IVIAR U 1899 



PROCE EDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol, XXXVII. December, 1898. No. 158. 



^Stated Meeting^ October 7, 1898. 

 Vice-President Sellers in the Chair. 

 Present, 28 members. 



Dr. Caspar Rdne Gregory and Messrs. Hutchinson, Bryant 

 and H. La Barre Jayne, newly elected members, were pre- 

 sented to the Chair, and took their seats in the Society. 



Acknowledgments of election to membership were read 

 from Messrs. H. La Barre Jayne, Emlen Hutchinson, John 

 H. Converse, Charles Piatt, William Harkness, R. P. Whit- 

 field, Henry G. Bryant, Lamar Gray Patterson, William 

 Henry Pettee, Edward F. DeLancey, C. P. Tiele, Albert B. 

 Prescott, Alfred H. Allen, Boverton Redwood, Guglielmo 

 Mengarini and A. Donaldson Smith. 



A letter was received from the Secretary of State, enclosing 

 an invitation from the government of Italy to the Society 

 to send deleo^ates to the Twelfth International Consfress of 

 Orientalists, to be held at Rome on October 2, 1899 ; and on 

 motion the President was authorized to appoint a delegate, 

 in accordance mth the invitation. Prof. H. Y. Hilprecht 

 was subsequently appointed the delegate of the Society. 



An invitation was received from the Academy of Sciences 

 and other learned societies of Stockholm, to send a delegate 

 to a commemorative fete to be held at Stockholm on Octo- 

 ber 7, 1898, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the 

 death of Berzelius. The Secretary was directed to express 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXYII. 158. L. PRINTED DEC. 7, 1898. 



