It is requested that all correspondence be addressed TO THE SECRETARIES OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 104 SOUTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. Members will please communicate to the Secretaries any inaccuracy in name or address as given on the wrapper of this number. It is requested that the receipt of this number of the Proceedings be acknowledged to the Secretaries. Members who have not as yet sent their photographs to the Society will confer a favor by so doing; cabinet size preferred. A communication was received from the Société Nationale. des Antiquaires de France, announcing that it would celebrate its centenary on April 11, 1904, and inviting the Society to appoint a delegate to represent it on this occasion. The invitation was accepted, and the President subsequently appointed the Marquis de Nadaillac to represent the Society at the celebration. The Judges of the Annual Election of Officers and Councillors reported that an election had been held on the afternoon of this day, and that the following named persons had been elected to be the Officers for the ensuing year President Edgar F. Smith. Vice-Presidents George F. Barker, Samuel P. Langley, William B. Scott. Secretaries. I. Minis Hays, Edwin G. Conklin, Arthur W. Goodspeed, Morris Jastrow, Jr. Treasurer. Henry LaBarre Jayne. Curators. Charles L. Doolittle, William P. Wilson, Albert H. Smyth. Councillors to serve for three years. Richard Wood, Henry Carey Baird, Samuel G. Dixon, J. G. Rosengarten. Stated Meeting, January 15, 1904. President SMITH in the Chair. The decease was announced of Alfred R. C. Selwyn, LL.D., at Vancouver, B. C., on October 18, 1902, æt. 78. The following papers were read: "On the Phylogeny of the Edentata," by Prof. William B. Scott. "Herder and Franklin," by Prof. M. D. Learned. "The Main Facts in Regard to the Cellular Basis of Heredity," by Prof. Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr. |