OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 6 



Three hundred and ninth meeting. 



August 10, 1848. — Quarterly Meeting. 



The Vice-President in the chair. 



Dr. Gould, from the Library Committee, presented a report on 

 the condition and pressing wants of the Library ; and the 

 annual appropriation for its care and increase was voted. 



Dr. Gray, from the Committee of Publication, submitted a 

 statement of bills due, and an estimate of the expenses liable 

 to be incurred during the year in carrying on the printing of 

 the Memoirs and the Proceedings of the Academy ; and the 

 annual appropriation was voted for the purpose. 



The Corresponding Secretary submitted a memoir on the 

 development of the ova and on the diseases of LimnaBa, by 

 Dr. Henry L Bowditch. 



Mr. Epes Sargent Dixwell, Henry I. Bowditch, M. D., and 

 Mr. Edward C. Cabot, were elected Fellows of the Academy. 



John L. Le Conte, M. D., of New York, and Professor 

 James Hall, of Albany, were elected Corresponding Members. 



Three hundrsd and tenth meeting. 



October 3, 1848. — Monthly Meeting. 



The President in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters from Messrs. E. S. 

 Dixwell, Henry I. Bowditch, and Edward C. Cabot, accepting 

 the fellowship of the Academy. Also a letter from the Hon. 

 Secretary of the Navy, requesting suggestions from the Acade- 

 my in respect to the projected astronomical expedition of Lieu- 

 tenant Gillis to some southern point in South America. Re- 

 ferred to Professor Peirce and Mr. Bond. 



Mr. Everett stated that he had received information, through 

 the Danish Charge d'Affaires at Washington, that the conditions 

 of the award of the King of Denmark's medal for the discov- 

 ery of telescopic comets would probably be so far waived in 

 favor of Miss Mitchell, as to the time and mode of announcing 

 the discovery, that she would receive the medal. 



