602 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The President appointed the following standing commit- 

 tees : — 



Committee of Publication. 

 JosiAH P. Cooke, Alexander Agassiz, 



Asa Gkay. 



Committee on the Library. 

 Henry P. Bowditch, Amos E. Dolbear, 

 Benjamin A. Gould. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, Thomas T. BotJv6. 



Seven hundred and ninety-fourth Meeting^. 



June 16, 1886. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The report of the Treasurer was read and accepted. 



Since it had been questioned whether a quorum was pres- 

 ent at the annual meeting of May 25, 1886, it was 



Voted, To confirm and approve the votes and ballots then 

 taken and declared. 



It was also 



Voted, To amend the statutes of the Academy by inserting 

 the words "the Librarian" after the word "Treasurer," in 

 Chapter II., paragraph 2. 



Professor Cross read the following papers : — 



Some Experiments relating to the Melting Platinum Stan- 

 dard of Light. By Charles R. Cross. 



The Inverse Electromotive Force of the Voltaic Arc. By 

 Charles R. Cross and William E. Shepard. 



The Efficiency of small Electro-motors. By H. E. H. Clif- 

 ford and S. D. Bartlett. 



Professor William M. Davis made a verbal statement on the 

 probable vertical distribution of temperature and j^ressure in 

 thunder-storms, illustrating it by a vertical section showing 

 isothermal and isobaric lines. 



