xiv MINUTES. [Dec. 3, 



The decease of the following members was announced : 



Mr. Samuel Dickson, at Philadelphia, on May 28, 191 5, set. 78. 



Hon. James T. Mitchell, at Philadelphia, on July 4, 191 5, set. 81. 



Mr. Frederick Prime, at Atlantic City, on July 14, 191 5, set. 69. 



Sir James A. H. Murray, at Oxford, England, on July 26, 

 191 5, set. 78. 



Prof. Frederick W. Putnam, at Cambridge, Mass., on August 

 14, 191 5, set. 76. 



Mr. John T. Morris, at Bretton Woods, N. H., on August 15, 

 1915, set. 67. 



Dr. Austin Flint, at New York, on September 22, 191 5, set. 79. 

 The following papers were read : 



" Timber Studies in the Mississippi Bottom Lands," by Henry 

 C. Cowles, Ph.D., of Chicago, which was discussed by Pro- 

 fessors Harshberger and Kraemer. 



"A Practical Rational Alphabet," by Benjamin Smith Lyman, 

 A.B. 



Stated Meeting November 5, ip'iS- 

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



Prof. Ulric Dahlgren read a paper on " The Production of Heat 

 by Animals." 



Stated Meeting December 5, 1915- 

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



An invitation was received from the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science to send one or more delegates to its 

 meeting to be held at Columbus, Ohio, December 27, 191 5, to Jan- 

 uary I, 1916. 



Mr. H. H. Harjes, in accordance with the expressed direction of 

 his father, the late John H. Harjes, of Paris, transmitted to the 

 Society Dr. Franklin's bamboo cane with a horn handle, in the 

 upper hollow chamber of which he was accustomed to carry oil 

 and from it in his walks he dropped oil upon the water to watch 

 its effect upon wind-beaten pools. 



The decease was announced of William Brooke Rawle, A.B., 

 at Philadelphia, on November 30, 191 5, set. 72. 



