4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



James Walker, \ 



Francis BoavExN, > of Class III. 



Nathan Appleton, ) 



The President announced the following Standing Com- 

 mittees : — 



Rmnford Committee. 



Eben N. Horsford, Joseph Lovering, 



Daniel Treadwell, Henry L. Eustis, 



Morrill Wyman. 



Committee of Publication. 



Joseph Lovering, Louis Agassiz, 



Cornelius C. Felton. 



Committee on the Library. 



Augustus A. Gould, Benjamin A. Gould, Jr. 



Josiah p. Cooke, Jr. 



To Audit the Treasurer's Accounts. 

 Thomas T. Bouve, Dr. C. E. Ware. 



Four Iiundred and forty-first meeting. 



August 12, 1857. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read the following letters, 

 viz. : — From Jacob Grimm, Berlin, July 2, accepting his 

 appointment as Foreign Honorary Member ; from Dr. Charles 

 G. Putnam and J. D. Runkle, accepting Fellowship ; from the 

 Linnccan Society, London, November 25, 1856, Royal Geo- 

 graphical Society, London, November 29, 1856, Academie 

 Royale des Sciences a Amsterdam, January 5, 1857, Die Ko- 

 nigl. Siichsische Bergakademie, Freiberg, January 19, 1857, 

 Kaiserlich-Kllnigliche Geologische Reichsanstalt, Wien, Jan- 

 uary 21, 1857, Corporation of Harvard College, March 10, 



