OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 325 



" On Electric Lights and Methods of Testing the Strength 

 of the Currents which produce them." By John Trow- 

 bridge. 



Seven hundred and fifteenth Meeting. 



November 13, 1878. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering reported from the Rumford Committee, 

 that the funds appropriated to Professor C. A. Young, at the 

 Annual Meeting, had not been required. He also presented 

 two papers on the Sun, by Professor Langle}% which were 

 referred to the Publishing Committee. 



Professor Lovering also presented the following report of 

 the Rumford Committee : — 



" Voted, To recommend to the Academy to appropriate from 

 the income of the Rumford Fund, one hundred dollars 

 (8100), to aid Mr. W. W. Jacques, of the Johns Hopkins 

 University, in continuing his experiments on the distribution 

 of heat in the spectrum." 



The appropriation was voted. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy: — 



William Sumner Appleton, of Boston, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 2. 



Henry Van Brunt, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 4. 



Henry Cabot Lodge, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 3. 



Henry Hobson Richardson, of Brookline, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 4. 



Joseph S. Ropes, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 3. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" On the Tides of the Gulf of Maine." By Henry Mitchell. 



" Researches in Telephony." By Amos E. Dolbear. 



