352 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Theobald Smith, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 4 (Medicine and Surgeiy). 



Charles Lane Poor, of Baltimore, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class L, Section 1 (Mathematics and Astronomy), in place 

 of the late James Edward Oliver. 



Robert Simpson Woodward, of New York, to be an Asso- 

 ciate Fellow in Class I., Section 4 (Technology and Engi- 

 neering), in place of the late John Newton. 



Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, of Baltimore, to be an Associate 

 Fellow in Class III, Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology), in 

 place of the late William Dwight Whitney. 



Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury, of New Haven, to be an 

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

 Asahel Clark Kendrick. 



Karl Theodor Weierstrass, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Hon- 

 orary Memberr in Class I., Section 1 (IMathematics and As- 

 tronomy), in place of the late Arthur Cayley. 



Michael Foster, of Cambridge, Eng., to be a Foreign Hon- 

 orary Member in Class II., Section 3 (Zoulogy and Physiology), 

 in place of the late Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig. 



Alexander Onufrijevic Kovalevskij, of St. Petersbui-g, to be 

 a Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 3, in place 

 of the late Sven Ludwig Loven. 



Karl Weinhold, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class III., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology), in 

 place of the late Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, Bart. 



Friedrich Hermann Grimm, of Berlin, to be a Foreign 

 Honorary Member in Class HI., Section 3 (Pliilosophy and 

 Jurisprudence), in place of the late Sir John Robert Seeley. 



On the motion of the chairman of the Rumford Committee, 

 it was 



Voted, To present the Rumford Medal by proxy at the 

 annual meeting. 



David G. Lyon gave an informal talk on recent Assyrian 

 discoveries, with illustrations. 



E. L. Mark presented the following paper by title: — 



Preliminary Notes on the Embryology of the Starfish 

 (^Asterias pallida). By Seitaro Goto. 



