1887. | NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. i 
President of the United States. The cane is a Malacca stick 
with a plain ebony top and a gold band. He also exhibited a 
number of letters written by Priestley to Wedgwood between 
1780 and 1792, and promised on another occasion to make their 
contents public. 
The PRESIDENT remarked upon certain topics mentioned in 
the paper. 
December 5, 1887. 
REGULAR Business MEETING. 
The President, Pror. J. S. NEWBERRY, in the chair. 
Forty-three persons present. 
The Report of the CounciL recommended as follows : 
I. The election, as Resident Members, of 
lreur, T. LL. Caszy, 
JoHN N. Farrar, M.D., 
Mr. Grorce McKIBBEN. 
II. The change in Chap. III., Section I. of the By-laws of the 
words, one hundred, to two hundred and fifty. 
Ill. The payment of certain bills. 
The candidates were elected by formal ballot, and the bills 
ordered paid. The second recommendation was laid over one 
month, under the rule. } 
The Council also announced a contribution, by Dr. H. Car- 
RINGTON Botton, of $100 to the Publication Fund. 
The members nominated for Fellowship, November 7th, 1887, 
were elected by formal ballot. | 
Dr. Henry A. Mort read a paper on 
THE VELOCITY OF GRAVITY. 
The PRESIDENT and Pror. TROWBRIDGE made remarks upon 
the subject of the paper. 
Mr. Grorae F, Kunz announced, through the Secretary, 
two new undescribed iron meteorites ; one from Linville Moun- 
tain, Mitchell Co., N. C., weighing seventeen ounces ; another 
