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use ; but my colleagues will appreciate how great a privilege I feel 

 it is to fill the place once held by this beloved patron of my youth, 

 and later by Jacob Bigelow, the good physician of my boyhood, and 

 by Asa Gray and by Joseph Lovering, my college teachers and the 

 warm friends of my manhood. 



The President in the chair. 



Dr. Seth C. Chandler presented a paper entitled, " Results 

 of Researches on Variable Stars." A discussion of this paper 

 followed, and remarks were made by Messrs. Searle, Edmands, 

 and Dolbear. 



Dr. Henry Taber presented a paper entitled, " On a Theo- 

 rem of Sylvester's relating to Degenerate Matrices." 



Eight hundred and forty-ninth Sleeting. 



April 13, 1892. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President read a letter from Captain Andrew H. Rus- 

 sell, accepting Fellowship in the Academy ; also, a circular 

 from the Executive Committee of the Congress of Engineers 

 and Architects at Palermo, inviting members of the Academy 

 to take part in its deliberations. 



The vacancies in the Rum ford Committee, occasioned by 

 the death of Joseph Lovering and of George B. Clark, were 

 filled by the election of the following 



Members of the Rumford Committee : 

 Edward C. Pickering, Charles R. Cross. 



Dr. Seth C. Chandler presented a paper entitled, " Results 

 of Researches on Variations of Latitudes." 



Professor Jackson presented, by title, a paper on the For- 

 mation of the Anhydrides of Benzoic and substituted Benzoic 

 Acids. By George D. Moore and Daniel F. O'Regan. 



