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reached the North. There was little fighting, but the supply of 62,000 

 troops in the enemy's country called for foresight and system on the 

 part of the general ; to prevent the host from degenerating into a law- 

 less mob required the enforcement of discipline by the general and his 

 officers. The army foraged liberally on the country in an orderly man- 

 ner. While there were some abuses, some wanton destruction of prop- 

 erty, and some pillage, there were no cases of murder or rape. On the 

 whole the army behaved as well as could have been expected. Sher- 

 man estimated the damage done to the State of Georgia at §100,000,000. 

 On the night of December 20, 1864, the Confederates evacuated Savan- 

 nah, Sherman took possession of the city, and sent his celebrated Christ- 

 mas-gift despatch to President Lincoln. 



H. Helm Chiton read a paper entitled : " The Eclipse Cy- 

 clone and the Diurnal Cyclone : Results of Meteorological 

 Observations during the Solar Eclipse of May 28, 1900." 



Nine hundred and twentieth, Meeting. 



December 12, 1900. 



The Academy met at the house of William W. Jacques. 



The President in the chair. 



The death of Thomas Gaffield, Resident Fellow in Class I., 

 Section 3, was announced. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, That a committee be appointed to make revision of 

 certain passages in the Statutes and report thereon to the 

 Academy. 



This committee was constituted as follows : — 



The President, 



The Corresponding Secretary, 



C Loring Jackson. 



Wallace C. Sabine spoke on "The Influence of Architecture 

 on Melody and the Development of the Musical Scale." 



John E. Wolff described the celebration of the two-hundredth 

 anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 

 at Berlin, on the 19th and 20th of March last, which John W. 

 White and himself attended as delegates from the American 

 Academy. 



