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The President appointed the following standing commit- 

 tees : — 



Committee of Publication. 



Josiah P. Cooke, Alexander Agassiz, 



Asa Gray. 



Committee on the Library. 



Henry P. Bowditch, Amos E. Dolbear, 

 Edward J. Lowell. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, Thomas T. Botjve. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" The Relative Values of the Atomic Weights of Hydro- 

 gen and Oxygen." By Josiah P. Cooke and Theodore W. 

 Richards. 



" Summary of the Observations of the Total Eclipse of the 

 Sun, August 29, 1886." By William H. Pickering. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" The Action of Fluoride of Silicon on Organic Bases." 

 By Arthur M. Comey and C. Loring Jackson. 



" On Tribromtrinitrobenzol." By C. Loring Jackson and 

 John P. Wing. 



" Catalogue of all Recorded Meteorites, with a Description 

 of the Specimens in the Harvard College Collection, including 

 the Cabinet of the late J. Lawrence Smith." By Oliver W. 

 Huntington. 



Eight hundred and fifth Meeting. 



October 12, 1887. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of the following mem- 

 bers : — 

 Alvan Clark, Mark Hopkins, and Charles E. Ware, Resi- 



