716 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Albert Matthews, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 4. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary, it was 



Voted, To appropriate the following sums from the income of 

 the General Fund : — 



For Expenses of meetings f 100 



For Treasurer's office 25 



For General Expenses, at the discretion of the President 50 



The following letter to the President was read : — 



Prof. John Trowbridge. 



Dear Sir, — At a meeting of the Committee of the University Mu- . 

 seum of Harvard University, held 4 January, 1911, it was Voted, To 

 invite the American Academy of Arts and Sciences to hold a Meeting 

 in the spring of 1911 in the University Museum. 



Yours truly, 

 Samuel Henshaw, for the Committee. 



On the motion of W. M. Davis, it was 



Voted, That a committee be appointed to plan and carry out 

 the meeting in Cambridge. 



The President appointed Messrs. Wolff, Jeffrey, Mark, Hen- 

 shaw, Putnam, and W. M. Davis a committee on the Cambridge 

 meeting. 



The following communication was given : — 



" An Investigation of the Cartago Earthquake in Costa Rica," 

 by Professor T. A. Jaggar, Jr. 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



" A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Iron. Third paper. — 

 The Analysis of Ferrous Bromide." By G. P. Baxter, Thorber- 

 gur Thorvaldson, and Victor Cobb. 



" A Revision of the Atomic Weight of Iron. Fourth paper. — 

 The Atomic Weight of Meteoric Iron." By G. P. Baxter and 

 Thorbergur Thorvaldson. 



" Buddhaghosa's Way of Purity analysed : first third, Moral- 

 ity." By C. R. Lanman. 



On motion of the Recording Secretary it was 



Voted, To meet on adjournment on the second Wednesday in 

 February. 



