714 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and second Meeting. 



January 11,1911. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met in its Hall. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-eight Fellows present. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following : — a 

 letter from Professor W. G. Farlow, representative of the Acad- 

 emy at the Third International Botanical Congress, enclosing a 

 printed report of the Congress ; a notice of the death of Angelo 

 Mosso, from the Reale Accademia delle Scienze, Torino ; a letter 

 from Mr. Loammi F. Baldwin, of Woburn, notifying the Acad- 

 emy of the bequest in the will of Mrs. Catherine Rumford 

 (Baldwin) Griffith, of mementos of Count Rumford ; the felici- 

 tations of the new year, from the Museo nacional de Arqueo- 

 logia, Historia y Etnologia, Mexico ; a circular letter from the 

 Nobel committee of the Svenska Akademien, requesting the 

 distribution of some enclosed circulars regarding the competi- 

 tion for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 



The President read the following letter from the sons of the 

 late Professor Agassiz : — 



14 AsHBUKTON Place, Boston, Mass., 

 January 7, 1911. 



President and Members of the American Academy. 



Gentlemen, — From a letter of our father's to Professor Trowbridge, 

 dated October 16th, 1909, and published in Vol. 45, No. 21, of your 

 Proceedings, it is evident that Mr. Agassiz did not intend to endow 

 the building that he proposed to give to the Academy. 



We therefore take pleasure in making the following proposal : Should 

 the Academy care to devote the $50,000 (bequeathed to the Academy 

 unconditionally by Mr. Agassiz) toward the construction of the build- 

 ing he proposed to give them, we on our part will give No. 26 New- 

 bury Street clear of all mortgages, and pay the balance of the cost of 

 construction, provided this sum does not exceed $30,000. (You will 

 notice by the enclosed letter from the Architects that the estimated 

 cost of the building is approximately $74,000.) We will pay the Archi- 

 tect's fee, and give the sum of $9,000 for furnishing the building. 



As our interest in this matter is to carry out Mr. Agassiz's wishes as 

 nearly as we can interpret them, we should like to have it understood 



