PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 

 N.m- hondred and ftiteentta Meeting. 



March 14, 1900 — Stated Meeting. 



The A • by invitation of John E. Hudson, at the 



mquin ( Hub. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Joseph II. 



ate and Sir G. O. Trevelyan acknowled their election 



into the Academy. He also exhibited a bronze copy of the 



medal struck in honor of Sir G •• C Stokes's Jubilee in 1899, 



presented to the Academy l»v the University of Cambridge. 



< >n motion of the Recording - • tary, it \\ 



/'"/"/, To meet, on adjournment, on tl ond Wednesday 



in April. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Arlo B on, to be a Resident Fellow in Class III., 



ion 1 ( Literature and the Fine Arl 



Liberty Hyde Bailey, of Ithaca, to be an Associate Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 2 I Botany), in place of the late Alvan Went- 

 worth ( lhapman. 



Friedrich Kohlrausch, of Berlin, to he a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class L, Section 2 (Physics . 



The Chair appointed the following Councillors to act as 

 Nominating Committee: — 



Theodore W. Richards, of Class I., 

 Benjamin L. Robinson, of Class II., 

 Barrett Wendell, of Class III. 



At the request of the Chair. Charles R. Cross, Chairman of 

 the Rumford Committee, stated the grounds for the award of 

 the Rumford Premium to Charles F. Brush for his researches in 

 electric arc lighting. 



The Acting Presidenl then presented the medal to Mr. Brush, 

 who, in respons an account of his early experiments in 



tricity. 



Elihu Thomson described new electric apparatus for high 



