508 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



requesting the Academy to favor the Society with its views 

 thereon ; from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, an- 

 nouncing the deaths of Commanders Frebretti and Lessona ; 

 and from H. von Hoist, John Donnell Smith, and Ingram 

 Bywater, acknowledging their election into the Academy. 



The chair announced the death of Josiah Parsons Cooke, 

 President of the Academy ; of Oliver Wendell Holmes and 

 Edward J. Lowell, Resident Fellows ', of E. G. Robinson 

 and W. D. Whitne}^ Associate Fellows, and of H. L. F. 

 von Helmholtz, a Foreign Honorary Member. 



The vacancy occasioned by the death of the President, 

 Josiah Parsons Cooke, was filled by the unanimous election of ^ 



Alexander Agassiz, President. 



On motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, That the December meeting be devoted to addresses 

 in memory of the late President of the Academy, Josiah 

 Parsons Cooke. 



Voted, To appropriate the sum of two hundred dollars 

 ($200) from the income of the C. M. Warren Fund to Francis 

 C. Phillips, of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in aid of his re- 

 searches relating to the Chemistry of Natural Gas ; and six 

 hundred dollars ($600) to Charles F. Mabery, of Cleveland, 

 Ohio, in aid of his investigations of the Sulphur Petroleums. 



The following report was adopted : — 



The Committee, appointed at the Annual Meeting to consider the 

 changes in the Statutes proposed by S. H. Scudder, and the amend- 

 ment offered by H. P. Bowditch to the rule for the nomination of 

 officers of the Academy, recommends the following alterations in the 

 Statutes : — 



Chapter 11., Section 1, change the words "a Vice-President" 

 to " three Vice-Presidents, one for each Class." Change the words 

 "written votes" to "ballot." 



Section 2, change the word " Vice-President " to " the three 

 Vice-Presidents." 



Section 3, add at the end, "or at a meeting called for this purpose." 



After Chapter II. insert a new Chapter III., "Of Nominations of 

 Officers," and alter the numbers of the following chapters to corre- 

 spond to this change. The new chapter to read as follows : — 



