RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 717 



One thousand and third Meeting. 



February 8, 1911. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-six Fellows present. 



In the absence of the Corresponding Secretary, the President 

 read the following letters and circulars : — letters accepting Fel- 

 lowship from W. C. Farabee, A. M. Tozzer, Albert Matthews, 

 R. C. Maclaurin ; a circular from the Royal Frederick Univer- 

 sity of Christiania, inviting the Academy to send a delegate to 

 its one hundredth anniversary celebration to be held September 

 5-6, 1911 ; a circular of the Fourth International Congress of 

 Philosophy to be held at Bologna, April 6-11, 1911 ; a circular 

 from the Boston 1915 Committee, asking a delegate to the first 

 annual meeting of the Education Conference to be held March 

 16, 1911 ; a card of invitation to the President to attend a meet- 

 ing in memory of Henry Charles Lea, at Philadelphia, January 

 20th. 



The President announced the following deaths : — Samuel H. 

 Butcher, Foreign Honorary Member in Class III., Section 4; 

 Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 3, — 

 a member of the Warren Committee since its formation in 1893, 

 and chairman of that Committee since 1902. 



The President reported that the Committee on Policy had 

 voted against allowing any member to be enrolled in two differ- 

 ent Sections of the Academy at the same time, and that the 

 Council accepted that report. 



The President read the following : — 



The Committee on Policy submits the following recommendations as 

 its report, and will move their adoption. 



1. To accept the offer of the Agassiz heirs, whereby we should 

 secure a dignified and comfortable home, with the probability of in- 

 creased activity and wider influence, the methods of raising the funds 

 needed for the increased cost of maintenance to be left for future 

 consideration. 



Note 1. In reply to a recent circular 133 Fellows voted in favor of 

 the above recommendation, 10 voted against it, 56 did not vote. 



Note 2. A committee on endowment has been appointed, from which 

 a preliminary report is expected. 



