440 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



the Academy for a replica of the first Rumford medal; from the 

 Reale Universita di Padova announcing the celebration of its 

 700th anniversary; from R. S. Woodward giving an account of 

 the centennial of the University of Virginia. 



The Chair announced the death of the following Fellows: Joel 

 Asaph Allen, Class II., Section 3: Charles Pickering Bowditch, 

 Class III., Section 2: Eliot Channing Clarke, Class I., Section 4: 

 Hiram Francis Mills, Class I., Section 4; and of the Foreign 

 Honorary Member Julius von Hann, Class II., Section 1. 



A biographical notice of Edward Charles Pickering, by J. H. 

 Metcalf was presented by the Corresponding Secretary. 



The President stated that a Conference of Orientalists was held 

 at the invitation of Class III., Section 2, of the Academy, in the 

 House of the Academy, on October 5th. ■"" 



The following communication was presented: Professor C. B. 

 Gulick, "The Greek Novel." 



The following papers were presented by title: 



"The General Conditions of Validity of the Principle of Le 

 Chatelier," by Alfred J. Lotka. Presented by Irving Fisher. 



"The Grid Structure in Echelon Spectrum Lines," by Norton 

 A. Kent and Lucien B. Taylor. 



"Eifect of Tension upon Resistance of Abnormal Metals," by 

 P. W. Bridgman. 



"Effect of Pressure on Thermal Conductivity," by P. W. Bridg- 

 man. 



"The Failm-e of Ohm's Law in Gold and Silver at High Current 

 Densities," by P. W. Bridgman. 



" Waverley Researches in the Pathology of the Feeble-Minded," 

 by W. E. Fernald, E. E. Southard, M. M. Canavan, O. J. Raeder, 

 and A. E. Taft. 



"The Early Evolution of the Reflecting Telescope," by Louis 

 Bell. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



1 For the record of this meeting see p. 460. 



