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Lafayette Benedict Mendel, A.B., Ph.D., Sc.D., New Haven, 



Conn. 

 Forest Ray Moulton, Ph.D., Chicago, 111. 

 Eli KirkPrice, A.B., LL.B., Philadelphia. 

 William JMorton Wheeler, Ph.D., Boston, Mass. 

 Frank Dawson Adams, D.Sc, Ph.D., F.R.S., Montreal 

 Prof. John B. Watson, of Baltimore, read a paper on " The 

 Homing Problem in Birds." 



Stated Meeting October 6, igi6. 



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



Dr. William E. Lingelbach, a newly elected member, subscribed 

 the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 



Acceptances of election to membership were received from : 



Erwin F. Smith, Sc.D., Washington, D. C. 



Joannes Diderick van der Waals, Ph.D., Amsterdam. 

 Wilhelm L. Johanssen, M.D., Ph.D., Copenhagen. 



The decease was announced of 

 Silvanus Phillips Thompson, D.Sc, LL.D., at West Hamp- 



stead, London, on June 12, 1916, set. 65. 

 Prof. Gaston Camille Maspero, at Paris, on June 30, 1916, 



aet. 70. 

 Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., F.R.S., on July 23, 1916, aet. 64. 

 Hon. Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker, at Schwenksville, Pa., 



on September 2, 1916, aet. 73. 

 Josiah Royce, Ph.D., LL.D., at Cambridge, Mass., on Septem- 

 ber 14, 1916, aet. 60. 

 Lion. Seth Low, at Bedford Hills, N. Y., on September 17, 

 1916, aet. 66. 

 Dr. A. Parker Hitchens read a paper entitled " The Etiology 

 and Pathogenesis of Hay Fever as Related to our Present Knowl- 

 edge of Anaphylaxis " which was discussed by Dr. Macfarlane, Dr. 

 Davis, Prof. McFarland and others. 



On motion the following was unanimously adopted : 



