414 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Seven hundred and fifty-ninth Meeting^. 



February 14, 1883. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Samuel Pierpont Langley, of Allegheny, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 2. 



Setli Carlo Chandler, Jr., of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 2. 



Edwin Herbert Hall, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 3. 



William White Jacques, of Newburyport, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Louis Pasteur, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class II., Section 3, in place of the late Charles Robert 

 Darwin. 



Matthew Arnold, of Gorhara, England, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class III., Section 4, in place of the 

 late Artliur Penrhyn Stanley. 



The following papers were presented : — • 



Quantitative Researches in Photography. By William H. 

 Pickering. (By invitation.) 



Photography as a Means of Determining the Light and 

 Color of the Stars. By Edward C. Pickering and William 

 H. Pickering. 



On the Historical Hydrography of the West Coast of North 

 America. By Justin Winsor. 



Seven hundred and sixtieth Meeting. 



March 14, 1883. — Stated Meeting. 



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The President in the chair. 



The death of Mr. Nathaniel Thayer was announced. 

 The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



