652 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and twenty-ninth Meeting. 



January 14, 1914. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-nine Fellows and two guests present. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following letters : — 

 from the Real Academia de Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona, inviting 

 the Academy to send a delegate to the celebration of the one hundred 

 and fiftieth anniversary of its foundation, January 18-20, 1914; 

 from the Museo Nacional de Acqueologia Historia y Ethnologia, 

 sending the felicitations of the New Year; from the Boston Rotary 

 Club, enclosing tickets to its annual exhibition in Horticultural Hall, 

 January 23-24, 1914. 



The Chair announced the deaths of the following Fellows : — Seth 

 Carlo Chandler, Class I., Section 1; Silas Weir Mitchell, Class H., 

 Section 3; Benjamin Osgood Peirce, Class I., Section 2. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following Recommendation 

 of the Council : — 



The Council recommends that the following Standing Vote be 

 adopted : — 



There may be chosen by the Academy, under the same rules by 

 which Fellows are now chosen, one hundred Resident Associates. 

 Not more than forty Resident Associates shall be chosen in any one 

 Class. 



Resident Associates shall be entitled to the same privileges as 

 Fellows, in the use of the Academy building, may attend meetings 

 and present papers, but they shall not have the right to vote. They 

 shall pay no Admission Fee, and their Annual Dues shall be one half 

 that of Fellows residing within fifty miles of Boston. 



The Council and Committees of the Academy may ask one or more 

 Resident Associates to act with them in an advisory or assistant 

 capacity. 



It was 



Voted, That this Recommendation be printed on the call for the 

 next Meeting at which it can be considered. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Academy: — 

 a printed list of nominees having been sent to all Voting Fellows with 

 the notice of the December meeting, in accordance with Chapter HI, 

 Article 3 of Statutes: — 



