726 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



for his " improvements in the utilization of heat as work in the 

 steam-turbine." 



The President presented the medals to Mr. Curtis. 



Mr. Curtis in. receiving the medals addressed the Academy on 

 the " Development of the Steam Turbine in the United States." 



Professor George A. Reisner gave an illustrated account of 

 the Archaeological Survey of Lower Nubia. 



The following paper was presented by title : 



" The Nature of Volcanic Action." By Reginald A. Daly. 



One thousand and sixth Meeting. 



May 10, 1911. — Annual Meeting. 



The Peesident in the chair. 



Thirty-six Fellows present. 



The Chair announced the death of Thomas Wentworth Higgin- 

 son, Resident Fellow in Class III., Section 4 ; of Charles Otis 

 Whitman, Associate Fellow in Class II., Section 3 ; and of J. H. 

 van't Hoff, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letter and 

 circulars : — from Lucien Carr, resigning Fellowship ; from the 

 Committee of the International Congress of Orientalists, invit- 

 ing delegates to the 16th Session to be held at Athens, April 

 7th-14th, 1912 ; from the Committee of the first Universal Race 

 Congress, to be held in London, July 26th-29th, 1911. 



The following report of the Council was read : — 



Since the last report of the Council eighteen deaths have been 

 reported: — five Resident Fellows, — Robert Amory, Leonard 

 Parker Kinnicutt, Francis Cabot Lowell, Henry Pickering Bow- 

 ditch, Thomas Wentworth Higginson ; seven Associate Fellows, 

 — Cyrus Ballou Comstock, William Price Craighill, William 

 Wirt Howe, Melville Weston Fuller, George Park Fisher, 

 Samuel Franklin Emmons, Charles Otis Whitman ; six Foreign 

 Honorary Members, — Friedrich von Recklinghausen, Samuel 

 Henry Butcher, William Huggins, Robert Koch, Maurice Levy, 

 Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff. 



Two Resident Fellows have resigned. 



New members elected are : — Resident Fellows, six ; Associate 

 Fellows, one. 



