684 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Associate Fellows ; Frederick J. Furnivall, Class III., Section 4, 

 and F. von Recklinghausen, Class II., Section 4, Foreign Hon- 

 orary Members. 



The following gentlemen were elected Resident Fellows : 



Alfred Church Lane, of Cambridge, Class II., Section 1 (Geol- 

 ogy, Mineralogy, and Physics of the Globe). 



Winthrop John Yanleuven Osterhout, of Cambridge, Class II., 

 Section 2 (Botany). 



Dr. Louis Bell called the attention of the Academy to the fact 

 that the next meeting would be the one thousandth meeting of 

 the Academy. 



It was 



Voted, that a committee be appointed to consider the celebra- 

 tion of the event. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary it was 



Voted, to meet on adjournment, November 9, 1910. 



The following communication was given by Dr. Percival 

 Lowell : " Investigations of HaUey's Comet at Flagstaff Ob- 

 servatory." 



The following papers were read by title : 



" Theory of Coupled Circuits, under the Action of an Im- 

 pressed Electromotive Force, with Applications to Radio Teleg- 

 raphy." By G. W. Pierce. 



" A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Neodymium. First 

 Paper. — The Analysis of Neodymium Chloride." By G. P. 

 Baxter and H. C. Chapin. 



" On the Equilibrium of the System consisting of Calcium 

 Carbide, Calcium Cyanide, Carbon, and Nitrogen." By M. de 

 Kay Thompson and R. H. Lombard. Presented by H. M. 

 Goodwin. 



One thousandth Meeting. 



November 9, 1910. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the Chair. 



There were thirty-eight Fellows and one guest present. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. Alfred 

 C. Lane and W. .J. Y. Osterhout, accepting Resident Fellowship, 

 and a circular from the Boston Vocation Bureau, announcing 



