324 MINUTES. [Nov. 4/ 



Stated Meeting, November Ip^ 1S98. 



Vice-President Sellers in the Chair. 



Present, 14 members. 



The minutes of tlie hist stated meeting were read and, 

 approved. 



Letters were read from Dr. Endolph Buti, of Baltimore, 

 Md., inquiring if the Society would publish a translation of 

 a fras^ment of the Book of the Dead ; also another letter 

 accompanying the manuscript. 



On motion of Dr. Frazer, the paper of Dr. Buti was referred 

 to a committee of three to be appointed by the President.- 

 The President subsequently appointed Prof. H. V. Hil- 

 precht, Mr. Talcott Williams and Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson. 



From Prof. H. Y. Hilprecht, accepting tbe appointment as 

 delegate to the Twelfth International Congress of Orientalists. 



From the Academy of Sciences, Letters and Art of 

 Modena, announcing the death of its President, Prof. Comni. 

 Pietro Riccardi, on September 30, 1898. 



From Dr. Frederick Prime, resigning his membership of 

 the Committee on the Librarj^ 



On motion of Dr. Frazer, Dr. Prime's resignation was 

 accepted, and the President was requested to appoint a mem- 

 ber to fill the vacancy during the remainder of the unexpired 

 term. Mr. J. G. Rosengarten was subsequently appointed. 



Donations to the Library were announced by the Librarian. 



Dr. Frazer presented to the Library and Cabinet a photo- 

 graph of the reading of the annexation resolution of Congress 

 to President Dole on the steps of the Royal PaLace in Hono- 

 lulu. Also a copy of the Honolulu Commercial Advertiser^ ^ 

 and a statistical statement to date regarding the Islands of 

 Hawaii, by the Commissionaire and Consul of France, formerly. 

 Consul of France in Philadelphia, M. Louis Yossion. 



Senator Edmunds, on ' behalf of the Special Committee 

 appointed for the consideration of the- Magellanic Fund, pre- 



