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The following papers were presented by title : — 

 On a Form of a combined Yard and Meter adaj)ted for the 

 exact Determination of the Relation between the Lengths of 

 these standard Units. By William A. Rogers. 



Contributions from the Cryptograraic Laboratory of Har- 

 vard University: I. On the Anatomy and Development of 

 Agarum Turneri, Post. & Rupr. By James E. Humphrey. 

 II. On the Morphology of Ravenelia glandulseformis. By 

 G. H. Parker. 



Seven hundred and ninety-fifth Meeting. 



October 13, 1886. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Ephraim Whitman 

 Gurney, William Ripley Nichols, Charles Callahan Perkins, 

 and Henry Hobson Richardson, Resident Fellows. 



Oliver Whipple Huntington, of Cambridge, was elected a 

 Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : 

 from M. Lacaze-Duthiers, acknowledging his election as For- 

 eign Honorary Member ; from the President of the University 

 of Japan, announcing the foundation of the University ; from 

 the Superintendent of the United States Naval Observatory, in 

 relation to the publication of its meteorological observations. 



A circular from the American Committee of the Interna- 

 tional Congress of Geologists, requesting the Academy to 

 unite with other societies in inviting this Congress to hold 

 its next meeting in the United States, was also read ; and it 

 was thereupon 



Voted, That the President be authorized to sign, on behalf 

 of the Academy, the invitation to be addressed to the Inter- 

 national Congress of Geologists. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be presented to 

 Mr. Richard S. Greenough for his valuable present of the 

 portrait of Galileo. 



