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Eight hundred and elRhty-seventh Meeting. 



January 13, 1897. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The chair aunounced the death of Francis Amasa Walker, 

 Resident Fellow ; Henry Newell Martin, Associate Fellow ; and 

 Emil Heinrich Du-Bois Reymond, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Secretary 

 of the Pasteur Committee in Washington, announcing the open- 

 ing of subscriptions in America, and inviting the Academy to 

 participate, and from the Observatory of San Salvador announ- 

 cing the death of its director, Don Alberto Sanchez. 



The vacancies occasioned by the death of Benjamin A. Gould 

 were filled by the election of 



John Tno\y bridge. Vice President for Class I. 



Theodore W. Richards, Member of the Rumford Committee. 



On the recommendation of the C. M. Warren Committee it 

 was 



Voted, That the sum of two hundred dollars (8200) from the 

 income of the C. M. Warren Fund be granted to H. O. Hofman, 

 of Boston, for the prosecution of a research on the formation 

 temperatures of slags in the smelting of ores of lead and copper 

 or other metals. 



S. H. Scudder read by title a paper on The Genera of North 

 American Melanopli. 



A. Lawrence Rotch read a paper on Obtaining IVIeteorological 

 Records in the Upper Air by Means of Kites and Balloons. 



Eight hundred and eighty eighth Meeting. 



February 10, 1897. 



The Academy met at the house of A. Lawrence Rotch. 

 The President in the chair. 

 The following papers were read : — 



The Hebrew and Muhammedan Calendars. By William E. 

 Story. 



Forts Henry and Donelson. By John C. Ropes. 



