146 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. [Feb. 9, 
before the Academy and printed in the Proceedings last year under the 
headings “The Aurora” and “ The Forces Concerned in the Develop- 
ment of Storms.’* The conclusions set forth in those papers are in 
conformity with what has been stated in the present discussion. The 
most practical result thus far attained is perhaps the securing of evi- 
dence that the belt-like distribution of atmospheric pressure about the 
magnetic poles as a center, which varies in different years and in differ- 
ent parts of the same year, producing different types of weather, is very 
largely dependent upon magnetic induction of solar volcanic origin 
conveyed from sun to earth through the medium of the coronal exten- 
sions which become visible as the zodiacal light. 
FEBRUARY 9, 1891. 
STATED MEETING. 
The President, Pror. H. L. FAIRCHILD, in the chair. . 
Twenty-four persons present. 
The Council report recommended, 
(1) The payment of certain bills. 
(2) That the Academy appropriate $6.50 for the construction of 
a case to hold a collection of fossils, presented to the Academy by 
Pror. A. L. AREY. 
The items of the report were separately adopted, the bills ordered 
paid, and the appropriation made. 
The candidates for Fellowship, nominated at the previous business 
meeting, were elected by formal ballot. 
The following paper was read : 
NOTES ON MEXICAN ARCHAXOLOGY. 
By F. W. WARNER. 
The numerous temples and other archeological remains found in 
Mexico, are mostly of Toltec origin. The temples were used by the 
Aztecs in the exercise of their superstitious rites and it is quite proba- 
ble that their religious ceremonies were especially adapted to the build- 
ings which they found when they came into the country. Some of the 
temples, and among them the great pyramid of Cholula, were in exist- 
* See Proceedings of November 11, 1890, pp. 18 and 57 of this volume. 
