94 ' PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The annual election was held, and the following officers 

 were chosen for the ensuing year : — 



Jacob Bigelow, President. 



Daniel Treadwell, Vice-President. 



Asa Gray, Corresponding Secretary. 



S. L. Abbot, Recording Secretary. 



J. P, Cooke, Librarian. 



Edward Wigglesworth, Treasurer. 



Council. 

 J. I. Bowditch, 



Joseph Lovering, J- of Class I. 



E. N. Horsford, 



Louis Agassiz, 



Jeffries Wyman, \ of Class II. 



J, B. S. Jackson, 



James Walker, 



Henry W. Torrey, ^ of Class III. 



Robert C. Winthrop, 



The Standing Committees, nominated by the President, 

 were elected as follows : — 



Rumford Conunittee. 

 Eben N. Horsford, Joseph Lovering, 



Daniel Treadwell, Henry L. Eustis, 



Morrill Wyman. 



Committee of Publication. 



Joseph Lovering, Jeffries Wyman, 



Cornelius C. Felton. 



Committee on the Library. 



A. A. Gould, W. B. Rogers, 



George P. Bond. 



Committee to Audit Treasurer'' s Accounts. 

 Thomas T. Bouve, C. E. Ware. 



Professor Cooke referred to his law of Classification in 

 Chemistry, based on Homologism, published in the Acad- 



