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" These illustrations might be indefinitely extended. They show 

 the direction in which the internal changes of the language are mak- 

 ing. Some of these new terms are made strictly according to analogy ; 

 others not so happily ; but usage soon establishes them. The Greek 

 language is a wonderful phenomenon. It stands alone in the history 

 of human speech, like the wonderful race which first created and still 

 preserves it." 



Four bundred and sixty-seT-eutli mectiug. 



May 24, 1859. — Annual Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from the Libra- 

 rian of the Royal University of Bonn, November 25, 1858; 

 Societe de Geographic, Paris, November 20, 1858 ; Academic 

 Royale des Sciences a Amsterdam, December 20, 1858 ; 

 Koniglich Sachsische Bergakademie zu Freiberg (Sachsen), 

 November 20, 1858 ; K. L. C. Akademie der Naturforscher, 

 Jena, November 13, 1858 ; Academic Royale des Sciences de 

 Stockholm, November 15, 1858 ; and the Societe Imperiale 

 des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, September 1, 1858, 

 acknowledging the receipt of the Academy's publications ; — 

 from the Academic Royale des Sciences de Stockholm, No- 

 vember 15, 1858, and the War Department, Washington, May 

 5, presenting their publications ; — from the K. Preussische 

 Akademie der Wissenschaften, August 12, 1858, acknowledg- 

 ing the receipt of the Academy's publications, and presenting 

 its own ; — and from the K. Bayerische Akademie der Wis- 

 senschaften, December 28, 1858, acknowledging the receipt 

 of the Academy's publications, and asking that missing num- 

 bers may be supplied. 



The Treasurer presented his annual report upon the finan- 

 ces, of the Academy, which was ordered to be entered in full 

 upon the record-book. 



Professor Lovering, in behalf of the Committee of Publica- 

 tion, and Dr. A. A. Gould, from the Committee on the 

 Library, severally presented their annual reports. 



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