290 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
The following officers were appointed for the ensuing year: Prof. 
J. D. Dana, President; Prof. J. Lovertne, of Cambridge, General See- 
retary ; Prof. J. Lawrence Smirx, Permanent Secretary, and Dr. Ex- 
wn, Treasurer. ; 
- Gould, Jr., was requested to prepare an obituary of the 
late Sears C. Walker, to be presented at the meeting at Washington. 
The following is a list of the papers read at the Cleveland meeting. 
sent to us ened for alicetans 
a ) Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy. 
Prof. B. ambridge, Mass.: Investigations in Analytical Morphology - 
No. 1, Desrption it the Science; 2, Stable wait Unstable forms of Equilibrium; 3, 
forms of the E en 4, Stabilit ity of Saturn’s Ring. 
ers car Se of Astronomical vers, 
Criterion for the A een of doubtful observations 
eory of the action of tune upon Saturn, 
ciel A. D. Bacon, Supt. Coas begs aeee Washington: On the Reg: ‘a: Key West, 
Florida, from eee made in connection with the U. 8. Coa vey. 
On Tides of the Waitern Coast of the United States, ‘som " Obsceviktioas 
at San Sesmenas pene in connection bo fhe e 
Prof. on 7 —* per, of Princeton: e special analogi s of Struciure 
in the m He BS of the Earth kad "the winible Homueplere “of the Moon, 
with sine as to the Structure and Appearance of those portions of the Moon 
which are invisible. 
On 
Sool e Relations of the Central Distances of the Primary Planets, more 
lites, and Rings of the Solar System, of which Bode’s Law would seem to be but 
imperfect captingesse 
mitive Form and aan Saas of the Asteroid Planet, the cause 
of isability of the same, and of the peawans in the Orbits of the Asteroids. 
ver, of the U.S. Naval Academy: On the Method of finding the 
oe oe a a Orccue by equal altitudes of the = 
——— _ New Formulas of Spherical Trigonometry. 
r. B. A. Gout, Jr, of Cambridge, Mass.: On Personal Equations in Astronomical 
ini vai. 
sat On the Velocity of Transmission of Electric Signals along Iron Telegraph 
ires. 
On the comparative precision of the Electro-chrono: hic or American 
Method of Baas tio Aa az fit 
Prof. O. M. Mrromet, : : On a New Method of securing Uniform Circular Motio 
pe i Asan used in receiving the Registration of Astronomical Observations a 
“e-3 
Prof. C. W. Hacguzy, of bet York: Mathematical Analysis of the contact of 
surfaces in n oscillating Machin 
Lt. E. B H 
: On Gohe on of Fluids, linet 1% Steam Boiler Explosions. 
The ‘Coni cal Condenser, a Telescopic A ppend : 
Prof. Joun H. ©. Corrrs, of —_ Washington Observ ee Some errors peculiar 
he the obeortel, which ma may aff ect determinations of the declinations of i Fixed 
tars. 
Dr, Juttus FRreptAnper, of oon On the limit toward which the series, 
Mos 
1 
2itp a eat Us ti bes 
converges for 
r p=0. 
Prof. 0. N. patecenc': byt Miami University: Strictures on the mechanical explana- 
tion of the zig-zag path of the Electric S 
J. . RippeELL, of iy Orleans : pat 8 of c Moleslan Bier able 
of the gaseous, liquid, and solid conditions of mat 
