yviii MINUTES. [Nov. :, 



From Sir George Otto Trevelyan : 



Wallington, Cambo, Northumberland, 



August i6, 1912. 



Dear Sirs: 1 always read, with interest and admiration, everything in the 

 Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society the technical form of 

 which is not beyond me; and I fully appreciate the deserved and wide- 

 spread influence of that publication. In your number of April to June, 1912, 

 there is an article on American history in which it is stated, three several 

 times over, that Charles James Fox was my "relative"; and it is implied, 

 not obscurely, that I wrote with a family partiality about him, and about 

 the public events of his period in England and America. I do not suppose 

 that your readers concern themselves much about the personal question in 

 relation to me; but it must be remembered that the statement of a fact, made 

 with emphasis and circumstance, in the pages of the American Philosophical 

 Society's journal, bears the stamp of authority; and what is written there 

 remains written. I therefore feel bound to say that Charles Fox is in no 

 sense my "relative" and that between his family and mine (I am sorry for 

 it) there never existed any connection by blood or marriage, however remote. 

 Indeed my progenitors on my father's side, voted sturdily against him in 

 Parliament, beat his supporters at election, perfectly abominated him in his 

 character of a friend of liberty and humanity, and held, at the time, the 

 same view of his policy and attitude towards America which the author of 

 your article holds to-day. 



I remain, Sirs, 



Yours very faithfully, 



George Otto Trevelyan. 

 To the Secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. 



The decease of the following members was announced: 



William W. Goodwin, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., at Cambridge, 

 Mass., on June 15, 191 2, set. 81. 



Thomas Hewson Bache, M.D., at Philadelphia, on July 8, 1912, 

 set. 86. 



Jules Henri Poincare, Sc.D., at Paris, France, on July 17, 1912, 

 jet. 58. 



Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., at Wallingford, 

 Pa., on August 13, 1912, set. 79. 



Archibald Loudon Snowden, LL.D., at Philadelphia, on Septem- 

 ber 7, 1912, set. 75. 

 The following papers were read : 



•''Restoration of North and South American Mammals," by 

 Prof. W. B. Scott. 



