14 MINUTES. 



[April 24, 



the laying of the corner-stone of the new building of the College. 

 Owing to the absence of the President in Europe, Secretary James 

 W. Holland, M.D., was appointed to represent the Society at the 

 ceremony. 



The following papers were read : 



" The Law of Oresme, Copernicus and Gresham," by Thomas 

 Willing Balch, of Philadelphia. 



" The Dramatic Function of Cassandre in the Oresteia of 

 i^schylus," by Professor William A. Lamberton, of Philadelphia. 



" Goethe's Private Library as an Index of his Literary Inter- 

 ests," by Professor Waterman T. Hewett, of Ithaca, N. Y. 



" Art and Ethnology," by Edwin Swift Balch, of Philadelphia. 



" Cytomorphosis, A Study of the Law of Cellular Change," by 

 Professor Charles Sedgwick Minot, of Cambridge. 



'' Preliminary Report on the Brains of the Natives of the Anda- 

 man and Nicobar Islands," by Professor E. A. Spitzka, of Phila- 

 delphia (introduced by Professor J. W. Holland). 



" Observations regarding the Infliction of the Death Penalty by 

 Electricity," by Professor E. A. Spitzka, of Philadelphia (intro- 

 duced by Professor J. W. Holland). 



" The Brain of Rhinochimaera," by Professor Burt G. Wilder, 

 of Ithaca, N. Y. 



April 24, Morning Session. 



The following papers were read : 



" A Comparison of the Albino Rat with Man in Respect to the 

 Growth of the Brain and of the Spinal Cord," by Professor Henry 

 H. Donaldson, of Philadelphia. (See Journal of Comparative 

 Neurology and Psychology, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, 1908.) 



" Preliminary Report upon a Crystallographic Study of the 

 Hemoglobins : A Contribution to the Specificity of Vital Substances 

 in Different Vertebrates," by Professors Edward T. Reichert and 

 Amos P. Brown, of Philadelphia. 



" Recent Discoveries in the Pathology of Rabies," by Mazyck 

 P. Ravenel, M.D., of Madison, Wis. 



" The Explosion of the Saratoga Septic Tank," by Professor 

 William Pitt Mason, of Troy, N. Y. 



