iv MINUTES. 



Prof. Paul Shorey and Prof. E. Washburn Hopkins, recently 

 elected members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the 

 Society. 



The following papers were read : 

 " Our Contradictory Economic Policy," by E. M. Patterson, 



Ph.D., Professor of Economics, University of Pennsylvania. 



(Introduced by Prof. Emory R. Johnson.) 

 " The Distribution of Human Ability in Europe," by Ellsworth 



Huntington, Ph.D., Research Associate in Geography, Yale 



University. (Introduced by Mr. Henry G. Bryant.) 

 " George Hammond and Robert Liston — British Ministers in 



Philadelphia," by J. F. Jameson, Carnegie Institution of 



Washington, Department of Historical Research, discussed by 



Mr. Carson and Dr. Hays. 

 "The Threefold Trinity," by E. Washburn Hopkins, Ph.D., 



LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology, 



Yale University. 

 " The Use of Devices for Indicating the Vowel Length in 



Latin," by John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Professor of Latin Language 



and Literature, University of Pennsylvania. 

 " A Sketch of the Modern Faeroe Dialect," by J. Dyneley Prince, 



Ph.D., U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- 

 tiary to Denmark. 



Friday, April 22. 



Executive Session, 10 O'Clock. 



William B. Scott, Sc.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Lawrence J. Henderson, a newly elected member, subscribed 

 the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 



The President delivered his Annual Address as follows : 



" Under the new laws of the Society adopted last autumn, it be- 

 comes the duty of the Chair to present to the Society at this executive 

 meeting a brief report concerning the activities of the Society for the 

 preceding year and the state of its property and personnel. 



"The total number of members of the Society on December 31 

 last was 476; 402 being residents of the United States and 74 foreign 



