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The following paper was presented by title : — 



" On the Use of the Electric Telegraph during Total Solar 

 Eclipses." By D. P. Todd. 



On the motion of Professor Cooke, it was 



Voted., To adjourn this meeting to the second Wednesday 

 in February. 



Seven hundred and thirty-eighth Meeting. 



February 9, 1881. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor Lovering read a report from the Rumford Com- 

 mittee. In accordance with the recommendation of the com- 

 mittee, it was 



Voted^ To appropriate four hundred dollars ($400) for the 

 purchase of books on light and heat, at the discretion of Mr. 

 Scudder ; also, 



Voted, That three hundred dollars ($300) be appropriated 

 to Professor S. P. Langley, for experiments on the distribu- 

 tion of heat in the diffraction spectrum. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" Observations on the Senses of Sight and Touch." By 

 Henry P. Bowditch. 



" Thermo-dynamic Basis of the Kinetic Theory of Gases." 

 By N. D. C. Hodges. 



" Strength and Stiffness of small Spruce Beams." By F. 

 E. Kidder ; presented by Professor Cross. 



« Variable Stars of Short Period." By Edward C. Pick- 

 ering. 



" On the Propagation of Magnetic Waves in Soft Iron." 

 By Harold Whiting ; presented by Professor Trowbridge. 



" Observations on the Zodiacal Light." By Arthur Searle. 



" Curcumine." By C. Loring Jackson. 



Charles Edouard Brown-Sdquard, of Paris, was elected a 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 4. 



