6 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [ocr O: 
In conclusion, I have the honor to propose the appointment 
of an International Committee on Chemical Bibliography, to 
consist of one member from each country represented in this 
Congress. That this committee have unlimited power to add to 
its number, provided, however, that no country have more than 
two representatives. That this committee, through the Euro- 
pean and American Chemical Societies, report a scheme for an 
International Codperative Index to Chemical Literature. 
UNIVERSITY CLuB, NEw York City, August, 1893. 
STATED MEETING. 
October 9th, 1893. 
Prof. Joun K. Rees in the chair, and twenty-seven persons 
present. 
SECTION OF ASTRONOMY AND PuysIcs. 
The following papers were read : 
“The Iced-Bar and the Long-Tape Base Apparatus of the 
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey,’ by Prof. R. 8. 
Woodward. 
“Some Observations on Deep-Well Temperatures made dur- 
ing the Summer of 1893, at Wheeling, West Virginia,” by Prof. 
Wn. Hallock. 
Prof. Rees exhibited two positives taken by Prof. Schaeberle 
in Chili, at an altitude of 6,600 feet, during the total solar 
eclipse of April 16,1893. He also reported on the progress of 
the variation of latitude work at the new Columbia College Ob- 
servatory, in connection with the Naples Observatory. Four 
observers, Prof. Rees and Messrs. Jacoby, Monell and Davis 
have made observations of 873 pairs of stars on 86 nights, from 
May 6 to October 7. 
Prof. Rees also announced the receipt of photographs from 
retouched enlargements of the moon’s surface taken with a 36 
inch refractor at the Lick Observatory. They were retouched 
by Prof. Weineck, of Prague, and presented by him. 
