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, æt. 58. Horace Howard Furness, Ph.D., Litt.D., LL.D., at Wallingford, Pa., on August 13, 1912, æt. 79. Archibald Loudon Snowden, LL.D., at Philadelphia, on September 7, 1912, æt. 75. The following papers were read: 66 Restoration of North and South American Mammals," by 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: "Electrons," by Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., LL.D., F.R.S. 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." Α INDEX Absorption spectra and the solvate American Philosophical Society, some Antarctica, discovery of, by Ameri- des Ingénieurs Elec- Atomic weights of the chemical ele- Autocollimating mounting for a con- B Balch, some former members of the Bardaism and the odes of Solomon, x Barrett, notes on plates of nova Bogert, classification of carbon com- Bookkeeping, Sumerian, five thousand Brain, some anthropological aspects of the, with reference to race, sex, Burr, treaty-making power of the с Campbell, radial velocity, rv tree disease, rii Clarke, some geochemical statistics, Lyman, nature of the Japanese verb. M Magie, thermal relations of solutions, Mammals of the Patagonian Mio- Manges, Roentgen rays, ir stated, iii, iv, viii, ix, xvi Ames, Charles G., x Brush, George J., viii Hooker, Sir Joseph Dalton, iii Meigs, Arthur V., iii Melville, Rear Admiral George Montgomery, Thomas H., ir presented, rv, xvi Membership accepted, rvi, xvii Minutes, iii Montefiore, triennial prize for 1914, Moore, contraband of war, 18, viii Munroe, by-products in gas manu- N Nature, a study of, by invisible light, Newbold, Bardaism and the odes of 0 Oaks, the classification of the black, Obituary notice of Jules Henri Poin- Officers and Council, election of, iii |