784 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



"Buddhaghosa's Treatise entitled The Way of Salvation, an 

 Analysis of the second Part, on Concentration." Bv C. R. 

 Lanman. 



After the meeting the following exhibits were shown in the read- 

 ing room : — 



F. E. Ives: Specimens of work in color photography, and 

 apparatus for color measurement. 



S. I. Bailey: Stellar photographs, showing examples of variable 

 stars having a more rapid rate of variation than an\^ hitherto 

 known. 



Outram Bangs (invited by H. B. Bigelow) : Birds from the Altai 

 Mountains, collected in the summer of 1912 by Prof. Theodore 

 Lyman, and presented by him to the IVIuseum of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



P. W. Bridgman: Specimens of metals illustrating ruptures 

 under pressures up to 30,000 atmospheres. 



Henry H. Edes: Mementos of Count Rumford, recently be- 

 queathed to the Academy by Mrs. C. B. Griffith. 



L. J. Johnson: Photographs of bent beams, showing novel 

 results of recent experiments. 



Alfred C. Lane: Thin sections of igneous rocks, showing varia- 

 tions of grain. 



W. C. Lane: Two unique fragments of a book in an otherwise 

 unknown South American language, lately found in the Harvard 

 College Library. 



D. C. Lyon: One of the books of Nebuchadnezzar, King of 

 Babylon, recording his building operations in that city about 

 600 B. C. 



G. W. Pierce: The talking arc, reproducing speech transmitted 

 by telephone. 



W. T. Sedgwick: Frozen Kansas eggs now two and one-half 

 years old, Chinese and other eggs, and some egg products. 



J. E. Wolff: Specimens of a stony meteorite which fell in Arizona 

 last summer. 



