618 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Nine hundred and fifteenth Meeting. 



March 14, 1900 — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met, by invitation of John E. Hudson, at the 

 Algonquin Club. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Joseph H. 

 Clioate and Sir G. O. Trevelyan acknowledging their election 

 into the Academy. He also exhibited a bronze copy of the 

 medal struck in honor of Sir George G. Stokes's Jubilee in 1899, 

 presented to the Academy by the University of Cambridge. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, on the second Wednesday 

 in April. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Arlo Bates, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class IH., 

 Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts). 



Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca, to be an Associate Fellow in 

 Class n., Section 2 (Botany), in place of the late Alvaii Went- 

 worth Chapman. 



Friedrich Kohlrausch, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 2 (Physics). 



The Chair appointed the following Councillors to act as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



Theodoee W. Richards, of Class L, 

 Benjamin L. Robinson, of Class IL, 

 Barrett Wendell, of Class KL 



At the request of the Chair, Charles R. Cross, Chairman of 

 the Rumford Committee, stated the grounds for the award of 

 the Rumford Premium to Charles F. Brush for his researches in 

 electric arc lighting. 



The Acting President then presented the medal to Mr. Brush, 

 who, in response, gave an account of his early experiments in 

 electricity. 



Elihu Thomson described new electric apparatus for high 



