404 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Eight hundred and sixty-third Meeting. 



January 10, 1894. — Stated Meeting 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



The chair announced the death of Francis Parkman and 

 Henry Warren Paine, Resident Fellows, and of Charles 

 Merivale, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from W. K. 

 Brooks, acknowledging his election as Associate Fellow ; 

 from E. Bornet, acknowledging his election as Foreign Hon- 

 orary Member ; and from the Corresponding Secretary of the 

 Colonial Society of Massachusetts, thanking the Academy 

 for affording the use of its Hall for the Society's meetings 

 during the present season. 



Barrett Wendell, on behalf of the Committee on Methods 

 of Electing Officers, submitted a report. 



On the motion of W. R. Livermore, it was 



Voted, That this report be laid on the table. 



The chairman of the Rumford Committee presented a 

 report, and, in accordance with a recommendation contained 

 therein, it was 



Voted, To appropriate five hundred dollars from the income 

 of the Rumford Fund to William H. Pickering for investiga- 

 tions on optical constants at different altitudes. 



Granville Stanley Hall, of Worcester, was elected a Resi- 

 dent Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



C. L. Jackson read abstracts of the following papers : — 



On the Formation of Volatile Compounds of Arsenic from 

 Arsenical Wall Papers. By Charles R. Sanger. 



Chronic Arsenical Poisoning from Wall Papers and Fabrics. 

 By Charles R. Sanger. 



Remarks on these papers were made by F. H. Storer, E. S. 

 Wood, and W. G. Fallow. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On the Automorphic Linear Transformation of Bilinear 

 Forms. By Henry Taber. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. By B. L. Robinson. I. Monograph of the North 



