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of a committee of geologists, was awarded and presented to Pro¬ 
fessor Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, a correspondent. 
Invitations to the Academy to send representatives to the follow¬ 
ing were received: the postponed International Congress of Met¬ 
eorology in Venice; the fiftieth anniversary exercises of the Wis¬ 
consin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, to which Professor 
John M. Coulter, a correspondent, was appointed a delegate; the 
Centennial Educational Conference celebrating the founding of 
Indiana University; the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of 
Ursinus College; a private view of exhibits in the new museum of 
the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences; the Pan-Pacific Scientific 
Conference at Honolulu at which the Academy was represented by 
Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry, and, through the National Research Council, 
to conferences on scientific exploration and research in tropical 
America and the Philippine Islands, to which Dr. Witmer Stone was 
appointed the Academy’s delegate. In response to these and other 
invitations suitable letters of congratulation were sent when appro¬ 
priate. 
Invitations were also received to contribute toward the erection 
in Strasbourg of a permanent memorial to the distinguished chemist, 
Charles Gerhardt; and to assist in the restoration of the library 
of the University of Louvain. Toward the latter a set of the 
Academy’s publications were contributed. 
A portrait of the late Professor Henry Carvill Lewis presented 
by his sister, Mrs. Edward G. Sayres, was suitably acknowledged. 
A number of appeals were received from scientific individuals 
and organizations in Austria and Hungary requesting aid of various 
kinds, rendered necessaiy by the deplorable economic conditions 
in those countries resulting from the war. The Academy was un¬ 
able to respond to these but the letters are on file and available 
to any individual member who may wish to contribute. 
The corresponding Secretary would again point to the desir¬ 
ability of combining this office with that of Recording Secretary 
with a view to more efficient handling ot the Academy’s correspond¬ 
ence. 
The following tables present the usual statistics of the corres¬ 
pondence for the year. 
