PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 
[Dec., 
preparation of a biographical notice which, it is hoped, will be ready 
for presentation early the coming year. 
The birth of Charles Darwin and the publication of the Origin of 
Species were fittingly commemorated by a well attended meeting on 
February 16, at which addresses were made by the President, Dr. 
Arthur Erwin Brown, and Dr. Edwin G. Conklin. 
A successful meeting of the American Museums Association was 
held in the Academy, May 13. 
Edward J. Nolan, 
Recording Secretary. 
REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 
During the year six correspondents of the Academy died and five 
were elected. Those deceased ai’e Prof. Jean Albert Gaudry, Prof. 
Perceval de Loriol Le Fort, Prof. Rudolph Bergh, Dr. Robert E. C. 
Stearns, Dr. Anton Dohrn and Prof. Kakichi Mitsukuri; and those 
elected. Dr. John Mason Clarke, Dr. Robert F. Scharff, Dr. Albert 
Leon Charles Calmette, Dr. Sven A. Hedin and Prof. Oscar Drude. 
In accordance with the award of last year the Hayden Gold Medal 
was, on December 11, transmitted to Dr. John Mason Clarke, and an 
acknowledgment of the same duly received, together with an official 
copy of a minute appreciative of the Academy’s action passed by 
Dr. Clarke’s associates on the Board of Regents of the University of 
the State of New York. 
Among the events of importance to the scientific world in which 
the Academy was invited to participate were the following: The 
presentation of an international testimonial in honor of Amedeo 
Avogadro, the student of the molecular constitution of gases; the 
Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Botanical Institute of 
Brandenburg; the Three hundred and fiftieth Anniversary of the 
foundation of the University of Geneva ; the Darwin Centenary exer- 
cises of the New York Academy of Sciences; the International Congress 
of Mining, Metallurgy and Practical Geology; the Seventeenth Inter- 
national Congress of Americanists ; the dedication exercises of the 
Lamarck Centenary memorial statue in Paris; the Jubilee of the 
Geological Society of Glasgow, and the presentation by President 
Taft of medals in recognition of their services to aeronautics to Wilbur 
and Orville Wright. As delegates representing the Academy at the 
Glasgow jubilee and the University of Geneva celebration, Sir Archi- 
bald Geikie and Dr. Auguste Forel, both correspondents, were respec- 
