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most eminent men of science in the country, who were to be 

 organized for the purpose of serving as advisers to the United 

 States government in questions of a scientific nature. The 

 Academy has rendered excellent service in this capacity, and 

 has had referred to it very many important questions, the 

 satisfactory solutions of which have saved much money to 

 the government, and increased the efficiency of many of its 

 bureaus. One condition of membership is that all such serv- 

 ice to the government is to be performed without charge. 



As this society, by its national character, takes the lead 

 of state institutions for a similar object, and the number of 

 members being at first limited, considerable dissatisfaction 

 was felt by many persons who believed themselves worthy 

 of membership, but were excluded by this restriction. The 

 Academy, therefore, after mature deliberation, decided to 

 ask Congress to remove the limitation as to number, which 

 being done, the principal business of the Academy at its late 

 meeting consisted in the increase of its force. Twenty-five 

 new members were selected, representing the various branches 

 of theoretical and applied science, and the number is to be 

 increased by five each succeeding year. Very few papers or 

 communications were presented before the Academy, as all 

 the time of the meeting was required in carrying out the 

 changes involved by the alteration of the charter, including the 

 formation of a new constitution and rules for its government. 



The following is the list of members elected: Professor C. 

 A.Young, Dartmouth; Professor E. D. Cope, Philadelphia; 

 Professor J.Lawrence Smith, Louisville ; W. S. Sullivant, Co- 

 lumbus ; Professor "W. B. Rogers, Boston ; J. II. Trumbull, 

 Hartford ; Professor J. P. Cooke, Cambridge ; Dr. A. S. Pack- 

 ard, Jim., Salem ; Professor TV. B. Trowbridge, New Haven ; 

 J.E.Oliver, Massachusetts ; Professor E. W.IIilgard, Oxford, 

 Maine ; Professor P. Pumpelly, State Geologist, Missouri ; 

 Professor J. II. Lane, Coast Survey ; Professor A. E. Verrill, 

 New Haven; Dr. J. W. Crafts ; Theodore Lyman, Boston ; 

 Professor A. M. Mayer, Stevens Institute, Hoboken ; Profess- 

 or J. Clarke, Amherst ; J.Ericsson; Professor Iladley, New 

 Haven; Dr. F. A. Genth, Philadelphia ; Charles A. Schott, 

 Coast Survey ; Professor A. II. Worthen, State Geologist, Il- 

 linois ; Captain J. B. Eads, St. Louis ; General H. L. Abbott, 

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