TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
NEw YoRK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 
REGULAR BusINEss MEETING. 
October Ist, 1894. 
The meeting was called to order by President Rees, fourteen 
persons being present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 
The Secretary presented the following nominations for resi- 
dent membership: Mr. John Jacob Astor, Mr. J. C. Pfister. and 
on motion they were referred to the Council. 
The Secretary presented the name of Prof. Bohuslav Brauner, 
Ph. D., of Prague, Bohemia, as a corresponding member, and on 
motion the nomination was referred to the Council. 
The following paper, which had been transmitted to the 
Academy through Dr. H. Carrington Bolton, was then read. 
ON FLUOPLUMBATES. 
By Bouustav Brauner, Pu. D., PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY 
IN THE BOHEMIAN UNIVERSITY, PRAGUE. 
I beg to lay before the Academy a short account of a new 
series of salts of tetratomic lead, a work which was begun in the 
Owens College, Manchester, in 1881, and which at intervals has 
occupied my attention several years. 
TRANSACTIONS N. Y. ACAD. ScI., Vol. XIV., Sig. 1, Nov. 20, 1894. 
