532 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Melville Weston Fuller, of Washington, as Associate Fellow 

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



Rufus Bvam Richardson, of Athens, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology). 



Thomas Day Seymour, of New Haven, as Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 2. 



Henry Morse Stephens, of Ithaca, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 3 (Political Economy and History). 



William Cawthorne Unwin, of London, as Foreign Honorary 

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



Sir Archibald Geikie, of London, as Foreign Honorary Mem- 

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

 of the Globe), in place of the late Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg. 



Sir John Murray, of Edinburgh, as Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 1, in place of the late Alfred Louis 

 Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux. 



Arthur G. Webster called attention to the bill before the 

 House of Representatives for the establishment of a National 

 Standardizing Bureau, and on his motion, it was 



Voted, That the Academy approves this project. 



On the motion of W. M. Davis, it was 



Voted, That the committee appointed at the meeting of 

 April 11, 1000, to consider the propriety of amending the first 

 chapter of the Statutes be instructed to correct certain clerical 

 errors in the Statutes. 



Clarence J. Blake made some remarks on the scientific 

 researches of his father, the late John H. Blake, which he 

 intended to describe more fully in a forthcoming biographical 

 notice. 



John Trowbridge described some results obtained with a 

 storage battery of twenty thousand cells and exhibited the bat- 

 tery in operation. 



peri men te on the passage of powerful discharges through minute 

 orifices were described, and proofs of the oscillatory nature of sparks bis 



long wen- given. Since these sparks closely represent the main 

 features of lightning, it, is probable thai most lightning discharges are 

 also oscillatory. The battery with the aid of large condensers furnishes 



