PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. VOL. VII. Five hundred and fifty-fourth Meeting. The RECORDING SECRETARY in the chair. The following memoirs were presented by title :I. Examination of a Hydrocarbon-Naphtha, obtained from the Products of the Destructive Distillation of Lime Soap. By C. M. WARREN and F. H. STORER. II. Examination of Naphtha from Rangoon Petroleum. By C. M. WARREN and F. H. STORER. Five hundred and fifty-fifth Meeting. September 12, 1865.-ADJOURNED STATUTE MEETING. The PRESIDENT in the chair. The President called the attention of the Academy to the recent decease of three of its members: Mr. George Livermore, the Treasurer of the Academy; Bishop Alonzo Potter of Pennsylvania, of the Associate Fellows; and Sir William Jackson Hooker, of the Foreign Honorary Members. 1 VOL. VII. |