566 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Nine hundred ninety-eighth Meeting. 



May 11, 1910. — Annual Melting. 



The President in the chair. 



Thirty-six Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following: — a notice 

 of the death of Alexander Agassiz from The Faculty of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology ; a notice from the clerk 

 of the Probate Court of the City of Newport, that the Academy 

 is named as a beneficiary under the will of Alexander Agassiz ; 

 a circular from the Association des Inge'nieurs Electricicns 

 sortis de l'Institut electrotechnique Montefiore, giving the 

 conditions of a triennial prize ; a circular announcing papers 

 to be given at the 17th Congress of Americanists at Buenos 

 Aires; a circular from the Secretary of the International Hy- 

 giene exhibition to be held in Dresden, 1911. 



The following report of the Council was read : — 



Since the last report of the Council the deaths of eleven mem- 

 bers have been noted: three Resident Fellows, — James Barr 

 Ames, Morris Hicky Morgan, Alexander Agassiz; six Associate 

 Fellows, — John Morse Ordway, Simon Newcomb, Henry Charles 

 Lea, William Scllars, Samuel William Johnson, William Gra- 

 ham Sumner ; two Foreign Honorary Members, — Frederic 

 William Maitland, Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch. 



Two Resident Fellows have resigned 



New members elected are: Resident Fellows, 8; Associate 

 Fellows, 2; Foreign Honorary Members, 2. 



The roll of the Academy therefore now includes 191 Resident 

 Fellows, 84 Associate Fellows, and 61 Foreign Honorary 

 Members. 



The annual report of the Treasurer was read, of which the 

 following is an abstract : — 



