560 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



from the unexpended balance of the income of the Rumford 

 Fund, to be applied at the discretion of the Committee. 



The President announced that, in pursuance of the vote at the 

 last meeting of the Academy, he appointed the following gentle- 

 men a Committee on Policy, to consider all questions relating to 

 the enlarged functions of the Academy : Messrs. Webster, Rotch, 

 Ernst, Lyman, Walcott, W. M. Davis and Trowbridge. 



The following communication was given by Dr. D. G. Lyon : 

 " Harvard Explorations in Samaria." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



"Air Resistance to Falling Inch Spheres." By Edwin H. 

 Hall. 



" Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series No. XXXVIII." I. A preliminary synopsis 

 of the Genus Echeandia. By C. A. Weatherby. II. Sperma- 

 tophytes, new or reclassified, chiefly Rubiaceae and Gentianaceae. 

 By B. L. Robinson. III. American Forms of Lycopodium com- 

 planatum. By C. A. Weatherby. IV. New and little known 

 Mexican Plants, chiefly Labiatae. By M. L. Fernald. V. Mex- 

 ican Phanerogams — Notes and New Species. By C. A. Weath- 

 erby. Presented by B. L. Robinson. 



Nine hundred ninety-flfth Meeting. 



February 9, 1910. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present thirty-four Fellows. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following: — a circular 

 from the American Philosophical Society, with Resolutions 

 adopted, urging upon Congress the establishment of a National 

 Bureau of Seismology ; a letter from Arthur Fairbanks, accept- 

 ing Resident Fellowship; a letter from William A. Heidel, ac- 

 cepting Associate Fellowship ; a circular from the Koniglich 

 Bohmische Gesellschaft, announcing the death of Dr. Ottokar 

 Hostinsky ; two letters from the " Boston 1915 Committee " ; a 

 letter from A. Biddlecombe, showing " proof of the truth of his 

 theory that electricity is material motion in a special condition, 

 etc." ; a circular from the President and Fellows of Harvard 

 University, announcing the inauguration of Abbott Lawrence 



