PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES 



SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. 



VOL. VII. 



Five hundred and fifty-fourth Meeting. 



August 9, 1865. — Statute Meeting. 



The Recording Secretary in the chair. 



The following memoirs were presented by title : — 



I. Examination of a Hydro carbon- Naphtha, obtained from 

 the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Lime 

 Soap. By C. M. Warren and F. H. Storer. 



II. Examination of Naphtha from Rangoon Petroleum. By 

 C. M. Warren and F. H. Storer. 



Five hundred and fifty-fifth Meeting. 



September 12, 1865. — Adjourned Statute Meeting. 

 The President in the chair. 



The President called the attention of the Academy to the 

 recent decease of three of its members : Mr. George Liver- 

 more, the Treasurer of the Academy ; Bishop Alonzo Potter 

 of Pennsylvania, of the Associate Fellows ; and Sir William 

 Jackson Hooker, of the Foreign Honorary Members. 



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