prof. George Davidson, at San Francisco, on December i, 191 1, 



3et. 86. 

 Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., D.C.L., F.R.S., at 



Sunningdale, Eng., on December 11, 191 1, aet. 94. 

 Dr Arthur V. Meigs, at Philadelphia, on January i, 1912, aet. 61. 

 Prof. John M. Macfarlane offered some remarks on the life and 

 services of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. 

 The following papers were read : 

 " The Physical History of the Grand Canyon District," by 



Prof. Douglas Wilson Johnson, of Cambridge, Mass. 



" The Determination of the Depth of the Milky Way," by Dr. 



T. J. J. See, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Mare Island, 



Cal. 



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 members were elected, according 



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