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Professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, Yale 

 University. 



" Panama Tolls and Tonnage Rules," by Emory R. Johnson, 

 Ph.D., Professor of Transportation and Commerce, Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania. 



" Passamaquoddy Morphology," by J. Dyneley Prince, A.B., 

 Ph.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, 

 New York, 



Afternoon Session — 2 o'clock. 



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



Prof. William Albert Noyes, of Urbana, 111., and Prof. Bradley 

 jMoore Davis, of Philadelphia, newly elected members, subscribed 

 the Laws and were admitted into the Society. 



Dr. William G. Farlow unveiled a Wedgwood medallion por- 

 trait of the late Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 0.]\L, G.C.S.L, C.B. and 

 spoke as follows : 



Today we are so fortunate as to be able to add a medallion of 

 one of the world's great botanists to the already large number of 

 memorials of distinguished men which adorn this Hall and give it a 

 dignity which is justly envied by other scientific societies in this 

 country. Joseph Dalton Hooker, the more distinguished son of a 

 distinguished father, was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England, in 

 1817 and, retaining his scientific activity until the last, died at Sun- 

 ningdale in 1911, a record very rarely equalled. 



When four years of age his father, Sir William Hooker, re- 

 moved to Glasgow, where he had been appointed Professor of Botany 

 in the LTniversity, so that from his early childhood, the son was placed 

 in surroundings which naturally pointed to botany as his life work. 

 While a student of medicine. Hooker had the opportunity of 

 reading the proofs of Darwin's " \ oyage of the Beagle" which 

 aroused in him an intense desire to travel. This desire was for- 

 tunately soon gratified, for immediately after receiving the degree 

 of Doctor of Aledicine in 1839, he was appointed assistant surgeon 

 and botanist to the Erebus under the command of Sir James Ross, 

 then about to start on his memorable voyage to the Antarctic regions. 



