RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 685 



the first national conference to consider the question of the 

 choice of vocations by the young men and women of this coun- 

 try, to be held in Boston November 15 and 16, 1910. 



The Council reported that it had considered Professor Percival 

 Lowell's charge that Professor Edward C. Pickering had sup- 

 pressed information in regard to Professor Lowell's candidate, — 

 Mr. Lampland, — and having considered Professor Pickering's 

 testimony in regard to the same, found that the charge was entirely 

 unfounded, and passed the following vote : — " That the Council 

 has considered the charges presented by Professor Lowell and 

 the new counter-evidence from Professor Pickering, and con- 

 siders the charges unfounded. The error arose by reason of 

 forgetfulness on the part of Professor DaA-idson." 



The President read the following letter from Mr. G. R. 

 Agassiz : 



"O 



My dear Prof. Trowbridge, 



Percy Lowell has just telephoned me that you were waiting to call a 

 meeting of your American Academy Committee, until you heard from 

 us. You remember that I said that we (my brothers and I) thought 

 it advisable not to make a formal proposal till we were in a position to 

 pay the bequest. Matters move so slowly in these matters that it is 

 still impossible for us to say how soon this will be. It certainly wiU 

 not be before Mr. Bo wd itch leaves. 



You may remember that the question will be for the Academy to 

 decide whether it prefers to have a fund of 850,000 — or the house 

 Mr. Agassiz intended to build for them. Should the Academy decide 

 on the latter alternative (after they have received our proposal) they 

 will doubtless find that the conditions will be something like this : 



If they care to devote the 850,000, bequeathed to them uncondi- 

 tionally by Mr. Agassiz, toward building fi-om the plans that Mr. Agassiz 

 had prepared — then his children would pay the rest of the cost — and 

 furnish a suitable fund to furnish the house. 



This is in no way an official communication, but is written in the 

 hope of recalling to you what our actions will in all probability be. 

 Furthermore I should like to have this matter known as widely as 

 possible among the members of the Academy, as, should you decide to 

 build, we should doubtless like the assurance that such a course meets 

 with the approval of a very considerable majority of its members. 



Yours very truly, 



G. R. Agassiz. 



