lvS91.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 25 



November 2, 1891. 



Regular Business Meeting. 



Professor J. K. Rees in the chair. Thirteen persons present. 



The minutes of the previous Business Meeting (October 5) were 

 read and approved. 



Mr. Charles R. Mann was nominated as a Resident Member 

 by Mr. Harold Jacoby. 



Dr. H. T. Vulte was elected Librarian by ballot. 

 The following persons were then elected Corresponding- Members 

 by ballot : 



Jose G. Aguilera, of Mexico City, 



L. Clerc, of Ekaterinburg Russia, 

 and the following Resident Members by ballot: 



Dewitt J. Apgar, 



Dr. Clark Bell, 



Prof. Albert H. Chester, 



Ernest du Yivier, 



Mrs. Edward Heylyn, 



Arthur Hollick, 



Prof. James F. Kemp, 



George H. Knight, 



Ernest Lederle, 



J. PiERPONT Morgan, 



Heinrich Ries, 



Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 



Nelson Smith, 



Charles Proteus Steinmetz, 



Miss Virginia Yaughan. 



The Astronomical Section then organized with Prof. Rees in 

 the chair ; the minutes of the section were read by the Secretary, 

 Mr. Jacoby. 



The following paper was read : 



On the Reduction of Transit Observations by Least Squares. 



BY HAROLD JACOBY. 



[This paper will appear in one of the monthly notices of the 

 Royal Astronomical Society.] 



