542 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Nine hundred and twenty-fourth Meeting. 



April 10, 1901. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



Vice-President Trowbridge in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from L. J. Jolinson, 

 Theodore Lyman, H. L. Smyth, and F. W. Taussig, accepting 

 Fellowship ; and from W. S. Halsted, W. W. Keen, Franklin 

 P. Mall, E. H. Moore, Edw. L. Nichols, and Henry F. Osborn, 

 acknowledging election as Associate Fellows. 



The chair announced the following deaths: — 



Edward Elbridge Salisbury, of New Haven, Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 2. 



Jacob Georg Agardh, of Lund, Foreign Honorary Member in 

 Class n., Section 2. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, presented 

 by A. G. Webster, it was 



Voted, To appropriate from the income of the Rumford Fund 

 the sura of five hundred dollars (t|500) to T. W. Richards in 

 aid of a research on the Joule-Thomson experiment on free 

 expansion. 



Edwin H. Hall presented " An Exposition of the Theory of 

 Electrons, the Electrical Fragments of Atoms." 



The following paper was presented by title : — 



The Law of Physico-chemical Change. By Gilbert Newton 

 Lewis. Presented by T. W. Richards. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow was appointed Delegate of the Academy to 

 tlie celebration of the ninth jubilee of the foundation of the 

 University of Glasgow and was charged with the presentation of 

 the address on the following page, signed by the Vice-President 

 of Class HL and the Corresponding Secretary. 



