OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 635 



Nine hundred and sixth Meeting. 



March 8, 1899 — Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Hyatt in the chair. 



Tlie Corresponding Secretary read a letter from the Imperial 

 "Mineralogical Society of St. Petersburg, announcing the death 

 of Paul leremeiew. 



The Chair appointed the following Councillors to serve as 

 Nominating Committee : — 



Edwin H. Hall, of Class I. 

 Benjamin L. Robinson, of Class H. 

 John E. Hudson, of Class HI. 



The following papers were read : — 



On Hardystonite, a new Calcium Zinc Silicate from Franklin 

 Furnace, New Jersey. By John E. Wolff. 



Investigations on Periodicity in the Weather. By H. Helm 

 Clayton. 



Remarks on these papers were made by Messrs. Story, Hall, 

 and Webster. 



The following papers were presented by title : — - 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, New Series. — No. XV. I. Eleocharis ovata and its 

 American Allies. II. Seirpus Eriophorum and some related 

 Forms. By M. L. Fernald. Presented by B. L. Robinson. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. — New Series, No. XVI. I. Revision of the Genera 

 3Iontanoa^ Perymenimn, and Zaluzania. By B. L. Robinson 

 and J. M. Greenman. II. Synopsis of the Genus Verbesina, with 

 an analytical Key to the Species. By B. L. Robinson and J. 

 M. Greenman. III. Some new Species, extended Ranges, and 

 newly noted Identities among the Mexican Phanerogams. By 

 J. M. Greenman. 



The Orthopteran Genus Schistocerea. By Samuel H. 

 Scudder. 



