RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 



One thousand and seventli Meeting. 



October 11, 1911. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met in Ellis Hall, in the Massachusetts His- 

 torical Society's Building. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-seven Fellows present. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following letters 

 and circulars : — from the University of Minnesota, inviting 

 the Academy to be represented at the inauguration of George 

 Edgar Vincent as its President ; the preliminary announcement 

 of the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry ; a 

 notice of contest for the Elia de Cyon prize ; a request for sub- 

 scriptions for the purchase of the birthplace of Pasteur; from 

 the Naturforschende Gesellschaft zu Gorlitz, inviting the 

 Academy to be represented at the celebration of its centenary ; 

 a notice from the Surrogates' Court of New York regarding 

 the property of Catherine R. B. Griffith ; a notice regarding the 

 probating of the will of Mary H. Cooke. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair: — 



Samuel Hubbard Scudder, Resident Fellow in Class II., Sec- 

 tion 3, Corresponding Secretar}"- and Chairman of the Publi- 

 cation Committee from 1896 to 1900, Librarian from 1877 to 

 1885; Cyrus Gurnsey Pringle, Associate Fellow in Class II., 

 Section 2. 



At the request of the C. M. Warren Committee it was 



Voted, That the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) be ap- 

 propriated from the income of the C. M. Warren P^und for the 

 use of the Committee. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 

 Academy : — 



