534 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Nine Iiunclred aud eighteentli meeting. 



June 13, 1900. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 

 A quorum was not present and the Academy was not called 

 to order. 



Nine hundred and eigliteentli Meeting. 



October 10,1900. — Stated Meeting. 



The Corresponding Secretary in the chair. 

 The following letter was read : — 



843 Exchange Buildixg, Boston, 

 September 5, 1900. 

 Francis Blake, Esq., 



Treasurer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 Dear Sir, — By a letter enclosed in his will, my Father, Mr. 

 Augustus Lowell, requested his sons to pay "to the American Academy 

 of Arts and Sciences $10,000." It gives me great pleasure to enclose 

 to you, in accordance with this request, a check for the amount named. 



Very truly yours, 



A. Lawrence Lowell. 



The Corresponding Secretary also read letters from W. E. 

 Castle, M. L. Fernald, Jeremiah Smith, and J. B. Wood worth, 

 accepting Fellowship ; from George M. Dawson, M. W. Fuller, 

 T. D. Seymour, and H. M. Stephens, accepting Associate Fel- 

 lowship; and from Sir Archibald Geikie, F. Kohlrausch, Sir 

 John Murray, and W. C. Unwin, acknowledging election as 

 Foreign Honorary Members. 



Announcement was received of the death of D. T. Day, 

 formerly President of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. 



The following deatlis were announced : — 



Augustus Lowell, Vice-President for Class III. ; John Elbridge 

 Hudson, of Class TIL, Section 1., Sylvester R. Koehler, of 

 Class IIL, Section 4, Resident Fellows ; James Edward Keeler, 

 of Class I., Section 1, Jacob Mandes DaCosta, and Alfred Stills, 

 of Class II., Section 4, William Mitchell, of Class III., Section 

 1, Associate Fellows; Willy Kiihne, of Class II., Section 4, 

 Charles Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen, and Henry Sidg- 

 wick, of Class III., Section 1, Foreign Honorary Members. 



