612 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Class II., Section 2 (Botany), in place of the late Jacob Georg 

 Agardh. 



Angelo Celli, of Rome, as Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class II., Section 4 (Medicine and Surgery). 



Gaston Paris, of Paris, as Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class III., Section 4, in place of the late Charles Jacques Victor 

 Albert, Due de Broglie. 



The Treasurer proposed an amendment to Chapter V., Sec- 

 tion 2, of the Statutes. This proposition was referred to a 

 committee consisting of the Treasurer and James B. Ames. 



James B. Thayer read an obituary notice of John E. Hudson. 



Clarence J. Blake read an obituary notice of his father, John 

 H. Blake, and F. W. Putnam gave an account of the archaeo- 

 logical work of Mr. Blake. 



The following papers were presented by title: — 



" On Ruled Loci in w-Fold Space." By Halcott C. Moreno. 

 Presented by W. E. Story. 



" The Possible Significance of Changing Atomic Volume." 

 By T. W. Richards. 



" The Visible Radiation from Carbon." By Edward L. 

 Nichols. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. New Series. — No. XXII. I. " The Northeastern Car- 

 ices of the Section Hyparrhenae ; " II. "Notes on the Varia- 

 tions of Certain Boreal Carices." By M. L. Fernald. 



Contributions from the Cryptogamic Laboratory of Harvard 

 University. — XLVII. "Preliminary Diagnoses of New Species 

 of Laboulbeniaceae." — IV. By Roland Thaxter. 



. Nine hundred and twenty-sixth Meeting. 



October 9, 1901. — Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of the President, Cambridge. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Theodore 

 Lyman, accepting Resident Fellowship ; from George E. Hale, 

 W. W. Keen, E. H. Moore, C. O. Whitman, acknowledging 

 election as Associate Fellows ; and from Sir Lauder Brunton, 



