302 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



It was voted that the amendment be enacted. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



G. Kirchhoff, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class I., Section 3, in place of the late Thomas Graham. 



Kaulbach, of Munich, to be a Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class III., Section 4, in place of the late Overbeck. 



Henry Carey Lea, of Philadelphia, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 3. 



Professor E. J. Cutler, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class III., Section 2. 



Professor E. J. Young, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class III., Section 2. 



Professor C. C. Langdell, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



Six hundred and twenty-sixth. Meeting. 



December 13, 1870. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor J. D. Whitney read the first part of a communica- 

 tion on the fossil remains of man found in California. 



Professor N. S. Shaler called attention to the fact that the 

 circumstances connected with the occurrence of these remains 

 beneath Table' Mountain resembled, in a striking way, those of 

 similar remains found near Le Puy in Haute-Loire, France. 



Professor J. D. Whitney called attention to the discovery, by 

 Mr. Clarence King, of glaciers in the northern slope of Mt. 

 Shasta. 



Mr. E. N. Horsford gave an account of the system of hy- 

 draulic mining in California. 



Six hundred and twenty-seventh Meeting. 



January 9, 1871. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President read a letter from Professor Kirchhoff, of 



