MAR 3 1900 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILAMLPHIA M PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXVIII. October, 1899. No. 160. 



Slated Meeting, October 6, 1899. 

 Dr. J. Chestox Morris in the Chair. „;;; '^::^' \ 

 Present, 8 members. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters accepting membership were read from Messrs. 

 Arthur V. Meigs, M.D., Henri Poincar^, Charles E. Dana, 

 William Kamsay, Francis C. Phillips, Sir George Otto Tre- 

 velyan, Israel W. Morris, A. Stanley Mackenzie, W. A. Lam- 

 berton, Waldron Shapleigh, Milton J. Greenman, William C. 

 Day, Samuel M. Yauclain, Harrison S. Morris, Marion D. 

 Learned, Stuart Wood, Henry S. Pritchett, Joseph P. Rem- 

 ington and William Brooke Rawle, and a letter from James 

 E. Keeler declining membership. 



A letter from the Connecticut Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences, inviting the appointment of delegates to the com- 

 memorative exercises of the one hundredth anniversary of its 

 foundation. The President was authorized to appoint a dele- 

 gate. 



An invitation from the Mayor of Chalon-sur-Saone to send 

 a delegate to the fetes accompanying the unveiling of the 

 statue of the Egyptologue, Francois Chabas. On motion the 

 Secretaries were directed to inform the Mayor of Chalon-sur- 

 Saone that the Society had received the invitation too late 

 for its acceptance. 



An invitation, also, to the President, from the Committee 

 on the Unveiling of the Monument to Prof, Guiseppe Mene- 

 ghini, to be present at the ceremony. 



A communication from the French Ministry of Commerce, 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXVIII. J. PRINTED DEC. 15, 1899. 



