RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 825 



The following gentleman was elected a Foreign Honorary 

 Member: — 



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



Alfred Marshall, of Cambridge, England. 



The following communications were presented : — 



Dr. Kirsopp Lake, "The Monks of Mt. Athos." Illustrated 

 with lantern sHdes. Professor George F. Moore, "Mohammedan 

 Law." 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



"On Cyclical Variations in Eruption at Kilauea." By Harry 

 O. Wood, presented by T. A. Jaggar. 



The meeting then adjourned. 



One thousand and fifty-fourth Meeting. 



February 9, 1916. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were fifty -one Fellows and ten guests present. 



Letters were presented: from E. L. Chaffee, F. A. Saunders, 

 G. H. Barton, B. M. Davis, Thomas Barbour, J. B. Clark, F. J. 

 Goodnow, and J. O. Sumner, accepting Fellowship. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the receipt of memoirs 

 of deceased Fellows, as follows: in Class I.; Alfred Noble, by 

 Desmond FitzGerald; Wolcott Gibbs, by T. W. Richards; Samuel 

 William Johnson, by R. H. Chittenden; Sir George Howard 

 Darwin and George W^illiam Hill by E. W. Brown; in Class II., 

 Reginald Heber Fitz, by J. C. Warren; Cyrus Gurnsey Pringle, 

 by B. L. Robinson; John Shaw Billings, by H. P. Walcott; Frie- 

 drich Daniel von Recklinghausen, by W. T. Councilman; in 

 Class III., WilHam Watson Goodwin and Samuel Henry Butcher, 

 by H. W. Smyth; Abner Cheney Goodell, by A. McF. Davis; 

 Frederic William Maitland and Henry Charles Lea, by C. H. 

 Haskins; Ingram Bywater, by C. H.Moore; Francis Cabot Lowell, 

 by A, L. Lowell; Thomas Day Seymour, by J. W. White. 



The following death was announced by the Chair : Dr. Ludimar 

 Hermann, Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 3. 



