328 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Edward J. Lowell, \ 



Martin Brimmer, > of Class III, 



Lucien Carr, ) 



Rumford Committee. 

 WOLCOTT GlBBS, JOSEPH LOVERING, 



John Trowbridge, George B Clark, 



Josiah P. Cooke, Erasmus D. Leavitt, 



Benjamin O. Peirce. 



Member of the Committee of Finance. 

 Augustus Lowell. 



The President made appointments as follows : — 



Committee of Publication. 



Josiah P. Cooke, William G. Farlow, 



John C. Ropes. 



Committee on the Library. 



Henry P. Bowditch, Amos E. Dolbear, 

 Edward J. Lowell. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, Augustus Lowell. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On a Kephir-like Yeast found in the United States. By 

 Charles L. Mix. 



On the Matrical Equation <f>fl = f2<f>. By Henry Taber. 



On the Movement of Electricity in Iron. By John Trow- 

 bridge and W. C. Sabine. 



Eight hundred and forty-fourth Meeting. 



June 10, 1891. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



A biographical notice of Henry Jacob Bigelow, by Dr. 

 Oliver W. Holmes, was read. 



