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taken up, which resulted in the election of 

 twelve persons resident in the United States 

 —George Ferdinand Becker, Ph.D., Wash- 

 ington ; Charles Benedict Davenport, Ph.D., 

 Cold Spring Harbor, L. I.; J. P. Croser 

 Griffith, M.D., Philadelphia ; Frank Austin 

 Gooch, Ph.D., New Haven; Herbert Spen- 

 cer Jennings, Ph.D., Baltimore; James 

 Playf air McMurrich, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; 

 Edward Laurens Mark, Ph.D., LL.D., Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. ; John Bassett Moore, LL.D., 

 New York; Francis Eugene Nipher, St. 

 Louis; Horace Clark Eiehards, Ph.D., 

 Philadelphia; John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Phila- 

 delphia; and Allen J. Smith, M.D., Phila- 

 delphia—and five foreigners— Baron d'Es- 

 toumelles de Constant, Paris ; George Carey 

 Foster, F.R.S., D.Sc, LL.D., Eickmans- 

 worth, Herts, England; J. J. Jusserand, 

 Washington; Sir William Turner, K.C.B., 

 D.Sc, D.C.L., F.R.S.; and John C. Kap- 

 teyn, Groningen, Holland. 



On Saturday evening the sessions were 

 closed with a banquet at the Bellevue- 

 Stratford, attended by about a hundred 

 members of the society. Professor Albert 

 H. Smyth, of the Central High School, the 

 sad news of whose sudden death has just 

 been amiounced, acted as toastmaster and 

 presented, among others, the following 

 speakers : Judge Sulzberger, who responded 

 to the toast, 'The Memory of Franklin'; 

 Professor John W. Rhys, of Oxford, who 

 spoke on 'Sister Societies'; and the Hon- 

 orable Charlemagne Tower, who made an 

 interesting address on ' The Aims and Pur- 

 poses of the Society.' 



All the scientific sessions were well at- 

 tended, and the society has every reason 

 to feel gratified at the interest shown by 

 members in coming, many of them from a 

 very great distance, to read or to listen to 

 papers. 



The following is a list of the papers 

 read: 



THURSDAY, APRIL 18 



Retardation in Mental and Moral Develop- 

 ment— A ProMem of Public Education: 

 Dr. LiGHTNER WiTMEB, of Philadelphia. 



Analogies between the Colonization of Ire- 

 land and of Virginia: Professor Edward 

 P. Cheynet, of Philadelphia. 



Elizabethan and Jacobian College Dramas: 

 Professor Felix E. Schelling, of Phila- 

 delphia. 



The Narratives of the ^Walking on the 

 Sea': Professor William A. Lamberton, 

 of Philadelphia. 



Early French Members of the American 

 Philosophical Society: Dr. J. G. Rosen- 

 GARTEN, of Philadelphia. 



The Influence of Imperceptible Shadows 

 on the Judgment of Distance: Professor 

 Edward B. Titchener and W. H. Pyle, 

 of Ithaca. 



Chauvin (Chauvinism-Calvin, Cauvin): 

 Truth and Fiction in the Story of its 

 Origin: Professor A. Marshall Elliott, 

 of Baltimore. 



FRIDAY, APRIL 19 



Provisional Report of the Investigation of 

 Foreign and Domestic Stage Microm- 

 eters: Dr. Marshall D. Evtell, of Chi- 

 cago. 



The Liver as the Seat of the Soul: Pro- 

 fessor Morris Jastrow, Jr., of Phila- 

 delphia. 



On Jonah's Whale: Professor Paul Haupt, 

 of Baltimore. 



Charts Illustrating the Taxonomic Rela- 

 tions of the Monocotyledonoiis and Dico- 

 tyledonous Plant Families: Professor 

 John W. Harshberger, of Philadelphia. 



Some Experiments with Plant Nutrients: 

 ■Professor Henry Kraemer, of Philadel- 

 phia. 



