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1900. | MINUTES. 
Stated Meeting, March 2, 1900. 
Vice-President BARKER in the Chair. 
Present, 17 members. 
Dr. Thomas George Morton and Mr. J. Rodman Paul, 
newly elected members, were presented to the Chair, and 
took their seats in the Society. 
Letters were received from Dr. Thomas George Morton 
and Dr. Frederick W. True, acknowledging their election to 
membership, and accepting the same. 
The list of donations to the Library was laid on the table, 
and thanks were ordered for the same. 
The meeting was adjourned by the presiding officer. 
Stated Meeting, March 16, 1900. 
Vice-President WISTAR in the Chair. 
Present, 8 members. 
Letters accepting membership in the Society were read 
from Hugo A. Rennert, Gustav Schlegel, Charles D. Sigsbee 
and William Aldis Wright. 
Letters were also read from the President of the Interna- 
tional Congress of Colonial Sociology, to be held at Paris 
during 1900, and from the Committee of Organization of the 
International Geological Congress, to be held at Paris in 
August, 1900, in the latter case inviting the Society to 
appoint one or more delegates to the Congress. 
On motion, the President was authorized to appoint one or 
more delegates from this Society. 
The Librarian reported the receipt of a medal struck in 
honor of Sir George Stokes on the occasion of his recent 
anniversary. 
He also presented from Sir Richard Tangye an autograph 
letter of Benjamin Franklin to Samuel Huntingdon, President 
of Congress. 
