OF ARTS AND SCIENCES : MAY 25, 1869. Ill 



Rumford Committee. 



James B. Francis, Joseph Winlock, 



Morrill Wyman, Wolcott Gibbs, 



William B. Rogers, Josiah P. Cooke, 



Frank H. Storer. 



Committee of Finance. 



Asa Gray, ) gx OJ ^ cio ^ by statut e. 



Charles J. Sprague, j 

 Thomas T. Bouve, by election. 



The other Standing Committees were appointed on the 

 nomination of the President, as follows : — 



Committee of Publication. 



' Joseph Lovering, Jeffries Wyman, 



Francis J. Child. 



Committee on the Library. 



Francis Parkman, Charles Pickering, 



John Bacon. 



Committee to audit the Treasurer's Accounts. 

 Charles E. Ware, Theodore Lyman. 



Professor Whitney presented for publication the following 

 letter from Baron Richthofen, giving an account of the geo- 

 logical investigations in China up to March 1, 1869 : — 



I returned a few days ago from an exploration of the country ad- 

 joining the Yang-tse-kiang, between Shanghai and Han-kau, a distance of 

 six hundred geographical miles. I hired a fine boat, which was towed 

 up the river by steamer, and then dropped gradually downward, ex- 

 ploring right and left from the various stations which I made. The 

 trip, which occupied altogether forty-five days, afforded much of interest, 

 and I believe that I have established a good basis for further operations. 

 You may be surprised that I selected a region which is so easy of 



