1_ 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 Physics at Paris in 

 L900, enclosing a prospectus and requesting that it be brought 

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

 I unci! from Class I. 



The Corresponding Secretary reported that, in response to 

 Letters of invitation received during the Bummer, the President 

 had appointed George 1'. 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 Hansen, of Heidelberg, Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class L, 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 

 bilineatus. By Mary A. Bowers. Presented by E. L. Mark. 



Note on the Finite Continuous Groups of the Plane. By 

 F. P>. Williams. Presented by Henry Taber. 



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

 Scudder. 



Nine hundred and eleventh Meeting. 



November 8, 1899. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



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

 Bowditcb was chosen President pro tempore. 



