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published in Professor H. F. Osborn's book entitled " Age of 

 Mammals " and an article by him entitled " Correlation and 

 Palaeogeography." Upon recommendation the section of the 

 committee was discharged. 111 



The Academy sent Dr. George F. Becker as its delegate to the 

 meeting of the American Philosophical Society held on April 

 1 8, 19 and 20, 1912. At the 2$oth anniversary of the Royal 

 Society of London, which was celebrated on July 16-18, 1912, the 

 Academy had as its delegate Dr. Arnold Hague, Home Sec- 

 retary. The President of the Academy was its representative at 

 the inauguration of President Hibben at Princeton University 

 on May 12, 1912. 



The will of Morris Loeb, who died on October 8, 1912, con- 

 tained the following item, adding to the trust funds of the 

 Academy: " I give and bequeath to the National Academy of 

 Sciences in Washington, in the District of Columbia, the sum 

 of two thousand five hundred dollars as a contribution toward 

 the Wolcott Gibbs Fund, founded in 1892." 



111 Rep. Nat. Acad. Sci. for 1912, p. 13. 



