532 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Melville Weston Fuller, of Washington, as Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 1 (Philosophy and Jurisprudence). 



Rufus Byam Richardson, of Atliens, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology). 



Tliomas Day Seymour, of New Haven, as Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 2. 



Henry Morse Stephens, of Ithaca, as Associate Fellow in 

 Class HI., Section 3 (Political Economy and History). 



William Cawthorne Unwin, of London, as Foreign Honorary 

 member in Class I., Section 4 (Technology and Engineering). 



Sir Archibald Geikie, of London, as Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics 

 of the Globe), in place of the late Carl Friedrich Rammelsberg. 



Sir John Murray, of Edinburgh, as Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 1, in place of the late Alfred Louis 

 Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux. 



Arthur G. Webster called attention to the bill before the 

 House of Representatives for the establishment of a National 

 Standardizing Bureau, and on his motion, it was 



Voted, That the Academ}^ approves this project. 



On the motion of W. M. Davis, it was 



Voted, That the committee appointed at the meeting of 

 April 11, 1900, to consider the propriety of amending the finst 

 chapter of the Statutes be instructed to correct certain clerical 

 errors in the Statutes. 



Clarence J. Blake made some remarks on the scientific 

 researches of his father, the late John H. Blake, which he 

 intended to describe more full}^ in a forthcoming biographical 

 notice. 



John Trowbridge described some results obtained with a 

 storage battery of twenty thousand cells and exhibited the bat- 

 tery in operation. 



Experiments on the passage of powerful discharges through minute 

 orifices were described, and proofs of the oscillatory nature of sparks six 

 feet long were given. Since these sparks closely represent tlie main 

 features of lightning, it is probable that most lightning discharges are 

 also oscillatory. Tlie battery with tlie aid of large condensers furnishes 



