618 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The following communications were presented : — 



" Experiments on Forms of Least Resistance to Passage 



through Air." By Samuel Cabot. Remarks on this subject 



were made by Messrs. Davis, Atkinson, Webster, Clayton, and 



the Recording Secretary. 



" What Science has not yet Accomplished in the Art of War." 



By Edward Atkinson. 



The following paper was presented by title : — ■ 



" On the Specific Heat and Heat of Vaporisation of the Paraf- 



fine and Methylene Hydrocarbons." By Charles F. Mabery and 



Albert H. Goldstein. 



Nine hundred and thirty-first Meeting. 



March 12, 1902. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



Letters were read from Friedrich Delitzsch, S. R. Gardiner, 

 Julius Hann, Victor Horsley, E. Ray Lankester, acknowledging 

 their election as Foreign Honorary members. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — 



James Bradley Thayer, Vice-President for Class II. 



Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Foreign Honorary member in 

 Class III., Section 3. 



The vacancy occasioned by the death of Alpheus Hyatt was 

 filled by the election of 



Henry P. Walcott, Vice-President for Class II. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Heinrich Oscar Hofman, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 4 (Technology and Engineering). 



Thomas Augustus Jaggar," Jr., of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics 

 of the Globe). 



Edward Henry Strobel, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence). 



Herbert Putnam, of Washington, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts). 



