PROCEEDINGS OF TIIK AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: — 

 Charles F. Folsom, Resident Fellow, of Class II, Section 1 : 

 II. C. Vogel, Foreign Honorary Member of Class I, Section 1 : 

 and of Henry G. Denny, a former Resident Fellow. 

 On the recommendation of Professor Webster, it was 

 Voted, That an unexpended balance of $93. 16 from the in- 

 come of the Rumford Fund, returned by Professor Edwin II. 

 Hall, be reappropriated to the use of the Rumford Committee. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Fellows of 

 the Academy : — 



•lames Flack Norris, of Boston, in Class I, Section 3 (Chem- 

 istry ) . 



William Ilultz Walker, of Newton, in Class I, Section 3 

 (Chemistry). 



Mr. A. T. Thompson showed the use of his reflectoscope in 

 projecting photographs and opaque objects upon the sereen. 

 On motion of the Recording Secretary, it was 

 Voted, That the thanks of the Academy be tendered to Mr. 

 Thompson for his interesting exhibition of the reflectoscope. 



Dr. Theodore Lyman gave a paper entitled "The Absorp- 

 tion of the Air for Light of very Short Wave Lengths.'' 

 The following paper was presented by title : — 

 "Difference in Wave Lengths of Titanium \\ 3900 and 3913 

 in Are and Spark." By Norton A. Kent and Alfred II. Avery. 

 Presented by John Trowbridge. 



Nine hundred seventy-sixth Meeting. 



November 13, 1907. 



Vice-President Walcott in the chair. 



There were present twenty-seven Fellows. 



The following letters were read : — 



From Win. II. Walker, accepting Fellowship; from Dr. G. 

 Hellman, announcing his appointment as Director of the Kon. 

 Preuss. Meteorologisches Institute of Berlin; from the Verein 

 fiii- Naturwisseusehaft in Braunschweig, announcing the death 

 of Professor Dr. Rudolf Blasius. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: — 



Edward G. Gardiner, Resident Fellow in Class II, Section 3. 



