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XV. On Telephoning over long Distances or through Cables. 



By N. D. C. Hodges 268 



XVI. On the Young Stages of some Osseous Fishes. With Plates. 



By Alexander Agassiz 271 



XVII. XVI. — Experiments on the Fatigue of small Spruce-Beams. 



By F. E. Kidder 304 



XVIII. Contributions to American Botany. By Sereno Watson 316 



Proceedings 383 



Memoirs : — 



Richard Henry Dana 399 



Ralph Waldo Emerson 403 



Thomas Potts James 405 



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 406 



John Amory Lowell 408 



Theophilus Parsons 411 



Edward Reynolds 414 



Henry Charles Carey 417 



Edward Desor 422 



John William Draper 424 



Lewis Henry Morgan 429 



St. Julien Ravenel 437 



Admiral John Rodgers 438 



Barnas Sears . 442 



."|^->hann Kaspar Bluntschli 445 



Chirles Darwin 449 



Joseph Decaisne 458 



Theodor Schwann 460 



Dean Stanley 461 



List of the Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members . . 467 

 Index 475 



