328 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers : — 



Joseph Loveetng, President. 

 Andrew P. Peabody, Vice-President. 

 JosiAH P. Cooke, Corresponding Secretary. 

 William Watson, Recording Secretary. 

 Eliot C. Clarke, Treasurer. 

 Henry W. Haynes, Librarian. 



Council. 

 Amos E. Dolbear, 

 Arthur Searle, \ of Class I. 



William E. Story, 



William G. Farlow, 



Samuel H. Scudder, \ of Class II. 



David W. Cheever, 



William Everett, 



Martin Brimmer, \ of Class III. 



Edward J. Lowell, 



Rumford Committee. 



Wolcott Gibbs, Joseph Lovering, 



John Trowbridge, George B Clark, 



JosiAH P. Cooke, Erasmus D. Leavitt, 



Benjamin O. Peirce. 



Member of the Committee of Finance. 

 Thomas T. Bouvj^. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



On Electrical Oscillations or Waves. By John Trowbridge 

 and W. C. Sabine. 



On the Spectroscopic Study of Electrical Waves. By John 

 Trowbridge. 



On the Action of Nitric Acid upon Bromtrinitrophenylma- 

 lonic Ester. By C. Loring Jackson and W, B. Bentley. 



On the Action of Sodic Alcoholates on Nitrotribrorabenzols. 

 By C. Loring Jackson and W. H. Warren. 



