OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 287 



On a method of measuriug electro-motive power by B. O. 

 Peirce, Jr. 



A note on tlie conduction of heat in a solid, by B. O. 

 Peirce, Jr. 



Seven hiindredtli Meeting. 



April 11, 1877. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. 

 Diman, Ferrel, and Paget, accepting their election into the 

 Academy. 



On the motion of the Treasurer it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be presented to 

 the Hon. E. B. Washburne and to Mr. Riggs for their services 

 in connection with the repairs of the monument of Count 

 Rumford in Paris. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On the haloid compounds of antimony, by Professor J. P. 

 Cooke, Jr. 



On the temperature of a perfect gas which is in convective 

 equilibrium, by Professor Benjamin Peirce. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On parabrombenzyl compounds, by C. L. Jackson and 

 Woodbury Lowery. 



On furfurol formed in the dry distillation of wood at low 

 temperatures, with a note on Scanlan's pyroxanthin, by Pro- 

 fessor H. B. Hill. 



On some new algse of the United States, by Professor 

 W. G. Farlow. 



Mode of germination in the genus Megarhiza, by Professor 

 Asa Gray. 



Seven hundred and first Meeting. 



May 9th, 1877. — INIonthly Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



Messrs. Cooke, Eliot, Agassiz, Ellis, and Perkins were ap- 

 pointed a committee on nominations. 



