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The following letters were received : — from H. M. Goodwin, 

 Ira N. Hollis, and Frank Arthur Laws, accepting Fellowship ; 

 from C. H. Fernald, declining Fellowship ; from Horace Howard 

 Furness, Edmund 0. Stedman, and William H. Welch, acknowl- 

 edoiiiCT election as Associate Fellows ; also letters announcing 

 the death of Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup and Julius 

 von Sachs, Foreign Honorary Members, of Alfred Ritter von 

 Arneth, President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 

 and of Tommaso Vallauri, Member of the Royal Academy of 

 Sciences, Turin. 



On the motion of Eliot C. Clarke, the following resolution was 

 adopted : — 



JVJiereas, The Academy has received from the executors of 

 the estate of John Lowell the sum of three thousand dollars, 

 being a bequest, unrestricted as to its disposition, therefore be it 



Resolved^ That the Academy accepts said bequest with grate- 

 ful appreciation of the generosity and trust of its late honored 

 Resident Fellow, and will apply the same to the general j)ur- 

 poses of the Academy, and that the Corresponding Secretary 

 notify this action to Judge Lowell's executors. 



Theodore Wm. Richards presented a paper on the Atomic 

 Weights. Remarks on this subject were made by Arthur G. 

 Webster. 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



On the Cuprosammonium Bromides and the Cuprammonium 



Sulphocyanates. By Theodore Wm. Richards and Benj. S. 



Merigold. 



Eight hundred and ninety-fifth Meeting. 



December 8, 1897. 



The Corresponding Secretary in the chair. 



The Chair announced the death of Justin Winsor, Resident 

 Fellow. 



Letters were read from J. M. Peirce and F. W. Maitland, ac- 

 knowledging election into the Academy; and from the Colonial 



