PROCEEDINGS 



OP THE 



AMERICAN ACADEMY 



OF 



ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



SELECTED FROM THE RECORDS. 



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Five buudred and ninth meeting. 



May 27, 1862. — Annual Meeting. 



The Pkesident in the chair. 



The Corresponding Secretary read letters relative to the ex- 

 changes of the Academy. 



As Secretary of the Council, he also read its Annual Report 

 upon the changes which have occurred in the Academy during 

 the past year, as follows : — 



Five Resident Fellows, one Associate, and three Foreign Honorary 

 Members have deceased since the last anniversary meeting. 



The names now removed from our list of immediate members are 

 those of Nathan Appleton, Samuel A. Eliot, Richard Sul- 

 livan, Cornelius Conwat Felton, and Luther V. Bell. 



The Hon, Nathan Appleton, LL. D. died at his residence, in 

 this city, on the 14th day of July last, at nearly 82 years of age, — 

 having been born on the 6th day of October, 1779. 



He was a native of New Ipswich, in the State of New Hampshire, 

 whither his family had removed from Old Ipswich, in the State of 

 Massachusetts. He enjoyed the advantages of a good school educa- 

 tion, was fitted for College, and was regularly admitted to the Fresh- 

 man Class at Dartmouth, in August, 1794. But it having been de- 

 cided that he should be a merchant rather than a scholar,' he abandoned 

 the collegiate course at the very outset of the term, and came at once 



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