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foreign residents were, according to the cus- 

 tom of the society, elected to membership, 

 from among the forty-nine nominations. The 

 members elected, together with the credentials 

 presented by their proposers, are as follows : 



Simeon Eben Baldwin, LL.D., New Haven. 

 Professor of Constitutional and Private Interna- 

 tional Law in Yale University. Justice of the 

 Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut, 1893- 

 1906, and Chief Justice, 1906-1910. President of 

 American Bar Association, 1890; of American 

 Social Science Association, 1897; of International 

 Law Association, 1899-1901; of American His- 

 torical Association, 1905; of Association of Amer- 

 ican Law Schools, 1902. Author of " Baldwin's 

 Connecticut Digest " ; " Cases of Railroad Law " ; 

 " Modern Political Institutions " ; " American 

 Railroad Law " ; " American Judiciary." 



Francis G. Benedict, Ph.D., Boston. Director 

 of the Nutrition Laboratory of the Carnegie In- 

 stitution; Professor of Chemistry at Wesleyan 

 University, 1896-1905; Physiological Chemist of 

 Nutrition Investigations of United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, 1895-1907. Author of ex- 

 tensive experimental investigations in nutrition, 

 based largely on studies with the respiration 

 calorimeter and of numerous contributions to 

 organic and physiologic chemistry. Member of 

 the American Chemical Society, American Physi- 

 ological Society, Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, 

 etc. 



Charles Francis Brush, Ph.D., LL.D., Cleveland, 

 Ohio. Electrical Engineer. Designed the Brush 

 Series of Arc Lighting Dynamo, and the Series 

 Are Lighting System. Has for many years de- 

 voted himself to scientific research. Decorated by 

 the French Government in 1881 for achievements 

 in electrical science. Received the Rumford medal 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 

 in 1899. 



Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ph.D., Palo Alto, 

 Cal. Professor of Botany at Leland Stanford 

 University. The most prominent student of the 

 structure and development of the higher crypto- 

 gams in this country, and has an expert knowl- 

 edge of the embryology of higher plants. Author 

 of valuable books and papers on the comparative 

 morphology of plants, evolution of plants, struc- 

 ture and development of the mosses and ferns, 

 and embryology of the simpler angiosperms. 



William Ernest Castle, Ph.D., Payson Park, 

 Belmont, Mass. Professor of Zoology at Harvard 

 University; student of heredity by experimental 

 methods. Author of works of importance on 



heredity of sex, inheritance of characteristics in 

 rabbits, mice and guinea pigs. 



George Byron Gordon, Philadelphia. Assistant 

 Professor of Anthropology and Director of the 

 Museum of Archeology of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania. Author of various papers on American 

 Archeology in the publications of the Peabody 

 Museum, and of the Museum of Archeology of the 

 University of Pennsylvania. 



David Jayne Hill, LL.D., American Embassy, 

 Berlin. Diplomatist, jurist and author. Presi- 

 dent of Bucknell University from 1879-1888, and 

 of Rochester University from 1888-1896; As- 

 sistant Secretary of State, 1898-1903; United 

 States Minister to the Netherlands, 1905-1907; 

 Ambassador to Germany since 1907; Member of 

 the Permanent Administrative Council of The 

 Hague Tribunal. Author of a " Life of Washing- 

 ton Irving," "Elements of Rhetoric," "Life and 

 Works of Grotius," "A History of Diplomacy." 



Harry Clary Jones, Ph.D., Baltimore. Professor 

 of Physical Chemistry in Johns Hopkins Univer- 

 sity. Brilliant investigator of problems connected 

 with physical chemistry. Author of several works 

 on that subject and contributor to American, 

 German and French scientific journals on chem- 

 ical and physical phenomena. 



Leo Loeb, M.D., Philadelphia. Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Experimental Pathology in University 

 of Pennsylvania. Research worker in animal 

 pathology and general pathology. Author of 

 papers on Regeneration and Transplantation of 

 Tissues; Etiology and Gro^vth of Tumors; Coagu- 

 lation of the Blood and Thrombosis; Venom of 

 Heloderma, etc. One of the Board of Editors of 

 Folia EcBmatologica; Collaborator of the Bio- 

 chemisches Centralblctt ; Zeitschrift fur Krehs- 

 forschung; and Jakresbericht iiher Immunitats- 

 forschung. 



James McCrea, Ardmore, Pa. Civil Engineer; 

 President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 



Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, F.R.S., LL.D. 

 (Cantab.), Boston, Mass. Formerly Professor of 

 Mathematical Physics in University of Welling- 

 ton, New Zealand, and of Applied Mathematics 

 in Columbia University, New York. President 

 of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

 Author of many scientific articles of high value. 

 Distinguished for investigations in mathematical 

 physics, especially physical optics, published 

 chiefly in Proceedings of Royal Society. 



Benjamin O. Peirce, Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass. 

 Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy 

 in Harvard University. Eminent authority on 



