RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and fifty-ninth Meeting. 



October 11, 1905. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the Jefferson Physical Laboratory, 

 Cambridge. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present thirty-nine Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : — 



From Samuel Williston, accepting Fellowship; from Charles 

 E. Munroe, acknowledging his election as Associate Fellow ; 

 from G. Stanley Hall, resigning Fellowship ; from the University 

 of Illinois, inviting delegates to the installation of Edmund 

 J. James as President of the University ; from Dr. Gustav 

 Fischer, of Jena, soliciting subscriptions for a Memorial to Ernst 

 Abbe ; from the Societe Entomologique de Belgique, announcing 

 the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary and the publication of 

 a Jubilee volume which will be given to the Academy ; from 

 the Directors of the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, of Florence, 

 announcing the death of its Librarian, Comm. Desiderio Chilovi ; 

 from the Kon. bohmische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften of 

 Prag, announcing the death of its President, W. W. Ritt. von 

 Tomek ; from the Academie royale, d'Archeologie de Belgique 

 Anvers, inviting Members of the Academy to be present at 

 the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of Belgian 

 independence. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — 



Edward S. Wood, Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 3; 

 Otto Struve, Foreigu Honorary Member in Class I., Section 1. 



