The President directed that the resolutions be posted on the bulletin board in accordance with the by-law pertaining to amendments, in order that the subject might be considered at the next following stated meeting.
The Secretary reported the following action of the Committee on Library, taken at its stated meeting of May ist inst., viz :
" The Committee on the Library respect.fully presents to the Institute a minute upon the neath of Mr. Frederick Ransome, which occurred in London, April 19, 5893.
"For many years Mr. Ransome has acted as agent of the committee in London, and as early as September x 9, 1877, in recognition of his valuable services, he was elected by the Institute an honorary member, upon the nomination of the Board of Managers.
"Since that time Mr. Ransome has continued his gratuitous services as purchasing agent of the committee, and he has been particularly useful in enabling the committee to complete the collections of various British scientific periodicals by searching out and securing missing back numbers. This service requires continued waiting and watching, and by this labor of love Mr. Ransome aided in completing thirty-one British journals, whose publication began early in the century and still continues.
" Mr. Ransome's services in relation' to the publications of the British Patent Office were also extremely valuable.
"The committee desires to place this minute on the records of the Institute, expressing its sense of the loss sustained by the Institute in the death of Mr. Ransome, and it desires also to add the expression of its profound sorrow at the event."
On motion of Mr. Henry R. Heyl, the communication o: the committee was ordered to be spread upon the minutes of this meeting.