"Thermal Relations of Solutions," by William F. Magie, M.A., "New Magnetic Charts of the Indian Ocean" (illustrated), by Afternoon Session-2 o'clock. EDWARD C. PICKERING, SC.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. Prof. B. Osgood Pierce, a recently elected member, and Dr. Arthur Louis Day and Prof. Frank Schlesinger, newly elected members, signed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. The following papers were read: "Symposium on Stellar Spectroscopy": "Radial Velocity" (illustrated), by William W. Campbell. Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Astronomy, Lick Observatory, University of California. "Objective Prism Spectra," by Edward C. Pickering, Sc.D., LL.D., Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University. "The New Star in Gemini," by Storrs B. Barrett, of the Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. troduced by Edward B. Frost, D.Sc.) (In "On the Prospect of Obtaining Radial Velocities by Means of the Objective Prism," by Frank Schlesinger, M.A.. Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh. "Relations Between the Spectra and Other Characteristics of the Stars" (illustrated), by Henry N. Russell, Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University. Stated Meeting, May 3, 1912. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Dr. William T. Sedgwick, a recently elected member, and Mr. Arthur H. Lea and Dr. George E. de Schweinitz, newly elected members, signed the Laws and were admitted into the Society. Letters accepting membership were received from Arthur Louis Day, Ph.D., Washington, John Grier Hibben, Ph.D., LL.D., Princeton, Roland Thaxter, A.M., Ph.D., Cambridge, Mass., Oswald Veblen, Princeton. From the III Congresso Archæologico Internazionale, Rome, October, 1912, inviting the Society to be represented thereat by a delegate. From the Association des Ingenieurs Electriciens, announcing the conditions of the Triennial Prize for 1914, under the Fondation George Montefiore. A paper entitled "Is Typhoid Fever a Rural Disease?" was read by Dr. W. T. Sedgwick, of Boston, Mr. G. R. Taylor, of Scranton, and Mr. J. S. MacNutt, of Orange, N. J., and was discussed by Doctors Abbott, Mr. John F. Lewis, Doctors Tyson, Smith and Stengel and Professor Sedgwick. Stated Meeting October 4th, 1912. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Alfred T. Clay, B.A., Ph.D., New Haven. Edward Bennett Rosa, Sc.D., Ph.D., Washington. Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., Philadelphia. George Friedrich Julius Arthur Auwers, Ph.D., Berlin. Wilhelm Ostwald, Sc.D., LL.D., Leipzig. Magnus Gustaf Retzius, Stockholm. Invitations were received: From the organizing committee of the First International Eugenics Congress, to be represented by a delegate at the Congress to be held on July 24-30, in London. From the American Antiquarian Society, to be represented at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of its foun-. dation, to be held at Worcester on October 15, 16, 1912. From the Naturwissenschaftliche Verein für Steiermark, to be represented at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation on November 10, 1912. From the Rice Institute, to be represented at its inauguration at Houston, Texas, on October 10-12, 1912. From the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, to participate in the Congress to be held at Washington on September 27-28, 1912. From the State of New York, through the Education Department, to attend the dedication of the State Education Build ing, at Albany, on November 15 to 17, 1912. From the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, expressing its gratitude for the Society's congratulations on the occasion of its Centenary Celebration. From Sir George Otto Trevelyan: WALLINGTON, CAMBO, Northumberland, Dear Sirs: I always read, with interest and admiration, everything in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society the technical form of which is not beyond me; and I fully appreciate the deserved and widespread influence of that publication. In your number of April to June, 1912, there is an article on American history in which it is stated, three several times over, that Charles James Fox was my "relative"; and it is implied, not obscurely, that I wrote with a family partiality about him, and about the public events of his period in England and America. I do not suppose that your readers concern themselves much about the personal question in relation to me; but it must be remembered that the statement of a fact, made with emphasis and circumstance, in the pages of the American Philosophical Society's journal, bears the stamp of authority; and what is written there remains written. I therefore feel bound to say that Charles Fox is in no sense my "relative" and that between his family and mine (I am sorry for it) there never existed any connection by blood or marriage, however remote. Indeed my progenitors on my father's side, voted sturdily against him in Parliament, beat his supporters at election, perfectly abominated him in his character of a friend of liberty and humanity, and held, at the time, the same view of his policy and attitude towards America which the author of your article holds to-day. I remain, Sirs, Yours very faithfully, GEORGE OTTO TREVELYAN. To the Secretaries of the American Philosophical Society. The decease of the following members was announced: William W. Goodwin, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., at Cambridge, Thomas Hewson Bache, M.D., at Philadelphia, on July 8, 1912, Jules Henri Poincaré, Sc.D., at Paris, France, on July 17, 1912, Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., at Wallingford, Archibald Loudon Snowden, LL.D., at Philadelphia, on Septem- The following papers were read: "Restoration of North and South American Mammals," by Prof. W. B. Scott. 66 Some Tic-transmitted Diseases," by Prof. G. H. F. Nuttall, of Stated Meeting November 1, 1912. WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. Sir William Ramsay, elected to membership in 1899, and Mr. Frederick W. Taylor, a newly elected member, having subscribed the Laws, were admitted into the Society. The decease was announced of Lewis Boss, A.M., LL.D., at Albany, N. Y., on October 5, 1912, æt. 66. The following papers were read: 66 Electrons," by Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. "The Formation of Coal Beds," by John J. Stevenson, A.M., LL.D. Stated Meeting December 6, 1912. I. MINIS HAYS, A.M., M.D., in the Chair. Professor Oswald Veblen, a newly elected member, having subscribed the Laws, was admitted into the Society. Decease of the following members was announced: John William Mallett, M.D., LL.D., at Charlottesville, Va., on Richard Alsop Cleemann, at Philadelphia, on November 19, Inman Horner, at Philadelphia, on November 28, 1912, æt. 66. Professor Oswald Veblen read an obituary notice of Professor Henri Poincaré. Professor Felix E. Schelling read a paper on the "Elizabethan Playhouse." |