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Stated Meeting May /, igog. 

 William W. Keen, LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. Charles B. Penrose, Mr. John Frederick Lewis and Prof. 

 William Romaine Newbold, newly elected members, were admitted 

 into the Society. 



Letters accepting membership were read from: 



Louis A. Bauer, Ph.D. (Berlin), Washington, D. C. 



jMarston Taylor Bogert, New York. 



Hermon Carey Bumpus, Ph.D., New York City. 



Alexis Carrel, M.D., New York City. 



Edwin Brant Frost, Williams Bay, Wis. 



A. V. Williams Jackson, Ph.D., LL.D., Yonkers, N. Y. 



John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia. 



William Romaine Newbold, Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



Charles Bingham Penrose, M.D., Ph.D., Philadelphia. 



William Howard Taft, Washington. 



Charles Richard Van Hise, M.S., LL.D., Madison, Wis. 



Victor Clarence Vaughan, M.D., Sc.D., LL.D., Ann Arbor, Mich. 



A letter was received from Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace, thank- 

 ing the Society for its kind greetings sent when celebrating Darwin's 

 centenary. (See page ix.) 



The decease was announced of !Mr. Andrew Mason, at New 

 York, on April 28, 1909, aged 80. 



Dr. Alexander Graham Bell read a paper an " Aerial Locomo- 

 tion," which was discussed by Mr. A. E. Lehman and Prof. M. B. 

 Snyder. 



Stated Meeting May 21, ipoQ. 

 Mr. H. La Barre Jayne, Treasurer, in the Chair. 



Letters accepting membership were read from : 

 Francis Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., Cambridge, Eng. 

 . Hermann Diels, Ph.D., Berlin. 

 Emil Fischer, Ph.D., M.D., Berlin. 

 Friedrich Kohlrausch, Ph.D., Marburg. 

 Wilhelm Pfeffer, Ph.D., Leipzig. 

 A letter was received from Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker expressing 



