JAN 8 1897^ 



Sept. 4, 1896.] 1"*^ 



PKOCE EDINGS 



OF THE 



AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 



HELD AT PHILADELPniA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. 



Vol. XXXV. November, 1896. No. 152. 



Stated Meeting^ Septemhsr 4, 1896. 



Curator, Dr. J. C. Morris, in the Chair. 



Present, 9 members. 



Correspondence was submitted as follows : 



Letters of acceptance of membership from C. S. Minot, 

 Cambridge, Mass.; John Trowbridge, Cambridge, Mass.; 

 Edward C. Pickering, Cambridge, Mass.; Edward S. Dana, 

 New Haven, Conn.; Arthur W. Wright, New Haven, Conn.; 

 L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y.; M. I. Pupin, New York, N. Y.; 

 Nikola Tesla, New York, N. Y.; Thomas A. Edison, 

 Orange, N. J.; Arthur Willis Goodspeed, Philadelphia ; C. 

 Hanford Henderson, Philadelphia ; Henry A. Rowland, Bal- 

 timore, Md. ; William H. Welch, Baltimore, Md. 



Letter declining membership from T. Mitchell Prudden, 

 New York, N. Y. 



An invitation from the President of the Soci^t<^ Physico- 

 Mathematique de Kasan, Russia, to the inauguration of a 

 monument to perpetuate the memory of N. J. Lobatchefsky, 

 the celebrated Russian geometrician, to take place September 

 13, 1896. 



A circular letter from General-Major M. Rykatchew, an- 

 nouncing his election by the Academic Impdriale des Sciences, 

 St. Petersburg, Russia, to the post of Directeur of the Obser- 

 vatoire Physique Central de St. Petersburg. 



PROC. AMER. PHILOS. SOC. XXXV. 152. Y. PRINTED NOVEMBER 16, 1896. 



