824 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and fifty-third Meeting. 



January 12, 1916. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were forty Fellows and two guests present. 



A letter from Hugo Miinsterberg, resigning Fellowship was 

 presented by the Corresponding Secretary. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: James Clark 

 White, Fellow in Class II., Section 3; Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class I., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the receipt of bio- 

 graphical memoirs of deceased Fellows, as follows: in Class I., 

 Thomas Messinger Drown, John Morse Ordway; Charles Hallet 

 Wing, by H. P. Talbot; Edward Stickney Wood, by J. C. Warren; 

 in Class II., George Jarvis Brush, by C. H. Warren; Sir John 

 Murray, by George Agassiz; Eduard Strasburger, by W. J. V. 

 Osterhout; in Class III., James Barr Ames, by Samuel Williston; 

 John Chipman Gray, by J. H. Beale; Daniel Coit Gilman, by 

 C. R. Lanman; Bennett Hubbard Nash, by E. S. Sheldon; George 

 Park Fisher, by J. H. Ropes; Henry Leland Chapman, by W. 

 deW. Hyde; Horace Howard Furness, by W. A. Neilson; Augus- 

 tus St. Gaudens, by D. C. French. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Academy : — 



Class I., Section 2 (Physics) : — 



Emory Leon Chaffee, of Cambridge ; Frederick Albert Saunders, 

 of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. 



Class II., Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy and Physics of the 

 Globe): — 



George Hunt Barton, of Cambridge. 



Class II., Section 2 (Botany) : — 



Bradley Moore Davis, of Philadelphia, Pa. 



Class II., Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology) : — 



Thomas Barbour, of Boston. 



Class III., Section 3 (Political Economy and History) : — 



John Bates Clark, of New York, N. Y.; Frank Johnson Good- 

 now, of Baltimore, Md.; John Osborne Sumner, of Boston. 



