410 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



the Academy at a stated meeting, on recommendation of the 

 Committee of Publication, approved by the Treasurer. 



The Corresponding Secretary gave notice of a proposed 

 change in the statutes : to amend Chapter IV. of the Stat- 

 utes by changing the numbers of Sections 4, 5, and 6, 

 to 5, 6, and 7, respectively, and to insert a new section as 

 follows : — 



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4. The C. M. Warren Committee, of seven Fellows, to be chosen 

 by ballot, who shall consider and report on all applications for appro- 

 priations from the income of the C. M. "Warren Fund, and generally 

 see to the due and proper execution of this trust." 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To refer this proposed change in the Statutes to a 

 committee. 



The President appointed the Recording Secretary as this 

 committee. 



On motion of the Librarian, it was 



Voted, To present a copy of the Life and Works of Count 

 Rum ford, published by the American Academy, to the Rum- 

 ford Kitchen. 



The following papers were read by title : — 



Further New and imperfectly known Plants collected in 

 Mexico by C. G. Pringle in the Summer of 1893. By B. L. 

 Robinson and J. M. Greenman. 



On the Determination of Sulphur in Volatile Organic 

 Compounds. By Charles F. Mabery. 



Edward C. Pickering described the work in astronomical 

 photography of the Harvard College Observatory. 



Photographs were thrown upon the screen, some of which illus- 

 trated the following subjects : — The two principal stations of the 

 Observatory at Cambridge and at Arequipa. Photographs of the 

 double star £ Ursoe Majoris, the planet Saturn showing its ring, and 

 the occultation of a star by the Moon, taken by George P. Bond in 

 1857. Various members of the solar system, including Venus as a 

 crescent, Vesta showing the method of discovering asteroids by pho- 

 tography, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and its satellite. Swift's comet of 

 1892. An eclipse of Jupiter's satellite. Eclipsed Moon, showing the 



