RECORDS OP MEETINGS. 811 



Remarks on Professor Ostwald's paper were made by Pro- 

 fessors Morse and Lanman. 



The following paper was presented by title : — 

 "The Electrostatic Field Surrounding Certain Columnar 

 Elements." By P. W. Bridgman. Presented by B. O. Peirce. 



Nine hundred and sixty-first Meeting. 



December 13, 1905. 



The Academy met at the house of the President, in Cam- 

 bridge. 



The President in the chair. 



There were present thirty-nine Fellows and one Foreign 

 Honorary Member. 



In the absence of the Recording Secretary, Professor M. H. 

 Morgan was appointed Recording Secretary, pro tempore. 



The President announced the following deaths : — 



John Bartlett, Resident Fellow in Class III., Section 4; 

 Edward Atkinson, Resident Fellow in Class III., Section 3. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters: — 



From the Nobel Prize Committee, enclosing a circular relative 

 to the prize in literature; and from Professor A. E. Dolbear, 

 resigning Fellowship. 



The following communications were given : — 



Professor W. R. Ware — " Memoir of J. M. Barnard." 



Professor W. M. Davis — " Notes on South Africa : the 

 Dwyka Glacial Formation and the Karroo Basin Formation." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" The Expansibility and the Compressibility of Ether and of 

 Alcohol in the Neighborhood of their Boiling Points." By 

 Alpheus W. Smith. Presented by Edwin H. Hall. 



" On Thermo-electric Heterogeneity in Various Alloys, espe- 

 cially German Silver." By Edwin H. Hall, L. L. Campbell, and 

 S. B. Serviss. 



" The Sense of Loudness." By W. C. Sabine. 



"The Spectrum of Hydrogen in the Schumann Region of 

 Short Wave Lengths." By Theodore Lyman. 



