738 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Section 2 ; J. W. A. Kirchlioff, Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class III, Section 2. 



Professor G. F. Swain was appointed by the President to 

 represent the Academy at the dedication of the building of 

 the engineering department of the University of Pennsylvania. 



At the request of the President, Professor "Ware gave some 

 information in regard to the ventilation of the Meeting-room, 

 with its estimated cost. After some discussion, on motion of 

 the Recording Secretary, the whole subject was referred to the 

 President, with full power. 



The following communications were given : — 

 " An Ascent of Orizaba, Mexico," by Professor John E. 

 Wolff ; " On Some Elements of Conservatism in Ancient 

 Greece," by Professor Herbert Weir Smyth. 

 The following paper was presented by title : — 

 Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series. — No. XXXIII. "Revision of the Genus 

 Spilanthes," By Albert Hanford Moore. Presented by B. L. 

 Robinson. 



Nine hundred and sixty-eightli Meeting. 



November 14, 1906. 



The Academy met at its House. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present twenty-two Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : 

 From the Delegation pour 1' Adoption d'une Langue Auxiliaire 

 Internationale, offering to members of the Academy the re- 

 sources of the Delegation for the propaganda in the United 

 States ; from the Board of Managers for Massachusetts, of the 

 Jamestown Exposition, asking for the loan of objects of his- 

 torical interest for display at the Exposition. 



The following communications were given : — 



" The Ancient Coniferous Flora of New England," by Pro- 

 fessor E. C. Jeffrey ; " The Ancient Water-levels of the Cham- 

 plain and Hudson Valleys," by Professor J. B. Wood worth. 



The following papers were read by title : — 



