298 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



On the Development of the Spermogonium of Cseoma ni- 

 tens (Schw.). By H. M. Richards. 



Certain Microscopic Observations in regard to the Caout- 

 choucs. By H. F. Lueders. 



Microchemical Behavior of the Organized Proteids in the 

 Seeds of Gossypium, with a New Test for Associated Oils. 

 By H. F. Lueders. 



Microscopic Characters of the Fossil Resin of Agathis 

 Australis. By G. L. Goodale. 



Eight hundred and fifty-sixth Meeting. 



February 8, 1893. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : 

 from the Roj'al Academy of Sciences of Turin, announcing 

 the terms of competition for the ninth Bressa Prize ; from the 

 Imperial Russian Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg, 

 announcing the deatli of its Honorary Director, Nicholas 

 Koscharow, and of its Honorary Member, Axel Gadoline ; 

 also, from a committee at Altenburg, inviting subscriptions 

 to the Brehm-Schlegel monument. 



The President announced the death of the Rt. Rev. Phillips 

 Brooks, D. D., a Resident Fellow, in the following words: — 



That ereat and noble man whose recent death has caused such a 

 profound sensation in this community was a Resident Fellow of our 

 Academy in the section of Philosophy and Jurisprudence. Except on 

 a few special occasions, he never attended our meetings ; and his ac- 

 tivities were in fields very different from those we habitually cultivate. 

 But he welcomed, with as great pleasure as any of us, all advances of 

 knowledge, and has shown his sympathy by giving to our Academy 

 the support of his name and influence since 1878. 



In his wonderful intuitive power and his great breadth of view, 

 Phillips Brooks always seemed to me to resemble our late Foreign 

 Honorary Member, the illustrious English poet, who died only a few 

 weeks before him. Tennyson was conspicuously the poet of modern 

 science. Although a sou of the Church, he was the first of the poets 



