OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 401 



Fellows ; and from Sylvester R. Koehler, accepting Fellow- 

 ship. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Edward Salisbury Dana, of New Haven, to be an Asso- 

 ciate Fellow in Class II., Section 1. 



Samuel Louis Penfield, of New Haven, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 1, in place of the late Frederick 

 A. Genth. 



Jean Baptiste Edouard Bornet, of Paris, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class II., Section 2, in place of the late 

 Alphonse L. P. P. de Candolle. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Committee 

 on the Custody of the Hall, it was 



Voted, To grant the use of the Hall of the Academy to the 

 Colonial Society of Massachusetts on the third Wednesday of 

 December, 1893, January, February, March, and April, 1894, 

 after 3 o'clock P. M. 



O. W. Huntington presented a paper entitled, " Further 

 Observations upon the Occurrence of Diamonds in Meteor- 

 ites." 



On the motion of F. H. Storer, it was 



Voted, That a Committee be appointed to consider changes 

 in the statutes relating to the methods of electing officers. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet on adjournment on the second Wednesday 

 in November. 



Eight hundred and sixty-second Meeting. 



November 8, 1893. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the Engineering Building of the 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 

 The President in the chair. 

 The President announced the death of Moses Gerrv 



it 



Farmer, Resident Fellow, and of Benjamin Jowett, Foreign 

 Honorary Member. 



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