MINUTES. xiii 



Stated Meeting, October 5, 1917. 



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



Letters accepting membership were read from Sir David Prain, 

 Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour and Mr. Waldemar Lindgren. 

 The decease was announced of 

 James Mason Crafts, B.S., LL.D., on June 20, 1917, £et. 78. 

 William Bullock Clark, Ph.D., LL.D., at North Haven, Maine, 



on July 27, 1917, set. 57. 

 Marion D. Learned, Ph.D., Litt.D., at Philadelphia on August 



I, 1 91 7, set. 60. 

 Patterson DuBois, Esq., at Philadelphia on August 8, 191 7, 



set. 69. 

 Adolf von Baeyer, Ph.D., M.D., on August — , 1917, set. 82. 

 The following papers were read : 

 " Principles of the Treatment of Wounds," by Dr. Alexis Carrel, 



Member of the Rockefeller Institute and Chief Surgeon of 



Temporary Hospital No. 21, Compiegne, France. 

 " The Mathematical Study of the Cicatrization of Wounds," 



by Capt. Lecomte du Noiiy, of Temporary Hospital No. 21 ; 



Compiegne, France. 

 " Eighteen New Species of Fishes from Northwestern South 



America " and 

 " Description of Sixteen New Species of Pygidiidse," by Carl 



H. Eigenmann, Professor of Zoology, Indiana University. 



Stated Meeting, November 2, 1917. 

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



The decease was announced of Amos P. Brown, B.S., Ph.D., one 

 of the Secretaries of the Society, at Atlantic City, N. J., on October 

 9, 1917, set. 53. 



The following papers were read : 

 " Two Years in the Arctic with the Crocker Land Expedition," 



