170 MINUTES. [May 20, 



The resolution of acceptance of tlie portraits was then 

 unanimouslj adopted. 



Dr. Frazer presented the report of the Officers and Council. 



The Secretaries announced the death, on May 19, 1898, of 

 the Et. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, at Hawarden, Ches- 

 ter, England. 



Pending nominations ISTos. 1432 and 1451 to 1468 were 

 read and spoken to, and new nomination No. 1409 was read. 



A paper by Dr. William C. Day, entitled, " The Production 

 of an Asphalt Resembling Gilsonite by the Distillation of a 

 Mixture of Fish and Wood," was read. 



The Secretaries reported the election of the following as 

 members : 



Edward F. DeLancey, of JN'ew York. 



Pro£ William Harkness, of Washington. 



Prof. C. P. Tiele, Ph.D., of Leyden. 



Alfred H. Allen, F.C.S., of Sheffield, Eng. 



Boverton Redwood, F.R.S., of London. 



Prof. Albert B. Prescott, LL.D., of Ann Arbor. 



Prof. William H. Pettee, of Ann Arbor. 



Prof. R. P. Whitfield, of New York. 



H. LaBarre Jayne, of Philadelphia. 



Lamar Gray Patterson, of Cumberland, Md. 



Charles Piatt, of Philadelphia. 



John H. Converse, of Philadelphia. 



Henry Grier Bryant, F.R.G.S., Lond., of Philadelphia. 



Emlen Hutchinson, of Philadelphia. 



Prof. G. Mangarini, Ph.D., of Rome. 



The meeting was then adjourned by the presiding officer. 



