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from M. Pasteur, announcing the formation of a committee 

 for the purpose of erecting a statue to the memory of the late 

 Jean Baptiste Dumas, and inviting subscriptions thereto ; 

 from Professor E. Schonfeld, acknowledGfinoj his election as 

 Foreign Honorary Member ; from the Royal Academy of 

 Science at Bologna, inviting the American Academy to be 

 present at the celebration of the fortieth anniversar}' of the 

 election of Professor Luigi Calori ; from the Natural History 

 Society of Chemnitz, inviting members interested to be 

 present at its twenty-fifth anniversary festival ; from C. B. 

 Norton, enclosing documents relating to a proposed American 

 exhibition to be held in London in 1886 ; from the French 

 National Society of Horticulture, announcing the death of its 

 President, M. Lavalle ; from Messrs. W. Gray and Lanman, 

 resigning their fellowships in the Academy. 



The President announced the death of Messrs. Lepsius, of 

 Berlin, Bentham, of London, and Pattison, of Oxford, Foreign 

 Honorary Members ; and of Alpheus S. Packard, of Bruns- 

 wick, Maine, Associate Fellow. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To adjourn this meeting to the second Wednesday 

 in November. 



Remarks on increasing the interest and efficiency of the 

 meetings of the Academy were made by Messrs. Cooke, 

 Edmands, and Trowbridge, and, on the motion of Professor 

 Gray, it was 



Voted, That the next meeting of the Academy be held at 

 " the Philosophy Chamber in the University of Cambridge," 

 or such other room as may be convenient. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On a New Form of Polarimeter and Photometer. By Ed- 

 ward C. Pickering^. 



On the Motion of the Aar Glacier. By Samuel H. Scudder. 



Remarks on the papers were made by the President and 

 Messrs. Cooke and Watson. 



