MINUTES. V 



The following papers were read : 



" The Trial of Animals — A Little Known Chapter of Medieval 

 Jurisprudence," by Hampton L. Carson, LL.D., of Phila- 

 delphia. 



" Medieval Sermon-Books and Stories and their Study since 

 1883," by Thomas Frederick Crane, Ph.D., Litt.D., Professor 

 Emeritus of the Romance Languages and Literature, Cornell 

 University. 



" Some Recent Acquisitions to the Yale Collection," by Albert 

 T. Clay, LL.D., Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian 

 Literature, Yale University. 



" Vision as a Physical Process," by Herbert E. Ives, of Phila- 

 delphia. (Introduced by Dr. A. W. Goodspeed.) 



" The Diagnostic Method of Training Intelligence : an Educa- 

 tion for the Fortunate Few (With a Demonstration)," by 

 Lightner Witmer, Ph.D., Director of the Laboratory of 

 Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. 



" Historical Notes on ' The Armament of Igor,' " by J. Dyneley 

 Prince, Ph.D., Professor of Slavonic Languages, Columbia 

 University. 



"A New Translation of the Hebrew Bible," by Cyrus Adler, 

 Ph.D., President of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate 

 Learning, Philadelphia. 



Friday, April 15. 



Executive Session — g.^o o'clock. 



William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Erwin Frink Smith, of Washington, and Dr. Edward Murray 

 East, of Forest Hills, Mass., subscribed the Laws and were admitted 

 into the Society. 



The Proceedings of the Officers and Council were submitted. 



The following nominees for membership were recommended for 

 election this year. 



Residents of the United States. 



William Frederick Durand, Ph.D., Stanford University, Cal. 

 Pierre Samuel duPont, Mendenhall, Pa. 



