Proceedings. 
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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY, FEBRUARY 7, 1907. 
To the Council of the Academy :— 
The secretary begs to submit the following report for the year 
1906: 
At the last meeting of the Academy the number of honorary members 
reported was 6; of life members 12; of active members 189; and of cor¬ 
responding members 43. During the year one honorary member died. 
One life member whose name was included in last year’s list has died, 
and two life members were elected at the last meeting; the present num¬ 
ber of life members is therefore 13. Of the active members, two have 
died during the year, one had died previously, notice of whose death 
had not come to the secretary, seven have resigned or been dropped for 
non-payment of dues; and three were transferred to the corresponding 
membership list, and two to the life membership list, making a total 
loss of 15. Of the persons elected to membership in December 1904, 
who had not qualified previous to the last meeting, six have since quali¬ 
fied; and of the 31 elected a year ago, 9 have qualified; one name has 
been transferred from the corresponding to the active list; the net gain 
in number of active members during the year therefore is 21, and the 
present number 210. Of the 43 corresponding membes, one died during 
1904 whose death had not been reported to the secretary; one has been 
transferred to the active list, and two have resigned; three names were 
added to the list by vote of the Academy at its last meeting, so that there 
has been a net loss of one. Summarizing, the membership list stands 
at present: 
Honorary members . 5 
Life members. 13 
Active members . 210 
Corresponding members . 42 
Total. 270 
The deaths of the following members have occurred since the last 
meeting, or if they occurred earlier have not been previously reported: 
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, professor of geology in Harvard Univer¬ 
sity and dean of the Lawrence Scientific School, an honorary member 
of the Academy from its earliest years, who died at his home in Cam¬ 
bridge, Mass., April 10, 1906. 
Amos Arnold Knowlton, for many years a member of the faculty of 
the English department in the University of Wisconsin and an active 
member of the Academy since December 30, 1890, who died at Madison, 
April 14, 1906. 
Herman Frederick Lueders, a teacher and a man of keen aptitude for 
scientific research, whose activities in his chosen field were sorely ham¬ 
pered by ill health, a member of the Academy since December 27, 1893, 
who died at Sauk City July 2, 1904. 
