324 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Goode and Hubert Anson Newton, Associate Fellows ; and 

 Heinrich Ernst Beyrich, Ernst Curtius, Friedrich August Ke- 

 kule, Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, and Jules Simon, Foreign 

 Honorary Members. 



In the absence of the Corresponding Secretary, Charles Lor- 

 ing Jackson was requested to act in his place, and read the 

 following letters : from Karl Weinhold, Alexandre Kovalevsky, 

 M. Foster, and B. L. Gildersleeve, acknowledging their election 

 into the Academy ; from a committee of the Society of Colonial 

 Wars in the District of Columbia, proposing a joint memorial 

 meeting in memory of George Brown Goode ; from the Inter- 

 national Geological Congress, enclosing the programme for its 

 seventh session ; from the Northwest Mining Association, sug- 

 gesting the creation of a Department of Mines in the United 

 States Government as a cabinet office ; from the widow of 

 Heinrich Ernst Beyrich, announcing the death of her husband ; 

 from the Academy " Gioenia " of Natural Sciences at Catania, 

 announcing the death of its President, Giuseppe Zurria ; from 

 General-Major Rykatchew, reporting his appointment as Direc- 

 tor of the Central Physical Observatory at St. Petersburg in 

 place of Heinrich Wild, resigned ; and from the committee of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 

 Zoological Bibliography and Publication, asking for the co- 

 operation of learned societies in the method of publishing sci- 

 entific papers. 



James Coolidge Carter, of New York, was elected an Asso- 

 ciate Fellow in Class III., Section 1, in place of the late Atticus 

 Green Haygood. 



Alpheus Hyatt read a paper entitled, Cycle in the Life of the 

 Individual (Ontogeny) and in the Evolution of its own Group 

 (Phylogeny). 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



The Constituents of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Canadian 

 Petroleum between 150° and 220°. By Cliarles F. Mabery. 



Refractive Power of the Hydrocarbons and Clilorine Deriva- 

 tives described in the Preceding Paper. By Charles F. Mabery 

 and Edward J. Hudson. 



