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reason, many of ns come hundreds of miles to meet our fellow 

 members here. 



By the authority and in the name of the American Philosophical 

 Society held at Philadelphia for Promoting" Useful Knowledge, I 

 accept this gift with grateful acknowledgments and the hope that it 

 may be many years before we are obliged to elect the eighteenth 

 President of the Society. 



Dr. Arthur Schuster, Dr. Ross G. Plarrison and Professor Clar- 

 ence E. McClung, newly elected members, subscribed the laws and 

 were admitted into the Society. 



The following papers were read : 



" Symposium on Wireless Telegraphy, Radiated and Received 

 Energy," by Lewis W. Austin, Ph.D., Head of U. S. Naval 

 Radio-Telegraph Laboratory, Bureau of Standards, Wash- 

 ington (introduced by Professor William F. Magie). 



" Resonance in Radiotelegraphic Receiving Stations," by George 

 W. Pierce, A.M., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics, Har- 

 vard University (introduced by Professor Arthur W. Good- 

 speed). 



" New Form of Resonance Circuits," by Michael L Pupin^ 

 Ph.D., Sc.D., Professor of Electro-Mechanics, Columbia 

 University, N. Y. 



" The International Radiotelegraphic Conference of London 

 and its Work," by Arthur Gordon Webster, Ph.D., LL.D., 

 Professor of Physics and Director of the Physical Labora- 

 tory, Clark University, Worcester. 



Stated Meeting May 2, 1^13. 

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



Dr. Witmer Stone, a newly elected member, subscribed the laws 

 and was admitted into the Society. 



Acknowledgment of election to membership was received from 



George Francis Atkinson, Ph.D., Ithaca, N. Y. 



Charles Edwin Bennett, A.B., Litt.D., Ithaca, N. Y. 



John Henry Comstock, B.S., Ithaca, N. Y. 



