X MINUTES. [April 18, 



General Meeting, April 18, iQ, and 20. 



Thursday, April igth. Opening Session, 2 o'clock. 



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



Letters were received from The American Oriental Society, 

 appointing Prof. A. V. WilHams Jackson, The American Philo- 

 logical Society, appointing Prof. John Carew Rolfe, The Archaeo- 

 logical Institute of America, appointing Prof. Harry Langford 

 Wilson, to represent them respectively at the General Meeting. 



The decease was announced of Rev. Charles G. Ames, at Boston, 

 April 15, 1912, set. 83. 



The following papers were read : 

 "Some Former Members of the American Philosophical So- 

 ciety," by Thomas Willing Balch, Philadelphia. Discussed 

 by Mr. Harrison Morris. 

 " The Diary of a Voyage to the United States, by Moreau de 

 Saint Mery," by Stewart L. Mims, B.A., Instructor in His- 

 tory, Yale University. (Introduced by Mr. J. G. Rosen- 

 garten.) Discussed by Mr. Rosengarten, 

 " The Legendary and Myth-Making Process in Histories of the 

 American Revolution," by Sydney George Fisher, A.B., 

 LL.D., Philadelphia. 

 " Bardaisan and the Odes of Solomon," by William Romaine 

 Newbold, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 

 " Sumerian Bookkeeping Five Thousand Years Ago" (illus- 

 trated), by George A. Barton, Ph.D., Professor of Semitic 

 Languages, Bryn Mawr College. 

 "The Political Ideals of Ulrich von Hutten," by Kuno Francke, 

 Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of History of German Culture, Har- 

 vard University. 

 " Some Anthropological Aspects of the Brain with Reference 

 to Race, Sex and Intellect," by Edward A. Spitzka, M.D., 

 Professor of Anatomy, Jefferson Medical College, Philadel- 

 phia. Discussed by Professor Haupt and Mr. Fisher. 

 "Waterway Conservation" (illustrated), by Louis M. Haupt, 

 Philadelphia. Discussed by Mr. Sidney George Fisher. 



