506 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The President appointed the following Standing Com- 

 mittees: — 



Committee of Publication. 



Charles L. Jackson, William G. Farlow, 

 Charles G. Loring. 



Committee on the Library. 



Henry P. Bowditch, Amos E. Dolbear, 



Edward J. Lowell. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, John C. Ropes. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be tendered to 

 Wolcott Gibbs for his long and valuable services as member 

 of the Rumford Committee. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On those Orthogonal Substitutions that are given by Cay- 

 ley's Expression, or by the Limiting Form of Cayley's Expres- 

 sion. By Henry Taber. 



On the Measurement of Resistance by the Method of Sub- 

 stitution. By G. Le Clear. 



On the Currents in Batteries made up of Cells joined up in 

 Multiple Arc. By B. O. Peirce. 



On the Constitution of the Nitroparaffine Salts. Second 

 Paper. By John U. Nef. 



On Ternar}'- Mixtures. First Paper : The Chemical Poten- 

 tial of Metals. By Wilder D. Bancroft. 



Action of Alcoholates on Chloranil. By C. Loring Jackson 

 and H. S. Grindley. 



Bromine Derivatives of Metaphenylene Diamine. By C. 

 Loring Jackson and S. Calvert. 



Behavior of certain Derivatives of Benzol containing Halo- 

 gens. By C. Loring Jackson and S. Calvert. 



A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Strontium. First 

 Paper: The Analysis of Strontic Bromide. By Theodore 

 W. Richards. 



