214 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN .ACADEMY 



Six hundred and eighteenth Meeting. 



March 8, 1870. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 recent decease of Dr. Theodore Strong, of New Brunswick, 

 N. J., of the Associate Fellows. 



The President communicated a report from the Council, 

 nominating candidates for Associate and Foreign Honorary 

 membership, and also read nominations of candidates for Resi- 

 dent Fellowship. 



A committee was appointed to confer with other learned 

 societies to secure a building for their accommodation with 

 the Academy. The Vice-President, and Messrs. Nathaniel 

 Thayer, William Gray, J. I. Bowditch, and C. W. Eliot, were 

 appointed on this committee. 



Six hundred and nineteenth Meeting. 



April 12, 1870. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 recent decease of Rev. Dr. Frothingham, of the Resident 

 Fellows. 



Mr. C. F. Adams communicated two papers by W. B. Bur- 

 den, of England, which were referred to Mr. Francis and Mr. 

 Batchelder as a committee to examine them. 



Six hundred and twentieth Meeting. 



May 10, 1870. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to ex- 

 changes. 



Dr. Clark made a communication on the medical and 

 physiological action of the chloral hydrate. • 



