848 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One thousand and tenth Meeting. 



January 10, 1912.— Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met in Ellis Hall. 



The President in the chair. 



There were twenty-eight Fellows present. 



The following letters were presented by the Corresponding 

 Secretary: — from Edwin B. Wilson, accepting Fellowship; 

 notices of the deaths of Sir J. D. Hooker and J. B. E, Bornet ; 

 a preliminary notice of the International Congress of Anthro- 

 pology and Prehistoric Archaeology, to be held at Genoa, in 

 September, 1912. 



The President announced the following deaths : — Dr. Al- 

 gernon Coolidge, Fellow in Class II., Section 1 ; Sir Joseph 

 D, Hooker, and J. B. E. Bornet, Foreign Honorary Members in 

 Class II., Section 2. 



The following report of the Building Committee was read by 

 the chairman : — 



At the Annual Meeting of the Academy, it was voted that the 

 President appoint a building committee composed of the chairman of 

 the house committee, the librarian, and such other persons as they 

 should add to their number to have oversight of the carrying on of the 

 building, and to decide such matters of detail in connection therewith, 

 as might come up. The President accordingly appointed Dr. Louis 

 Bell, in addition to the two officials above named, to whom was subse- 

 quently added Dr. H. M. Goodwin, who with the President consti- 

 tuted the committee. The committee held several meetings during 

 the summer, and considered a number of matters of detail. Several 

 conferences were held by representatives of the committee with the 

 architect, who seemed very averse to treating with the committee or 

 taking any of their suggestions. The Agassiz heirs were also con- 

 sulted and finally agreed to change the elevator which had been or- 

 dered to a self-acting one. The committee feel bound to state that 

 this is the chief tangible result that their labors have accomplished. 

 They have been unable until very recently to secure access to the 

 stack so that it has has been impossible to consult books or records, 

 and many of their recommendations have not been carried out. It 

 was the opinion of the committee that the reading room should have 



