608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



" On the Prolongation of Spectral Lines." B}^ Theodore 

 L^'man. 



"' The Athenian Vase-Painter Br3'gos, and his Characteristics." 

 By Oliver Samuel Tonks. Presented by John H. Wright. 



Nine hundred and forty-second Meeting. 



October 14, 1903. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: — 



J. Peter Lesley, Class II., Section 1 ; George S. Morison, 

 Class I., Section 4, Associate Fellows. 



Luigi Cremona, Class I., Section 1, Foreign Honorary Member. 



Tlie following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles Emile Picard, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorai-y 

 Member in Class I., Section 1 (Mathematics and Astronomy), 

 in place of the late Herve-Auguste Etienne Albans Faye. 



Joseph Larmor, of Cambridge, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 ^Member in Class I., Section 2 (Physics), in place of the late 

 Sir George Gabriel Stokes. 



The President announced the resignation of William L. 

 Richardson as Auditor, and appointed Frederick J. Stimson in 

 his place. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



Quantitative Studies in the Evolution of Pecten. III. "Com- 

 parison of Pecten opercularis from three Localities of the British 

 Isles." By C. B. Davenport. 



"The Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions at High 

 Temperatures." I. Description of the Apparatus. Results with 

 Sodium and Potassium Chloride up to 306°. By Arthur A. 

 Noyes and William D. Coolidge. 



"•Metabolism and the Reaction of Division in Protozoa." B}' 

 Amos W. Peters. Presented by E. L. Mark. 



"The Laws of Heredity of Galton and Mendel and some 

 Laws Governing Race Improvement by Selection." By W. E. 

 Castle. 



