508 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Lowell, David G. Lyon, and Joseph H. Thayer, acknowl- 

 edging election as Resident Fellows ; and from Messrs. 

 Henry Adams, George Davidson, Daniel C. Eaton, M. Carey 

 Lea, John S. Newberry, John Newton, John W. Powell, 

 William E. Story, and Horatio C. Wood, acknowledging 

 election as Associate Fellows. 



The President announced the death of Professor August 

 Wilhelm Eichler. 



The President announced that he had accepted, in the 

 name of the Academy, the invitation to send a delegate to 

 the centennial celebration of Columbia College. 



Professor Frederick W. Putnam presented a paper, enti- 

 tled, — 



"Account of Explorations in Ohio, with Special Reference 

 to the Discovery of Objects made of native Copper, Silver, 

 Gold, and Iron in the Mounds." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



Contributions to American Botany : I. Notes upon some 

 Genera of Coniferse. H. List of a Collection of Plants made 

 in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, by Dr. Edward Palmer, in 

 1886. ni. Descriptions of New Species of Plants from the 

 Western United States and Chihuahua. By Sereno Watson. 



Eight hundred and second Meeting. 



May 11, 1887. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the Recording Secre- 

 tary, 107 Marlborough Street. 



The President in the chair. 



The President invited the attention of the Fellows to the 

 special object of the meeting, which was the presentation 

 of the Rumford Medals which had been voted to Professor 

 S. P. Langley, at the last annual meeting, for his researches 

 on radiant energy. He was happy to see so large an 

 attendance of Fellows to welcome Professor Langley, as he 



