v^UL 15 1890 



TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



New York Academy of Sciences. 



Regular Business Meeting. 

 October 5th, 1896. 



The Academy met with Vice-President Osborn in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 



The following gentlemen were nominated as honorary mem- 

 bers of the Academy, and on ballot were duly elected : 



Prof. James J. Thompson, Cavendish Professor of Physics, in 

 the University of Cambridge, England. 



Prof. A. 0. Hubrecht, of the University of Utrecht, Holland. 



Prof. Felix Klein, Professor of Mathematics in the University 

 of Goettingen, Germany. 



Prof Henri Moissan, of the University of Paris, France. 



The following resolution was then presented from the Coun- 

 cil and was adopted : 



Resolved, That the Council of the New York Academy of 

 Sciences extend an invitation to Prof Henri Moissan to deliver 

 a lecture before the New York Academy of Sciences and the 

 other societies of the city upon a date, which will be agreeable 

 to him ; and that the arrangements for the lecture and for the 

 co-operation of the authorities of the other societies be re- 

 ferred to a committee consisting of the President of the Acad- 

 emy, Prof Thomas Egleston, Prof Chas. A. Doremus and Mr. 

 George F. Kunz. 



On motion it was voted that the chair appoint a committee 

 to prepare a suitable form of notification for the honorary and 



Transactions N. Y. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI., Sig. 1, December 15, 1896. 



