308 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



elevation was the first of the Appalachian system, having been 

 elevated during the Lower Silurian epoch. 



Voted to adjourn this meeting to the second Tuesday in 

 February. 



Six hundred and twenty-ninth Meeting. 



February 14, 1871. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The Academy met at the house of Dr. H. W. Williams. 



The President in the chair. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Acad- 

 emy : — 



Charles Francis Adams, Jr., of Boston, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 3. 



Professor C. C. Everett, of Cambridge, to be a Resident 

 Fellow in Class III., Section 1. 



William Everett, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 2. 



Henry W. Paine, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 1. 



John G. Whittier, of Amesbury, to be a Resident Fellow in 

 Class III., Section 4. 



Ferdinand Bocher, of Cambridge, to be a Resident Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 4. 



George J. Brush, of New Haven, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 1. 



Stephen T. Olney, of Providence, to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class II., Section 2. 



Jeremiah Smith, of Dover, N. H., to be an Associate Fellow 

 in Class III., Section 1. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Rumford 

 Committee, it was voted : — 



That the cost of printing the memoir of Professor Joseph 

 Lovering, on the Periodicity of the Aurora Borealis, be assessed 

 on the income of the Rumford Fund. 



Also, that one hundred copies of the quarto edition of the 



