634 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



ing at Berlin on the 28tli of September, 1899 ; from the RoyaV 

 Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts in Modena, announcing 

 the death of its President, Pietro Riccardi ; and from James 

 Ford Rhodes, accepting Fellowship in the Academy. 



The Chair announced the death of John Cummings, of 

 Woburn, Resident Fellow in Class III., Section 3. 



Letters of resignation were received from Mellen Chamber- 

 lain, Charles James Sprague, and Warren Upham, Resident 

 Fellows. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Arthur Amos Noyes, of Boston, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 3 (Chemistry). 



Henry Paul Talbot, of Newton, as Resident Fellow in Class 

 I., Section 3. 



Oliver Fairfield Wadsworth, of Boston, as Resident Fellow 

 in Class IL, Section 4 (Medicine and Surgery). 



Charles Doolittle Walcott, of Washington, as Associate 

 Fellow in Class IL, Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and 

 Physics of the Globe), in place of the late James Hall. 



Oliver Ileaviside, of Newton Abbots, as Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class L, Section 2 (Physics). 



John Fiske gave a talk on Eccentric Literature. 



Remarks on this communication were made by E. H. Hall 

 and T. C. Mendenhall. 



Tfine hundred and fifth Meeting. 



FebruaPwY 8, 1899. 



Vice-President Hyatt in the chair. 



John E. Wolff presented, by title, a paper by R. A. Daly, On 

 a New Variety of Hornblende. 



William E. Story gave a talk on some mathematical curiosi- 

 ties, exhibiting and explaining some things commonly called 

 puzzles or tricks. 



