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Letters accepting membership were received from 

 His Excellency Raymond Poincare, 

 Le Marechal Joseph Joffre and 

 Prof. H. A. Bumstead 

 and a declination from Prof. Clarence G. Child. 



A communication from the Rector of the University of Lund 

 stating that the University would celebrate on the 27th of Septem- 

 ber of this year, the 2Soth Anniversary of its founding was read. 

 The Secretaries were instructed to send to the University the con- 

 gratulations and good wishes of the Society on the occasion. 

 The decease was announced of 

 Prof. Guido Cora, at Piedmont, on October 10, 1917, set. 66. 

 Grove K. Gilbert, A.B., A.M., LL.D., at Jackson, Mich., on 



May I, 1918, set. 75. 

 Frank Miles Day, B.S., M.A.,at Philadelphia, on June 15, 1918, 



set. 57. 

 Rt. Rev. John J. Keane, at Dubuque, Iowa, on June 22, 1918, 



set. 79. 

 James Douglas, B.A., LL.D., at New York, on June 25, 1918, 



set. 81. 

 Stephen Farnum Peckham, A.M., on July 11, 1918, set. 79. 

 William H. Greene, M.D., at Wenonah, N. J., on August 8, 



1918, set. 65. 

 Maxime Bocher, A.B., Ph.D., at Cambridge, Mass., on Sep- 

 tember 12, 1918, set. 51. 

 Mr. Joseph Willcox, at Philadelphia, on October i, 1918, set. 89. 

 Dr. Isaac Norris, at Florence, Italy, on October 22, 1918, set. 84. 

 Prof. John A. Miller read a paper on ''The Total Solar Eclipse 

 of June 8, 1918," which was discussed by Prof. Snyder. 



Special Meeting, November 21, ipi8. 

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



Dr. Etienne Burnet, of the French Educational Mission to 

 the United States, read a paper on " Pasteur as a Representative of 

 the French Scientific Spirit." 



