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Voted, That fifteen hundred dollars be appropriated from 

 the Rumford Fund to continue the publication of Count Rum- 

 ford's works. 



Voted, That five hundred dollars in gold be appropriated 

 from the Rumford Fund to be expended by Dr. B. A. Gould 

 in the purchase of photometric and spectroscopic apparatus for 

 an observatory at Cordova in the Argentine Republic. 



The Recording Secretary returned the papers of Mr. W. B. 

 Burden, for the Committee to which they were referred, with 

 the recommendation that they be referred to the astronomical 

 section of the Academy. 



It was voted to adjourn this meeting, at its close, to the 

 second Tuesday in June. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Charles C. Perkins, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 4. 



Nathaniel Holmes, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 1. 



Raphael Pumpelly, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1. 



George Derby, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 II., Section 3. 



Simon Newcomb, of Washington, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 1. 



Truman H. Safford, of Chicago, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class I., Section 1. 



Henry J. Clark, of Lexington, Ky., to be an Associate Fel- 

 low in Class II., Section 3. 



Alexander Braun, of Berlin, to be a Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class II., Section 2, in the place of the late Von 

 Martius. 



Charles Merivale, of Oxford, to be a Foreign Honorary 

 Member in Class III., Section 3, in the place of the late Dean 

 Milman. 



The annual election resulted in the choice of the following 

 officers for the ensuing year : — 



