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MINUTES. 13 



Stated Meeting March 6, igo8. 

 Secretary Holland in the Chair. 



Letters were read from the Secretary of the Committee of 

 Organization of the Fourth International Congress of Mathematics, 

 to be held at Rome, Italy, April 6-11, 1908, inviting the Society to 

 be represented at the congress, and Vice-President Simon Newcomb 

 was appointed as the Society's delegate. 



Stated Meeting March 20, igo8. 

 Curator ]\Iiller in the Chair. 



The death was announced of Sir Samuel Davenport, of Adelaide, 

 Australia. 



Dr. George Byron Gordon read a paper on " Some of the 

 Results of the University of Pennsylvania Expedition to Alaska, 

 1907-" 



Stated Meeting April 5, igo8. 

 Councillor Rosengarten in the Chair. 



Letters were received from the Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution informing the Society that the Institution has learned 

 through the Department of State that the Second International 

 Archaeological Congress will be held at Cairo, Egypt, on the date of 

 the Latin Easter, 1909, and requesting that the Institution be 

 apprised of the names of scholars likely to attend the Congress. 



Dr. Leonard Pearson read a paper on " Some Aspects of the 

 Production and Distribution of Milk." 



General Meeting, April 2^, 24 and 25, igo8. 

 Vice-President Scott in the Chair. 



April 2j, Afternoon Session. 



A letter was received from the College of Physicians, of Phila- 

 delphia, inviting the President to be present on April 29, 1908, at 



