PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Louis Bell, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class I., 

 Section 2 (Physics). 



Arthur Edwin Kennelly, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class L, Section 4 (Technology and Engineering). 



Charles Gross, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

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



Kuno Francke, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts). 



Herbert Langford Warren, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 4. 



Michael Idvorsky Pupin, of New York, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 2 (Physics). 



Wilhelm Ostwald, of Leipzig, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class L, Section 3 (Chemistry). 



Samuel Henry Butcher, of London, to be a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member in Class III., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine 

 Arts), in place of the late Lesley Stephen. 



Mr. A. Lawrence Lowell was appointed a delegate to at- 

 tend the installation of Edmund J. James as President of the 

 University of Illinois, at Urbana, October 17-19, 1905. 



The following votes were passed : — 



Voted, That the action of the President, William W. Good- 

 win, in executing in the name and behalf of the Corporation a 

 party wall agreement with the owner of estate numbered 30 

 on Newbury Street in Boston, dated May 29th, 1905, be and 

 the same hereby is ratified and confirmed as the act of the 

 Corporation. 



Voted, That the action of the Treasurer in paying bills for 

 the current expenses of the Academy, in the absence of any 

 appropriation therefor, be hereby approved and confirmed. 



Voted, That an appropriation of three thousand dollars 

 ($3,000) be made for the General Expenses of the Academy, 

 as of May, 1905, to be expended during the year 1905-1906. 



Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to sell and transfer 

 any and all Stocks and Bonds belonging to the Academy, 



