510 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Eight hundred and ninety-third Meeting. 



October 13, 1897. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Chair announced the death of Theodore Lyman, Resident 

 Fellow ; Alfred Marshall Mayer, James Hammond Trumbull, 

 Associate Fellows ; Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux, 

 Victor Meyer, Julius von Sachs, and Johannes Japetus Smith 

 Steenstrup, Foreign Honorary Members. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from Henry M. 

 Howe, resigning his fellowship on account of removal to New 

 York. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



James Mills Peirce, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 L, Section 1 (Mathematics and Astronomy). 



L-a Nelson Hollis, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 4 (Technology and Engineering). 



Heinrich Brunner, of Berlin, as Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class in., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence). 



Frederic William Maitland, of Cambridge, as Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class IN., Section 1. 



Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, of Copenhagen, as Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class IH., Section 4 (Literature and the 

 Fine Arts). 



Pierre Cdcile Puvis de Chavannes, of Paris, as Foreign Hon- 

 orary Member in Class IH., Section 4. 



Amos E. Dolbear read a paper entitled " Contrasted Properties 

 of Matter and the Ether." Remarks on this communication 

 were made by W. E. Story and A. G. Webster. 



£ight hundred and ninety-fourth Meeting. 



November 10, 1897. 



In the absence of the regular presiding officers, Mortll 

 Wyman was chosen President 'pro tempore. 



