746 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Vicinity," accompanied by a pamphlet and newspaper clippings 

 suggesting the appointment of a committee to investigate the 

 subject; from the Royal Academy of Turin, containing the 

 program of the fifteenth Bressa prize ; from the Macon 

 Academy, announcing a competition for prizes, on the occasion 

 of its one hundredth anniversary; from Mme. Cornu, transmit- 

 ting the collected works of her husband, M. Alfred Cornu. 



The Chair announced the following deaths: — 



George Sewall Boutwell, Resident Fellow in Class III., 

 Section 4; Alpheus Spring Packard, Associate Fellow in Class 

 II., Section 3. 



The Chair appointed the following retiring Coimcillors to act 

 as Nominating Committee : — 



Arthur G. Webster, of Class I. 



Edward L. Mark, of Class II. 



Arlo Bates, of Class III. 



Mr, Eliot C. Clarke proposed that Chapter VII. of the 

 Statutes be amended by adding to it the following clause : — 



5. The Treasurer may appoint an Assistant Treasurer to 

 perform his duties, for whose acts as such Assistant, the 

 Treasurer shall be responsible ; or the Treasurer may employ 

 any Trust Company, doing business in Boston, ]\rassachusetts, 

 as agent to perform his duties, the compensation of such agent 

 to be paid from the funds of the Acadeni}'. 



In accordance with the Statutes, this proposed amendment 

 was referred to a Committee of one, — Professor Charles R. 

 Cross. 



On the recommendation of the Rumford Committee, it was 



Voted, To appropriate the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) 

 from the income of the Rumford Fund to Harr}'' W. Morse in 

 aid of his researches on Fluorescence. 



The following papers were read : — 



" On Light of very Short Wave-Length." By Theodore 

 Lyman. 



" On the First Observations obtained with Registration 

 Balloons in America." By A. Lawrence Rotch. 



The following papers were read by title : — 



