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Stated Meeting April 12, 1^12. 

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



Letters were received 



From the Committee of Organization of the IV. Congres Inter- 

 national d'Histoire des Religions to be held at Leyden from 

 the 9th to 13th of September, 191 2, inviting the Society to be 

 represented at the Congress by a delegate. 



From the Trustees and Faculty of Princeton University, re- 

 questing the presence of a delegate at the inauguration of 

 John Grier Hibben, President of the University, on Saturday, 

 May II, 1912. 



From the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, appoint- 

 ing Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch, from The Connecticut 

 Academy of Arts and Sciences, appointing Prof. E. Hershey 

 Sneath, from The Washington Academy of Sciences, appoint- 

 ing Dr. L. O. Howard, and from The American Institute of 

 Electrical Engineers, appointing Mr. Harry Archer Hornor, 

 to represent them respectively at the General Meeting of the 

 Society. 

 The decease was announced of the following members : 



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

 on March 17, 1912, aet. 71. 



Professor Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr., at Philadelphia on 

 March 19, 1912, aet. 39. 



Prof. A. Lawrence Rotch, at Boston on April 7, 19 12, aet. 51. 

 The following papers were read: 



" The Roentgen Rays — Principles underlying Production, De- 

 velopment of Apparatus and Usefulness in Medicine and 

 Surgery," by Dr. Willis F. Manges (introduced by Dr. W. 

 W. Keen). Discussed by Doctors Goodspeed, Tyson, Coplin, 

 and Keen. 



"The Japanese Verb So-Called," by Mr. Benjamin Smith 

 Lyman. 



