MINUTES.

MINUTES

Stated Meeting, January 5, 1912.

WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair.

Invitations were received:

From the Eighth International Congress of Applied Chemistry to be held in Washington and New York, September 4 to 13, 1912, to participate in its proceedings.

From the Committee of Organization of the Second Congress of Chemistry and of Pure and Applied Physics, in memory of Professor Mendéléeff, to be held at St. Petersburg on January 3 to 10, 1912, to participate.

From the Sociedad Astronomia de Barcelona to participate in the Exposition of Lunar Studies to be held from May 15 to June 15, 1912.

The decease was announced of:

Prof. George Davidson, at San Francisco, on December 1, 1911,
æt. 86.

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., D.C.L., F.R.S., at
Sunningdale, Eng., on December 11, 1911, æt. 94.

Dr Arthur V. Meigs, at Philadelphia, on January 1, 1912, æt. 61. Prof. John M. Macfarlane offered some remarks on the life and services of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.

The following papers were read:

"The Physical History of the Grand Canyon District," by
Prof. Douglas Wilson Johnson, of Cambridge, Mass.
"The Determination of the Depth of the Milky Way," by Dr.
T. J. J. See, of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Mare Island,
Cal.

The Judges of the Annual Election of Officers and Councillors held on this day between the hours of two and five in the afternoon, reported that the following named members were elected, according

to the Laws, Regulations and Ordinances of the Society, to be the officers for the ensuing year.

WILLIAM W. KEEN, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair.

Invitations were received:

From the Royal Society to be represented by a delegate at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of its foundation on July 16 to 18 next.

From the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to be represented at the celebration of the centennial of its foundation on March 19 to 21 next.