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The Chair appointed the following standing committees : — 



Committee of Publication. 



Samuel H. Scudder, Seth C. Chandler, 



Crawford H. Toy. 



Committee on the Library. 



A. Lawrence Rotch, Henry W. Haynes, 



Samuel Henshaw. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, William L. Richardson. 



The Chair appointed from the next retiring Councillors 



Theodore W. Richards, of Class I., 

 William T. Councilman, of Class II., 

 James B. Ames, of Class III., 



a committee to nominate candidates for the offices made vacant 

 by the death of Augustus Lowell. 



Thomas Messenger Drown, of South Bethlehem, was elected 

 an Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 3 (Chemistry). 



J. H. Wright gave an account of " Recent Excavations in 

 Crete," by Miss Helen S. Boyd, of the American School at 

 Athens. 



Barrett Wendell read an essay on the " Literary History of 

 America." 



W. M. Davis presented some " Geographical Notes on Brit- 

 tany and Devonshire." 



The following paper was presented by title by W. C. Sabine : — 



False spectra from the Rowland Concave Grating. . By Theo- 

 dore Lyman. 



Nine hundred and nineteenth Meeting. 



November 14, 1900. 



The Corresponding Secretary in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Ameri- 

 can Chemical Society transmitting resolutions relative to the 

 establishment of a National Standards Bureau in connection 



