2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The vacancies in the list of Foreign Honorary Members 

 were filled by the election of 



Professor Mitscherlich, of Berlin, in Class I. Section 3 ; 



Professor Hugo von Mohl, of Tlibingen, in Class H. Sec- 

 tion 2 ; 



Jacob Grimm, of Berlin, in Class IH. Section 2. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 

 Academy : — 

 John D. Runkle, of Cambridge, in Class I. Section 1. 

 Dr. David Weinland, of Cambridge, in Class H. Section 3. 

 Moses G. Farmer, of Boston, in Class I. Section 3. 

 Dr. Charles G. Putnam, in Class H. Section 4. 



Professor Gray read the following note in reference to the 

 life and services of the late Professor Bailey : — 



" Jacob Whitman Bailey, late Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 

 and Geology in the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, — the only 

 Associate Fellow lost to the Academy by death during the past year, — 

 died on the 27th of February last, at a comparatively early age. He 

 was born on the 29th of April, A. D. 1811, in the township of Ward, 

 now Auburn, in this Commonwealth. He was graduated at West 

 Point, in July, 1832, when he received his commission of Second 

 Lieutenant of Artillery. He was promoted to be First Lieutenant 

 in August, 1836, and had charge of an arsenal in Virginia at the 

 time of his appointment, in 1838, to the chair he so long and so wor- 

 thily filled at West Point, at first as Assistant, and afterwards as prin- 

 cipal Professor. 



" His public scientific career began in the year 1837, Avith a commu- 

 nication printed in the American Journal of Science, On the Use of 

 Grasshoppers' Legs as a Substitute for Frogs in Galvanic Experi- 

 ments. Shortly after his removal to West Point, viz. in 1838, he 

 commenced the publication, in the same Journal, of his important series 

 of papers on the Infusoria, especially the Diatomacece, both recent 

 and fossil, being the results of assiduous and long-continued observa- 

 tions on these minute organisms, which ended only with his life, — his 

 latest paper, reporting the results of microscopic examination of the 

 soundings across the Atlantic made in the voyages of the Arctic be- 



