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November 19, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance sixteen. 



Dr. Launcelot W. Andrews read a paper on "Phonetics 

 and Bell's System of Visible Speech," describing the meth- 

 ods of forming the various sounds of speech, not only of 

 the English but of other languages. 



December 3, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair; attendance forty- 

 three. 



Dr. C. H. Shutt, Prof. M. E. McCourt and Mr. 

 Alexander Del Mar were elected active members of the 

 Academy. 



Prof. A. S. Langsdorf , Dr. Chas. D. Stevens and Dr. D. 

 S. H. Smith were elected as a Nominating Committee, to 

 prepare a ticket for the annual election. 



Dr. N. M. Glatfelter delivered a lecture on "Edible 

 Mushrooms," illustrated with specimens. 



Dr. E. A. Gammon of Toronto, Canada, presented a series 

 of fossils collected at Water Works Knob in Columbia, Ten- 

 nessee, a new locality for collecting. All of the fossils 

 found seem to have been inhabited by parasites. Dr. Gam- 

 mon donated a full series of the Brachiopoda typical of that 

 locality to the Academy. On motion of Dr. G. D. Stevens 

 the collection was accepted and the thanks of the Academy 



voted the donor. 



December 17, 1906. 



President Adolf Alt in the chair ; attendance twenty-four. 



The Nominating Committee reported the following ballot 



for the annual election, which was ordered printed and mailed 



to the members : — 



President C. M. Woodward 



First Vice-President Arthur Thacher 



Second Vice-President Joseph Spiegelhalter 



Recording Secretary James A. Harris 



Corresponding Secretary H. A. Hunicke 



Treasurer Enno Sander 



Librarian 6. Hambach 



Cnrators G. Hambach 



F. Schwarz 



Julias Hurler 

 Directors F. E. Nipher 



J. H. Kinealy 



