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ment of the legacy of twenty-five thousand dohars ($25,000.00) left to 

 the Academy under the will of Francis Amory, deceased. 



The above concession is made on account of the necessity of a 

 compromise between the Executors of the Will and the Heirs of the 

 Testator in order to prevent a contest. 



It was also 



Voted, That the Treasurer of the American Academy of Arts and 

 Sciences is hereby authorized to receive and receipt for the above 

 legacy on the terms above set forth. 



The following Communication was given by Dr. W. S. Bigelow: — 



"On the Method of Practising Concentration and Contemplation, 

 by Chisho Daishi, a Monk of the Shuzenji Monastery of Tendai 

 Mountain; translated from the Chinese bv Okakura Kakuzu." 



One thousand and twenty-eighth Meeting. 



December 10, 1913. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the chair. 



There were forty-one Fellows and three guests present. 



A letter from Albert Bushnell Hart, declining Fellowship, was 

 presented bj' the Corresponding Secretary. 



Dr. Horatio R. Storer, a Resident Fellow of the Academy from 

 1858 to 1879, presented a small bronze bas-relief of himself, inscribed 

 " To the Master in Surgery, Medical Numismatist and Lover of Man 

 and Nature, Horatio R. Storer, M. D., LL.D., from his friend R. Tait 

 McKenzie, M.D. 1913." 



Mr. Baldwin Coolidge presented a small lithograph, from a drawing 

 by George Rumford Baldwin, in 1830, of the house in which Count 

 Rumford was born. 



The above gifts were accepted by the Academy, and the Corre- 

 sponding Secretary' requested to acknowledge them. 



Dr. Clarence J. Blake read a biographical notice of Dr. O. F. 

 Wadsworth. 



A communication was gi\en by Professor G. W. Pierce on " Wireless 

 Telephony," accompanied by lantern slides and apparatus, which 

 was followed by discussion, and remarks by Professors Thomson, 

 Webster and FitzGerald. 



The meeting then adjmu-ned to the Reading-room, where refresh- 

 ments were served. 



