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Henry Sidgwick, of Cambridge, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class HI., Section 1, in place of the late Sir 

 Henry James Sumner Maine. 



John Evans, of Hemel Hempstead, to be a Foreign Hon- 

 orary Member in Class III., Section 2, in place of the late 

 Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro. 



Johann Wilhelm Adolf Kirchhoff, of Berlin, to be a For- 

 eign Honorary Member in Class HI., Section 2, in place of 

 the late Georg Curtius. 



Charles Jacques Victor Albert, Due de Broglie, of Paris, 

 to be a Foreign Honorary Member in Class UL, Section 3, 

 in place of the late Leopold von Ranke. 



Leslie Stephen, of London, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class IH., Section 4, in place of the late Mat- 

 thew Arnold. 



George Brown Goode, of Washington, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class H., Section 3, in place of the late Spencer 

 Fullerton Baird. 



On the recommendation of the Ruraford Committee, it was 



Voted, That an appropriation of five hundred dollars 

 ($500) be made from the income of the Rumford Fund 

 to assist Professor Trowbridge in his work on the metallic 

 spectra. 



Voted, That an appropriation of five hundred dollars 

 (1500) be made from the income of the Rumford Fund 

 to enable Mr. W. H. Pickering to observe the solar corona 

 during the eclipse of January- 1, 1889, which is visible in 

 California. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, on the second Wednes- 

 day in November. 



The following papers were read : — 



Atmospheric Economy of Solar Radiation. By Artliur 

 Searle. 



Further Study of the Structure of Iron Meteorites. By 

 Oliver W. Huntington. 



Some Defects in Physical Terminology. By Amos E. 

 Dolbear. 



