RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 853 



The above proposed amendment to the Statutes was referred 

 to a Committee consisting of Messrs. Bowditch and Edes, with a 

 request to report at the Annual meeting in May. 



On the recommendation of the Council it was 



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

 that twenty-five new Fellows, living within fifty miles of Bos- 

 ton, should be elected in May, in addition to such a number as 

 is needed to fill vacancies occasioned by deaths or resignations 

 since January 1, 1912. 



The President appointed the following gentlemen to serve as 

 Nominating^ Committee : — 



Henry Lefavour, of Class I. 



William T. Sedgwick, of Class II. (Chairman). 



George L. Kittredge, of Class III. 



Professor Kittredge having declined service on the Com- 

 mittee, Mr. Worthington C. Ford was appointed by the Pres- 

 ident in his stead. 



The following communication was given ; — 



Dr. Francis H. Williams. "X-rays and Radium," with dem- 

 onstrations. 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



" On the Ultra Violet Radiation of Practical Illuminants." 

 By Louis Bell. 



One thousand and fourteenth Meeting. 



April 10, 1912. 



The Academy met at Ellis Hall. 



The President in the chair. 



There were twenty-two Fellows present. 



The Corresponding Secretary presented the following corre- 

 spondence: — an invitation from the Trustees and Faculty of 

 Princeton University requesting a delegate from the Academy 

 at the inauguration of John Grier Hibben, as President of the 

 University ; from the Secretary of the third International Con- 

 gress of Archaeology, to be held in Rome, October 9-16, 1912, 

 requesting delegates ; from the Organizing Committee of the 

 fourth International Congress of Religious, to be held Septem- 

 ber 9-13, 1912, at Leiden. 



