472 PROCEEDIiNGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Charles Hermite, of Paris, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class I., Section 1, in place of the late Joseph 

 Liouville. 



The following papers were presented : — 



" On Standard Time." By J. Rayner Edmands. 



" On the Latitude of Harvard College Observatory, from 

 Observations in the Prime Vertical in 18G5." By William 

 A. Rogers. 



" On the Zodiacal Light." By Arthur Searle. 



" The Fossil White Ants of Colorado." By Samuel H. 

 Scudder. (By title.) 



On tlie motion of Professor Pickering, it was 



Voted, To appoint a committee, with power to consider 

 the introduction of the system of standard time now under 

 deliberation bv the managers of railroads in the United States 

 and Canada. 



The chair appointed the following members upon this 

 Committee : — 



Messrs. Wolcott Gibbs, Francis A. Walker, and J. Rayner 

 Edmands. 



Seven hundred and sixty-sixth Meeting. 



November 14, 18b3. — Monthly Meeting. 



A quorum was not present, and the Academy was not 

 called to order. 



Seven hundred and sixty-seventh Meeting. 



December 12, 1883. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of John Lawrence 

 Smith, of Louisville, and John Lawrence Le Conte, of Phila- 

 delphia, Associate Fellows ; and of Oswald Heer, of Zurich, 

 Foreign Honorary INIember. 



The following paper was presented : — 



" On Vortex Rings studied experimentally." By Amos 

 E. Dolbear. 



