RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



Nine hundred ninety-ninth Meeting. 



October 12, 1910. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were forty-five Fellows and one guest present. 



The following letters and circulars were read by the Corre- 

 sponding Secretary : — letters from Messrs. Archibald C. Cool- 

 idge, Roland B, Dixon, Worthington C. Ford and Edward C. 

 Moore, accepting Resident Fellowship ; from Sir David Gill, ac- 

 cepting Foreign Honorary Membership ; a notice from his family 

 of the death of F. von Recklinghausen ; from the Instituts 

 , Solvay, asking recognition of the new society ; from the tenth 

 International Congress of Geography to be held in Rome in 

 October, 1911 ; a notice of the formation of a society for the 

 development of experimental sciences, in connection with the 

 Imperial Moscow University ; a circular notice to the President 

 of the Academy that he had been elected a member of the or- 

 ganizing Committee for the Eighth International Congress of 

 Applied Chemistry, to be held in the United States in 1912; a 

 request from the Director of the Civic Pageant of the Boston 

 1915 organization for assistance for the Pageant, to be held in 

 November ; a program of the first Universal Race Congress, to 

 be held in London, July 26-29, 1911 ; a notice of various Inter- 

 national Horticultural Expositions to be held in Turin in 1911, 

 in connection with the International Exposition of Industry and 

 Labor ; a letter from Professor Hugo Miinsterberg to Professor 

 Watson, announcing the formal opening of the Amerika-Institut 

 of the German Government. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : Robert Amory, 

 Resident Fellow in Class II., Section 3 ; George P. Fisher, 

 Class III., Section 3, and Melville W. Fuller, Class III., Section 1, 



