332 PROCEEDINGS OP THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Six hundred and thirty-sixth Meeting. 



October 10, 1871. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The President announced the death of Professor Mahan, of 

 West Point, one of the Associate Fellows. He also read a 

 letter from Mr. Kenwood, announcing the donation to the 

 Academy of two books written by him. 



Mr. Chauncey Wright read a paper on Phyllotaxis, or the 

 arrangements of leaves in plants. This paper will be published 

 in the Memoirs of the Academy. 



Six hundred and thirty-seventh Meeting. 



November 8,1871. — Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. 

 Johnson, Lesquereux, Pourtales, and Young, acknowledging 

 their election into the Academy. 



The President announced the decease of Sir Charles Bab- 

 bage, Sir Roderick Murchison, and Fourneyron, all Foreign 

 Honorary Members. 



It was voted to grant the request of the American Society of 

 Numismatics to borrow the steel plate of the Rumford Medal, 

 in order to have three hundred copies struck off by Forbes & 

 Co. for the use of that society. 



It was voted to authorize the Rumford Committee to sell the 

 remainder of the edition of the Life of Count Rumford, and 

 to contract with an agent for the sale of the new edition of the 

 Works of Rumford. 



It was voted to authorize the completion of the second vol- 

 ume of the Works of Count Rumford, at an expense not ex- 

 ceeding $1000. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 

 Academy : — 



H. G. Denny, of Boston, to be a Resident Fellow in Class 

 III., Section 2. 



