328 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMT 



Eight hundred and eighty-ninth Meeting. 



March 10, 1897. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President John Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Turin, announcing the death of Luigi 

 Schiaparelli ; also, one giving notice of the terms for competi- 

 tion for the eleventh Bressa prize. 



The chair appointed the following committee to nominate 

 officers for the ensuing year : — 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, of Class I., Henry P. Bowditch, of 

 Class II., and Andrew M. Davis, of Class III. 



The following gentlemen were elected Members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles Henry Fernald, of Amherst, to be a Resident Fellow 

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



Ludwig Boltzmann, of Vienna, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 2 (Physics), in place of the late 

 Friedrich August Kekule. 



Wilhelm Pfeffer, of Leipsic, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 2 (Botany), in place of the late Baron 

 Ferdinand von Mueller. 



Wilhelm Dorpfeld, of Athens, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class HI., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology), 

 in place of the late Ernst Curtius. 



The following papers were read : — 



International Bimetallism. By George S. Boutwell. 



On the Minimal Nutrients of Bacteria in Water. By W. 

 T. Sedgfwick and D. D. Jackson. 



An Investigation of some of the Bacteriological Aspects of 

 the Art of Tanning. By S. C. Prescott. (By invitation.) 



The Energy Conditions necessary to produce the Rcintgen 

 Rays. By John Trowbridge. (By title.) 



