Proceedings. XV 
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pounds 
Council. 
Dr. Townsend Porter made some remarks on ‘‘ The Filling 
of the Heart ’’ and announced that he would conclude them at 
the next meeting of the Academy. 
which he read at the last meeting. Referred to the 
JANUARY 18TH, 1892. 
President Pritchett in the chair, 9 members present. Dr. 
W. Townsend Porter concluded the reading of his paper on 
** The Filling of the Heart.’’ 
Dr. H. Wellington Adams submitted a verbal account of the 
new method of transmitting power electrically, known as the 
multiphased alternating current system, as employed in the 
_ Frankfort Exposition in the Frankfort-Laufen transmission 
experiment. 
Frprvuary Ist, 1892. 
President Pritchett in the chair, 9 members present. The 
Council reported the resignation of Dr. G. Hinrichs. 
Prof. Pritchett gave a brief statement of the recent photo- 
graphic studies of star spectra at the Harvard observatory. 
The point of interest consisted in the discovery of the absorp- 
tion lines of certain stars, showing a periodic doubling. The 
explanation of this is to be found in the fact that the stars are 
really double, consisting of two components revolving about 
a common center of gravity. At certain parts of this revo- 
lution the components would be traveling in opposite directions 
with respect to the observer, which would account for the 
doubling of the absorption lines. 
Fesrvuary 157ru, 1892. 
President Pritchett in the chair, fourteen members prese 
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