Xll MINUTES. 



Assistant Naval Constructor, U. S. Navy. (Introduced 

 by Dr. Bauer.) 



Stated Meeting, May 4, ipi/. 

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

 Messrs. Walton Brooks McDaniel and Harold Pender, newly 

 elected members, subscribed the Laws and were admitted into the 

 Society. 



Letters accepting membership were received from 

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

 Pierre Samuel duPont, Wilmington, Del. 

 Carl H. Eigenmann, Ph.D., Bloomington, Ind. 

 Charles Holmes Herty, Ph.D., New York. 

 Herbert E. Ives, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Walton Brooks McDaniel, A.B.. Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Winthrop J. V. Osterhout, A.M., Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass. 

 Harold Pender, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 

 Frederick Hanley Scares, B.S., Pasadena, Cal. 

 George Owen Squier, Ph.D., Washington, D.C. 

 Charles P. Steinmetz, Ph.D., Schenectady, N. Y. 

 Oscar S. Straus, A.M., Litt.D., LL.D., New York City. 

 Alonzo Engelbert Taylor, M.D., Philadelphia. 

 Archibald Byron Macallum, M.B., Ph.D., D.Sc, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 Toronto. 

 The decease was announced of Caspar Rene Gregory, Ph.D., 

 D.D., LL.D., at Leipzig, on April 9, 191 7, set. 70. 



Obituary notices of members deceased were read as follows : 

 Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., Sc.D., LL.D., by Prof. Theodore 



William Richards. 

 Cleveland Abbe, Ph.D., LL.D., by Prof. Charles F. Marvin. 

 The following paper was read : 

 "The Study of Inheritance in Pisuni," by Orland E. White, of 



Brooklyn (communicated by Prof. E. M. East.) 



Pending nomination for membership No. 1051 was read and, in 



accordance with a resolution unanimously adopted at the Executive 



Session held on April 14 last, the Society proceeded to an election 



The tellers reported that the Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, 



LL.D., D.C.L., was elected to membership by unanimous vote. 



