Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

VOL. XLVIII. No. 21.- SEPTEMBER, 1913.

RECORDS OF MEETINGS, 1912-13.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1913-14.

LIST OF THE FELLOWS AND FOREIGN HONORARY

MEMBERS.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

ROBERT AMORY. BY R. H. FITZ.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE ROTCH. BY R. DEC. WARD.

CHARLES ROBERT SANGER. BY C. L. JACKSON.

STATUTES AND STANDING VOTES.

RUMFORD PREMIUM.

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BELL, LOUIS.- On the Ultra Violet Component in Artificial Light. pp. 1-29, 2 pls. May, 1912. 40c.

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CHIVERS, A. H.- Preliminary Diagnoses of New Species of Chaetomium. pp. 81-88. July, 1912. 20c.

KENT, NORTON A.- A Study with the Echelon Spectroscope of Certain Lines in the Spectra of the Zinc Arc and Spark at Atmospheric Pressure. pp. 91-109. 2 pls. August, 1912. 50c.

KENNELLY, A. E.. and PIERCE, G. W.- The Impedance of Telephone Receivers as affected by the Motion of their Diaphragms. pp. 111-151. September,

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THAXTER, ROLAND.- New or Critical Laboulbeniales from the Argentine. pp. 155-223. August, 1912. 70c.

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WILSON, EDWIN B., and LEWIS, GILBERT N.-The Space-Time Manifold of
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MARK, KENNETH L.- - Preliminary Study of the Salinity of Sea-water in the
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HEIDEL, WILLIAM ARTHUR. On Certain Fragments of the Pre-Socratics:
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CHESTER, W. M. The Structure of the Gorgonian Coral Pseudoplexaura
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Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

VOL. XLVIII. No. 21.-SEPTEMBER, 1913.

RECORDS OF MEETINGS, 1912-13.

OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES FOR 1913-14.

LIST OF THE FELLOWS AND FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBERS.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

ROBERT AMORY. BY R. H. FITZ.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE ROTCH. BY R. DEC. WARD.

CHARLES ROBERT SANGER. BY C. L. JACKSON.

STATUTES AND STANDING VOTES.

RUMFORD PREMIUM.

INDEX.

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RECORDS OF MEETINGS.

One thousand and sixteenth Meeting.

OCTOBER 9, 1912.- STATED MEETING.

The Academy met at its House.

The PRESIDENT in the Chair.

There were twenty-five Fellows and two guests present.

The following letters were received: — from G. R. Agassiz, S. E. Baldwin, L. A. Bauer, W. H. Bixby, P. W. Bridgman, E. W. Brown, H. L. Chapman, G. H. Chase, R. H. Chittendon, D. F. Comstock, W. H. Dall, A. L. Day, Frederic Dodge, Wilberforce Eames, A. W. Evans, Irving Fisher, Desmond FitzGerald, Simon Flexner, G. W. Goethals, L. J. Henderson, H. L. Higginson, M. A. DeW. Howe, E. P. Joslin, A. L. Kroeber, Waldemar Lindgren, L. S. Marks, S. P. Mulliken, Hanns Oertel, G. H. Palmer, R. S. Peabody, C. P. Putnam, A. P. Rugg, W. B. Scott, M. deKay Thompson, J. E. Thayer, W. J. Tucker, Williston Walker, S. B. Wolbach, F. S. Woods, J. H. Wright, accepting Fellowship; from Svante Arrhenius, J. A. A. J. Jusserand, Augusto Rhigi, H. A. Lorentz, accepting Foreign Honorary Membership; from Louis Cabot, John Fritz, R. B. Richardson resigning Fellowship; from the President and Trustees of the Rice Institute, inviting delegates to the opening of the Institute on October 10, 11 and 12; from the American Antiquarian Society, giving the order of exercises at its centennial celebration to be held October 15 and 16, 1912; from the Académie des Sciences, Lettres et Arts de Bordeaux, inviting delegates to its centenary celebration, November 11 and 12, 1912; from the Secretary of the Société de Pathologie Comparée, inviting delegates to the first International Congress of Comparative Pathology, to be held October 17-23, 1912 at Paris; from the