OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 615 



On Certain Colored Substances Derived from Nitro Com- 

 pounds. Third paper. By C. Loring Jackson and F. H. 

 Gazzolo. 



Certain Derivatives of Metadibrombenzyl. By C. Loring 

 Jackson and W. P. Colioe. 



Nine hundred and thirteenth Meeting. 



January 10, 1900. — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Hyatt in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Sir B. Baker 

 and William Fogg Osgood, acknowledging election. He also 

 read circulars from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Turin, 

 announcing the terms of award of the Vallauri prizes, and from 

 the International Congress of Comparative History and the 

 International Congress of Horticulture, Arboriculture, and 

 Pomology, enclosing programmes. 



A letter was received from Seabury C. Mastick, Secretary of 

 the committee on the modification of the Federal Legacy Tax, 

 enclosing a petition setting forth the desired modification of the 

 law. On the motion of William E. Story, it was 



Voted, That the Acting President be instructed to sign this 

 petition on behalf of the Academy. 



The Chair announced the following deaths : — 



Sir John William Dawson, of Montreal, Associate Fellow in 

 Cluss II., Section I. 



William Alexander Hammond, of Washington, Associate 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 4. 



Sir James 'Paget, Bart., of London, Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 4. 



The vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Samuel H. 

 Scudder was filled by the election of 



William M. Davis, Corresponding Secretary. 



On the motion of Augustus Lowell, it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be tendered to 



