RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 743 



28-31, 1907 ; from the Smithsonian Institution, informing the 

 Academy of the election of Charles Doolittle Walcott as its 

 Secretary ; from G. Capellini, inviting the Academy to partici- 

 pate in the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of 

 the death of Ulisse Aldrovandi, June 12, 1907, at Bologna ; 

 also, printed communications regarding the adoption of an inter- 

 national language. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary, it was unanimously 



Voted, To invite Dr. William Everett, Professor Amos E. 

 Dolbear, and Mr. Henry G. Denny to attend the meetings of 

 the Academ}'-, and to make use of the library. 



The Chair announced the following death : — 



Dimitri Mendeleeff, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I, 

 Section 3. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of the 

 Academy : — 



William Zebina Ripley, of Newton, as Resident Fellow in 

 Class HI, Section 3 (Political Economy and History). 



Edward Henry Hall, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow in 

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



William Coolidge Lane, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow in 

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



Magnus Gustav Retzius, of Stockholm, as Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class II, Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology), in 

 place of the late Albert von KoUiker, 



Hermann Diels, of Berlin, as Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class HI, Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology), in place of 

 the late J. W. A, Kirchhoff. 



The President appointed the following Councillors to act as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



William T. Sedgwick, of Class II. 

 Elihu Thomson, of Class I. 

 Andrew McF. Davis, of Class III. 



The following Communications were given : — 



Professor S. P. Sharpies, " Cobalt and Silver Deposits of 

 Cobalt, Canada." 



Professor D. W. Johnson, " The Volcanic Necks of the Mt. 

 Taylor Region, New Mexico" (by invitation). 



