xvi MINUTES. [Maya, 



" On the Prospect of Obtaining Radial Velocities by Means 

 of the Objective Prism," by Frank Schlesinger, M.A., 

 Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, University of 

 Pittsburgh. 



" Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics 

 of the Stars" (illustrated), by Henry N. Russell, 

 Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University. 



Stated Meeting, May j, 1912. 



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



Dr. William T. Sedgwick, a recently elected member, and Mr. 

 Arthur H. Lea and Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, newly elected 

 members, signed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. 

 Letters accepting membership were received from 

 Arthur Louis Day, Ph.D., Washington, 

 John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., LL.D., Princeton, 

 James Furman Kemp, Sc.D., New York, 

 Arthur Henry Lea, A.B., Philadelphia, 

 Frank Schlesinger, M.A., Ph.D., Allegheny, Pa., 

 George E. de Schweinitz, M.D., Philadelphia, 

 Roland Thaxter, A.Af., Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass., 

 Oswald Veblen, Princeton. 

 From the HI Congresso Archseologico Internazionale, Rome, 

 October, 1912, inviting the Society to be represented thereat 

 by a delegate. 

 From the Assogiation des Ingenieurs Electriciens, announcing 

 the conditions of the Triennial Prize for 191 4, under the 

 Fondation George Montefiore. 

 A paper entitled " Is Typhoid Fever a Rural Disease? " was read 

 by Dr. W. T. Sedgwick, of Boston, Mr. G. R. Taylor, of Scranton, 

 and Mr. J. S. MacNutt, of Orange, N. J., and was discussed by 

 Doctors Abbott, Mr. John F. Lewis, Doctors Tyson, Smith and 

 Stengel and Professor Sedgwick. 



