612 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



to represent the Academy at the International Congress of 

 Orientalists. A letter from the Secretary of the organizing 

 committee of the International Congress of Phvsics at Paris in 

 1900, enclosing a prospectus and requesting that it be brought 

 to the notice of members, was referred to the members of the 

 Council from Class I. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported that, in response to 

 letters of invitation received during the summer, the President 

 had appointed George P. Fisher, Associate Fellow, as a delegate 

 to the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Vice-President 

 Trowbridge had appointed T. C. Mendenhall, Resident Fellow, 

 to represent the Academy at the celebration of the seventy-fifth 

 anniversary of the founding of the Franklin Institute. 



The Chair announced the death of John Harrison Blake, of 

 Boston, Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 2; and of Robert 

 Wilhelm Bunsen, of Heidelberg, Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class I., Section 3. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, a quorum for 

 business not being present, it was 



Voted, To meet on adjournment on the second Wednesday 

 in November. 



Arthur G. Webster read and explained a paper presented by 

 A. A. Michelson on the Echelon Spectroscope. 



The following papers were read by title : — 



Peripheral Distribution of the Cranial Nerves of Spelerpes 

 hilineatus. By Mary A. Bowers. Presented by E. L. Mark, 



Note on tlie Finite Continuous Groups of the Plane. B}' 

 F. B. Williams. Presented by Henry Taber. 



Two Genera of North American Decticinae. By S. H. 

 Scudder. 



Nine hundred and eleventh Meeting. 



November 8, 1899. — Adjourned Stated Meeting, 



In the absence of the regular presiding officers, Henry P. 

 BowDiTcn was chosen President j»ro tempore. 



