852 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



One tliousand and thirteenth Meeting. 



March 13, 1912. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the X-ray department of the Boston 

 City Hospital, Harrison Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present twenty-six Fellows and two guests. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following com- 

 munications: from Otto Folin, Roscoe Pound, Charles P. Steiu- 

 metz accepting Fellowship ; from R. S. Woodward, of the 

 Carnegie Institution, Charles D. Walcott, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, in reply to Resolution of the Academy sent to 

 them. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair: — 



Charles Robert Sanger, Class I., Section 3 ; Edward Henry 

 Hall, Class III., Section 4 ; Henry Williamson Haynes, Class 

 III., Section 2, Librarian from 1886 to 1899. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported that the Council had 

 voted to invite Doctor H. P. Walcott to deliver the dedicatory 

 address at the opening of the new Academy Building, and had 

 requested the President, with two other members to be selected 

 by himself, to serve as a Committee of Arrangements for the 

 opening of the new building. 



On the recommendation of the Council it was 



Voted, To appropriate five hundred (iSOO) dollars from the 

 income of the Publication Fund for use of the Publication 

 Committee. 



On the recommendation of the Council it was 



Voted, To appropriate two hundred (-1200) dollars from the 

 income of the General Fund for the use of the House Committee. 



The Council proposed the following amendment to the 

 Statutes: — 



Omit paragraph 2, of Article 6, of Chapter IX., and insert in 

 its place the following: 



" A report from the Council shall be submitted to the Acad- 

 emy, for action at the March meeting, recommending the ap- 

 propriations which in the opinion of the Council should be 

 made." 



