OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 371 



Seven hundred and twenty-fourth Meeting, 



October 8, 1879. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of tho 

 Academy : — 



Frank Austin Gooch, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class L, Section 3. 



Nathaniel Dana Carlile Hodges, of Cambridge, to be a 

 Resident Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Edward Stickney Wood, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, of London, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class III., Section 1. 



Georg Curtius, of Leipsic, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class III., Section 2, in place of the late Friedrich 

 Wilhelm Ritschl. 



Professor Cooke announced that Professor Thayer would 

 be unable to serve on the Council, and, on his motion, it was 



Voted, To proceed to the election of a member of the 

 Council to serve in place of Professor Thayer. 



The result was the election of Mr. John C. Gray, Jr. 



The President presented the names of the following gentle- 

 men as members of the Centennial Committee : — 



Robert C. Winthrop, Chairman, 



John A. Lowell, H. H. Hunnewell, 



Asa Gray, Erastus B. Bigelow, 



Nathaniel Thayer, J. Ingersoll Bowditch, 



William B. Rogers, Josiah P. Cooke, Jr., 



B. E. Cotting, Alexander Agassiz, 



Robert Amory, Theodore Lyman. 



Professor Lovering presented a paper on Cosmical Physics, 

 by Benjamin Peirce. 



Mr. Sharpies read a paper on the Constitution of Milk. 



