294 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Sight hundred and fifty-fifth Meeting. 



January 11, 1893. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The committee appointed to consider the proposed amend- 

 ment of the Statutes reported favorably and it was accordingly 



Voted, To amend Section 1 of Chapter VIII. of the Statutes 

 by substituting the word " second " for the words " day 

 next preceding the last." The section thus amended reads 

 as follows : — 



" 1. There shall be annually four stated meetings of the Academy; 

 namely, on the second Wednesday in May (the Annnal Meeting), on 

 the second Wednesday in October, on the second Wednesday in Jan- 

 uary, and on the second Wednesday in March ; to be held in the Hall 

 of the Academy, in Boston. At these meetings only, or at meetings 

 adjourned from these and regularly notified, shall appropriations of 

 money he made, or alterations of the statutes or standing votes of the 

 Academy be effected." 



The President addressed the Academy as follows : — 



I have to report to the Academy the death of three of our members. 



Professor Eben Norton Horsford died of heart disease at his resi- 

 dence in Cambridge on Sunday, the first day of the new year. He 

 was born at Moscow, Livingston County, New York, on July 27, 1818, 

 and was therefore in the seventy-fifth year of his age, As a boy, he 

 enjoyed the advantages of good school education, and graduated from 

 the Rensselaer Institute in 1837. Subsequently he taught for four 

 years in the Albany Female Academy, and lectured on chemistry in 

 Newark College, Delaware. Thus acquiring a strong interest in 

 chemical science, he sought eagerly the remarkable advantages then 

 offered for the study of this subject at Liebig's famous laboratory at 

 Giessen, in Germany. Here, under the direction of Liebig, he car- 

 ried out successfully and published an important investigation on gly- 

 cocoll, and during two years was associated with such men as Hofmann, 

 Wurtz, Williamson, and Frankland, who afterwards became chiefs 

 amon<j the makers of our modern science. With these earnest fellow 

 students Mr. Horsford formed intimate friendships, and they ever 

 entertained for him a warm regard. 



