506 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Six hundred and fifty-fourth Meeting. 



February 11, 1873. — Adjourned Stated Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



Professor William Watson was appointed Recording Secre- 

 tary pro tern. 



The Corresponding Secretary read a communication from 

 Professor E. P. Seaver, acknowledging his election into the 

 Academy. 



He also gave notice that seventy copies of the Life and Works 

 of Count Rumford had been distributed to Foreign Honorary 

 Members and other men of science in Europe. 



The Committee to whom the amendment of the Statutes 

 was referred made the following report. , 



It is recommended to the Academy to substitute for the first 

 four lines of Section 2 in Chapter IX. of the Statutes the following^ 

 viz. : — 



Candidates for election as Resident Fellows must be proposed by 

 two or more Resident Fellows in a recommendation signed by them, 

 specifying the section for which they are proposed ; which recommen- 

 dation shall be read at a meeting and thereupon referred to the Council 

 for nomination. No person recommended shall be reported by the 

 Council as a candidate for election unless he shall have received a 

 written approval authorized and signed, at a meeting of the Council, 

 by at least seven of its members, to be reported to the Academy at a 

 stated meeting. No ballot shall be held on a nomination by the Coun- 

 cil until the stated meeting next after such nomination has been re- 

 ported to the Academy. 



It was moved by Mr. Edmund Quincy that the report be ac- 

 cepted and placed on file, in order that the amendment might 

 be acted upon after the proper interval. 



The Academy elected Wilhelm Hofmeister, of Heidelberg, a 

 Foreign Honorary Member in Class II., Section 2 (Botany), in 

 place of the late Hugo von Mohl, of Tubingen. 



On the motion of Mr. Quincy, the hall of the Academy was 

 tendered to the Massachusetts Historical Society for Thursday 

 next, and for such other times as may suit their convenience. 



