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cing the destruction by fire of the library of the University, 

 and asking aid in the formation of a new collection of scien- 

 tific books ; and it was 



Voted, That a set of the Proceedings of the Academy be 

 presented to the University of Toronto, 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles Otis Whitman, of Worcester, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class II., Section 3. 



Sherburne Wesley Burnham, of San Jose, California, to 

 be an Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 2, in place of the 

 late Maria Mitchell. 



William Augustus Rogers, of Waterville, Maine, to be an 

 Associate Fellow in Class I., Section 2, in place of the late 

 Elias Loomis. 



Carl Barus, of Washington, to be an Associate Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 3. 



Frank Austin Gooch, of New Haven, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class I., Section 3, in place of the late Frederick 

 Augustus Porter Barnard. 



Thomas Mclntyre Cooley, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, to be 

 an Associate Fellow in Class III., Section 1, in place of the 

 late Rowland Gibson Hazard. 



Timothy D wight, of New Haven, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 2, in place of the late Theodore 

 Dwight Woolsey. 



Edward John Phelps, of Burlington, Vermont, to be an 

 Associate Fellow in Class III., Section 3, in place of the late 

 Alexander Johnston. 



Eight hundred and thirty-first Meeting^. 



April 9, 1890. — Monthly Meeting. 



In the absence of the President, Professor F. W. Putnam 

 was chosen President pro tempore. 



The following paper was presented : — 



The Use of the Phonograph ^in the Preservation of the 



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