RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred ninety-first Meeting. 



October 13, 1909. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-four Fellows present. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that letters had been 

 received from F. J. Furnivall and Hermann Jacobi, accepting 

 Foreign Honorary Membership; from F. G. Benedict, Arthur 

 W. Ewell, J. H. Ropes, W. W. Fenn and G. M. Lane, accepting 

 Resident Fellowship ; from W. J. Spillman, American Secretary 

 of the Universal Scientific Association, suggesting the establish- 

 ment of technical vocabularies in the international language, 

 Esperanto, for the various sciences ; from Mrs. Simon Newcomb 

 and family, announcing the death on July 11th, 1909, of Simon 

 Newcomb; from Harvard University, requesting the presence 

 of a delegate at the inauguration of Abbott Lawrence Lowell, as 

 its President ; from the Nobel Prize Committees, inviting compe- 

 tition for the Nobel prizes of 1910 ; from Dr. J. Zavodny, en- 

 closing a pamphlet of the Export-verein fiir Bohmen, Mahren 

 und Schlesien, in Prag, and requesting admission into the Acad- 

 emy as Corresponding member ; from Anaboli Pavlov, a theory 

 of numbers (in Russian) ; from H. G. "Wadlin, E. A. Filene 

 and C. Bertrand Thompson, suggesting an exhibit at the " 1915 " 

 Boston Exposition to be held Nov. 1-27, 1909 ; from Carlos A. 

 Hesse, suggesting changes in the Calendar ; from the Aero Club 

 of America, inviting the Academy to take part in the proceedings 

 at the presentation of medals to Messrs. Wilbur and Orville 

 Wright, as discoverers of the art of flying ; from the American 

 Philosophical Society, requesting the Academy to co-operate 

 with other scientific societies in urging the government of the 



