OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. _' t; '' 



Eight hundred and fifty-fourth Meeting. 



November 9, 1892. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the death of Pro- 

 fessor Giovanni Flechia, Vice-President of the Royal Acad- 

 emy of Science at Turin; also, that of Commander Antonio 

 Todardo, Director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Palermo. 

 He read a letter inviting members of the Academy to attend 

 the sevent}'-fifth anniversary of the Natural History Society 

 of Osterland, at Altenburg, and one from Baron von Mueller, 

 acknowledging his election as Foreign Honorary Member. 



The Recording Secretary proposed an amendment of the 

 first section of Chapter VIII. of the Statutes, and, on his 

 motion, it was 



Voted, That this recommendation be referred to a commit- 

 tee, with instructions to report at the next stated meeting. 



The President appointed the Recording Secretary, Dr. 

 Folsom, and Major Livermore members of this committee. 



The following papers were presented : — 



Characteristics of the Mycological Flora of North America. 

 By William G. Farlow. 



Mechanical Models of Electro-magnetic Phenomena. By 

 Amos E. Dolbear. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On certain Products of the Dry Distillation of Wood : 

 Methylfurfurol and Methylpyromucic Acid. By Henry B. 

 Hill and Walter L. Jennings. 



On Certain Derivatives of Pyromucamide. By Charles E. 

 Saunders. 



On Trianilidodinitrobenzol and some related Compounds. 

 By C. Loring Jackson and H. N. Herman. 



On the Tropica] Faunal Element of our Southern Nfym- 

 phalime systematically treated. By Samuel II. Scudder. 



