300 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Xlight hundred and fifty-eighth Meeting. 



April 12, 1893. — Adjoukned Stated Meeting. 



The PRESIDENT in the chair. 



The President announced the death since the last meetinsr 

 of Andrew Preston Peabody, and George Cheyne Shattuck, 

 Resident Fellows ; William Holmes Chambers Bartlett^, and 

 George Vase}^, Associate Fellows ; and of Alphonse Louis 

 Pierre Pyramus de Candolle, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Samuel Cabot, of Brookline, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I , Section 3. 



Henry Helm Clayton, of Milton, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1. 



John Elliott Pillsbury, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1. 



John Henry Wright, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 2. 



The following report was presented : — 



The provisional committee appointed to consider methods 

 of managing the " Cyrus Moors Warren Trust for the encour- 

 agement of Chemical Research " respectfully recommend to 

 the Academy that a standing committee be appointed to be 

 known as the 



C. M. Waeren Committee, 



which shall consist of seven (7) members to be chosen by 

 ballot at the Annual Meeting of the Academy, vacancies to 

 be filled at any stated meeting of the Academy after due 

 notice has been given at a previous meeting of the proposed 

 election. 



We recommend that the C. M. Warren Committee should 

 be directed by the Academy : — 



I. To invite applications for pecuniary assistance from any 

 persons wishing to engage in research in any department of 

 chemistry ; that the Committee should consider these appli- 



