508 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The following papers were read : — 



The Remains at Quiriga, Guatemala: Are they Idols or 

 Memorials of the Dead ? By William T. Brigham. 



A Determination of the Errors of the Meter made by the 

 Geneva Society for the Construction of Physical Apparatus. 

 By William A. Rogers. 



On the Outstanding Errors in the Right Ascensions of 

 Stars of the First and Second Magnitude. By William A. 

 Rogers. 



Seven hundred and seventjr-eigbth Meeting. 



January 14, 1885. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. 

 Cleveland Abbe, Adolf Baeyer, Alonzo S. Kimball, Jules 

 Simon, and Julius Thomsen, acknowledging election to mem- 

 bership in the Academy. 



Professor Cooke announced that the income of the Academy 

 had been increased this year by the remission of the State 

 tax and augmented receipts from some of the investments, 

 the total amounting to about five hundred dollars. It was 

 therefore 



Voted, To appropriate an additional sum of five hundred 

 dollars ($500) for the use of the Committee of Publication 

 during the current year. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Denman Waldo Ross, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 3. 



Albert A. Michelson, of Cleveland, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



August Wilhelm Eichler, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Hon- 

 orary Member in Class II., Section 2, in place of the late 

 George Bentham. 



Louis Charles Joseph Gaston, Marquis de Saporta, of Aix, 



