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express the hope that expeditions of this kind may continue to be 

 sent out until the entire northern tract is known to us in exactly 

 the way that much of it has been made known by Dr. Nansen. 



Stated Meeting^ November 5, 1897. 



Vice-President Pepper in the Chair. 



Present, 28 members. 



Mr. Theodoie N. Ely and Mr. Kicliard H. Sanders, newly 

 elected members, were presented to tlie Chair, and took their 

 seats in the Society. 



Acknowledgments of election to membership were read 

 from Mr. George Wharton Pepper, Commodore Melville, Mr. 

 Gregory B. Keen, Mr. George Yanx, Jr., Hon. Wayne 

 MacYeagh, Mr. John C. Smock, Hon. Grover Cleveland, Prof. 

 William Libbey, Capt. Alfred T. Mahan, Prof. Woodrow 

 Wilson, Dr. George A. Piersol, Prof. Ligbtner Witmer, Prof. 

 James M. Baldwin, Mr. Kicbard H. Sanders, Mr. James S. 

 deBenneville, Prof. Henry M. Howe, Mr. James B. Leonard, 

 Prof. Edward H. Williams, Prof. H. Morse Stephens, Mr. 

 William Tatham, Mr. Clarence B. Moore, Mr. Charles P. 

 Hildeburn. 



Donations to the Library and Cabinet were reported, and 

 thanks were ordered for them. 



The decease of the following members was announced : 



Prof. James Ellis Humphrey, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, on August 17, 1897, at Jamaica, W. I. 



Justin Winsor, LL.D., Librarian of Harvard College and 

 President of the American Library Association, at Cambridge, 

 on October 26, 1897, a3t. 86. 



John Sartain, at Philadelphia, on October 25, 1897, £et. 89. 



The Society resolved itself into the Committee of the 

 Whole, and proceeded to the consideration of the proposed 

 amendments to the Laws. 



The Societv adjourned until Wednesday evening, Novem- 

 ber 10, at 8 o'clock. 



