830 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and eighth Meeting. 



November 8, 1911. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at Ellis Hall. 



The President in the chair. 



There were forty-four Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the follow- 

 ing gentlemen, accepting Fellowship : — Joel H. Metcalf, Lewis 

 Boss, Harvey N. Davis, Harry W. Morse, Joseph S. Ames, 

 William C. Bray, Willis R. Whitney, Dugald C. Jackson, Fred- 

 eric P. Stearns, Herdraan F. Cleland, Hervej' W. Shimer, Charles 

 R. Van Hise, Oakes Ames, Edward M. East, Robert A. Harper, 

 Milton J. Rosenau, Melville M. Bigelow, Marcus P. Knowlton, 

 George V. Leverett, Woodrow Wilson, Fred N. Robinson, 

 Charles C. Torrey, Edward Channing, Frederick J. Turner, 

 William S. Bigelow; from John F. Jameson, declining Fellow- 

 ship; from the Executive Committee of the Eighth Interna- 

 tional Congress of Applied Chemistry, inviting the Academy to 

 join the Congress and to take part in its proceedings in Wash- 

 ington, September 4, 1912, and New York, September 5-13, 

 1912; from Wssewolod Tscheschichin, Riga, regarding a new 

 international language. 



Mr. Charles P. Bowditch presented a subscription paper, 

 dated jNIarch, 1849, and signed by prominent members of the 

 Academy. This interesting paper, which gave the amounts 

 subscribed to a publication fund, was found among his father's 

 papers. 



The President announced that the Boston Athenaeum had 

 consented to return to the Academy the bust of Franklin which 

 was given it by the American Philosophical Society in 1802, 

 and read the following letters : — 



10 Appleton Street, Cambridge, October 23, 1911. 



Mr. John Trowbridge, President. 



Dear Sir : — I am authorized by the Trustees of the Boston Athe- 

 naeum to announce to you that the Athenaeum presents to the Acad- 

 emy, the bust of Franklin which has for many years stood in the 

 vestibule of the Athenaeum building. The circumstances under which 

 I have become an intermediary in this transaction are these — 



