1914.j NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. Qjj 
volume of incoming correspondence as a result of the diminished 
activities of European scientific institutions since the outbreak of 
the war. 
Correspondents, reported deceased during the year were Albert 
Guenther, Carl Chun, Edward Suess, Frederick W. True, Theodore 
GUI, August Weismann and Charles Sedgwick Minot. Those 
elected were Edgar A, Mearns, Frank M. Chapman, Charles W. 
Fnth m °L n M AT n Gerrit S ' Miller > Nathaniel Charles 
Rothschild, Marie Curie, Charles T. Ramsden, Shibasaburo Kitasato, 
4 rank Dawson Adams and Alfred Werner. 
While a large number of scientific congresses in which the Academy 
was invited to take part had been scheduled for the year, all of those 
of an international character were either abandoned or postponed, 
n those cases in which the Academy was asked to express an opinion 
upon the advisability of so doing, our vote was cast in favor of 
postponement, as conditions in Europe seemed likely to preclude the 
attendance of a representative body of foreign delegates. In cases 
where delegates had been already appointed they were requested to 
allov their names to stand as the representatives of the Academv 
until the postponed meetings shall have convened. At the Atlanta 
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
held m the early part 0 f the fiscal year, Dr. Henry Skinner and 
r. P nhp P. ( alvert were the Academy’s delegates. Dr. John 
Mason Clarke served as a delegate to the exercises inaugurating 
John Huston Finley as President of the University of the State of 
New Wk, and Professor J. G. Hidalgo was appointed to a like 
position m connection with 150th anniversary of the National 
Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona. 
As usual, a considerable number of requests for information were 
replied to by the Corresponding Secretary or referred to other mem¬ 
bers of the Academy staff. Statistics of the correspondence follow: 
Communications received: 
Acknowledging receipt of the Academy’s publications , 
transmitting publications to the Academy 
Requesting exchanges or the supply of deficiencies 
Invitations to learned gatherings, celebrations, etc i ^ 
Notices of deaths of scientific men " r'? 
... scientific «i.d ediAUoial 
Photographs and biographies of correspondents 7 ! 
Letters from correspondents 11 
Miscellaneous letters. 1® 
Total received. 
