OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 509 



Contributions to the Botany of North America. By Asa 

 Gray. 



Comparison of Alcohol Thermometers Baudin 8208 and 

 8209 with the Air Thermometer at Low Temperatures. By 

 Anthony C. White. 



Determination of the Orbit of Comet 1883. I. (Brooks) 

 from three Normal Places comprising 41 Observations. By 

 Oliver C. Wendell. 



Seven hundred and eighty-fifth Meeting:. 



October 14, 1885. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Henri Milne Ed- 

 wards, Foreign Honorary Member. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters : 

 from H. Wild, acknowledging his election as Foreign Hopor- 

 ary Member; from the Royal Society of Northern Antiqua- 

 ries, announcing the death of its Vice-President, M. Worsaae ; 

 from Lieutenant Charles R. Miles, Secretary of the United 

 States Naval Institute at Annapolis, inviting the members of 

 the Academy to be present at the reading of Lieutenant 

 Danenhower's paper on the polar question. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Edward Singleton Hoklen, of Madison, Wisconsin, to be 

 an Associate Fellow in Class L, Section 2. 



George Washington Cullum, of New York, to be an Asso- 

 ciate Fellow in Class L, Section 4. 



George Shattuck Morison, of New York, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 4. 



The following papers were presented : — 



On the Apparent Position of the Zodiacal Light. By 

 Arthur Searle. 



The Measurement of the Strength of Telephone Currents. 

 By Charles R. Cross and James Page. 



The Thermal Telephone. By Charles R. Cross. 



