RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred and sixty-seventh Meeting. 



October 10, 1906. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present twenty-three Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following communi- 

 cations : From the University of Pennsylvania, inviting the 

 Academy to send a representative to the dedication of the new 

 building of its engineering department; from the Curator of 

 the Reale Universita Napoli, offering for sale collections of speci- 

 mens of the materials ejected in the recent eruption of Vesuvius; 

 from the American Philosophical Society, presenting the medal 

 struck by order of the Congress of the United States in honor 

 of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin 

 Franklin ; one from the same Society acknowledging the ad- 

 dress presented by the Academy on the occasion of the above 

 celebration ; from the Director of the Observatorio Astronomico 

 de la Plata, announcing the annexation of the Observatorio to 

 the Universidad Nacional ; from the family of Ludwig Boltz- 

 mann, announcing his death, and also the same announcement 

 from the University of Vienna ; from the Museo Nacional, 

 Mexico, announcing the death of Manuel Urbina, chief of the 

 department of natural history. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair : — 



Edward J. Young, Resident Fellow in Class III, Section 2; 

 Bennett H. Nash, Resident Fellow in Class III, Section 2; 

 Ludwig Boltzmann, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I, 

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