630 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Francis Cabot Lowell, of Boston, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence). 



George Lyman Kittredge, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow 

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



George Howard Darwin, of Cambridge, as Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 1 (Mathematics and Astronomy), 

 in place of the late James Joseph Sjdvester. 



Nine hundred and first Meeting. 



October 12, 1898. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Hyatt in the chair. 



The Chair announced the death of Samuel Eliot, Resident 

 Fellow in Class IH., Section 3 ; James Hall, Associate Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 1 ; Thomas Mclntyre Cooley, Associate Fel- 

 low in Class III., Section 1 ; William Ewart Gladstone, Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class III., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from G. L. Kit- 

 tredge, Francis C. Lowell, F. Brunetiere, G. H. Darwin, and 

 Alb. Heim, acknowledging their election into the Academy ; 

 from Alexander Agassiz, announcing his resignation as Director 

 and Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 

 bridge ; from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, announ- 

 cing the death of Carlo Giacomini and of Giuseppe Gebelli ; from 

 the Polish Association for the Promotion of Medical and Natural 

 Knowledge, in reference to the exclusion of Poles from its 

 meeting at* Posen ; from the Physico-economical Society at 

 Konigsberg, stating the subjects and conditions of award of 

 certain prizes ; from August Dauber, of Bochum, calling atten- 

 tion to Professor Edward Buchner's experiments made in 

 Berlin; and from W. Potter, of Victoria, soliciting subscriptions 

 to the Baron von Miiller's grave monument fund. 



A communication from the Department of State, announcing 

 the date of the next meeting of the International Congress of 

 Orientalists, and inviting the Academy to send delegates, was 

 referred to a committee, consisting of the President, the Vice- 

 President of Class HI., and the Corresponding Secretary. 



