562 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



to be held in London in July, 1911 ; a circular from Signor Vito 



Volterra, announcing the publication of the mathematical works 



of Count Julius Charles of Fagnano. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair : — 

 William Sellers, Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 4; 



Samuel W. Johnson, Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 3 ; 



William Frederick Kohlrausch, Foreign Honorary Member in 



Class I., Section 2. 



The President announced that the Massachusetts Legislature 



had complied with the request of the Academy and had passed 



the following amendment to the Charter of the Academy : — 



[Chapter 129.] 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



In the year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ten. 

 An Act relative to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen- 

 eral Court assembled and by the authority of the same, as follows : — 



Section 1. Section four of chapter forty-six of the acts of the year 

 seventeen hundred and seventy-nine, passed May fourth, seventeen 

 hundred and eighty, which incorporated the American Academy of 

 Arts and Sciences, is hereby amended by striking out in the proviso 

 at the end of said section, the word " two " before the word " hun- 

 dred," and inserting in place thereof the word : — three, — so as to 

 read as follows : — Section 4. That the fellows of the said academy, may 

 from time to time, elect such persons to be fellows thereof, as they shall 

 judge proper ; and that they shall have full power and authority from 

 time to time to suspend, expel, or disfranchise, any fellow of the said 

 academy, who shall by his conduct render himself unw r orthy of a place 

 in that body, in the judgment of the academy ; and also to settle and 

 establish the rules, forms, and conditions of election, suspension, ex- 

 pulsion, and disfranchisement : provided, that the number of the said 

 academy who are inhabitants of this state, shall not at any one time, 

 be more than three hundred, nor less than forty. 



Section 2. Said chapter forty-six is hereby further amended by 

 striking out Section six and inserting in place thereof the following : — 

 Section 6. That the fellows of the said academy may, and shall, 

 forever, hereafter, be deemed capable, in the law, of having, holding, 

 and taking, in fee simple or any less estate, by gift, grant, devise, or 



