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Six Imndred and ninety-fourth Meeting. 



October 11, 1876. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Letters were read from Messrs. Curtius, Le Due, Mignet, 

 Pattison, Rawlinson, Stanley, Abbot, and Searle, accepting 

 their election as members of the Academy ; also from Messrs. 

 Bowen and Cabot resigning their membership. 



Voted^ To place six hundred dollars ($600) of the income 

 of the Rumford Fund at the disposal of the Rumford Com- 

 mittee to aid Professor Langiey in his researches on radiant 

 energy. 



Professor A. G. Bell, by invitation presented a paper on 

 telephony. 



On the motion of IMr. Emerson it was 



Voted, To heartily congratulate Professor Bell on his won- 

 derful discovery in telephony. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On the use of glass circles for meridian instruments, by 

 Mr. W. A. Rogers. 



On the suspension of a ball in a jet of air having an incli- 

 nation of 45° by Mr. W. A. Rogers. 



On a new edition of Ptolemy's catalogue of stars, by Mr. 

 C. S. Peirce. 



Dr. Gray presented, by title, the following paper : — 



Contributions to North American Botany. 



Six hundred and ninety-fifth Meeting. 



November 10, 1876. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced the death of 

 Nicholas St. John Green, William A. Stearns, and Edward 

 Wigglesworth, Fellows of the Academy ; also of Charles 

 Davies, Associate Fellow, and Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, 

 Foreign Honorary Member. He also read letters from Mon- 

 sieur G. A. Him acknowledging the receipt of the Works of 



