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was led to comment upon Mommsen's attitude toward Cicero 

 and he endeavored to show from history and from Cicero's 

 writings that the Roman orator's judgments of Caesar were abso- 

 lutely fair. Professor Sihler went on to show that Cicero ac- 

 tually had a definite policy, that he put himself on the conserv- 

 ative side as opposed to the tribunal or democratic party, and 

 that such were his ideals and such the true convictions that he 

 lived up to in his career. The paper was discussed by Professor 

 Cohn. 



The subsection then adjourned. 



A. V. Williams-Jackson, 



Secretary. 



REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING. 

 December 5, 1898. 



Academy met at 8 P. M., President Osborn in the chair. 



Minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The following list of nominations were submitted from the 

 Council, recommended for election as resident members, and 

 the Secretary was authorized to cast a ballot for the list and 

 they were thereby elected : 



Resident Members Elected. 



Rev. A. B. Kendig, 86 Vernon street, Brookline, Mass. 

 Daniel C. Beard, 204 Amity street. Flushing, L. I. 

 B. Talbot B. Hyde, 82 Washington street. Life member. 

 J. D. Irving, Columbia University. 



Graham Lusk, New York University Hospital and Medical 

 College. 



Marshall A. Howe, Columbia University. 



Dr. L. H. Reuter, Merck Building, New York City. 



Mason A. Stone, 20 East 66th street. 



M. H. Beers, 408-410 Broadway. 



Dr. Ivan Sickles, 17 Lexington avenue. 



Alfred Douglas, 170 West 59th street. 



