506 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Seven hundred and seventy-sixth Meeting. 



November 12, 1884. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the Chemical Laboratory of Harvard 

 College, Cambridge. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Edward Jarvis, of 

 Dorchester, Resident Fellow. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Benjamin Osgood Peirce, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 1. 



William Leslie Hooper, of Somerville, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class L, Section 3. 



Harold Whiting, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class L, Section 3. 



William Morris Davis, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class IL Section 1. 



Edward Laurens Mark, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class H., Section 3. 



Cleveland Abbe, of Washington, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1. 



Adolf Baeyer, of Municli, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class I., Section 3, in place of the late Charles Adolphe 

 Wurtz. 



Hans Peter Jorgen Julius Thomsen, of Copenhagen, to be 

 a Foreign Honorary Member in Class I., Section 3, in place 

 of the late Jean Baptiste Andrd Dumas. 



Heinrich Ernst Beyrich, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Honor- 

 ary Member in Class 11. , Section 1,. in place of the late 

 Joachim Barrande. 



Fran9ois Jules Simon, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class HI., Section 3, in place of the late Francois 

 Auguste Alexis Mignet. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On the Conversion of Isocyanates into Mustard Oils. By 

 Arthur Michael and G. M. Palmer. 



