General Meeting, April 18, 19, and 20. Thursday, April 19th. Opening Session, 2 o'clock. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Letters were received from The American Oriental Society, appointing Prof. A. V. Williams Jackson, The American Philological Society, appointing Prof. John Carew Rolfe, The Archæological Institute of America, appointing Prof. Harry Langford Wilson, to represent them respectively at the General Meeting. The decease was announced of Rev. Charles G. Ames, at Boston, April 15, 1912, æt. 83. The following papers were read: 66 'Some Former Members of the American Philosophical Society," by Thomas Willing Balch, Philadelphia. Discussed by Mr. Harrison Morris. "The Diary of a Voyage to the United States, by Moreau de Saint Méry," by Stewart L. Mims, B.A., Instructor in History, Yale University. (Introduced by Mr. J. G. Rosengarten.) Discussed by Mr. Rosengarten. "The Legendary and Myth-Making Process in Histories of the American Revolution," by Sydney George Fisher, A.B., LL.D., Philadelphia. "Bardaisan and the Odes of Solomon," by William Romaine Newbold, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. "Sumerian Bookkeeping Five Thousand Years Ago" (illustrated), by George A. Barton, Ph.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Bryn Mawr College. "The Political Ideals of Ulrich von Hutten," by Kuno Francke, "Some Anthropological Aspects of the Brain with Reference Thursday Evening, April 18, 8 o'clock. Celebration of the Centenary of the Introduction of Gas as an Illuminant. Under the auspices of THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE, THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL 66 SOCIETY, THE AMERICAN GAS INSTITUTE. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., in the Chair. By-Products in Gas Manufacture," by Charles E. Munroe, For the titles of the addresses on Friday, April 19, see the special programme. Friday Morning, April 19. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Morning Session-10.05 o'clock. The following papers were read: "Heredity of Feeble-mindedness," by Henry H. Goddard, Director of Research, The Training School, Vineland, N. J. (Introduced by Dr. Henry H. Donaldson.) "The Inheritable Factors of Epilepsy," by David F. Weeks, "Is the Control of Embryonic Development a Practical Prob- (Introduced by Dr. Alexander C. Abbott.) Discussed by Doctors Keen and Bogert. "Protein Poison: Its Preparation and Its Nature," by Victor C. Vaughan, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry, University of Michigan. "Bacterial Vaccines, with Special Reference to Typhoid Prophylaxis," by Frederick F. Russell, M.D., Major, U. S. A., Curator of Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. (Introduced by Dr. Alexander C. Abbott.) Discussed by Doctors Abbott, Bogert and Vaughan. "Prolonged Active Life," by Alexis Carrell, M.D., of The Rockefeller Institute, New York. Discussed by Dr. Keen. "Dynamical Theory of the Globular Clusters and of the Clustering Power Inferred by Herschel from the Observed Figures of Sidereal Systems of High Order," by T. J. J. See, Ph.D., of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Mare Island, California. "Some Notes on Persian Mystic Poetry," by A. V. Williams Jackson, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Indo-Iranian Languages, Columbia University, New York. Afternoon Session-2 o'clock. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Ph.D., LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. Exhibition of Volumes of Illustrations of North American Vegetation, by John W. Harshberger, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, University of Pennsylvania. Discussed by Professor Haupt. "History of the Fungus of the Chestnut Tree Disease," by William G. Farlow, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, Harvard University. "The Classification of the Black Oaks" (illustrated), by William Trelease, Sc.D., LL.D., Director of Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. "The Mammals of the Patagonian Miocene" (illustrated), by William B. Scott, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Geology and Paleontology, Princeton University. 66 Illustrations of Remarkable Cambrian Fossils from British Columbia" (illustrated), by Charles D. Walcott, Sc.D., LL.D., Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington. "Some Considerations Bearing Upon the Origin of Lava" (illustrated), by William H. Hobbs, Ph.D., Professor of Geology, University of Michigan. Discussed by Professor Scott and Dr. Clarke. "Recent Archæological Discoveries in Peru" (illustrated), by Hiram Bingham, M.A., Ph.D., Curator of Latin American Collections of Yale University. (Introduced Mr. Henry G. Bryant.) Discussed by Professor Scott and Mr. Bingham. "The Discovery of the Continent of Antarctica by Americans : An Historical Vindication," by General Adolphus W. Greely, U. S. A., of Washington. Discussed by Mr. E. S. Balch, Professor Hobbs, and General Greely. "The Interrelations of Eight Fundamental Properties of Classes of Functions," by Arthur D. Pitcher, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth College. (Introduced by Prof. Eliakim H. Moore.) Evening Session, 8 o'clock. Robert Williams Wood, LL.D., Professor of Experimental Physics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, gave an illustrated lecture on "The Study of Nature by Invisible Light, with Especial Reference to Astronomy and Physics." Saturday, April 20. Executive Session-9.30 o'clock. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Pending nominations for membership were read and the polls opened. Secretary Keller and Dr. Holland, tellers, subsequently reported that the following nominees had been elected to membership: Residents of the United States. Albert T. Clay, B.A., Ph.D., New Haven, James Furman Kemp, Sc.D., New York, Edward Bennett Rosa, Sc.D., Ph.D., Washington, Foreign Residents. George Friedrich Julius Arthur Auwers, Ph.D., Berlin, Magnus Gustaf Retzius, Stockholm. The following papers were read: Some Geochemical Statistics," by Frank W. Clarke, Sc.D., LL.D., U. S. Geological Survey. Discussed by Professor Hobbs and Dr. Clarke. Some General Results of the Work of a Century on the Atomic Weights of the Chemical Elements," by Gustavus D. Hinrichs, of St. Louis. Absorption Spectra and the Solvate Theory of Solution" (illustrated), by Harry C. Jones, Ph.D., Professor of Physical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University. "The Classification of Carbon Compounds," by Marston T. Bogert, Ph.B., LL.D., Prof. of Chemistry, Columbia Univ. "An Autocollimating Mounting for a Concave Grating" (illustrated), by Horace Clark Richards, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Pennsylvania.. |