608 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



" On the Prolongation of Spectral Lines." By Theodore 

 Lyman. 



ki The Athenian Vase-Painter Brygos, and his Characteristics." 

 By Oliver Samuel Tonks. Presented by John H. Wright. 



Nine hundred arid forty-second Meeting. 



October 14, 1903. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: — 



J. Peter Lesley, Class II., Section 1 ; George S! Morison, 

 Class I., Section 4, Associate Fellows. 



Luigi Cremona, Class I., Section 1, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles Emile Picard, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 1 (Mathematics and Astronomy), 

 in place of the late Herve-Auguste Etienne Albans Faye. 



Joseph Larmor, of Cambridge, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 2 (Physics), in place of the late 

 Sir George Gabriel Stokes. 



The President announced the resignation of William L. 

 Richardson as Auditor, and appointed Frederick J. Stimsou in 

 his place. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



Quantitative Studies in the Evolution of Pecten. III. " Com- 

 parison of Pecten operculars from three Localities of the British 

 Isles." By C. B. Davenport. 



"The Electrical Conductivity of Aqueous Solutions at High 

 Temperatures." I. Description of the Apparatus. Results with 

 Sodium and Potassium Chloride up to 306°. By Arthur A. 

 Xoyes and William D. Coolidge. 



"Metabolism and the Reaction of Division in Protozoa." B} r 

 Amos W. Peters. Presented by E. L. Mark. 



"The Laws of Heredity of Galton and Mendel and some 

 Laws Governing Race Improvement by Selection." By W. E. 

 Castle. 



