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tonite from Athol, Mcass." By C. Palache and F. A. Fraprie. 

 Presented by J. E. Wolff. 



" On the Thermal Development of the Spark Spectrum of 

 Carbon." By Henry Crew and John C. Baker. Presented by 

 Charles R. Cross. 



Nine hundred and thirty-fourth Meeting. 



November 12, 1902. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary announced that letters had 

 been received from Hugo Miinsterberg, F. J. Stimson, H. W. 

 Tyler, accepting Resident Fellowship ; Arthur T. Hadley, ac- 

 knowledging election as Associate Fellow : E. v. Behring, 

 John Morley, acknowledging election as Foreign Honorary 

 Members ; C. A. Young, accepting his appointment as represen- 

 tative of the Academy at the inauguration of the President of 

 Princeton University ; T. C. Chamberlin, accepting his ap- 

 pointment as delegate of the Academy at the installation of 

 the President of Northwestern University ; the Royal Academy 

 of Sciences of Turin, announcing the death of its President, 

 Alfonso Cossa ; the Central Meteorological Institute of Sweden, 

 announcing the death of its former Director, Robert Ruben- 

 son ; and the Nobel Committee for Chemistry and the Nobel 

 Committee for Physics of the Ro3'al Academy of Sciences of 

 Sweden, inviting competition for the Nobel prizes for 1903. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" The Fall of the Campanile of San Marco." By Arlo Bates. 



" Recent Studies of the Lunar Surface." By William H. 

 Pickering. 



The Committee of Publication reported the acceptance of 

 the following articles since the Annual Meeting : — 



Contributions from the Chemical Laboratory of Case School 

 of Applied Science. — XLH. " An xVpparatus for Continuous 

 Vacuum Distillation." By Charles F. Mabery. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 



