18<J7.] MINUTES. 819 



Stated Meeting, May '21, 1897. 



Vice-]^residcnt Pepper in tlic Chair. 



Present, 82 members. 



The Proceedings of the Officers and Council were 

 submitted. 



Pending nominations Nos. l-:)7(> to 1888 were read and, 

 except No. 1380, action on which was postponed, were spoken 

 to. Secretary Frazer and Dr. Morehouse were appointed tel- 

 lers, and an election for members was held. 



Dr. Morehouse read an obituary of the late Lewis A. Scott, 

 Esq. 



Mr. Prime offered the followiug resolution, which was 

 adopted : 



Resolved, That a Committee of three be appoiutecl by the President to 

 consider and report on the advisability of offering to cooperate on behalf 

 of this Society with the Royal Society of England in the preparation of 

 an International Catalogue liaisonne of all scientific publications, and 

 that such Committee shall be authorized to communicate with the Com- 

 mittee of the Roj^al Society on this subject." 



Mr. George F. Edmunds made a communication on Inter- 

 national Arbitration, which was discussed by Dr. Pepper, 

 Mr. Wharton and Mr. Edmunds. 



Dr. William H. Furness, 3d, then made a verbal communi- 

 tion, entitled, " Further Glimpses of Borneo," with lantern 

 slides. 



A paper by Dr. Charles E. Sajous on '' Solar Heat and 

 Universal Gravitation — A New Working HjqDothesis," was 

 then read. 



Dr. Greene, on behalf of the Library Committee, offered 

 the following resolutions : 



That authority be given to the Library Committee to present one of 

 the duplicate copies of the Treaty of Peace with Great Britain, printed 

 in Paris in 1783, to the library of the Department of State, and one to 

 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, if they do not already possess 

 copies. 



Adopted. 



