332 MINUTES. [May ie«, 1899. 



A communicatiou was- read from tlie Special Committee 

 appointed to pass ujx>n Dr. K. Buti's paper " On an Interes-t- 

 ino- Frao-ment of the Book of the Dead," recammendino- the 

 paper for publication in the Proceedings of the Society. 



The death of Edward Goodfellow, of Washington, D. C^ 

 was announced. 



On motion, the President was. requested to appoint a suit- 

 able person to prepare an obituary notice of Alexander Bid- 

 die, a lately deceased member. 



The proceedings of Officers and Council were then sub- 

 mitted. 



Pending nominations for membership having been read^ 

 the Society proceeded to an election. 



The Tellers then reported that, after a scrutiny of the bal- 

 lots, the following candidates had been duly elected mem- 

 bers of the Society : 



Arthur V. Meigs, M.D., Philadelphia. 



Samuel M. Vauclain, Philadelphia. 



Prof. William Kamsay, Ph.D., London, Eng. 



Israel W. Morris, Philadelphia. 



John Cadwalader, Philadelphia. 



Charles E. Dana, Philadelphia. 



Prof. Francis C. Phillips, Allegheny, Pa. 



Prof. Arthur S. MacKenzie, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, Pa. 



Prof. Joseph P. Remington, Philadelphia. 



Prof. William C. Day, Ph.D., Swarthmore, Del. Co., Pa. 



William Brooke Rawle, Philadelphia. 



Prof. Marion D. Learned, Philadelphia. 



Stuart Wood, Philadelphia. 



Harrison S. Morris, Philadelphia. 



Waldron Shapleigh, Ph.D., Philadelphia. ' 



Prof. William A. Lamberton, Litt.Dr., Philadelphia. . 



Milton J. Greenman, M.D., Philadelphia. 



Rt. Hon. Sir George 0. Trevelyan, London. 



Henry S. Pritchett, Washington, D. C. 



Henri Poincar^, Paris. 



James E. Keeler, Sc.D., Mt. Hamilton, Cal. 



The Society was then adjourned by the presiding officer. 



