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from the income of the Rumford Fund to W. C. Sabine for in- 

 vestigations in ultra-violet radiation. 



On motion of Augustus Lowell it was 



Voted, To authorize the Treasurer to make suitable arrange- 

 ments with the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the accom- 

 modation of the Academy in the new building of the Societ3\ 

 It was also 



Voted, To grant the free use of the hall of the Academy to 

 the Historical Society for its regular meetings until the comple- 

 tion of the new building. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



George Edward Davenport, of Med ford, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 2 (Botan}'). 



John George Jack, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 2. 



John Merle Coulter, of Chicago, to be an Associate Fel- 

 low in Class 11. , Section 2, in place of the late Daniel Cady 

 Eaton. 



Douglas Houghton Campbell, of Palo Alto, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class IL, Section 2. 



Elias Metschnikoff, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 3 (Zoology and Physiology). 



The following papers were j^resented by title: — 



The Thoracic Derivation of the Cardinal Veins in Swine, By 

 G. H. Parker and C. H. Tozier. 



The Analysis of the Action of the Vagus Nerve upon the Heart. 

 Preliminary Notice. By L. J. J. Muskens. Presented by H. P. 

 Bowditch. 



On the Colored Compounds obtained from Sodic Alcoholates 

 and Picrylchloride. By C. Loring Jackson and W. F. Boos. 



The following papers were read : — 



Changes in the Proportionate Diameters of the Shells of New 

 England MoUusks. By Edward S. Morse. 



A Probable Magnetic Telegraph of the Sixteenth Century. 



By Samuel Cabot. 



On the Source of the X-Rays. By John Trowbridge. 

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