644 MINUTES. [October 2, 



Stated Meeting October 2, igo8. 



Secretary Holland in the Chair. 



Dr. E. A. Spitzka, a newly elected member, was presented to the 

 chair and took his seat in the Society. 



Letters accepting membership were read from : 

 Prof. Richard Hawley Tucker. 

 Prof. Albrecht F. K. Penck. 

 Prof. Herbert Weir Smyth. 

 Letters were received 

 From the City of Faenza inviting the Society to be represented 



at the Torricelli tercentenary. 

 From the University of Cambridge inviting the Society to par- 

 ticipate in the commemoration of the centenary of Charles 

 Darwin's birth in June, 1909, and Prof. Henry F. Osborn 

 was appointed to represent the Society on the occasion. 

 From the Physico-Medical Society at Erlangen, thanking the 

 Society for its congratulatory address on the occasion of its 

 centenary celebration. 

 The decease was announced of : 

 Hon. Grover Cleveland, at Princeton, N. J., on June 25, 1908, 



set. 71. 

 Prof. F. L. Otto Rohrig, at Pasadena, Cal., on July 14, 1908, 



«t. 89. 

 Dr. Ainsworth Rand Spofford, at Holderness, N. H., on August 



12, 1908, aet. 83. 

 Prof. Antoine Henri Becquerel, at Croisic, in Brittany, on 



August 25, 1908, set. 56. 

 Prof. E. Mascart, at Paris, on August 26, 1908, set. 71. 

 Prof. Dr. Hugo von Meltzel, of Koloszvar, Hungary. 

 The following papers were read : 



" The Humming Telephone," by Prof. A. E. Kennelly and 

 Walter L. Upson. (See page 329.) 



" On the After-images of Subliminally Colored Stimuli," by 

 Edward Bradford Titchener and William Henry Pyle. (See page 

 366.) 



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