EECORDS OF MEETINGS. 819 



In the absence of the Recording Secretary, W. M. Davis was 

 appointed Recording Secretary, pro tempore. 



The President announced the death of Professor Samuel 

 Pierpont Langley, Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 2. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from M. P. Porzild, 

 Director of the Danish Artie Station at Disco, Greenland, re- 

 questing contributions of publications on Arctic nature and 

 biology. 



The Chair announced that in accordance with a vote of the 

 last meeting, the Academy would be represented at the Frank- 

 lin celebration of the American Philosophical Society by the 

 President and Professor W. M. Davis. 



The following gentlemen w r ere elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Comfort Avery Adams, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

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



Edward Charles Jeffrey, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 2 (Botany). 



Walter Bradford Cannon, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology). 



Joseph Henry Beale, Jr., of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence). 



George Foot Moore, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology). 



Albert Andrew Howard, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology). 



Thomas Nixon Carver, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

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



Charles Benedict Davenport, of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., 

 to be an Associate Fellow in Class II., Section 3 (Zoology and 

 Physiology). Transferred from Resident Fellowship. 



The Chair appointed the following gentlemen to serve as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



E. H. Bradford, J. H. Wright, L. J. Johnson. 



In accordance with the report of the Committee appointed 

 February 14, 1906, to whom were referred certain alterations of 

 the Statutes, it was 



