7-34 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" The Relations of the Norwegian with the English Church, 

 1066-1399, and their Importance to Comparative Literature." 

 By Henry G. Leach. Presented by G. L. Kittredge. 



" Some European Sandforms." By D. W. Johnson. 



Contribution from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series. No. XXXVII. 1. " Synopsis and Key to the 

 Mexican and Central American Species of Castilleja." By 

 A.Eastwood. 2. " A Revision of the Genus Rumfordia." By 

 B. L. Robinson. 3. " A Synopsis of the American Species of 

 Litsea." By H. H. Bartlett. 4. " Some Undescribed Species 

 of Mexican Phanerogams." By A. Eastwood. 5. " Notes on 

 Mexican and Central American Alders." By H. H. Bartlett. 

 6. " Diagnoses and Transfers of Tropical American Phanero- 

 gams." By B. L. Robinson. 7. " The Purple-flowered Andro- 

 cerae of Mexico and the Southern United States." By H. H. 

 Bartlett. 8. " Descriptions of Mexican Phanerogams." By 

 H. H. Bartlett. Presented by B. L. Robinson. 



" Crystallographic Notes on Minerals from Chester, Massa- 

 chusetts." By Charles Palache and H. O. Wood. 



Nine hundred eighty-ninth Meeting. 



April 14, 1909. 



The Academy met at its house. 



The President in the chair. 



There were twenty-six Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Herbert W. 

 Rand and from W. M. Wheeler, accepting Resident Fellow- 

 ship ; from C. H. Toy and W. T. Porter, resigning Resident 

 Fellowship; from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia, Mineralogical and Geological Section, announcing a 

 second annual meeting of geologists, to be held at Philadelphia, 

 April 23 and 24, 1909; from the Holland Society of Sciences, 

 announcing the resignation of its Permanent Secretary, J. 

 Bosscha, and the appointment of J. P. Lotsy in his place ; 

 from the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, an- 

 nouncing the death of Professor Dr. Fritz Romer, the director 

 of its Museum. 



