84 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



In acknowledgment of this gift, it was voted, That the 

 thanks of the Academy be presented to Mr. Greenough for 

 his very valuable and acceptable present. 



The report of the Rumford Committee, referred to this 

 meeting, was taken up, and, in accordance with its recommen- 

 dation, it was voted, That the Rumford Committee may re- 

 ceive from Mr. 0. N. Rood the results of his investigations on 

 " Photometry," instead of those on " the Physical Relations 

 of the Iodized Plate to Light," for which an appropriation 

 from the Rumford fund was made at the meeting of Septem- 

 ber, 1863. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Hon. Erastus B. Bigelow, of Boston, to be Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 3. 



Mr. Henry Mitchell, of Lynn, to be Resident Fellow, in 

 Class L, Section 2. 



Rev. Barnas Sears, President of Brown University, to be 

 Associate Fellow, in Class III., Section 2. 



Prof. Asahel C. Kendrick, of Rochester, N. Y., to be Asso- 

 ciate Fellow, in Class III., Section 2. 



Mr. Arthur Cayley, of London, to be Foreign Honorary 

 Member, in Class I., Section 1, in place of the late Sir Wil- 

 liam Rowan Hamilton. 



M. Delauney, of Paris, to be Foreign Honorary Member, in 

 Class I., Section 1, in place of the late Sir J. W. Lubbock. 



Dr. Joseph Dalton Hooker to be Foreign Honorary Member, 

 in Class II., Section 2, in place of the late Sir William Jack- 

 son Hooker. 



Mr. C. M. Warren presented the following communica- 

 tion : — 



On a Neio Process of Organic Elementary Analysis for Sub- 

 stances containing- Chlorine. By C. M. Warren. 



Organic bodies containing chlorine — and probably those also, that 

 contain bromine and iodine — may be analyzed by a process analogous 



