336 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



The following Associate Fellows were elected : — 



Professor George C. Swallow of Columbia, Missouri, in 

 Class 11. Section 1 (Geology, Mineralogy, and Physics of 

 the Globe). 



Hon. Samuel G. Arnold, of Providence, in Class III. Sec- 

 tion 3 (Political Economy and History). 



Edward B. Hunt, U. S. A., in Class I. Section 3 (Physics 

 and Chemistry). 



The following Fellows were elected : — 



Calvin Ellis, M. D., in Class II. Section 4 (Medicine and 

 Surgery). 



Theodore Lyman, in Class 11. Section 3 (Zo(31ogy and 

 Physiology). 



E. S. Ritchie, in Class I. Section 3 (Physics and Chem- 

 istry). 



Professor Lovering inquired whether the following extracts 

 from Winthrop's History of New England do not indicate 

 the appearance of the Aurora in this country at a much earlier 

 date than that assigned to it in Holmes's Annals : — 



" About raidniglit three men, coming in a boat to Boston, saw two 

 lights arise out of the water near the north point of the town cove, in 

 form like a man, and went at a small distance to the town, and to the 

 south point, and there vanished away." " The like was seen by many, 

 a week after." 



In the second case : — 



" A light, like the moon, arose about the northeast point in Boston, 

 and met the former at Nottles Island, and there they closed in one, 

 and then parted, and closed and parted divers times, and so went over 

 tlie hill in the island and vanished. Sometimes they shot out flames, 

 and sometimes sparkles." 



This was on the 11th and 18th of April, 1643. 



Professor Lovering, in behalf of the Committee of Publi- 

 cation, made the following report in regard to the printing of 

 Part I. of Volume II. of the Old Series of Memoirs, ordered 

 by the Academy at the last annual meeting. 



