472 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The Corresponding Secretary presented a paper, by Dr. 

 A. A. Hayes, " On the Wide Diffusion of Vanadium, and its 

 Association with Phosphorus in many Rocks." 



The President announced the death of the Rev. James 

 Walker, D.D., Resident Fellow of the Academy. 



Six hundred and seventy-sixth Meeting. 



January 27, 1875. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected into the Acad- 

 emy : — 



Henry Barker Hill, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fel- 

 low in Class I., Section 3. 



James Bradstreet Greenough, of Cambridge, to be a 

 Resident Fellow in Class III., Section 2. 



William James, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 3. 



Joachim Barrande, of Prague, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class II., Section 1, in place of the late Elie de 

 Beaumont. 



Louis Adolphe Thiers, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 3, in place of the late F. P. G. 

 Guizot, of Paris. 



Jean Leon G^rome, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 4, in place of the late W. von 

 Kaulbach, of Munich. 



Professor E. C. Pickering communicated the results' of some 

 experiments on the " Foci of Lenses Placed Obliquely," by 

 himself and Dr. Charles H. Williams. 



The President read a letter from the President of the Geo- 

 graphical Society of Paris, inviting the Academy to send a 

 delegate to the International Congress of Geographical Sci- 

 ences, to be held at Paris during the coming summer. 



