XVi MINUTES. [November 19, 



Prof. Edward C. Pickering was elected a Vice-President to fill 

 the unexpired term of the late Prof. Simon Newcomb. 



Stated Meeting, December j, ipog. 

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



An invitation was received from the president of the Eighth 

 International Zoological Congress to send delegates to the Congress 

 to be held at Graz, Austria, from August 15 to 20, 1910. 



Prof. E. P. Cheyney read a paper on " The Court of Star Cham- 

 ber in the Time of Queen Elizabeth and the Early Stuarts." 



Stated Meeting, December i/, ipop. 

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



The decease was announced of M. Serge Nikitin, at St. Peters- 

 burg, on November 18, 1909. 



The Annual Address of the President was delivered by Dr. 

 William W. Keen. 



Dr. Edward Meyer, of Berlin, read a paper entitled " The Story 

 of the Wise Ahikar." 



