^pii-J MINUTES. vu 



" Study of the Tertiary Floras of Atlantic and Gulf Coastal 

 Plain," by Edward \V. Berry, Associate in Pal3eontolog\% 

 Johns Hopkins University (introduced by Dr. J. W. Harsh- 

 berger) ; discussed by Prof. Harshberger and Sir John 

 Murray. 



" The Desert Group Xolines,"" by William Trelease, Director 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. 



" The Blueberry and Its Relation to Acid Soils," by Frederick 

 y. Coville, Botanist U. S. Department of Agriculture (in- 

 troduced by Dr. J. \\'. Harshberger ) ; discussed by Dr. 

 Harshberger and Dr. W. P. Wilson. 



" The New Cosmogony." 



"The Extension of the Solar System l)c\-on(l Xc]:)tune and the 

 Connection Existing Between Planets and Comets." 



'' The Secular Effects of the Increase of the Sun's ]\Iass upon 

 the Mean Motions, ]\Iajor Axes and Eccentricities of the 

 Orbits of the Planets," by T. J. J. See. I'. S. Xaval Observa- 

 tory, Mare Island, Cal. 



"Extension of Our Knowledge of the Atmosphere." by A. 

 Lawrence Rotch. Professor of Meteorology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity (introduced by Prof. \\\ M. Davis) ; discussed by 

 Prof. W. M. Davis. 



" 1/5 Parabolic Orbits and other Results deduced from over 

 6200 Meteors," by C. P. Olivier, of Charlottesville, Va. (In- 

 troduced by Prof. Cleveland Abbe.) 



" The Solar Constants of Radiation," by Charles G. Abbot, 

 Director of the Astrophvsical Observatory, Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, W^ashington. ( Introduced by Dr. Charles D. Wal- 

 cott. ) 



" Some Curiosities in the Motions of Asteroids," by Ernest W. 

 Brown, Professor of Mathematics, Yale University. 



" Spectroscopic Proof of the Repulsion by the Sun of Gaseous 

 Alolecules in the Tail of Halley's Comet," by Percival Lowell, 

 Director of Lowell Observatory. Flagstaff, Ariz. 



" Self-Luminous Xight Haze," by Edward E. Barnard, Astron- 

 omer, Yerkes Observatorv, \\'illiaius Bav, Wis. 



