PROCEEDINGS. 



Seven hundred and ninety-third Meeting. • 



May 25, 1886. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Leopold von Ranke, 

 Foreign Honorary Member ; and of Charles Edward Hamlin 

 and Charles Upham Shepard, Resident Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from Mr. Rich- 

 ard S. Greenough, announcing the shipment of a portrait of 

 Galileo as a gift to the Academy. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, on June 16, 1886. 



The reports of the Council and of the Librarian were read 

 and accepted. 



The report of the Rumford Committee was read and 

 accepted, as follows : — 



The Rumford Committee present the following report of 

 what has been done by them since the last annual meeting 

 of the Academy. 



The committee approved bills amounting to 8417.49 for 

 printing in the Proceedings all the papers which related to 

 Light and Heat. 



In June, 1885, |1000 was voted by the Academy for the 

 use of the committee in encouraging investigations upon 

 Light and Heat. Of this sum, $300 was put at the disposal 

 of Prof. E. C. Pickering, to assist in the continuation of his 

 great work on stellar photometry and photography. The 

 same sum (8300) was allowed to Mr. W. H. Pickering, to 

 aid him in the prosecution of his work on dry-plate photo- 



