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Professor Emory "Wasliburn presented a report of tlie com- 

 mittee appointed to consider tlie question of expert evidence. 



It was voted to accept this report and recommit it, that 

 the committee might prosecute this matter further. 



Mr. G. S. Boutwell was appointed a member of this com- 

 mittee, in the place of Judge Gray, who declined to serve. 



Mr. E. C. Pickering presented a communication on the 

 applications of Fresnel's formulse. 



Mr. F. W. Putnam exhibited specimens of Myxine, and 

 gave an account of its anatomy. He called special attention 

 to the several stages of development of the eggs noticed iu 

 the specimen exhibited. 



Six hundred and sixty-second Meeting. 



November 12, 1873. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following: cjentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles de R^musat, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 1. 



F. Wohler, of Gottingen, to be a Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class I., Section 3. 



George S. Hillard, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 4. 



The Corresponding Secretary read an obituary notice of 

 John Stuart Mill. 



Mr. W. A. Rogers presented a communication on the 

 periodic errors of the transit circle. 



Six hundred and sixty-third Meeting. 



December 9, 1873. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Joseph Lovering presented a communication on 

 the proper motion of the fixed stars as determined by the 

 spectroscope. 



