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Six hundred and twelfth Meeting. 



October 12, 1869. — Monthly Meeting. 



The Corresponding Secretary in the chair. 



On the motion of Professor B. Peirce it was voted, That the 

 mathematical section of the Academy be authorized to meet 

 as a committee and receive mathematical communications ; 

 and a meeting of this committee was appointed for Tuesday, 

 October 19, at four o'clock, p. m. 



Professor Peirce made a communication on his investiga- 

 tions in Linear Algebra. 



Six hundred and thirteenth Meeting. 



November 10, 1869. — Statute Meeting. 



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The Corresponding Secretary in the chair. 



Dr. Jarvis made a communication on the coming decennial 

 census of the United States. 



The following committee was appointed to consider and 

 report upon this subject ; viz. Dr. Jarvis, Professor Peabody, 

 and Professor Washburn. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the 

 Academy : — 



Thomas W. Parsons, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 4. 



James M. Barnard, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class II., Section 3. 



Henry L. Whiting, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class I., Section 2. 



Professor Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, of Cambridge, to be 

 a Resident Fellow in Class II., Section 1. 



