530 I'Rik KK1HNGS OF THE AJtERICAJS A.I ADKMY. 



"The Influence of Hysteresis upon the Manner of Establish- 

 ment of a Steady Current in the Primary Circuit of an Induc- 

 tion Coil." By B. o. Peirce. 



"Some Effects of Heavy Pressure on Arc Spectra." By W. 

 J. Humphreys. Presented by C. K. Cross. 



" The Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Cathode Rays." By 

 John Trowbridge. 



Nine hundred seventy-eighth Meeting. 



January 8, 1008. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present twenty Fellows. 



Letters were read from the Secretaries of the Third Inter- 

 national Congress for the History of Religions, enclosing the 

 first announcement of the Meeting to take place at Oxford in 

 September, 1908, and inviting the Academy to send a Repre- 

 sentative; from the Physikalische Verein of Frankfort, inform- 

 ing the Academy of the opening of the new Institute Building, 

 and inviting the Academy to send Delegates; from the Com- 

 mittee of Organization, informing the Academy of the First 

 Congress of Chemistry and Physics to be held at St. Petersburg 

 in January, in memory of D. I. Mendeleeff. 



The following deaths were announced by the Chair: — 



Lord Kelvin, Foreign Honorary Member in Class I, Sec- 

 tion 4; Charles A. Young, Associate Fellow in Class I, Sec- 

 tion 1 ; Thomas D. Seymour, Associate Fellow in Class III. 

 Section 2. 



The following Delegates were appointed to represent the 

 Academy at the Fifteenth International Congress of Oriental- 

 ists, to be held at Copenhagen in August. 1908: — 



Charles R. Lanman, George F. Moore. 



In answer to an inquiry by Professor Webster, on motion of 

 Colonel Livermore, it was 



Voted, That the Corresponding Secretary be requested to 

 ascertain and report to the Academy on the measures to be 

 taken in reference to the Nobel Prizes. 



Le Baron Russell Briggs was elected a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III, Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts). 



