RECORDS OF MEETINGS. 809 



with the written approval of one other member of the Finance 

 Committee. 



Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to pay from the 

 income of the General Fund one hundred and sixty dollars 

 ($160) for labels to be used in distributing the publications of 

 the Academy. 



Voted, That eight hundred dollars ($800) be appropriated 

 from the income of the Rum ford Fund for publication and 

 miscellaneous expenditures. 



The Treasurer proposed certain amendments to the Statutes 

 and Standing Votes : — 



It was then Voted, That the draft of the Statutes and 

 Standing Votes of the Academy, presented by the Treasurer, 

 be referred to a Committee of five, consisting of the Presi- 

 dent, Recording Secretary, and Treasurer, together with two 

 other members of the Academy, to be appointed by the 

 President. 



In accordance with the foregoing vote, the President ap- 

 pointed Professor Morris H. Morgan and Dr. Theodore Lyman 

 members of the Committee to consider the revision of the 

 Statutes and Standing Votes. 



Professor John Trowbridge made a Communication on Slow 

 Discharges of Electricity, with Experimental illustrations. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" On the Manner of Growth of a Current in a Nearly- Closed 

 Electromagnet, as Influenced by the Width of the Air-gap." 

 By B. O. Peirce. 



" Bibliography of the Hall Effect, with some Titles of Papers 

 on Allied Phenomena." By T. C. McKay. Presented by 

 E. H. Hall. 



"The Thermo-luminescence of Fluospar." By H. W. Morse. 

 Presented by John Trowbridge. 



" Gaseous and Liquid Inclusions in Fluospar." By H. W. 

 Morse. Presented by John Trowbridge. 



" Longitudinal Vibrations of Stretched Strings." By H. N. 

 Davis. Presented by John Trowbridge. 



'•The Fluorescence of Sodium Vapor and the Resonance Ra- 



