708 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Member of Committee of Finance. 

 Eliot C. Clarke. 



Rumford Committee. 



Erasmus D. Leavitt, Amos E. Dolbear, 



Edward C. Pickering, Arthur G. Webster, 



Charles R. Cross, Theodore W. Richards, 



Elihu Thomson. 



C. M. Warren Committee. 



Charles L. Jackson, Arthur M. Comey, 



Samuel Cabot, Robert H. Richards, 



Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Henry P. Talbot. 



Arthur Michael. 



The Chair appointed the following standing comraittees : — 



Committee of Publication. 



Seth C. Chandler, of Class I., Edward L, Mark, of Class II., 

 Crawford H. Toy, of Class III. 



Committee on the Library. 



William F. Osgood, of Class I., Samuel Henshaw, of Class II., 

 Henry W. Haynes, of Class III. 



Auditing Committee. 

 Henry G. Denny, William L. Richardson. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the Acad- 

 emy : — 



Charles Palache, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 1 (Geology, Mineralog}-, and Physics of the 

 Globe). 



William Francis Ganong, of Northampton, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 2 (Botany). 



Charles R. Lanman gave an account of " The Completion of 

 Whitney's Critical Commentary on the Atharva-Veda and the 

 Continuity of Scientific Progress." 



