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potentials, and exhibited an improved form of his dynamo-elec- 

 tric machine. 



The folio wing, papers were presented by title : — 

 View of the Carboniferous Fauna of the Narragansett Basin. 

 By A. S. Packard. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series. — No. XIX. By M. L. Fernald. Presented 

 by B. L. Robinson. 

 I. Synopsis of the Mexican and Central American Species of 



Salvia. 

 n. Revision of the Mexican and Central American Solanums 

 of the Subsection Torvaria. 

 ni. Some Undescribed Mexican Phanerogams, chiefly Labiatae 

 and Solanaceae. 

 Historical Notes relating to Musical Pitch in the United 

 States. By Charles R. Cross. 



Nine hundred and sixteenth Meeting. 



April 11, 1900. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — 



Silas Whitcomb Holman, Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 2. 



Edward John Phelps, Associate Fellow in Class III, Sec- 

 tion 3. 



The Rumford Committee made a preliminary announcement 

 that it would recommend, at the next annual meeting, the award 

 of the Rumford Premium to Carl Barus, of Providence. 



The following motion was offered by W. E. Story : — 



That a committee consisting of the President and two others 

 selected by him be appointed to consider the propriety of amend- 

 ing the first section of Chapter I. of the Statutes, with refer- 

 ence to the classification of the Fellows and Foreign Honorary 

 Members. 



The following recommendation was offered by the Rumford 

 Committee : — 



The Rumford Committee recommends that the Academy 



