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Eight hundred and t'wenty-seventh Meeting. 



December 11, 1889. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Charles Deane, 

 Resident Fellow ; of Rowland G. Hazard, Alexander John- 

 ston, Elias Loomis, Maria Mitchell, Theodore D. Woolsey, 

 Associate Fellows , and of James Prescott Joule, Foreign 

 Honorary Member. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



William Roscoe Livermore, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3. 



Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac, of Geneva, to be a 

 Foreign Honorary Member, in Class I., Section 3, in place of 

 the late Michel Eugene Chevreul. 



Mr. W. W. Jacques presented by title a paper on Tele- 

 phonic Specific Induction Capacity, by F. H. Safford, and 

 G. U. G. Holman. 



Professor Cooke read a paper entitled, Examples of the 

 obvious Influence of the Force which determines Spherical 

 Aggregations or Concretions in solid Masses on Crystalliza- 

 tion, and the Bearing of the Facts on the Chondritic Struc- 

 ture of Meteorites. 



On the recommendation of the Ramford Committee, it was 



Voted, To appropriate five hundred dollars ($500) from 

 the income of the Rumford Fund to Professor Rowland, of 

 Baltimore, for researches on metallic spectra, on condition 

 that the printed results, wherever published, shall contain 

 the following notice appended thereto : " Investigations on 

 Light and Heat, made and published wholly or in part with 

 appropriation from the Rumford Fund of the American Acad- 

 emy of Arts and Sciences." » 



