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Voted, That an appropriation of five hundred dollars (f500) 

 be made to assist Professor H. P. Bowditch in calorimetric 

 researches on the heat of the human body. 



Voted, That an appropriation of two hundred and fifty 

 dollars ($250) be made to Professor Trowbridge, to aid in his 

 researches on radiant energy. 



Voted, That an appropriation of seventy-five dollars ($75) 

 be made to Professor Cross, to aid in his researches on the 

 infiuence of thermo-electric currents and other thermal actions 

 upon the accuracy of the Munich shunt method of measuring 

 very strong currents of electricity. 



Voted, That an appropriation of two hundred and fifty dol- 

 lars (f 250) be made to Professors Cross and Holman to aid 

 them in their researches on thermometry. 



On the motion of the Librarian, it was 



Voted, To appropriate one hundred dollars ($100) for the 

 rent of the alcoves in the reading-room of the Athenseum ; 

 also, to appropriate one hundred and ten dollars ($110) for 

 shelving an additional alcove. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On the Acceleration of Gravity at the Harvard Physical 

 Laboratory. By Edwin H. Hall. 



On new Methods for observing the Action of Colored Li- 

 quids on Living Protoplasm. By George L. Goodale. 



SeTen hundred and ninety-ninth Meeting. 



February 9, 1887. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 

 The following papers were presented : — 

 On the Coahuila Meteorites. By Oliver W. Huntington. 

 The Chinook Wind, and its Effect on the Isotherms and 

 Isobars of the daily Weather Map. By William M. Davis. 



