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the Annual Meeting. Whenever the Council shall receive a 

 nomination for any office, signed by not less than ten of the 

 Resident Fellows of the Academy, it shall be the duty of 

 the Council to publish such nomination with its own. 

 On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 

 Voted, To meet on adjournment on the second Wednesday 

 in April. 



The following paper was presented by title : — 

 On the Inheritance of Acquired Characters in Animals 

 with a Complete Metamorphosis. By A. S. Packard. 



Eight hundred and sixty-sixth Meeting. 



April 11, 1894. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the Walker Building of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, Boston. 



The President in the chair. 



The chair announced the death of Charles E. Brown- 

 Sequard, of Paris, a Foreign Honorary Member. 



On the motion of John Trowbridge, on behalf of the 

 Rumford Committee, it was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) to F. A. 

 Laws in aid of his investigations on the thermal conductivity 

 of metals. 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the Rumford 

 Fund the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) to be ex- 

 pended in aid of investigations in light and heat. Payments 

 from this sum to be made on the order of the Chairman of the 

 Committee. 



On motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, That the Committee of Publication be authorized 

 to use for illustrations a portion of the regular annual appro- 

 priation for publications not exceeding fifty dollars (850) 

 for each paper. Larger appropriations of money from the 

 general funds for illustrations to be made only by vote of 



