CONTENTS. 



1. Reduction of the Observations of the Fixed Stars made by Joseph Le Paute d'Agelet, at Paris, 



during tbe years 1783-1785, with a Catalogue of the corresponding Mean Places referred to the 

 Equinox of 1800.0: by B. A. Gould. Read January 8, 1864. 



2. On the Saturnian System: by Benjamin Peirce. Read January 8, 1864. 



3. On Shooting Stars: by H. A. Newton. Read August 6, 1864. 



4. On the distribution of certain important diseases in the United States: by Augustus A. Gould. Read 



August 5, 1864. 



5. On Rifled Guns: by W. H. C. Bartlett. Read August 25, 1865. 



