544 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary, the following Resolu- 

 tion was unanimously adopted: — 



Resolved, That the Fellows of the American Academy desire 

 to place upon record their grateful appreciation of the servi 

 of their retiring President, William W. Goodwin, during the 

 five years in which he lias presided over their deliberatioi 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : 



Douglas Wilson Johnson, of Cambridge, as Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1 (.Mathematics and Astronomy). 



Charles Uy^c Warren, of Auburndale, as Resident Fellow in 

 ( lass II., Section 1. 



Emil Fischer, of Berlin, as Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class I., Section 3 (Chemistry), in place of the late D. 

 Mendeleeff. 



Professor A. G. Webster gave a communication entitled: 

 " Absolute Measurements of Sound." 



The following papers were presented by title: — 



" A new Method of Determining the Specific Heats of Solu- 

 tions. By T. W. Richards and A. W. Howe. 



"Positive Rays/" By John Trowbridge. 



" Variation of the Thermomagnetie Effect in Soft Iron." 

 By L. L. Campbell. Presented by John Trowbridge. 



••The Latent Heat of Fusion and the Specific Heat in the 

 Solid and Liquid State of Salts Melting below 600° C." By 

 H. M. Goodwin and H. T. Kalmus. 



"Pisistratus and his Edition of Homer." By Samuel Hart 

 Newhall. Presented by M. II. Morgan. 



