850 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The President stated the object of the meeting and gave his 

 views of the matter in question. 



A representative of the firm of Page and Frothingham, the 

 architects of tlie new building, was present, and after discussion 

 the Academy took a recess of five minutes to examine the plan 

 of the Reading-room which he presented. 



After business was resumed, on motion of the Treasurer, it was 



Voted, That in the opinion of the Academy it is desirable 

 that the plan of furnishing the Academy building as suggested 

 by the Agassiz heirs through the architects be carried out. 

 This was passed by a vote of 13 to 6. 



At 9.45 the meeting adjourned. 



One thousand and t'welf th Meeting. 



February 14, 1912. 



The Academy met in Ellis Hall. 



The President in the chair. 



There were thirty-three Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following com- 

 munications: — letters from Forris Jewett Moore, accepting 

 Fellowship ; and from Heiurich Oscar Hofman, resigning Fel- 

 lowship ; an invitation from the Royal Society of London, to 

 send a delegate to the celebration of its 250th anniversary, in 

 July, 1912; an invitation from the American Philosophical 

 Society, to send a delegate to its Annual General Meeting, 

 April 18-20, 1912 ; an invitation from the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia, to send a representative to the celebra- 

 tion of its centenary anniversary, March 19-21, 1912 ; a notice 

 of the eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry, to 

 be held in Washington and New York, in September, 1912, en- 

 closing blanks for application for Membership. 



The President announced the death of Dr. O. F. Wadsworth, 

 Fellow in Class XL, Section 4, and of Joseph Lister, Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class H., Section 4. 



The President was authorized to appoint a delegate to the 

 celebration of the "250th anniversary of the Royal Society, 

 London ; to the celebration of the centenary anniversary of the 



