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Seven hundred and thirteenth Meeting. 



June 12, 1878. — Adjourned Annual Meeting. 



Professor Asa Gray was elected President pro tempore. 



The Committees on Publication and on the Library were 

 reappointed by the chair. 



The committee on ways and means, through their chairman, 

 Mr. Theodore Lyman, recommended the following appropria- 

 tions for the ensuing year : — 



For the Library $500 



For publishing 1,000 



The appropriations were voted by the Academy. 



On the motion of Professor Cooke, it was 



Voted, That the rule of the Academy which furnishes a 

 member one hundred extra copies of his paper be suspended 

 for the ensuing year ; and also, that all charges for correcting 

 composition, over ten per cent, be charged to the author. 



Mr. Scudder moved that the Academy take part in the 

 proposed catalogue of periodical publications to be issued by 

 the Librarian of Harvard College. No action was taken by 

 the Academy. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" On the Embryology of the Gar Pike." By Alexander 

 Agassiz. 



" On a New Form of Electro-Dynamometer." By John 

 Trowbridge. 



" On Standard Measures." By William A. Rogers. 



" On the Action of Bromine on Toluol and some of its 

 Derivatives." By C. Loring Jackson and A. W. Field. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" On a Modification of Regnault's Air-Thermometer." 

 By Josiah P. Cooke, Jr. 



" On the Boiling Point of Iodide of Antimony." By Jo- 

 siah P. Cooke, Jr. and W. C. Bennet. 



"On Two New Forms of Micrometers.'" By Edward C. 

 Pickering. 



